What are Behavioral Health Services?
Our behavioral health providers, as a part of your primary care team, work with your primary care provider to evaluate barriers to your total health and provide supportive, solution focused treatment. A behavioral health specialist is available to speak with you on the same day as your regular medical visits. We can help you with daily stress, difficulties in relationships, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, sexual health, parenting, or any degree of mental illness.
We provide an assessment of substance abuse disorders (for you or a loved one) and can provide some treatments for them. First, you must be enrolled with a primary care provider at PHC. Then, your primary care provider can refer you for services in the Behavioral Health Department with a psychologist, therapist or psychiatrist, based on what type of approach you would like to try.
If you are interested in therapy, you can meet with a psychologist (Ph.D.) or a therapist (LCSW) to talk about your concerns and get more support, skills or insight into the problem. If you are interested in medications, you can meet with a psychiatrist (MD) to discuss those options.
Once you are seeing one type of behavioral health provider, you can still work with the others should that need or interest arise. All these different providers are very adept at helping you decide which type of care would be best.
If you have scheduled an appointment to see one of our Behavioral Health Counselors, please fill out one of the attached registration forms and bring to your appointment:
Intake form: Spanish
Intake Form: English
Innovation: Our new Mental Health Post Doctorate Fellowship Program
The Postdoctoral Fellowship program at PHC offers comprehensive training and experience in providing psychological services within a primary care setting to uninsured and underserved populations in Southern Sonoma County. Our patient centered care is based upon an integrated team approach that is both holistic and collaborative. PHC is widely recognized for it’s innovation and has been on the leading edge of team based care since 2007, emphasizing overall wellness and the value of the patient provider relationship.
To learn more about our Fellowship Program:
