Our clinic provides comprehensive diagnostic assessments to help achieve diagnostic clarity. We often consult with your referring provider following evaluation to share the results of the evaluation. Current evidence suggests that individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders do best with a combination of medication management and psychotherapy.

Our clinic provides short-term medication management with the goal of finding the ideal medication regimen personalized to you. Once you are stabilized, we will work with you to transfer your care to a long-term community provider (e.g., community psychiatrist, community psychiatric nurse practitioner, primary care physician). We will remain available for future consultation with you or your community provider should changes need to be made to your medications.

Our clinic provides short-term evidenced-based psychotherapy for bipolar spectrum disorders and related concerns. Examples of evidenced-based therapies include Psychoeducation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Interpersonal and Social Rhythms Therapy. The average number of sessions in an evidenced-based psychotherapy protocol is 12 to 30 sessions. Typically, sessions last 50 minutes and may happen weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Once you and your provider feel that your therapy goals have been met, we will work with you to refer you to a long-term provider who can continue to provide supportive psychotherapy.

Our clinic provides the Bipolar Life Goals Program - a psychoeducation group for people with bipolar spectrum disorders. It meets virtually for 90 minutes, every week, for 6 weeks. The goal of the program is to improve clinical outcomes (reduce symptom intensity and duration) by improving illness management skills. This is accomplished by:

• Imparting education - Focusing on early warning signs and triggers of both hypo/manic and depressive episodes
• Assisting group members in identifying their own specific symptom pattern, early warning signs, and triggers
• Developing detailed and person-specific action plans for illness management
• Emphasizes development of individual’s ability to cope with illness and to participate actively in treatment by engaging in timely, joint decision making regarding their illness.