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Evansville Psychiatric Associates offers tailored care
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and fears about mental health diagnoses can make seeking mental health care feel scary. It is helpful to know that you are not alone. Mental health affects everyone. At Evansville Psychiatric Associates, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to feel happy, energized, and productive. Consultations are with qualified and conscientious professionals who are well trained and experienced in understanding your story and unique style of coping with what life has presented you with. Our professional staff members are well educated, experienced, discrete, and open-minded. They collaborate as a team and have met and treated thousands of regular people with thoughts and symptoms just like you. Evansville Psychiatric Associates treats the full range of mental and behavioral healthcare issues with special interests in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); autism spectrum disorder; conduct disorders in children; panic, anxiety, and fear; depression; emotional disturbances; peer and relationship issues; loss and grief; behavioral issues; anger management; mood stabilization; adjustment difficulties; insomnia; psychological and emotional balance; and general psychiatric medication management. Our team works with hundreds of area physicians to diagnose and treat ADHD in children and adults through “The Center for ADHD” program. This comprehensive assessment includes individual and family assessment, psychological testing, and diagnoses along with medication intervention. Our psychiatrists, John C. Bambenek III, M.D., Ashraf N. Ahmed, M.D., and David M. Holatjer, M.D., are all medical doctors who are board certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. Dr. Bambenek is also board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Bambenek loves his work with children and wants each child to have the best start possible. He looks at each child’s temperament, traits, strengths, and support systems in making the best treatment decisions possible in conjunction with the family. 96 July | August 2013 Evansville Living
Dr. Ahmed works with clients of all ages, treating a wide range of issues. He gives each patient his full attention, and patients leave knowing they have truly been “heard.” Dr. Holatjer works primarily with adults and has had significant experience with treating depression and anxiety. Our nurse practitioner, Jenny Ahmed, was previously a family nurse practitioner and comes to us with a wealth of knowledge. Our clinical psychologist, Bruce Hust, Ph.D., uses the tools of his profession to assess the cognitive and emotional functioning of his patients. A good therapist can help you find the answers in yourself or help you strategize ways to deal with your unique stressors. Our therapists, Angie Heidorn, Sherry Fisher, Mike Eatmon, Julie Kahre, Paul Mefford, and Carol Hastings, are all master’s level trained social workers who have passed the boards to become licensed clinical social workers (LCSW). They all have additional certification as marital and family therapists and work with children, adolescents, and adults. Many have training in other areas such as cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, and HeartMath. ™ Are you looking for answers to questions about why you or a loved one feels the way they do? Fill out our online appointment request at www.evansvillepsychiatric. com so we can learn a little about you and match your needs with the clinician who is best able to serve you in training, expertise, and style. Our intake coordinator will work to ensure that you are scheduled with clinicians in your insurance network and take care of any authorizations needed from your insurance or referrals required from your primary care physician.
For more information about Evansville Psychiatric Associates, visit evansvillepsychiatric.com, find them on Facebook, or call 812422-7974. The office is ideally and centrally located to conveniently serve the greater Evansville area.
Dr. Ashraf Ahmed, M.D. “My philosophy in providing care is to understand the real reason the patient is in my office, understanding how this patient grew up to be the person who is in front of me. I listen for what is happening in his or her life today and based on what happened to them while growing up, evaluate how he or she has developed their current symptoms. It is amazing how we are products of what has happened to us in the past. Sometimes medications are the right choice and sometimes advice is enough.”
Jenny Ahmed, apnp
“My practice philosophy is that mental health is a critical and necessary component of comprehensive healthcare. Each patient has the right to participate in decision making regarding their health.”