True North’s mental health professionals use many different approaches when working with patients and are guided by the needs, goals, and unique situations of each person. The interests of the patient determine which therapeutic tools are used and sessions may be traditionally focused on exploration through talk and skills development, or use other approaches such as energy healing, breath and sound, or mindfulness.

The goal of our practitioners is to work with patients to help them develop a skill set that includes empowerment, clarity, wholeness, self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-love so that they become their own best healers.

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Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Social Work
Transformative Mental Health, Substance Abuse Counseling

Psychiatry
Our psychiatrist (Miles Simmons, MD) assists people with medication, if warranted, and is skilled at the appropriate use of nutritional supplements. He is also trained in Functional Medicine, a science-based practice that emphasizes the interconnections of physical and biochemical processes in the body, and how they interact with the environment to create disease or health.

Psychotherapy
In addition to psychotherapy, our psychologist (Mary Fogg, PhD) teaches from a skills focus. She uses complementary approaches in her work, bringing heart into the core of her therapeutic relationships and humanizing the more traditional approaches to emotional healing. As such, she is trained in several forms of energy healing, including Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Emotional Freedom Technique, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and other mindfulness practices, Transformational Breath™, and Voice and Sound Healing. She has worked in acute, outpatient and long-term care settings, and with adults of all ages and older adolescents. She enjoys and is skilled in individual, couples/family and group work.

Our Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (Robert Myers, LCPC) brings 30 years of experience in a variety of clinical, artistic, and spiritual settings to his private practice at True North. He works with individuals, couples, and families to become healthier in their relationships, address their addiction challenges, and make meaning of traumatic personal suffering. Robert brings a solution-focused approach and depth orientation to his work along with a rich creative tradition as a composer, poet, and performing artist. His overarching specialty is the enhancement of personal and spiritual fulfillment through creativity and choice.

Robert’s affinity for the arts and years in offering family support, addiction and trauma recovery, and crisis counseling make him particularly astute at assisting clients in establishing a renewed vision of their potential.

Social Work
Social work practice includes working with individuals, while considering the interactive effects exerted upon them by their social, educational, and economic environments. By exploring the “whole” picture, we begin to understand the states of our minds, our well-being, and our overall connectedness. We can then use various tools to strengthen, nourish and empower the “self,” in order to heal from excesses and forces beyond our control. Our Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Judie Mignogna, MSW, LCSW) utilizes a combination of modalities and tools. This may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, relaxation and anger management techniques, positive reframing and self-affirmations, behavior modification techniques, methods to process grief, loss, and increase self-esteem, group work and risk assessment. Judie helps parents identify and work with challenges they face with their children, who might be presenting unusual symptoms or patterns of communication.

Transformative Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling
Jennifer Lunden, LCSW, LADC, CCS , Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a Certified Clinical Supervisor is a True North Affiliate who offers both individual counseling and therapeutic life story writing and storytelling groups at her Center for Creative Healing. Known as Lunden to clients, colleagues and friends, she believes that our stories are potent forces in our lives. They shape us. She also believes that illness and imbalance arise out of a complex amalgam of biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors, and that treatment is most effective when it addresses the whole person. Lunden helps people realize their greatest potential through access to their authentic and creative selves, and their capacity for creativity, growth and change.

If you are a patient that receives Medicaid or Medicare services, special restrictions may apply. Please call True North at 207-781- 4488 or click here for more information.