Medication Management

At Monarch Mental Health, we believe in implementing medication management while building a relationship with clients.  Symptom tracking is crucial to tracking positive effects and to continue to work on outlying symptoms that the medication is not treating.  We believe in the importance of establishing goals and working together to achieve them.  We are aware that finding the right medication can be a frustrating process, but we will strive to use up to date knowledge, research, experience, genetic testing and an integrative psychiatric approach to find the most effective pharmaceutical regimen at the lowest dose.  We are also sensitive to prescription costs and  we utilize tools available to assist clients in finding affordable options.

It is our belief that medication management without therapeutic services is ineffective.   It can be compared to treating a broken extremity with pain medication and not putting a cast on it.   The psychiatric NP's are not a therapists, but we utilize therapeutic modalities into visits as a part of our integrative approach.  Using cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing frequently during office visits and encouraging clients to work with a therapist regularly is part of our practice model.   Some providers limit their follow up visits to 10 or 15 minutes. We are not utilizing this model and generally follow ups are 30-40 minutes.  Because of this, we bill for medication management and therapeutic services for 30 minutes-45 minute blocks.