Coordinated Care Exceptions

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Our service in community and hospital sectors has afforded us with training (CBTp, DBT) and experience in providing supportive counseling for: psychoeducation around the illness, teaching accommodation strategies and life skills for illness management, distress and safety planning, a focus on family integration (when and as needed), as well as knowing when various situations require re-direction and/or collaboration with other community aids and professionals. Some examples of presentations that typically require this type of care are as follows:

• Personality Disorders (example, Borderline)
• Psychotic Disorders (example, Schizophrenia) 
• Neurocognitive Disorders (example, Traumatic Brain Injury)
• Mood Disorders (example, Bi-polar I)
• Eating Disorders (example, Binge Eating)

Please know, despite feelings and limitations you may be experiencing to the contrary, that you are NEVER a diagnosis. A diagnosis is a set of bio-psycho-social criteria that may be happening to you, but it is not You. Your meaning of Being is unique to you alone, and with better support, because that is where we grow the most, you can continue to flourish and accept the challenges for what they are--an integral part of your story, rather than a verdict on who you are.

Using the evidence-based framework of CAMS (Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality), clients receive therapy focusing on the conscious and unconscious drivers of suicidality, weekly treatment planning for addressing the resolution/management of these drivers, as well as in-depth safety and stabilization planning. The very act of seeking help is the biggest difference I’ve found in the outcome of life and death, and there is no lack of reverence for that fact in terms of collaborating, together, a desire to live. 

For those struggling with suicidality, I urge you to reach out to crisis lines, a trusted friend, healthcare organizations, a medical provider, or a hospital Emergency Department, as these are all places and persons that hold the truth—the truth that there is hope.

While there is no substitute for the professional care you are needing—and the aids provided on our website are not a substitution for this care either—we also know it is normal to read a crisis directive and take no notice of it (like a background PSA we have heard since we were little). This is even more likely to happen when we are experiencing an emergency or crisis, and our survival depends on becoming numb, frozen, or adopting other fragmented states of mind to manage the stress. 

By clicking on the action button below, you can access a Crisis Protocol, Distress Plan, and a detailed list of Crisis Support Services, at it just may be that seeing this crisis directive message again, in a different way, and with more information, helps you to take the steps you need to keep yourself and others safe.