Behavioral Health

The behavioral health (BH) service is available to everyone (all BRMC locations, in-person or by tele-health) as part of good, overall health care. You do NOT need to be a patient of BRMC to receive this service!

Patients can expect the BH team to ask specific questions about physical symptoms, the emotional concerns you are experiencing, your behaviors, and how all of these might be related. You can expect your appointments to last approximately 30 minutes and may often be on the same day of your primary care visit.

The BH team at BRMC offers assistance to the primary care providers and the patients they care for when habits, behaviors, stress, worry, or emotional concerns interfere with daily life or overall health. The behavioral health team consists of case managers, licensed counselors, medical assistants, and board-certified psychiatric providers. This team works closely with your primary care provider (PCP) to evaluate the mind-body-behavior connection and provide solution-focused interventions.

Together, the BH team and your PCP can consider the physical, behavioral, and emotional aspects of your health concern and help determine a course of action that will work best for you. They can help reduce symptoms associated with various chronic medical conditions or help you better cope with these conditions. A few of these are headaches, sleep, high blood pressure, asthma, diabetes, obesity, chronic pain, and irritable bowel syndrome.

The BH staff can help you and your PCP develop plans for smoking cessation, weight loss, alcohol use, exercises, and other lifestyle modifications as well as effectively manage emotional and behavioral difficulties such as anger, anxiety, bereavement, depression, and stress.