Behavioral Health
Behavioral Health Care Services
We take an integrated approach to healthcare. The providers at Bluestem Health in Lincoln are passionate about helping people who suffer from behavioral health conditions and complications. They understand how mental health plays an important role in maintaining a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Our providers work together to provide integrated care for all patients.
Mental Health Providers Who Understand
Our team includes a Behavioral Health Director and therapists who see patients for counseling and support and who help with patient care plans and assessment of needs throughout our clinics.
Working in this model with primary care providers, our behavioral health team assists with the assessment and treatment of patients in need of mental health services. At times, this may entail collaboration and discussion with primary care providers and behavioral health therapists only to establish or update patient care plans. At other times, they may meet with a patient face-to-face in a clinic setting to gather more information and/or discuss treatment options with the patient and their family.
Integrated Healthcare
Our behavioral health team continually collaborates with the patient’s primary care provider who oversees the patient’s overall health care and treatment plan. They provide triage care as well as traditional 50-minute therapy sessions integrated into the primary care setting to help the medical provider with mental health, addiction, or substance abuse problems.
Whole-person healthcare is Bluestem Health’s passion. Our behavioral health team allows us to treat psychiatric concerns with primary care providers and behavioral health therapists in a team-based approach and is able to better connect all areas of health in a person’s life. Our trauma-informed care approach has become critical.
If patients come to us with behavioral health needs and are happy with their current therapist, we encourage them to continue this care. If they have not established care with a behavioral health therapist and their primary care provider identifies a need, we will contact our behavioral health director to consult and provide therapy as prescribed by their primary care provider.
Multi-Clinic Support
Our Behavioral Health therapists are scheduled across all clinic locations, allowing providers to schedule patients and see a therapist at their assigned clinic when possible. If there is an urgent need to be seen the day of, we offer phone or Telehealth therapy. We also may schedule patients depending on where interpreters are available. Our behavioral health director is here and available for consults and therapies as directed by patients’ primary care providers.
You must be seen by a Bluestem Health provider first before being referred to our behavioral health director. If you feel you may need behavioral health services, contact your provider.
