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SERVICES: COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH

Neuropsychological
Testing

Neuropsychological testing is a critical component of comprehensive mental health services. It helps diagnose, confirm, or differentiate conditions, assess the extent of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional challenges, identify limitations in daily function and decision-making, evaluate suitability for surgery, aid in planning treatment, and offer feedback and recommendations for patients, caregivers, and other providers. It also establishes a starting point to track recovery or decline.

A typical neuropsychological evaluation assesses many of the following ability areas:

  • Intellectual abilities
  • Motor skills and sensory concerns
  • Attention and concentration
  • Language
  • Visual-spatial skills
  • Learning and memory
  • Executive functioning
  • Mood and personality

Neuropsychological evaluation can aid in determining:

  • Guidance for treatment planning and medication management
  • Differential diagnosis, for example, neurological vs mood disorders vs neurodevelopmental  vs personality disorders
  • Qualification for disability services
  • Surgical candidacy for bariatric, general plastic and/or gender-affirming surgery
  • Organ donation
  • Accommodation use in standardized testing
    • Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) or 504 plans
    • LSAT, MCAT, SRT, GRE, Bar exam

SESSIONS provides ongoing treatment and care for:

  • Neurodegenerative diseases
    • Parkinson’s
    • Alzheimer’s
    • Dementia
    • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
    • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
  • Acquired brain dysfunction
    • Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
    • Concussion
  • Brain and spinal cord tumors
  • Epilepsy and seizure disorders
  • Stroke and cardiovascular disorders
  • Developmental disorders
    • Autism spectrum disorder
    • Intellectual disabilities
    • Reading writing and math learning disabilities

Cognitive skill coaching involves training in a set of tasks designed to improve cognitive abilities and social functioning. This includes attention, working memory, planning, organization skills, and executive functioning. As part of our comprehensive mental health services at SESSIONS, Dr. Mel Corpus specializes in compensatory strategies, a specific type of cognitive skill coaching.

Compensatory strategies are aimed at helping people work around their cognitive limitations toward performing important tasks and optimizing community functioning. For example, learning how to keep appointments by maintaining a daily schedule, remembering verbal information by immediately repeating the information back for verification or improving attention by removing distractors.

Useful in treatment of:

  • Memory disorders
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • ADHD

Psychotherapy is an approach for treating mental health issues by talking with a psychologist, psychiatrist, or another mental health provider. As part of our comprehensive mental health services, psychotherapy sessions help you learn about your specific issues and how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors affect your moods. Talk therapy helps you learn how to take control of your life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills.

Psychotherapy can be used to treat and/or manage:

  • Psychiatric conditions
    • Anxiety
      • Panic attacks
      • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
    • Mood disorders
      • Depression
      • Bipolar
    • Personality disorders
      • Paranoid personality
      • Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder
      • Antisocial personality disorder
      • Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
      • Histrionic personality disorder
      • Narcissistic personality disorder
      • Avoidant personality disorder
      • Dependent personality disorder
      • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
    • Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    • Psychosis
      • Schizophrenia
      • Schizoaffective disorder
      • Schizophreniform disorder
      • Brief psychotic disorder
      • Delusional disorder
      • Shared psychotic disorder
      • Postpartum psychosis
      • Substance-induced psychosis
    • Disordered eating
      • Anorexia
      • Bulimia
      • Binge eating
    • Behavioral disorders
      • Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
      • Conduct disorder
    • ADHD

In addition to providing psychiatric and neuropsychological care, SESSIONS also offers psychotropic medication management as part of our comprehensive mental health services. Psychiatric consultation and the ongoing management of medications for psychological difficulties are available for clients who are actively involved in treatment at SESSIONS. We provide consultation to help manage symptoms and increase functionality and are continuously working within and outside of the SESSIONS network with various providers to ensure quality and continuity of care.

Dr. Mel Corpus has provided expert testimony for forensic cases, personal injury, sexual assault, mental capacity, fitness for duty, decision-making capacity, adoption, and custody evaluations. As part of our comprehensive mental health services, Dr. Mel Corpus offers expert opinion and Independent Medical Exams (IMEs) through SESSIONS.

IMEs are used in civil court cases for:

  • Examining the presence of cognitive loss secondary to a traumatic brain injury resulting from accidents, falls, blast injuries or repeated concussions
  • Assessing the presence and severity of psychological conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder) and their impact on functioning
  • Determining the presence of cognitive impairment secondary to psychological or medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain, cerebrovascular accident, fibromyalgia) and their impact on functioning
  • Ruling in or out non-clinical factors to claims of impairment
  • Making recommendations regarding occupational restrictions or limitations secondary to impairment
  • Making recommendations regarding clinical care to optimize recovery
  • Address any barriers to recovery
  • Providing options regarding prognosis and proximity to maximize medical improvement

IMEs are useful in assisting the court’s determination of:

  • Eligibility for state disability
  • Competence to stand trial
  • Worker’s compensation
  • Personal injury/distress
Personality
Assessments 

Personality assessments are tools used to gain insight into a person's unique characteristics, behaviors and emotional tendencies. 

SESSIONS offers personality assessment to assist in:

  • Fitness for duty evaluations
    • Assessing an employee’s ability to safely perform all essential job functions of their position from the time that they report to work and throughout the entirety of the employee’s scheduled work shift
  • Adoption, custody and guardianship
    • Evaluating the psychological and emotional stability of the potential parent or guardian.
  • Screening for media and television auditions
  • Fitness of a candidate’s personality and psychological profile for casting roles in television and media.

SESSIONS provides comprehensive mental health services on a consulting basis for athletes, performers, and executives.

Sports and Entertainment Mental Performance Consulting:

  • Focused on enhancing mental resilience and overall performance by addressing anxiety and performance-related stress through meditation and stress reduction techniques
  • SESSIONS also provides athletes and performers support through depression and anxiety that can come with significant life changes like injury or trauma
  • Additionally, SESSIONS assists athletes and performers as they transition into new life stages, helping them adapt to roles outside of their athletic or entertainment identity

Executive Coaching:

  • SESSIONS works with firms and management to provide direct and strategic guidance to effectively oversee teams and organizations, delivering clear, actionable direction to aid in achieving a company’s goals