C’ville Health is happy to take referrals and to work collaboratively with other medical and mental health providers. We support multi-disciplinary treatment and encourage referrals and sharing of treatment responsibilities.
Medical Evaluation
Generally, a medical evaluation consists of one to three 50 minute sessions that include history-taking, ancillary information gathering and inclusion of outside reports resulting in a bio-psycho-social formulation, diagnoses, setting goals and a recommended treatment plan.
Psychopharmacology
Medication management, in addition to ensuring the appropriate pharmacologic choice, includes education about the effects, the alternatives, risks, benefits, and potential side effects of what is prescribed. Medications exist as only one element of an overall treatment strategy that integrates with other treatment modalities. They require ongoing assessment of their effectiveness and periodic re-evaluation as to whether they continue to be necessary.
Individual Psychotherapy
The choice of which individual therapy recommended depends on many factors, including developmental age and the nature of the problem. Play therapy, and talking therapies may be brief and goal-directed for conditions such as simple phobias or specific behavioral challenges, or, they may stretch into longer-term treatments for complex developmental crises, characterologic challenges or unsettled personal narratives.
Marital Therapy
As relationships evolve, they experience periodic crises that test a couple’s commitment. Working together to change communication styles, break destructive patterns and re-energize the relationship is key to ensuring a healthy and nurturing relationship will grow.
Family Therapy
Families can act as generous supports and powerful allies or as demoralizing and draining barriers. Changing the dynamics of a family can be both difficult and rewarding. Family therapy can bring unseen dynamics to the fore and aid a family to come back to life and health.
C’ville Health, LLC, 195 Riverbend Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22911 (434) 305-5163
Monday – Thursday 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.; Saturday 8:00 – 12:00 a.m.