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EAP: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a confidential information, support, and referral service designed to help employees cope with personal problems which have a negative impact on their lives and, subsequently, on their work productivity. EAP provides assistance in such situations as emotional stress, marital and family problems, and financial and legal difficulties.

BH: Behavorial Health (BH) is a service provided for the prevention or treatment of more severe issues such as mental health disorders or substance abuse.

PPO:  

License

Clinical Social Worker: A person qualified and duly licensed by the state in which the person lives to practice clinical social work and who has a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited institution of higher learning.

Marriage Family Therapist: Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are relationship specialists who treat persons involved in interpersonal relationships. They are trained to assess, diagnose and treat individuals, couples, families and groups to achieve more adequate, satisfying and productive marriage, family and social adjustment.

Masters Counselor:

Mental Health Counselor: A specialist who can talk with members and their families about emotional and personal matters and can help them make decisions.

Licensed Professional Counselor:

Psychiatrict Nurse: A Masters-level clinical specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing. A psychiatric nurse is educationally and clinically trained in psychopathology, individual, group, family therapy, and crisis intervention.

Psychiatrist: Licensed physicians (MD or DO) who specialize in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. Their medical and psychiatric training prepares them to treat adults and children either individually, as part of and involving the family unit, and/or in a group setting. Psychiatrists can prescribe medications, if needed.

Psychologist: A psychologist is a social scientist who studies psychology, the study of the human mind, thought and human behavior. Psychologists are usually categorized under a number of different fields, the most well-recognized being clinical psychologists, who provide mental health care, and research psychologists, who collect, investigate and analyze aspects of human behavior.

Area of Focus

ADD/ADHD: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a psychiatric diagnosis that interprets divergent personality traits perceived to be distracting as symptoms of a mental disorder. Characteristics sometimes interpreted as symptoms include hyperfocus, hyperactivity, forgetfulness, mood shifts, poor impulse control, and distractibility.

Adolescent Therapy:

Alcohol / Drug Abuse: A dependency on alcohol or drugs characterized by craving (a strong need to drink or use drogs), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking or use drugs despite a desire to do so), physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms, and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk or "high").

Autism/PDD: Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior.  The diagnostic category pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), as opposed to specific developmental disorders, refers to a group of disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication.

Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar disorder, also sometimes called manic-depressive disorder, is a mood disorder in which a person experiences episodes of mania and clinical depression without other environmental or medical etiologies.

Child Therapy:

Children of Alcoholics:

Christian Counseling:

Chronic Mental Illness:

Chronic & Terminal Illness: In medicine, a persistent and lasting condition is said to be chronic. For example, a chronic illness is one that persists for a long time, usually more than three months. By analogy, this adjective has come to describe problems which cannot be solved in a short time, or which will recur regardless of action. Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured easily by popular medicinal practice. Curative treatment is not viewed as appropriate.

Cognitive Behavorial Therapy:

Compulsive Behavior:

Conflict Resolution: Conflict resolution is the process of resolving a dispute or a conflict, by providing each side's needs, and adequately addressing their interests so that they are satisfied with the outcome. Conflict resolution aims to end conflicts before they start or lead to physical fighting.

Couples/Marital Therapy: Couples therapy is a type of psychological counseling where a couple meets with the psychologist, social worker or other type of mental health professional for counseling to address the dysfunction in their marriage or other type of relationship.

Crisis Intervention:

Critical Incident Stress Management:

Domestic Violence:

Eating Disorder: An eating disorder is a syndrome in which a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health.

Family Therapy:

Gay & Lesbian Issues:

Gender Identity Disorders: Gender identity disorder as identified by psychologists and medical doctors is a condition where a person who has been assigned one gender (usually at birth on the basis of their sex) but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their respective society prescribes to them.

Geriatric Therapy:

Grief Therapy: Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although conventially focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has a physical, cognitive, behavioral, social and philosophical dimensions. Common to human experience is the death of a loved one, be it friend, family, or other. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement often refers to the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss. Losses can range from loss of employment, pets, status, a sense of safety, order, possessions, to the loss of the people nearest to us.

HIV/AIDS Counseling: Counseling for dealing with the emotional effects of HIV.  HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a retrovirus that infects cells of the human immune system. It is widely accepted that infection with HIV causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), a disease characterized by the destruction of the immune system.

Incest Counseling:

Learning Disabilities: The term learning disability is used to refer to socio-biological conditions that affect a persons communicative capacities and potential to learn. Someone with a learning disability does not necessarily have low or high intelligence, it just means this individual is working far below their ability due to a processing disorder, such as auditory processing or visual processing. Learning disabilities are usually identified by school psychologists through testing of intelligence, academics and processes of learning.

Men's Issues:

Neuropsychology: A discipline of psychology that specializes in the clinical assessment and treatment of patients with brain injury or neurocognitive deficits.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a brain disorder, and more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive drive to perform a particular task or set of tasks, compulsions commonly termed rituals.

Pain Management: Pain management is the discipline concerned with the relief of pain. Acute pain, such as occurs with trauma, often has a reversible cause and may require only transient measures and correction of the underlying problem. In contrast, chronic pain often results from conditions that are difficult to diagnose and treat, and that may take a long time to reverse. In such situations, the pain itself is frequently managed separately from the underlying condition of which it is a symptom.

Panic Disorders: Panic Disorder is a mental condition that causes the sufferer to experience sporadic bouts of frightening symptoms, such as racing heart, shortness of breath, or a feeling of hopeless loss of control.

Parenting Skills/Issues:

Personality Disorders: Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behavior. Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these patterns, they can cause serious problems and impairment of functioning for the persons who are afflicted with these disorders.

Phobias: A phobia is an abnormal, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject.

Post Partum Depression: After giving birth, about 70-80% of women experience an episode of baby blues, feelings of depression, anger, anxiety and guilt lasting for several days. About 10% of new mothers develop the more severe postpartum depression (also postnatal depression), a form of major depression requiring treatment.

Psychotic Disorders: Psychoctic Disorders is a generic psychiatric term for mental states in which the components of rational thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychosis may experience hallucinations, paranoid delusions, demonstrate personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking. This is often accompanied by lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of such behavior, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in carrying out the activities of daily living. A psychotic episode is often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality".

Severly Disturbed Children/Adolescent:

Sexual Assault/Rape: Sexual assault or rape is any undesired physical contact of a sexual nature perpetrated against another person.

Sexual Dysfunction: A difficulty during any stage of the sexual act (which includes desire, arousal, orgasm, and resolution) that prevents the individual or couple from enjoying sexual activity.

Sexual Perpetrators:

Sleep Disorder: A disorder in the sleep patterns. Some sleep disorders can interfere with mental and emotional function, due to their interference with REM sleep.

Stress/Anxiety Management: Stress management encompasses techniques intended to equip a person with effective coping mechanisms for dealing with psychological stress.

Transvestism: There are many different usages and meanings of the term transvestism. Most experts agree that the correct usage is when people dress in clothes normally worn by the opposite gender in order to identify with that gender in some manner.

Women's Issues: