The Behavioral Health Department provides services geared toward children, adolescent, and adults. The Department is staffed with licensed clinicians (LCSW and LMSW), board certified Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with extensive clinical training in mental health and substance abuse.
Our staff is culturally diverse and can provide behavioral health services in several languages, including Spanish and English. For languages not spoken by our clinicians and providers, the department utilizes a translation service line to better serve our patients in their preferred language. For more information about our providers, please click on the provider image below for the provider’s biography.
Our goal is to provide an open, supportive and confidential environment for you to address the issues that are most important to you.
We are part of a comprehensive and integrated service modality that provides patients access to immediate dental, medical (adult, pediatric, adolescent, and women’s health), and other specialty services within our Hartford and Windsor offices.
Types of Appointments & Services
OPEN ACCESS
If seeking behavioral health services, our department is open to all Monday through Friday. Patients are welcome to call our office number to obtain a same day initial appointment with a licensed clinician. In order to ensure delivery of quality care, first-time appointments may take up to 90 minutes. Subsequent appointments are generally between 30 and 45 minutes long and can be scheduled in our office, as well as via telehealth for your convenience.
Individual counseling provides you with the opportunity to work one-on-one with a clinician. Our clinicians are here to address areas such as development of skills to manage feelings of anxiety or depression, stress, coping with difficult relationships, understanding identity, improving self-esteem, recovering from trauma, and improving your social functioning, to name just a few. Our clinicians are here to learn about you as an individual to help address your needs.
Our psychiatrist and APRNs provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment for both adults and children.
The team may offer medication management and psychotherapy based on the diagnosis and patient needs. Our prescribers provide an integrated continuum of care for individuals with a variety of mental health issues. They work closely with the clinicians in a team modality.
Monday: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Friday: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm**
**currently unavailable due to COVID restrictions
Individual counseling provides you with the opportunity to work one-on-one with a therapist. Areas often addressed in counseling include development of skills to manage feelings of anxiety or depression, stress, coping with difficult relationships, understanding identity, improving self-esteem, recovering from trauma, and improving your social functioning, to name just a few.
CHS is the recipient of the HRSA Substance Abuse Service Expansion funding.
With this grant, CHS will be able to accommodate 400 new patients annually and expand its Medication Assisted Treatment services tremendously.
For more information about our MAT program, click here
An intake appointment will be provided to you to complete an initial assessment. In order to ensure proper delivery of care, we request that you are punctual for your intake appointment in particular, so clinicians have the adequate time to complete all necessary components required for your first appointment.
Your first appointment will be with a licensed clinician and can take up to 90 minutes.
Group counseling is available for established behavioral health patients, and can be the most effective treatment in many situations such as: relationship difficulties, depression, interpersonal conflicts, personality issues, substance use, loss or isolation, anger management, and anxiety.
Groups counseling sessions are led by licensed clinicians and gathers about 6-12 individuals on a weekly basis for 1 hour.**
**social distancing guidelines strictly enforced
Suboxone is a medication prescribe to assist individuals with withdrawal symptoms experienced with opiates. Our Suboxone Program is designed to help patients struggling with opiate (heroin) addiction.
In order to be considered for Suboxone Treatment, you will need to meet the following criteria:
Demonstrate commitment to recovery by attending weekly recovery group at BH Department.
Must have weekly urine tox screens free of all substances
If potential client is currently using alcohol, cocaine or any benzos, she/he will not be considered for suboxone treatment.
If a detox is required, our clinical staff will be able to refer you to an inpatient program.
Once you have began Suboxone Treatment, you are required to continue attending weekly groups and providing urine sample on a weekly basis. In order to remain in this program you are required t
