Telepsychiatry in Berlin, Maryland

An Emotional Support Animal Letter is an official document that has the signature and approval of a licensed mental health professional that certifies that your pet is necessary for your emotional support as part of your mental health treatment. An emotional support animal can help with symptoms of a mental health disability. These animals can help with alleviating symptoms related to many mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, or post-traumatic stress disorder. An Emotional Support Animal Letter will only be considered for clinically appropriate cases who have been thoroughly evaluated.

1 hour

An experienced mental health professional will work with you to process personal issues or concerns within the context of a variety of emotional difficulties and mental illnesses. Utilization of different therapeutic frameworks and components depending on your specific mental health needs may include:

• Solution Focused Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

1 hour

An experienced mental health professional will work with your family to process personal issues or concerns within the context of a variety of emotional and relational difficulties. Utilization of different therapeutic frameworks and components depending on needs may include:

• Solution Focused Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

1 hour

An experienced mental health professional will work with your child to process personal and relational issues or concerns utilizing the therapeutic components of play therapy.

1 hour

This visit entails the therapeutic force of group curative factors. This is an offering of a level of support that is inclusive of direction and a specific framework pioneered by Dr. Irvin Yalom, imparting the following:

• Instillation of Hope: encouragement that recovery is possible by sharing stories and information.
• Universality: recognition of a shared experience and knowing a person’s problems are not unique.
• Imparting of Information: teaching about problem learning factual information about treatment options.
• Altruism: helping and supporting others by experiencing the ability to help another person can build self-esteem. It helps to develop adaptive coping mechanisms.
• Simulation of the primary family: identifying & changing the dysfunctional patterns or roles one played in the primary family.
• Development of social skills: learning new ways to talk about feelings, observations and concerns.
• Imitative Behavior: modeling another’s manners & recovery skills.
• Interpersonal Learning (modeling vicarious learning): finding out about themselves & others from the group. Yalom also describes 3 important concepts of interpersonal learning;
  1. The importance of interpersonal relationships
  2. The corrective emotional experience
  3. The group is a social microcosm.
• Group Cohesiveness (belonging): the feeling of belonging to the group valuing the group.
• Catharsis: the release of emotional tension i.e. a burst of crying. Express emotions in a safe and supportive environment.
• Existential Factors (Risk Responsibility): Learning to take responsibility for one’s own actions.

Therapy services may be provided via a HIPAA-compliant platform to allow for flexibility and increased availability of mental health care to those deemed clinically appropriate for this health care modality.