Medication Management
The right medication can change a lot, and finding it usually takes a few adjustments. Our psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners work through that with you, explaining each step.
It starts with a psychiatric evaluation: your medical history, current symptoms, what medications you have tried before and how they went, and what you want treatment to do.
Before you start anything, your provider explains how the medication works, what it should help with, the likely side effects and how long it takes to tell whether it is working.
Providers prescribe for depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD, schizophrenia and other conditions.
Follow-up visits are where the adjusting happens: checking how you respond, watching for side effects, and changing the dose or the medication when needed.
Medication often works best alongside therapy. Your prescriber and your therapist share notes so the two don’t work at cross purposes.
Established patients can do medication follow-ups by telehealth.
Call (270) 689-6879 or request an appointment online. Walk-ins are welcome at our outpatient locations.
What to Expect
The first evaluation usually takes 45 to 60 minutes. Bring a list of everything you take, including over-the-counter supplements, plus any previous psychiatric records.
Follow-ups are usually every two to four weeks at first, then less often once things are stable. Between visits, you can call with medication questions.
Other Services
Therapeutic Community Support
Therapeutic Community Support Services sends a support worker to your home, workplace or community to work on coping skills and daily routines where you actually use them.
Assertive Community Treatment
Assertive Community Treatment: a full team, including a psychiatrist, nurses, therapists and peer specialists, that comes to you, with crisis support around the clock.
Case Management
A case manager helps adults and youth with serious mental illness get healthcare, housing, food assistance, transportation, employment services and benefits, and keeps all of their providers talking to each other.
Peer Support
Certified peer support specialists who have been through mental health recovery themselves, offering practical guidance and company along the way.
Therapeutic Rehabilitation
A weekday day program where adults with serious mental illness work on daily living skills, from budgeting and cooking to managing symptoms, in a group setting.
Recovery Care Coordination
One consistent coordinator who stays with you through treatment and after it, keeps you connected to services and steps in early when life changes.
Outpatient Mental Health
Individual, group and family therapy for children, teens and adults, using CBT, DBT and other approaches, in person or by telehealth.
Prescribers’ Clinic
Outpatient psychiatric evaluation and medication management for adults, from psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, with short waits for a first appointment.
Intensive In Home Therapy
Intensive In-Home Therapy brings several hours of family therapy a week into the home, for children and teens who need more than outpatient care.
