Psychiatry, Addiction Clinic Open In Walnut Creek

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Rogers Behavioral Health opened in Walnut Creek last month. The clinic offers treatment for children, teens and adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, and a program for treatment of anxiety and mood disorders for children and teens on the autism spectrum.

The clinic's services include partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs with patients attending treatment sessions for several hours a day, four to five days a week, while maintaining connections with family, work or school. The comprehensive care combines behavioral therapies with medication.

For adults who have not seen improvement in depression symptoms with therapy and medication, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an option. TMS uses targeted magnetic pulses to stimulate the area of the brain that is underactive in patients suffering from major depressive disorder. The FDA-approved treatment is available for adults 18 and older including patients not enrolled in another Rogers program. A typical treatment plan involves 18-minute sessions, five days a week, for four to six weeks. Outcomes studies show this treatment option is effective and is typically covered by insurance plans.

Additional programs are being considered for addiction, posttraumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders based on the needs of patients in Walnut Creek.

“The need is great for the type of specialized behavioral health services we offer,” says Pat Hammer, CEO and president of Rogers Behavioral Health. “As we continue to grow our regional operations, we know that being able to offer local access to this type of care, as a complement to existing local services, really makes a difference for the people we serve.”

Rogers offers some of the most comprehensive programs for OCD and depression in the country, the two most common mental health issues. “We already serve patients from the San Francisco Bay Area at our nationally recognized residential treatment centers in Wisconsin,” Hammer adds. “We’re pleased this new location gives those patients a convenient option to get specialized day treatment before or after residential services when that level of care is needed.”

“There is a critical need for this specialized higher level of care. In the past I have had to send many of my patients to Los Angeles or out of state to access these types of services,” shares Dr. Jennifer Park, PhD and clinical director for the San Francisco location. Dr. Park adds, “Rogers has a long history of effective treatment, and bringing this evidenced-based high quality care to the area will be an enormous benefit to the community.”

Dr. Park leads a highly trained, interdisciplinary behavioral health team at the Walnut Creek location. She is a clinical instructor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and an attending psychologist at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy and has a strong track record of clinical innovation and research involvement.

To make an appointment for a free screening, or for more information call 925-266-8800.

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