Offices in: doylestown, pa & King of prussia & Los Angeles, CA
Offices in: doylestown, pa & King of prussia & Los Angeles, CA
Judy has been working with addictions for 12 years. She works with children, teens, and adults for over 30 years. Her work setting has spanned from intensive outpatient to private practice. Judy works with teens who are using excessive amounts of marijuana to cope with their daily lives or to self medicate untreated conditions such as anxiety or ADHD.
Judy also works with excessive alcohol/binge alcohol use in adolescents and young adults. If your teen or young adult is participating in binge drinking or blacking out frequently this is an issues of great concern and worry for parents for the safety of their child.
Families are affected by their teen and young adult's substance abuse issues as they worry, lose sleep, argue and try to regulate and control their child's behavior to no avail. Judy can help them create some separation emotionally and identify codependency characteristics and behavior that may be enabling so they can give their child the necessary space to work on and understand their relationship with substances as a coping mechanism to life's pain.
As Judy works with the teen or young adult individually, another member of our staff can work with the parents or family and they can all come together to work as a team.
From years of experience with teens and young adults and addictions Judy will assess the level of care needed for her client, whether it be outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient therapy a partial hospitalization program, or an inpatient facility If a higher level of care is required, Judy will connect the family with the rehabilitation consultant that is in our network. Lauren jumps as part of the team to help families decide the best inpatient or outpatient facility for their teen or young adult and whether the facilities accept the client's insurance or not.
Judy began in juvenile and correctional facilities and within the prison system as a therapist. Judy has vast experience with teens and their families not only with the role of addictions within the family systems but also with other mental health issues that impact the entire family.
Judy works with other mental health issues teens and young adults such as bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, and ODD.
Managed by Horizon Wellness Center
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