Services
Telehealth visits from the convenience
of your home or workplace
Comprehensive 90-minute initial assessment to develop a personalized care plan
30-45 minute follow-up visits
Supportive counseling to help guide your wellness journey
Medication (when indicated) for depression, anxiety, bipolar spectrum, ADHD
Adult ADHD assessments
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i) — sleep better in 6 weeks without medication
Accepting Aetna, Anthem/BCBS, Cigna, and United Health Care
Comprehensive Assessments
Your care at Eastern Sky Wellness begins with a thorough assessment. A primary goal is to obtain a holistic understanding of your health and develop a personalized mental health plan of care. Longer appointment times provide space for meaningful conversation about your symptoms and to build a relationship, important foundational planks for helping you to feel your best — proven by research. Rushed appointments are not part of your care at ESW.
By gathering detailed information about your mental and physical health, I can offer tailored recommendations for symptom management. This proactive approach strives to empower you to take an active role in managing your health, assisting you with making informed decisions and improving your quality of live. You’re always the driver on your health journey; I’m a guide.
Medication
Psychiatric medication can play an important role in achieving or maintaining mental health. Understanding and accepting that medication might be needed is sometimes a big step for people. Whether you’ve never taken psychiatric medication, are on existing medication that might need adjusting, or you’re wanting to try coming off medication — ESW is here to help. Education about medication benefits and limitations will be discussed in an open and honest manner.
Medication can help many conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar spectrum, and ADHD. They are best viewed as tools in your wellness toolkit, to use along with other coping strategies. For many people medications do the “heavy lifting” and can enable you to better use your existing coping skills or to learn new ones.
ESW offers psychotropic medication genetic testing through a company called GeneSight. This is a simple at-home DNA test that will look at how your genes may affect medication efficacy. It can serve as a blueprint for selecting medications based on your genes. It can’t diagnose or “pick the perfect medication”; it is just one of the tools in your kit. Insurance may cover some or all of the cost.
Counseling and CBT-I
Eastern Sky Wellness offers supportive therapy as part of most medication visits. Supportive therapy aims to help clients feel understood, respected, and not judged. It involves listening, exploring feelings, and validating or normalizing those feelings. It does not involve intensive psychotherapy or delving deep into the past. It is more about the here and now, about what is showing up in your life today, and allows you a safe space to talk.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is a non-medication option for treating insomnia. CBT-I is a psychotherapy treatment that helps people with insomnia improve their sleep by addressing the thoughts and behaviors that cause or worsen their sleep problems. CBT-I is the first-line recommended treatment for insomnia — before medication — by the National Institute of Health, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and others. It can reduce reliance on or help a person discontinue sleep medication. CBT-I is designed to be completed in 6 weeks through one hour weekly sessions.
Julia Gallant, PMHNP completed training for CBT-I through Dr. Gregg Jacobs’s course. Dr. Jacobs is a pioneer in CBT-I and developed his program through Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the groundbreaking book “Say Goodnight To Insomnia”. This therapy is not for everyone and there are some contraindications, but most people with insomnia are good candidates.