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Values
Our services are grounded in the understanding that people have inherently good intentions, want to be productive, and want to create meaningful connections with others.
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Anxiety and ADHD can sometimes obscure a person's inherent goodness, their success and/or desire to succeed, and their interest in social connection. This can lead people with Anxiety or ADHD to often feel misunderstood, while also not meeting others' expectations.
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Once clients (and their parents) learn to manage their ADHD and Anxiety symptoms, their personality may come out more! Our services help clients -- both children and adults -- align their behavior with their good intentions, and help others better understand their perspective. This, in turn, can help create more peaceful home, school, and work environments.
Purpose
Dr. Sarah created this Center in response to community members--parents, school personnel, and pediatricians--sharing their struggles of finding a reputable therapist or psychologist in the area that provide evidence-based psychological services for children.
The Center for Active Minds embraces being a clinic that offers transparent, empirically-based therapy and evaluations for toddlers, pre-k, children, teens, young adults, and adults, from mental health professionals that specialize in one or two areas. We strive to provide a comfortable environment that does not resemble a medical office setting. We collaborate with clients, parents, pediatricians, and/or teachers to provide individualized therapeutic techniques that focus on the whole client (e.g., eating habits, sleeping behavior) and their context (home, school, job), and implementing services tailored to our clients’ strengths based on their needs.
Why Transparency? Providing transparent information means that you have the best opportunity to make informed decisions about what is right for you and your family.
Why Evidence-Based? Providing evidence-based services means that you are most likely to success in achieving your therapy goals, and provides us with the most confidence that you are receiving an accurate diagnosis
Why Specialize? Providing specialized services means that your provider knows a lot about the specific diagnosis or impairment that you are seeking services for, which we believe increases their effectiveness in working with you on that area of impairment.
Why Collaborate? We believe that clients make good decisions - especially when provided transparent information - and that clients are the experts in their family or their functioning. Additionally, we recognize our limitations and know we are only one part of a care team, and collaborating care with doctors and teachers provides better care for our clients.
Mission
Be the change you wish to see in the world
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Dr. Sarah's goal in creating this center is to help families have a community resource they feel comfortable utilizing for their children, teens, and for themselves. The Center for Active Minds is committed to making this struggle easier for families by providing local, empirically-based services through therapists who have been specifically trained in providing evaluations, assessments, and therapy to children and teens. Our overarching goal as a Center is to help our clients become the best versions of themselves that they can be, with a therapist who feels honored in being a part of having their clients accomplish their goals.
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We understand that raising kids, and taking care of each other, "takes a village". As such, part of our mission is to give back to the community, by holding engaging educational events to teach the community members more about ADHD and Anxiety, how to recognize it, and what to do about it, supporting parents, supporting others with special needs, and raising money for childhood cancer research.
Fees
Therapy conducted by Cassie is $90 per hour. This may be reimbursable through insurance.
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Therapy conducted by Dr. Sarah is $180 per hour. This may be reimbursable through insurance.
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Evaluation conducted by Dr. Sarah is $2500. The fee is all inclusive, and not reimbursable through insurance.
We provide clients with a Superbill to easily submit for reimbursement through their insurance's out-of-network benefits, as we are not in-network with insurance. We also accept FSA/HSA cards.
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We can provide you with a handout to contact your out-of-network benefits to determine how much you would be reimbursed. Please call us or complete the contact form to request this handout.
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