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MBHA now offers clinical outpatient therapy. Services may occur either at the main office in Brunswick or in the client’s home. Each session lasts for 50 minutes and can be arranged to be held once or twice per week depending on the client’s need.  The goal of therapy is to assist the clients in constructing a vision of client’s “preferred future”, by helping them identify and address difficulties or problems they face presently in their lives. Through our guidance, clients will examine positive encounters and circumstances in their recent past difficulties and retrieve the attitudes and tools that led them in responding in such a manner. We support them in becoming aware of these specific processes and reinforce the successful incorporation of past skills, so clients are able to move towards the “preferred future” as identified by the client in their goals. Also we assist clients in exploring and gaining a better understanding of their past experiences which can support them in positively progressing with current and future goals or plans. MBHA utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution focused brief therapy (SFBT), person centered therapy and Adlerian therapy as therapeutic modalities to help support clients to psychological, emotional and cognitive wellness.

Here are just a couple of "cool" pictures taken here at Merrymeeting Behavioral Health.

Mr. Katopis has actually been with Merrymeeting for about four years. He initially came to us after receiving his BS in science. He began his MBHA career as a team leader for our Adult program and performed exceptionally well before being admitted into the Masters Program at the University of Southern Maine.

While he relinquished his position as team leader  in order to attend his Masters program he stayed on with us so that he could fulfill his graduate Intern obligations. And it has been my great pleasure as a seasoned LCSW to have had the opportunity to guide this young man during the development of his professional goals.

As of December 2010 he has fulfilled all the requirements in order to earn both his Masters Degree and most recently his License to practice as an LCPC-C in the state of Maine.

Please join me in welcoming Alex as our Clinical Manager. I have every faith that he will excel in this position and that it is our clients who will benefit tremendously from his developing expertise.

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Merrymeeting Behavioral Health Associates

to all of you

We wish you the

~ Merriest of Holidays ~

as well as a

Joyously Happy New Year

Summer 2010 appears to be the time that three employees here at Merrymeeting have chosen to tie the knot as it were.

Baley Hatfield has flown off to Ohio where she is due to marry her fiance John Britton Baley is a native of Ohio and this is where all of her family lives. While she is having the wedding and a reception there Baley intends to have a reception here in Maine once she returns. But before she returns John is taking her on a splendid honeymoon to Aruba.

Next on the Wedding trail is Andrew Nelson who will be marrying his fiance on Saturday August 28th. They evidently have friends flying in from all over the world to help them celebrate this joyous occasion.  While Andrew tells me he is exhausted from the myriad preparations and events leading up to the wedding he has also expressed considerable excitement.

And last but not least Jamey Lemar is to wed Jeremy Davis in a quiet and private ceremony sometime at the beginning of September.

We wish them all the very best in their new lives as married couples.