Individual, Family, and Couple Psychotherapy
This includes but is not limited to Solution Focused therapy, ACT, and trauma.
Time-Limited Grief Group for Adults
This group discusses the myths about grief, how to cope with emotions and increase emotional acceptance, support self-care and connect to personal values, and navigate transitions and changing relationships while learning from grief and finding meaning.
Structured Group Therapy Program for Those with Substance Use Disorders
This outpatient group for adults (via Zoom) lasts about eight weeks and follows an abstinence-based model. This means that participating patients are expected to achieve sobriety before attending.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Groups for Adults
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) combines meditative practices (mindfulness) and behavioral techniques to provide a balance of change and acceptance strategies. Skill groups focus on learning and practicing specific skills to improve emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and pain tolerance.
Psychiatric Day Treatment
This is a structured, non-residential program of skill-building activities designed to assist people with mental illnesses. The goals are to help them live more independently and strengthen the skills that support autonomy, achieve successful, confident, and comfortable integration into the community, explore, examine, and pursue the individual’s own recovery goals, and develop an enhanced sense of resiliency and other coping skills.
Peer Support
The Health Recovery Group (HRG) is a peer-led education and activity program that helps mental health patients gain recovery and wellness skills. The peer leader has personal experience with the mental health system and has completed additional training by the Department of Mental Health to become certified in the field of peer support. CHS also provides peer support for individuals with needs related to substance use.
Peer Wellness Coaching
This peer-led service includes the facilitation of specialized wellness programs such as Chronic Disease Self-Management, Chronic Pain Self-Management, Diabetes Self-Management, Tobacco Recovery, Nutrition and Exercise for Wellness and Recovery (NEW-R), and Whole Health Action Management. The program also includes individual wellness coaching sessions and assessment and intervention to identify wellness needs and establish goals using a weekly action plan format.
Psychiatric Medication Management
Psychiatric prescribers evaluate and treat psychiatric disorders with medications designed to reduce symptoms and functional damage. The effectiveness of medication management is typically maximized in combination with psychotherapy.
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Medication assisted treatments include naltrexone and buprenorphine in combination with behavioral health services delivered in group and individual formats for patients diagnosed with a substance use disorder. This service is available to established CHS patients at some of CHS’ health centers.
Behavioral Health Consultation Within Primary Care
Behavioral health providers work with primary care teams to address psychiatric and other factors that impact a patient’s physical health and engagement in the self-management of chronic conditions.
Community Health Coordination
CHS’ team of over 40 community health coordinators work with patients to ensure they receive the care and services they need. On-site, in-home, and in the community, our community health coordinators provide patients at CHS with services such as:
- Health education
- Developing and modifying self-management of acute and chronic illnesses
- Obtaining services from other community resources
- Arranging transportation to and from appointments
- Coordinating care among multiple healthcare providers
Our pediatric behavioral health clinicians provide treatment to children and teens who struggle with ADHD, anxiety, depression, disruptive behavior problems, trauma, sleep problems, self-management of obesity, asthma, other chronic illnesses, and more. Below is a list of the types of therapy we offer.
Individual, Family, and Couple Psychotherapy
This includes Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Psychiatric Medication Management
Psychiatric prescribers evaluate and treat psychiatric disorders with medications designed to reduce symptoms and functional damage. The effectiveness of medication management is typically maximized in combination with psychotherapy.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Groups for Adolescents
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) combines meditative practices (mindfulness) and behavioral techniques to provide a balance of change and acceptance strategies. Skill groups focus on learning and practicing specific skills to improve emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and pain tolerance.
Consultation with Area Head Start Programs
Behavioral health professionals offer expert observation, assessment, and consultation regarding behavioral and emotional needs of youth in Area Head Start Programs.
Developmental Evaluations and Psychology - Including Evaluation of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Developmental psychologists at CHS primarily provide services centered around autism spectrum disorders and other developmental delays. Services include evaluations and parent consultations. These services are offered virtually at our health centers in Talbott and Cherokee Mills.
School-Based Therapy
CHS currently offers school therapy services in Anderson, Blount, and Knox counties, and in Alcoa City Schools. School-based therapy offers a unique opportunity for children to receive care they may not otherwise have the ability to access. School-based therapists at CHS are master or doctoral level clinicians who provide integrated mental health services for children and adolescents struggling with issues such as anxiety, depression, poor social skills, stress and/or trauma, oppositional or defiant behavior, ADHD, and addiction. School-based therapy may include individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, crisis management as clinically indicated, teacher consultation and collaboration, and/or linkage to other resources as indicated. School-based therapists at CHS have the unique opportunity to collaborate with primary care physicians, community health coordinators, psychologists, and psychiatrists to better meet the needs of their patients. If you are interested in school-based therapy through CHS, please contact your child’s school counselor.
