Caring Outpatient Psychiatric Services
The Behavioral Health Division at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center provides comprehensive services that meet the needs of patients seeking high-quality care. Throughout your journey, you will find our caring and compassionate staff works with you every step towards achieving your mental health goals.
Outpatient Department
The Outpatient Department at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center provides a comprehensive assessment by a psychiatrist or a social worker to develop an individualized treatment plan. Outpatient therapy uses a brief treatment model of care to quickly focus on the patient’s relevant problems and develop a specific and focused treatment plan. When indicated, our staff will initiate closely monitored treatment with appropriate medications, including adult and child psychiatrists and adult psychiatry residents closely supervised by the staff psychiatrists. The department also provides specialized group therapy experiences that address anxiety and depression and interpersonal and life skills.
Services Offered
Medication Management – Medication monitoring with the psychiatrist is done to manage the negative symptomology of your presenting problem.
Individual Therapy – Offered as a short-term intervention licensed professional therapist 8 to 10 weeks of therapeutic services. Our clinicians use evidence-based theories such as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). We offer eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for those who qualify.
Group Therapy – Offered to those who wish to expand on their healing journey with the support of a clinician and peers.
- Grief and Loss: Tuesdays from 11am-12pm. This group focuses on healing following a loss of any kind. The group uses a supportive environment between members to promote connection and growth following a loss.
- Suboxone Group: Mondays and Wednesdays from 12pm-1pm. This group builds support and teaches sober living skills as part of our MAT program.
- Peer-Support Group: Mondays from 3pm-4pm. Facilitated by our Peer Support Specialist, this group is led by peers and helps to identify the universality of mental health challenges. Topics include healthy relationships, goal setting, recovery support, and more!
- Strive to Thrive: Thursdays from 3pm-4pm. This group focuses on identifying, improving, and using coping skills in the community.
- 40+ Group (Hybrid): Tuesdays from 2pm- 3pm. As we grow and change, so do our challenges. This group provides a space where aging and the changes that arise with it can be discussed and shared.
- Emotional Regulation (Virtual): Tuesdays from 3:45pm-4:45pm. This virtual group is about learning how to facilitate better control over your emotions so that they feel less overwhelming and more manageable.
The Hope & Resiliency Center for Youth program meets at-risk adolescents’ unique mental health needs in an intensive child/adolescent psychiatric outpatient program at Bergen New Bridge.
Our board-certified child psychiatrists and licensed social workers at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center provide compassionate and effective clinical care for children with various mental health challenges on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 4pm - 7pm. Transportation is available for those who qualify.
- Depression
- Anxiety
- ADHD
- Bullying
- Anger
- Poor self-esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Suppose you or a loved one requires more intensive treatment, including daily nursing and psychiatric services. In that case, the Acute Partial Hospital at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center can meet your needs, whether just discharged from the hospital or at high risk for hospitalization. A staff of qualified professionals, including psychiatrists, clinicians, and nurses, provides intense therapy within a structured five-hour-a-day program. Together we develop and monitor an individualized treatment plan. Once stabilized, you may be transitioned to a less intensive treatment program. If needed, Bergen New Bridge provides transportation to and from the program.
