How to make a referral

 

General Information about Mental Health Services

A Better Way has several mental health programs designed to provide a full-spectrum of clinical services to children and families in a pleasant outpatient setting or home environment. A Better Way serves birth families, foster families and adoptive families. Services include those dealing with such painful issues of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, neglect, abandonment and chronic intergenerational family trauma. We provide a continuum of services in a secure environment where children and families can be helped to develop healthier lives and relationships.

We work collaboratively with other caregivers in the social service systems, who also serve the family: social workers, teachers, attorneys, physicians, group home workers, case workers, mentors, and others.

 

Specific Mental Health Services at A Better Way

• Individual psychotherapy
• Family therapy
• Comprehensive psychological evaluations
• Clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning
• Dyadic Parent-Child Therapy (including Parent Child Interaction Therapy - PCIT) for a description of PCIT, scroll down this page
• Adolescent group therapy
• Supervised therapeutic visitation
• Home-based treatment and intervention
• Case management of child and family mental health needs in coordination with other caregivers in the social service system
• Services provided in English and Spanish

 

For Therapy Referrals and Questions

please contact:

Meridel Nordley-Knox

(510) 601-0203 x222

mnknox@abetterwayinc.net