Health Directions Sevices
Health Directions began operations in 1994 as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and has since expanded into an operating division of North Central Behavioral Health.
Health Directions offers in person and online emotional health and wellness services for individuals needing short-term counseling. Through confidential counseling, substance use, and community education services, Health Directions assists individuals in developing the tools needed to lead a happy and meaningful life.
Getting started with us you will need to complete then bring this form to your first appointment: Health Directions Healthcare Agreement
Additional Services Offered through Health Directions
Psychological Testing
What is Psychological Testing?
Qualified Healthcare Professional use psychological testing to measure and observe an individual’s thoughts, emotions, feelings, and behaviors to arrive at a diagnosis and help guide treatment. Psychological Testing can be a key part of your treatment.
Personality Testing
Measures an individual’s personality characteristics, symptom levels, and/or daily functional capacity.
Cognitive Testing
Measures an individual’s intelligence levels, symptom levels, adaptability, and/or assistance with daily cognitive skills, such as social skills, speech, gross and fine motor skills and development.
Neuropsychological Testing
Used when an individual exhibits symptom(s) of an intellectual compromise and/or a neurological dysfunction. Neurological testing can also assist with evaluating executive brain functions and cognition, including language, perception, memory, learning, problem solving, adaption, social functioning, and processing.
Who Can Benefit?
Children, adolescents and adults can all benefit from Psychological Testing. You can’t pass or fail any of these tests and it is nothing that you can study for. Psychological testing is an opportunity to determine the best way to help you and to move forward in your treatment by providing valuable insights into your behavior, skills, thoughts and personality. Every individual has a range of competencies as well as limitations. We will help evaluate these competencies and report on them in an objective and helpful manner.
Online Counseling Option
Health Directions gives clients the ability to engage in online counseling sessions with a counselor over the internet, using a webcam and a computer. The online counseling session is provided live and face-to-face from the privacy of your own home or office. The individual and the counselor connect online at the designated appointment time, and the session is conducted the same as a tradition in-person counseling session.
