When To See a Clinical Psychologist

When To See a Clinical Psychologist? Whether you are here for new or ongoing symptoms a doctor's visit will go over questions related to your medical history, a lot of the behavioral medicine concerns do come first through primary care, which is why clinical psychologist dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo works closely with family medicine physicians, it's basically a psychologist that is focused on working with the doctors in the same environment. 

When To See a Clinical Psychologist

Where they see their patients for any sort of like you come to your PCP visit, and then you can get connected right away with behavioral health services clinical psychologists can meet with the patient, if the family medicine doctor suspects there may be symptoms related to a behavioral health concern we meet them sometimes just so they can put a face to the name and with the hopes of increasing. 

The chance that they will actually come see us, sometimes the mental health is difficult to get patients to come back giving patients access to a clinical psychologist, during their primary care visit can give patients the opportunity to receive the physical and emotional treatment they need by us being here, if we can reduce some of the gaps of having to go somewhere else, then that makes it better patients experiencing things like depression anxiety or sudden behavioral changes may benefit from speaking to a clinical psychologist. 

We are trying to focus a lot on weight management, smoking cessation, better sleeping habits. We can work with chronic pain as well unlike psychiatrist who can prescribe medication. Psychologists used counseling and exercises to help patients collaborative care that can fully evaluate and treat patients giving them a better quality of life for his health. I'm Lindsey Morton