Wellmore Behavioral Health serves a 44-town region spanning from Greater Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley to Northwest Connecticut and nearly 300 employees at 9 sites. Wellmore is expected to serve more than 10,000 clients on an annual basis, including children, adolescents, adults and entire families.
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Services Offered
Outpatient Services for Youth and Families
Outpatient Service Wellmore Outpatient Service helps youth and families overcome a broad range of behavioral and emotional challenges. These may include: -Anxiety -Depression -Psychosis -Suicidal/Homicidal Thoughts -Developmental Delays -Substance Abuse -Grief/Loss/Trauma -Family Conflict -Separation/Divorce
Serving Naugatuck & surrounding communities through our Children's Outpatient Service office, Wellmore provides outpatient behavioral health treatment for Children and families. Our Services Offered:-Individual & Family Treatment -Open Access for first time appointments -Trauma & victim recovery based services -Medicaid and most commercial insurances accepted
Evidence-Based Treatments In addition to our outpatient treatment services, Wellmore has teams dedicated to providing evidence-based interventions. These include: -Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) -TF-CBT is designed to decrease the symptoms which frequently interfere in the healthy functioning of a child who has experienced a significant trauma or loss. -Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) -DBT is designed to improve an individual's capacity to effectively manage his/her emotions and eliminate self-injurious/suicidal behavior. -Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH) MATCH combines 33 evidence-based procedures into a single, flexible system to treat childhood anxiety, depression, trauma, and conduct problems.
Psychiatric Services Our team of dedicated doctors and advanced practice psychiatric nurses can provide psychiatric evaluation, consultation and medication therapy to clients who might benefit from medication to enhance their treatment success.
Outpatient Services for Adults
Our Adult Outpatient Service provides substance abuse and co-occurring mental health treatment for individuals living and working in the community. Individuals with addiction problems are helped to learn to live without mind-altering substances through treatment, which increases coping skills and focuses on changed behavior.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) provides treatment services for those who struggle with co-occurring issues of substance abuse and mental health. It consists of 3 hours of treatment per day, up to 5 days per week, for individuals who require a concentrated treatment level, including: -Intensive Group Therapy -Educational Sessions -Individual Counseling (as warranted) -Anger Management -Risk Reduction -Family Involvement -Medication Management -Drug Testing -Relapse Prevention -Co-occuring substance abuse -Early Intervention -Women's & Men's Trauma Groups -Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -Young Adult Therapy Process Groups (Ages 18-24 years of age) -Mental Therapy Groups -Spanish Speaking Groups
Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (AIOP) Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (AIOP) is for ages 13 -18 with a primary substance abuse diagnosis. The program treats adolescents with co-occurring substance abuse and behavioral health disorders. This conÂÂsists of 3 hours of treatment per day, 3 days per week for adolescents who require this concentrated treatment level, including:
Outpatient Treatment The Adult Outpatient Program (AOP) offers a comprehensive network of services designed to address a client's experience of interruption in daily functioning. Outpatient services have been constructed to provide treatment and care for those who are living and working in the community. The approach to treatment includes a specialized, tiered and individualized referral process designed to be as accessible as possible for clients seeking treatment, and for collaborators involved in the referral and treatment process.
Fees and Payment
We strive to maintain a high degree of accessibility and quality at an affordable cost. We participate with most insurance companies including State Medicaid (HUSKY) and will work with insurance companies to best utilize any available insurance benefits.
For clients with no insurance coverage, we offer a reduced fee sliding scale based on income and household members.
For your convenience, we accept cash, checks and all major credit cards.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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