Our mission at Northside Behavioral Health Center is to provide individuals and families the highest quality of comprehensive, innovative and affordable behavioral health care services thus enabling a path for those in need to a productive recovery and an enriched quality of life.
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Services Offered
Adult Outpatient Counseling Services
We offer therapeutic services including assessment, individual, group, and family therapy. Therapists help people make changes in their lives in order to get well and have a greater sense of well being. This is achieved by developing a therapeutic relationship, talking about problematic thoughts and behaviors, and implementing a plan to overcome these. We provide brief solution-focused therapy.
Children's Outpatient Services
Provides individual/family/group psychotherapy in an outpatient office setting to children age 17 and younger and their families. The program also services children and adolescents who have survived abuse/neglect or are in foster care and children with sexual behavior problems. Therapy focuses on crisis stabilization, alleviating troubling symptoms, enhancing quality of life, coping with life's stresses, addressing children's developmental and emotional needs.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Mental Health therapy and support services are provided at no cost for parents moving from welfare to economic self-sufficiency, parents working on a reunification case plan with a local child welfare agency; parents at risk of their children's removal from the home. Parents must meet the TANF federal eligibility. The program offers an Interactive Parenting Group and Adult Anger Management Group that are recognized by the Eckerd Community Alternatives child welfare agency.
Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment
Provides therapy to adolescents with sexual behavior problems or who have committed sexual offenses. Qualified therapists facilitate a weekly group which is recognized by the Hillsborough County Sexual Abuse Intervention Network, the Hillsborough County Circuit 13 Juvenile Diversion Program, and the Circuit 13 Department of Juvenile Justice.
Fees and Payment
Accepts most Medicare HMOs, Medicaid HMOs, We also accept Self- Pay and some Commercial Insurances. Please contact our office to confirm whether we accept your insurance plan.
If you do not have insurance, you may qualify for the TANF program but must meet eligibility criteria.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Pro-bono Medicare Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.