Integrated Behavioral Health Consulting
For clients, for clinicians.
Short-term therapy with skills teaching for clients, and consulting with their long-term therapist, psychiatric, primary care, and women’s health clinicians.
Integrated Behavioral Health, or the collaboration between medical and mental health providers, has been shown to improve both mental and physical health outcomes. After practicing Integrated Behavioral Health in primary care, I am now providing the service remotely, billed through insurance, or paid out-of-pocket.
If you would like to start therapy along with my collaboration with one of your health providers, click the Request Consult button below, or email kelly@easternpsychotherapy.com.
If you are a clinician and have a client/patient you think would benefit from Integrated Behavioral Health, click the Request Consult button below, or email kelly@easternpsychotherapy.com. There is no cost to clinicians for consultations.
For more information about Integrated Behavioral Health, see the research at the University of Washington, https://aims.uw.edu/evidence-base-for-cocm/
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Brief Interventions
Relaxation techniques with scientific education about the stress response and relaxation response in the central nervous system teaches autonomous self-soothing.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy adapts repetitive thought patterns and changes neural pathways.
Motivational Interviewing helps explore barriers to treatment and decision making.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy helps build empowerment and strengthen internal and external resources to meet health goals.
Mindfulness Theory and Practice helps build a sense of belonging and well-being.
Health coaching helps foster regular practices for sleeping, eating, exercise, working, care-taking, service, creativity, spirituality, and play. -
Time Bound Goals
Short term therapy allows clients to complete meaningful work that is relevant to their current lifestyle while making positive changes to meet their health goals.
Skills are taught in a short time frame, and traditional talk therapy can be referred.
Clients’ unique strengths, cultural beliefs and practices, and healthy coping styles are enhanced and valued.
THREE MONTH PROGRAM
for clinicians and their patients/clients
Three consultation calls with Kelly over three months:
1) Consultation at the assessment phase about your requests and the client’s scores and responses to screeners such as PHQ-9 and GAD-7.
2) Consultation at the treatment phase with update on the client’s response to brief intervention therapy in weekly one-hour visits.
3) Consultation at the graduation phase with an update on the client’s graduation plan and referrals to ongoing services.
Kelly Kirkbride, LMHC, RN, LCMHC, LCPC
Kelly grew up on Cape Cod and is honored to serve the community as a therapist and nurse. She graduated from Cape Cod Community College in 2020 with an associates degree in Nursing. She combines nursing theory with her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lesley University. She has worked at two community health centers where she practiced Integrated Behavioral Health. She is working to serve the community with high quality therapy.
