Comprehensive behavioral health services

Psychiatric care at North Star Health begins with a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation that typically extends well beyond a standard initial appointment. Prescribing decisions are made within an ongoing clinical relationship, not handed off between providers at each visit. Our psychiatrists manage a range of presentations including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, ADHD in adults, and conditions that have not responded cleanly to prior treatment, and they document the reasoning behind each pharmacological choice.

Our psychiatric care is delivered by physicians who completed an MD or DO, a four-year residency in psychiatry, and who hold board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Visits are scheduled at the frequency your care requires.

• Diagnostic psychiatric evaluation
• Ongoing psychiatric medication management
• Coordination with primary care & specialty providers
• Care for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma, perinatal mental health, and major life transitions
• Telehealth or in-person at your preference

North Star Health maintains structured clinical programming in several high-need specialty areas where a generalist outpatient model is insufficient. These include a focused perinatal mental health pathway for women navigating pregnancy and the postpartum period, an OCD and anxiety intensive track that applies evidence-based exposure and response prevention protocols, and a program for adults whose mental health presentations are complicated by co-occurring chronic medical conditions. Each specialty track involves coordinated care planning across the relevant disciplines within the practice.

Some conditions benefit from a clinician with focused training. Our specialty programs are organized around the diagnostic categories that present most often in adult outpatient behavioral health, staffed by clinicians with additional training in each area.

• Anxiety disorders
• OCD and related conditions
• Mood disorders
• Perinatal mental health
• Trauma and PTSD
• ADHD in adults
• Mental health comorbid with chronic medical conditions

Relational and family therapy at this practice addresses the ways that mood, anxiety, and behavioral patterns inside individuals create dynamics that are difficult to resolve without bringing the relationship system into the room. Our clinicians who work with couples and families are trained in structured relational modalities and approach conflict, communication breakdown, and life-transition stress from a clinical rather than purely supportive orientation.

Relationships are part of behavioral health. Our couples and family clinicians are trained in evidence-based systemic and relational modalities, and care is delivered with the same evidence base as our individual treatment.

• Couples therapy (Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method-informed)
• Family therapy for adults and adult-child family units
• Parent guidance for adults navigating parenting under stress

Individual therapy at North Star Health is delivered by licensed clinicians who work within structured, evidence-based modalities including cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and exposure-based approaches, selected based on diagnosis and patient presentation rather than clinician preference alone. Sessions are not open-ended check-ins; they are goal-directed, periodically reviewed for progress, and adjusted when outcomes plateau. Patients in concurrent psychiatric care benefit from the direct communication channel between their therapist and prescriber.

Our therapists are independently licensed (LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC, PsyD, or PhD) and matched to your care based on your goals and the modalities best suited to them. Sessions are typically scheduled weekly or biweekly to start.

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills
• Psychodynamic and supportive psychotherapy
• Trauma-focused care
• Perinatal and postpartum-specific therapy

Secure video appointments are available for established and new patients in Minnesota who prefer not to travel to a clinic or whose schedules require greater flexibility. Telehealth at North Star Health uses a HIPAA-compliant platform integrated with our clinical records system, ensuring that the documentation and coordination standards that apply to in-person visits apply equally to remote ones. Not all services are appropriate for telehealth delivery, and our intake team will advise honestly when an in-person evaluation is clinically preferable.

Where clinically appropriate, both psychiatric care and psychotherapy are available through HIPAA-compliant telehealth. The same clinicians, the same care — delivered to wherever you can find a quiet, private space within your state of residence.

• Telepsychiatry medication management
• Teletherapy for psychotherapy and couples care
• Secure, HIPAA-compliant platform
• Equal-fee, in-network billing where your plan permits