Doral Health and Wellness Mental and Behavioral Health Wellness
At Doral Health & Wellness, our paramount focus is to provide a fully comprehensive, immersive, and holistic healthcare experience, including dedicated attention to behavioral health. Behavioral health encompasses mental and emotional well-being, addressing the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Specifically tailored for the Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and East New York communities, our patient-centered approach promotes open communication, cooperation, and collaboration among our agencies. This ensures the delivery of quality services to support the psychological and emotional health of our children and families.
Meet Our Service Provider
Esther Priegue, LMSW
Esther Priegue is a licensed clinical social worker. She graduated Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, and Spanish Literature, Minor in American Studies in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, in 1995. She also took her master’s degree in social work at Fordham University, in 1999. She is a skilled and multi-faceted professional offering an exceptional performance record. She helps meet the basic and complex needs of communities and people.
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Conditions
Services
At Doral Health & Wellness Behavioral Health, we offer a range of comprehensive services tailored to meet the needs of individuals and families. Our most common Behavioral Health services include:
Forensic Division of Social Service
This division provides and addresses the following therapeutic supportive interventions:
- Criminal and civil cases involving psychotic, predatory behaviors in recently released inmates.
- Termination of parental rights for child violence and domestic abuse.
- Fighting oppression via battling exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, violence, criminalization, and cultural dominance.
- Handling child custody, juvenile arrest, maltreatment, elder abuse, divorce, civil disputes, and criminal offenses.
- Forensic social work extends to healthcare, education, and immigration.
- Crisis counseling, depression, conflict resolution, anxiety, bipolar, OCD.
Eldercare Division of Social Service
This division provides a range of therapeutic interventions, assessments, and specialized focus areas, including:
- Biopsychosocial Philosophy
- Developmental Trauma Assessment
- Cognitive Functioning Evaluation
- Emotional and Mood Disorder Treatment
- Geriatric Mental Health
- Women's Health & Crisis Management
- Bipolar Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Dissociative Disorders
- Borderline Personality Disorder
Marriage & Family Division and Intervention
The Behavioral Health department’s Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) clinicians provide comprehensive care to individuals, couples, groups, and families. When working with an MFT clinician, the therapeutic approach centers on gaining a deep understanding of patients’ symptoms and diagnoses within the context of their interactions and relationships.
Family therapy is often the preferred treatment method for a range of issues, including depression, alcoholism, relational conflicts, and challenges within child/adolescent-parent relationships, such as suicidal tendencies and high-risk behaviors. The positive outcomes of family therapy for severe mental illnesses encompass enhanced overall well-being, reduced occurrences of medical illnesses, decreased utilization of medical services, and an increased sense of self-efficacy.
Our department offers the following support:
- Therapeutic assessment for developmental trauma
- Counseling for depression and anxiety management
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Assistance with male sexual dysfunction
- Support for challenging behaviors, coping, and family transition
Domestic Violence Division of Social Service
This division addresses all areas of intimate partner violence and focuses on building the emotional structure of the relationship with an additional focus on community communication to mitigate the repeated behaviors associated with anger and violence.
- Individual and group counseling
- Exposure therapy
- Anger management counseling
- Relationship focus therapy
- Intimate and sexual performance anxiety
Check Out What Patients Are Saying
I always have a good experience at this Doral medical office. The staff are always extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and friendly. I especially appreciate that they have a large TV in their waiting room, as well as a large glass enclosure with beautiful birds.
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