Collaborative care is a more holistic, integrated healthcare model where multiple providers treating the same client can coordinate their care to increase treatment effectiveness.

At Kingdom Counseling, this means that if you see one of our therapists for counseling and our physician assistant for medication management, your providers can coordinate their treatment and recommendations to complement each other’s work with you. This comes at no additional cost for you.

Since different types of providers bring different skill sets and perspectives to the table, research indicates the client will be better served and will often experience greater treatment effectiveness when in a collaborative care practice.

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20851265/)

We believe psychiatric medication can be a helpful means of improving mental health for those facing life’s challenges or navigating chemical imbalances in their bodies, but view it as supplemental and not primary in the treatment of mental health. While not every person in therapy should consider or pursue psychiatric medication, there are times when medication can benefit the therapeutic process. We do not see medication as the first or second line of defense, but as a tool to employ when other options have not been effective.

We recognize that our bodies have been subject to the Fall and are susceptible to experiencing chemical and hormonal imbalances that can affect our emotional, physical, cognitive, relational, professional, and spiritual health. Although psychiatric medications have often been misused or abused, we hope to offer a higher standard of practice that seeks to honor our clients and minimize the need for medication over time.