Treatments & Services (2024)

Before your first appointment, you’ll complete several surveys, either online or in person. You will then speak with a social worker and/or psychologist about your symptoms and treatment goals.

Intensive Outpatient Program

This two-week program for PTSD reduces symptoms, promotes health and wellbeing, and improves relationships and social functioning.

Depending on your customized treatment plan, you could be offered the following services:

• Psychotherapy– This might include talk therapy, focusing on thoughts and behaviors and how they can influence mood. Talk therapy can help you become more comfortable with your memories and learn to think differently about them. Talk therapy can help you feel more safe and at ease in situations that can trigger troubling memories. You may also benefit from virtual reality exposure therapy (VRE). During VRE, you wear a head-mounted display and earphones that provide scenes and audio similar to what you might have experienced in combat or service. This safe and controlled exposure can help you become more comfortable in situations that trigger your symptoms.
• Medication–Many medicines are now widely used to help manage anxiety, depression, TBI and other mental health conditions. We’ll talk to you about your options and preferences and work with you if you’re interested in medication.
• Stress Management Skills– We’ll teach you specific strategies for managing memory or thinking difficulties as well as reducing anxiety while teaching you other skills that can improve your mental health and your life in general.
• Sleep Training– Many warriors have trouble sleeping or experience poor sleep quality. We can teach you techniques to help you unwind and get the sleep you need.
• Family Sessions - Treatment might include a participant’s family and would be provided via telehealth.

You’ll also learn about yoga, wellness, and communication and coping skills. In addition, you will have a chance to participate in group outings and weekend activities.

• In this program, warriors attend daily appointments from approximately 0800 – 1700 and participate in recreational activities in the evenings and on weekends.

• Warriors stay at a hotel near the Brain Health Center, where all care takes place.

• All costs associated with care, transportation, lodging, and meals are at no cost to the warrior.

Traditional Outpatient Program

This treatment pathway offers psychotherapy, medication, stress management skills, and sleep training. Depending on your particular needs, you could be scheduled weekly or less often. Treatment length is based on each warrior’s customized treatment plan.

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To get more information and/or to speak with someone to determine your eligibility for evaluation, please call 888-514-5345or complete the private online form below and we will contact you.

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Family services provided by Emory Healthcare Veterans Program are free to qualified post-9/11 military service members, veterans and their families who are residents of or stationed in Georgia. The services may be offered in person or through telemedicine. Service members and veterans receiving treatment from Emory Healthcare Veterans Program incur no out-of-pocket costs associated with the service.

FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) Family Resilience Training

FOCUS provides resilience training to military families and couples facing adversity and traumatic stress related to invisible wounds and other family stressors. The 6-8 session program helps families and couples overcome challenges and create a shared story to foster connection and support. FOCUS builds upon current strengths and teaches strategies to enhance communication, emotion management, problem-solving, and goal setting.

The Relationship Checkup

All too often, couples view counseling and therapy sessions as a last resort rather than a service to keep their relationships on the right track. To remedy this assumption, EHVP is excited to offer Arammu: The Relationship Checkup, an annual assessment of relationship strengths and pain points.

This service works in the same manner as a dental cleaning- a brief session completed annually to "checkup" on the relationship and provide personalized feedback for next steps and healthy practices moving forward. Just as a dental checkup catches cavities before they become major problems, Arammu: The Relationship Checkup can catch small issues before irreversible damage is done.

Contact Us Today

Couples who are residents of or are stationed in Georgia and are interested in scheduling a Relationship Checkup or a FOCUS session may do so by calling 888-514-5345.

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