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Caring for our mental health is vital to our overall health and wellness, including our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. Our mental health affects how we feel, think, and act. It determines how we handle stressors, how we relate to those around us and assists in making healthy life choices. Positive mental health is essential at every stage of our life, from childhood into adolescence and throughout adulthood. Do South ® is proud to partner with local mental health experts who are here to help you through whatever challenges life throws your way.
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Caring for our mental health is vital to our overall health and wellness, including our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. Our mental health affects how we feel, think, and act. It determines how we handle stressors, how we relate to those around us and assists in making healthy life choices. Positive mental health is essential at every stage of our life, from childhood into adolescence and throughout adulthood. Do South ® is proud to partner with local mental health experts who are here to help you through whatever challenges life throws your way.
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Anchored Hope Counseling welcomes clients with a broad range of situations. We believe healing takes place within relationships and our goal is to create strong therapeutic relationships to support our clients’ healing process. We provide a safe, confiden tial environment for our clients to get help, hope, and healing. Some of our counselors are trained in different counseling practice s including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), play therapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and grief/trauma therapy. We have MFTs (Marital/Family Therapists), LPCs (Licensed Professional Counselors), LCSWs (Licensed Clinical Social Workers), and APRN on staff.
EMDR is a structured trauma focused psychotherapy that was developed to alleviate symptoms of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and can be used to address symptoms that are a result of trauma, grief/loss, eating disorders, anxiety, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing experiences. Using EMDR, the client briefly focuses on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.
1501 South Waldron, Suite 100, Fort Smith, Arkansas anchoredhopecounseling.net479.561.7600
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Discovering with Dr. Deb is a bi-monthly podcast and is available on all platforms. This season was Discovering the Enneagram –super fun and interesting; and, starting in January 2023, we will have a new season on Discovering Trauma with Dr. Deb and co-host psychologist Dr. Christie Sprowls covering topics such as the body and trauma, vicarious trauma, and neuroscience and trauma.
7200 Cameron Park Drive, Fort Smith, Arkansas centerforhearing.net479.785.3277
Hearing is a brain activity, your ears hear the sounds, but your brain is what makes sense of them. If your hearing loss is untreated and you’re not hearing the number of noises you once did, your brain is not processing those noises. This can lead to under-stimulation and loss of the brain staying sharp. Hearing health and brain health, call 479-785-3277 to schedule an appointment today!
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Center for Hearing and Balance is proud to be the first clinic in the area to offer Cognivue screenings to patients. The results gathered from this new technology help our audiologists have a greater understanding of your cognitive health while ensuring a hearing-correction solution that is right for you.
1001 Towson Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas baptist-health.com479.441.5603
Your senior years can be some of the best of your life, and at Baptist Health, we want to help you make them as healthy and happy as possible. We help seniors pursue complete physical and mental wellness by not only treating illness, but also helping them to prevent sickness and diseases. Family involvement plays a key role in maintaining mental health for seniors, and our providers work closely with families to provide individualized care. Our inpatient geriatric psychiatry program offers a safe, comfortable environment, supported by group activities, recreational therapy, spiritual enrichment and more led by professional staff. For details, visit BaptistHealth.com or call 479-441-5603.
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Women live healthier, happier lives when they feel confident about who they are. Healing Tree provides women the tools they need to uncover their true potential and embrace the life each was meant to live. Our therapists help women address difficulties including struggles with anxiety, perfectionism, childhood trauma, PTSD, mood disorders, and post-partum depression. All Healing Tree clinicians are trained in multiple trauma therapies including EMDR, hypnotherapy, brainspotting, and trauma conscious yoga.
With two board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners on staff, our focus is to provide women with hope and understanding in a nonjudgmental environment. Our targeted counseling for teen girls brings together creativity, life skills, and emotional healing to create a space where teens feel safe and connected. Girls today have it much harder than we did growing up. When we were kids, there weren’t completely unrealistic reality shows on every channel and unattainable expectations for appearances on social media. Our bullies stayed at school— they couldn’t follow us home on social media. Healing Tree therapists help teen girls develop the wisdom, strength, and confidence to handle the non-stop barrage of social media and peer pressure. We all need a place to throw out the thoughts and feelings in our heads, sort through them, and uncover the reasons our lives are not where we want them to be so that we discover the path we were meant to follow. Our services include counseling and where appropriate, we also provide medication management to help reduce the symptoms of emotional overwhelm many women feel.
While medication is not suitable for everyone, it can play a key role in treating certain mental health issues. Discovering the right medication can reduce or even eliminate symptoms and greatly improve daily life. It’s vital to understand that the effectiveness of medication varies from person to person and it’s critically important to work with a professional with a keen understanding of the patient’s medical history so they can customize a medication plan. After medication is determined, our focus shifts to monitoring the medication’s safety, reconciling other medications, and ensuring the medication is producing the desired effect. It’s important to not only understand when medications should be taken and in what dosage, but also to understand the medication’s purpose, safety, side effects, effectiveness, as well as any potential risks from mixing medications with certain foods or other supplements. We can even provide medication management to our patients in Arkansas and Minnesota via telehealth for convenience.
At Healing Tree, we believe in a holistic approach to mental health and work hard to ensure all our patients receive the highest quality care. We specialize in helping women find calm amongst the chaos so that they learn to feel more in control of their thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Our mission is to provide healing, expertise, and knowledge so that women gain the inner resources they need to live healthier and happier lives.
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Find them on Facebook Therapy Friends Counseling and Consulting, led by Crystal Lougin, MS, LPC, caters to those with a busy work-schoolfamily-life schedule, seeing clients on evenings & weekends, by appointment only. As a licensed professional counselor, Crystal began providing therapy services after-hours and on the weekends, due to the added stress the pandemic has put on residents of western Arkansas. She has been licensed in the state since 2003, and in 2021, Crystal was appointed to the Arkansas Governor’s Board of Examiners in Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. She is passionate about providing educational opportunities on recognizing and destigmatizing mental health. Crystal also sits on several boards and volunteers at a variety of local agencies and nonprofits. She also works full time at Baptist Health-Fort Smith, where she serves as the Director of Behavioral Health.
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Outpatient Counseling is available for children, teens, and adults at all seven clinic locations across the six counties and via telehealth. Services include but are not limited to general stress/anxiety, depression, family therapy, addiction services, chronic behavioral health issues, crisis services, and psychological testing. All services provided are designed to enhance quality of life, reduce symptoms, improve functioning, and support paths of integration into the community. All clients of The Guidance Center have access to Genoa Healthcare Pharmacy located at our primary service center in Fort Smith. Children and youth get help through several services.
Adult services also include the 5 West Crisis Stabilization Unit in Fort Smith. This is a 16-bed unit serving individuals 18 and older experiencing a psychiatric and/or substance abuserelated crisis. With their new Here2Help service, a Mobile Crisis Team is available Monday-Friday 7:00 am to 11:00 pm throughout Sebastian County to help stabilize behavioral distress. The Drug Alcohol Safety Education Program (DASEP) is a mandatory court-ordered education program for adults and adolescents who have received DUI, DWI, and/or minor in possession violations.
The Guidance Center (formerly known as the Western Arkansas Counseling & Guidance Center) opened its doors 50 years ago in the River Valley as a nonprofit community behavioral health clinic. This organization serves communities in Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Polk, Sebastian, and Scott counties in Arkansas. Their unique mission is to provide a comprehensive network of quality behavioral healthcare services that are consumer sensitive, outcomes oriented, and cost effective. The range of their services treats mental, emotional, behavioral and substance abuse disorders.
Western Arkansas Therapeutic Children’s Homes (WATCH) offers temporary substitute family care for children when their own families are unable or unwilling to care for them.
The Vaping/Smoking Cessation program is specifically tailored for the adolescent population grades 7th-12th. Its mission is to inform, educate, and bring awareness to the harmful effects of smoking and vaping; and to promote a healthier lifestyle.
In March of 2021, The Guidance Center’s Primary Care Clinic opened and began providing full service physical healthcare including the management of chronic and acute health conditions. They can treat urgent needs like colds, coughs, allergies, annual physicals, well-woman exams, diabetes management, and provide care for high blood pressure and cholesterol. The clinic has its own lab, so clients can have their blood drawn on-site. In their first year, the clinic served 563 Takeclients.noteof the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline). Reaching out can save lives. SAMHSA is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. We can help. We will help. Visit our new website to learn more, wacgc.org or call, 479-452-6650.
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