Anxiety causes excessive worry, fear, and physical symptoms. Managing anxiety often combines therapeutic support and medication to reduce distress and improve emotional well-being and daily life functioning.
Depression presents as persistent sadness, low energy, and loss of interest. Treatment involves therapeutic support and medication to restore mood balance, motivation, and overall quality of life.
OCD features intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Effective treatment uses cognitive-behavioral therapeutic support and medication to reduce symptoms and improve coping.
Medication management ensures safe and effective use of psychiatric drugs by monitoring effects, adjusting doses, and minimizing side effects to support mental health recovery and symptom control.
Mood disorders include bipolar disorder and related conditions characterized by mood swings. Treatment targets mood stabilization through therapeutic support and medication to improve emotional regulation and daily functioning.
Our psychological services include evaluations for Anxiety, Depression, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Personality Disorders, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
We manage the emotional needs of patients who struggle with coping after surgery.
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We offer psychosocial support to ostomy clients by providing individual treatment plans to ease the stress encountered by the creation of a colostomy, ileostomy, urostomy, continent diversion, and pelvic exenteration (which is the placement of two stomas on one’s abdomen).
We work with clients who struggle with coping prior to and after surgery. We realize recovery can be challenging, especially since clients may be experiencing both physical and emotional strain.
We offer strategies for coping with complicated fistula care and recommendations for management.
This is identified as a refusal to maintain normal body weight by restricting caloric intake as a result of the fear of gaining weight.
This is characterized by recurrent binge-eating episodes combined with inappropriate ways to prevent weight gain, including vomiting, laxatives, fasting, and excessive exercise. Patients may experience normal or may be slightly overweight.
This is defined as recurrent episodes of binge eating with lack of control. This typically occurs at least 2 days weekly for 6 months and is not associated with compensatory behaviors.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy helps clients by replacing negative thoughts with balanced and realistic ones.
Family therapy focuses on improving is used to treat specific mental health disorders including autism, schizophrenia, and some personality disorder. This form of therapy includes the family in important decision making about the client’s care.
This is the integration of mindfulness, meditation, and cognitive behavioral therapy aimed to improve mental and physical health by increasing awareness to present circumstances.
One-on-one conversations that explore feelings, thoughts, and experiences to promote self-awareness, healing, and improved mental and emotional health.
Mental Health First LLC provides compassionate, recovery-based mental health care through therapy, medication management, and telehealth services for teens and adults in New Jersey and New York.
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