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Clinical Services

AHM is proud to offer mental health clinical services to youth and their families! These services are designed to support families in transition, crisis, or normal developmental processes.

Individual and/or family therapy is available for children, adolescents, and young adults up to age 26 to address social, emotional and/or behavioral issues. Family and parent sessions are often utilized in conjunction with individual sessions to support a child’s progress in therapy.
During the first session, the therapist will gather detailed information about the current problem to assess your needs. From there, they will work with you to determine the best plan for treatment, including session frequency, modality, and overall goals. Session frequency may be weekly or bi-weekly, with more or less determined on a case-by-case basis.
The AHM clinical team is made up of therapists from a variety of clinical backgrounds, licensures and specialties. All AHM therapists take a collaborative, strengths-based approach to treatment. Therapists may incorporate play, art, games, or other activities to make therapy a comfortable, safe space for children. Our therapists are skilled at working with a wide range of diagnoses and presenting problems, including: anxiety, depression, coping with daily stress, trauma, grief & loss, parenting strategies, family conflict, divorce/separation, ADHD, school problems, substance use, and relationship issues.

AHM Crisis Resources Handout

AHM’S Clinical Services Include:

  • Individual therapy, Family therapy
  • Crisis intervention
  • Consultation with school and other professional involved with the child
  • Referral services

AHM’s Clinical Team:

  • Megan Aldridge, LMFT, Clinical Director
  • Kate Boutwell, LMFT, Outpatient Therapist
  • Jayne Carlman, LPC, Outpatient Therapist
  • Shauna Farris, LPC-A, Outpatient Therapist

Master Level Interns:

  • Jonathan Farrington, Outpatient Therapist Intern

We accept Connecticut Title XIX (HUSKY) as well as Aetna, Anthem BCBS, Beacon Health Options, Cigna, OPTUM/OXFORD, UBH/UHC insurance as a qualified method of payment for this service.  Please note that this does not guarantee coverage of services.

If you are a new or returning client, please contact us to initiate the intake process by calling Heather Anselmo, Clinical Program Technical Coordinator, at (860) 228-9488 x26, or emailing her at heathera@ahmyouth.org. We will inform you about current therapist availability or wait times, gather background information, and get you set up in our Client Portal where you will be able to complete intake paperwork, view scheduled sessions, access billing documents, and communicate with your therapist. Please note that you will need to bring your insurance card and your photo ID with you for your first visit (if you are a minor, a photo ID from a parent/legal guardian is required).

For emergency, call 911. For non-emergency inquiries, please contact AHM today!

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Please call the AHM office at 860-228-9488 to make an appointment with our clinical team.  If you have general questions about our clinical program, please do not hesitate to contact us.

AHM’s Clinical Program Expansion

AHM Youth and Family Services was recently selected by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving as one of only 8 non-profits to participate in a 30-month journey to develop and implement an earned income venture business plan that complements our mission and supports the financial sustainability of the organization. We are thrilled to use this extraordinary opportunity to implement AHM’s Therapist Mentorship Program, which will help our clinical program grow to meet the needs of youth seeking mental health support.

Through this partnership, we have been fortunate to work alongside experts to help us create new revenue streams, which will enable us to move on a trajectory to better fulfill AHM’s mission to promote and support the health and well-being of children, youth, and families in our community. At the heart of this work is an opportunity to expand our mental health clinical services to a growing list of those who need it. We are now well poised to implement this new plan and take our organization to new heights. The Social Enterprise Accelerator is provided in partnership with No Margin, No Mission, a national consulting firm dedicated to helping nonprofits increase their earned income and entrepreneurial capacity. In addition, AHM had the opportunity to work with Sara Leonard Group, who provided guidance and education for fund development. The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has created a matching challenge: for every dollar of start-up capital raised by AHM, the Foundation will match dollar for dollar, up to $30,000. The matching challenge runs through April 24. If you would like to support this program visit our donation page.

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Information about the Social Enterprise Accelerator (SEA) Program

Read AHM’s Executive Summary

Additional Services

The clinical program offers treatment in a wide variety of areas which include: depression, anxiety, family transition, grief and loss, co-parenting, blended family issues, ADD/ADHD and school problems. With the family’s permission, therapists collaborate with schools, police, hospitals and other mental health systems to provide a continuity of care for the client.

The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services has launched a statewide 800 number for residents seeking opioid treatment and services. Find more information here.

Questions about drugs and alcohol will inevitably come up during the school year as your son or daughter meets different friends, encounters unfamiliar social situations and is exposed to pop culture and media.

To help parents, the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids has compiled a back to school survival guide to help equip children during this transition. Please take a look at this important resource.

Please check out some interesting articles we have pulled together for back to school.
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