Psychiatry
Understanding your mental health starts with a conversation about your symptoms, history, and goals. Explore psychiatry with Keystone Counseling, including psychiatric evaluations, medication management when appropriate, and coordination with therapy.
Contact our intake team to confirm current prescriber availability, age groups served, insurance participation, and appointment options.
Start with a fuller understanding
You may be looking for clarity about attention, anxiety, mood, sleep, or how your symptoms affect daily life. A psychiatric evaluation offers space to discuss these concerns, review previous treatment, and explore appropriate next steps with a qualified psychiatric clinician.
Care built around your goals
Your questions and preferences matter. Psychiatric care may include an evaluation, a personalized treatment plan, medication management, and ongoing review. Therapy and practical daily-life support can also be part of a coordinated plan.
What psychiatry can include
Ask our team about the following services and current clinician availability.
Psychiatric evaluations
A review of your concerns, mental health and medical history, previous treatment, and goals to help clarify your needs and treatment options.
Medication management
When appropriate, a licensed prescriber can discuss medication options, potential benefits and side effects, and a plan for monitoring your response.
Follow-up care
Follow-up visits provide time to review symptoms, discuss questions or side effects, and revisit the treatment plan with your prescriber.
Coordination with therapy
With your permission, your psychiatric clinician and therapist can share relevant information to support a coordinated approach to care.
What to expect
- Contact Keystone and let us know you are interested in psychiatry.
- Our intake team will help confirm clinician availability, eligibility, insurance, and fees.
- If an appropriate appointment is available, complete the requested intake information and prepare your questions, treatment history, and current medication list.
- Discuss next steps with your psychiatric clinician, including follow-up recommendations.
Psychiatry and therapy can work together
Psychiatry focuses on evaluation and medical treatment planning, including medication when appropriate. Therapy provides space to work on patterns, relationships, coping skills, and daily challenges. You can ask about either service or how they may fit together.
Psychiatric services require an appropriately licensed prescriber. Availability, ages served, telehealth eligibility, and insurance participation vary by clinician and must be confirmed with Keystone. An inquiry does not guarantee an appointment or prescription.
Ask about psychiatry
Tell our intake team what you are looking for. We will help you understand current options and the next step.
Questions about psychiatry
Ask about psychiatry · Call (617) 468-6426
Is psychiatry the same as medication management?
Medication management is one part of psychiatry. Psychiatric care can also include evaluation, diagnostic clarification, treatment planning, follow-up, and coordination with therapy.
Will I automatically receive a prescription?
No. Medication decisions depend on an individual clinical evaluation, your history, and the prescriber’s judgment. Requesting an appointment does not guarantee a prescription.
Who provides psychiatric care?
Psychiatric care is provided by an appropriately licensed psychiatric clinician, such as a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner. Ask our intake team about current providers and availability.
Can I continue working with my therapist?
You can ask about coordinating psychiatric care with your existing therapist. Information is shared with your permission, as appropriate for your care.