Mental Health Services Boston (Back Bay), Massachusetts
Location Information
Address
361 Newbury Street, Fifth Floor
Boston (Back Bay), Massachusetts 02115
Phone
Hours
Monday – Thursday: 9AM – 6PM
Friday: 9AM – 4PM
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Types of Visits Available Here
- - Telehealth Only
Types of Insurance Accepted Here
- - Aetna
- - Aetna Student Health
- - Blue Cross Blue Shield
- - Carelon (Kaiser Permanente / Beacon)
- - Evernorth (Cigna)
- - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- - Mass General Brigham Employee
- - MultiPlan
- - Optum (United Healthcare)
- - Point32
- - Tufts
If you don’t see your insurance here, give us a call or contact your insurance company to verify if OptiMindHealth is in your network.
Services At Our Boston (Back Bay), Massachusetts Location
Adult Counseling
Any of life’s challenges, job insecurity, difficult relationships, problems at school, family friction, the loss of a loved one, or even physical illness, can generate feelings of depression, anxiety, fear, or confusion. Our confidence suffers. We ruminate on the past and perpetually worry about the future.
Medication Management
The careful selection of certain medications can enhance and facilitate efficient mental health symptom resolution, particularly when used in combination with psychotherapy. Your treatment team may offer certain medication options to address your symptoms after a careful consideration of your immediate objectives, and your longer term goals.
College Counseling
College and graduate school make for an exciting time in any student’s life. Young or old, an individual taking the steps to further their education and make it through school is actively working towards bettering themselves and their life.
Insomnia Treatment
Insomnia can be considered a lack of sleep because of poor quality or poor quantity of sleep. Frequently, when we suffer from insomnia, our sleep is fragmented; we experience difficulty falling asleep, multiple awakenings during sleep and difficulty falling asleep, or we wake up too early and cannot return to sleep.
Teen Counseling
Psychotherapy and counseling can help adolescents and teens recover from depression and anxiety. It can also help to develop strategies to address problems in school, and improve attention and learning difficulties. Adjustments to loss, divorce, or death of a family member or close friend can be particularly challenging for younger people, and sometimes controlling impulses, aggression, and defiance can be difficult during the years of 13 to 17.
Couples Counseling
Overcoming relationship hurdles is not an easy process. From effective communication to the art of fighting fairly, there is a significant amount of learning required to successfully maintain a happy, healthy relationship with your partner.When one or both people in a couple is unhappy or frustrated, it can sometimes be difficult to get your relationship back on track. At times, it may even seem like your relationship is destined for failure. The good news is that couples counseling can help resolve problems in about 75 percent of cases.
Trauma Counseling
Trauma counseling is focused on helping individuals process and heal from distressing experiences that overwhelm our ability to cope with day-to-day life. Themes including abuse, accidents, disasters, loss, or violence are addressed in this type of counseling. Goals of trauma counseling include symptom reduction, improving emotional regulation skills, enhancing relationships and social experiences, and building greater resilience.
Telehealth Services
Designed to enhance care delivery for our local patients who meet in person with their providers, and to extend the specialty services that we offer to others who may not otherwise be able to access our providers face to face on a regular basis due to schedule restrictions or physical location.
Group Therapy
Group psychotherapy is often a key treatment component for individuals struggling with depression, social isolation, and the effects of trauma. It is a treatment modality that can serve multiple purposes, and in some situations can provide benefits that individual psychotherapy may not. Group therapy can offer a rewarding therapeutic experience that is both supportive and problem-solving in nature.
Our services are designed to help people struggling with conditions like anxiety, depression, relationship conflicts and work-related challenges.
OMH professionals are dedicated mental health specialists committed to providing skilled consultation and holistic treatment services for those struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship conflicts, and work-related challenges. We offer both general and specialty services at our practice that are designed to address a variety of conditions and needs for our patients.
Staff At Our Boston (Back Bay), Massachusetts Location
A Comprehensive and Compassionate Team at OptiMindHealth
The OptiMindHealth team is an integrated, multi-disciplinary group of dedicated mental health specialists, including Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, and Licensed Counselors. This collaborative structure allows them to provide comprehensive and holistic care, offering a wide range of services from counseling and medication management to advanced treatments like TMS therapy. OptiMindHealth focuses on supporting their clinicians to ensure they can provide individualized, high-quality care rooted in professional excellence and a shared mission to improve mental well-being.
Joseph Yeretsian, MD FAPA
OptiMindHealth President, Staff Psychiatrist
Chelsea Goodreau, LMHC
Staff Counselor
Gianni Basoa, LMHC
Staff Counselor
Greg Hard, PMHNP-BC
Staff Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Kari Burpoe, LMHC
Staff Counselor
Michael Naquin, LICSW
Pamela Pollack, LICSW
Staff Counselor
Rebekah Bullock, PMHNP-BC
Staff Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Vanja Pumpalovic, PMHNP-BC
Staff Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Boston (Back Bay) Mental Health Services FAQ
Counseling involves talking with a trained mental health professional to explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and to develop coping strategies. Psychiatric medication management, on the other hand, is the use of prescribed medication to help manage mental health symptoms. Counseling appointments are frequently weekly, each appointment lasting one hour at a time. Psychiatric medication management appointments commonly take place monthly, and typically last 30 minutes but can be shorter or longer, depending on your needs. Often, the most effective treatment for a mental health condition is a combination of both counseling and prescribed medication.
During your first appointment, your provider will conduct a comprehensive evaluation. This typically includes:
- Reviewing your medical history: You will be asked about your physical and mental health history, any current medical conditions, and any medications you are already taking (including over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, and supplements).
- Reviewing your counseling history: You will have an opportunity to discuss your experience in counseling, and review how to plan a counseling treatment course that could enhance your response to medication-based treatment.
- Discussing your symptoms and goals: You will talk about the symptoms you are experiencing, how they affect your daily life, and what you hope to achieve with medication.
- Developing a treatment plan: Based on the assessment, the provider will discuss potential medication options, explaining how they work, possible side effects, and how long it may take to see results.
Follow-up appointments are usually shorter and focus on how the medication is working, any side effects you may be experiencing, how the changes you are experiencing are affecting you, and whether any adjustments to the dosage or medication type are needed.
Medication management services are often covered by health insurance. However, coverage can vary depending on your specific plan. It’s best to contact your insurance provider directly to confirm your benefits, including any co-pays or deductibles you may be responsible for.
At OptiMindHealth, cognitive behavioral treatment of insomnia, (CBT-I) involves a time limited approach which can benefit primary insomnia and insomnia secondary to other mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. Our approach includes proven techniques such as sleep restriction, stimulus control, relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, and improving sleep hygiene.
Yes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for social anxiety is a common and effective form of treatment, and we offer this at OptiMindHealth. We have licensed mental health professionals on staff trained in CBT and other evidence-based practices to help with social anxiety.
Yes. We offer services specific to the treatment of depression and related health issues in our Boston, Massachusetts (Back Bay) location.
Yes, we offer counseling and medication management for a wide range of mental health concerns, including anxiety and depression. Our Boston, MA (Back Bay) team is dedicated to helping adults navigate these challenges and find effective solutions.
Yes, we absolutely provide couples counseling services here at our center in Boston’s Back Bay.
We understand that relationships can face a variety of challenges, and our dedicated team of therapists is trained to help couples navigate these issues in a supportive and neutral environment. Whether you’re dealing with communication breakdowns, infidelity, unresolved conflict, or simply seeking to strengthen your bond, we offer a range of evidence-based approaches to help you and your partner achieve a healthier, more fulfilling connection.
Here at our Back Bay, Boston location, we believe in a holistic approach to mental health, which means we address your well-being on multiple levels—mind, body, and spirit. This comprehensive philosophy guides us in integrating various evidence-based therapies in combination with lifestyle factors, such as nutrition, sleep, and mindfulness, to support your overall health and resilience.
Absolutely! Our therapists specialize in using effective, evidence-based treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety to help you achieve your personal wellness goals.
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