Start the New Year with Better Mental Health Care for Your Family

The start of a new year is an ideal season to build healthy habits. New Year’s resolutions often focus on physical health, but mental health is equally important for overall wellbeing. It’s a great time to reset your focus on mental health care for yourself and your family!
At KVC Kentucky, we offer a range of behavioral health services to help children, adults and families develop lasting change and mental health habits. In fiscal year 2024, 1,177 Kentuckians benefited from our behavioral health support! This year, we aim to support more individuals and families in our communities before a mental or behavioral health crisis arises.
Behavioral Health: A Wraparound Approach
KVC Kentucky uses a wraparound approach in our mental and behavioral health services to help individuals make positive, sustainable changes. Whether an individual or family seeks help, our behavioral health care team ensures they receive support not only from a therapist but also from their community and loved ones.
Nurturing Mental Health
While behavioral health care is often associated with helping children who struggle with challenging behaviors, the foundation of aiding a child in overcoming these behaviors is nurturing their mental health. Our behavioral health care at KVC Kentucky aims to support children, youth and adults in sustainably improving their mental health.
Collaborative Care
Successful behavioral health services start in the home and the community. We help parents and caregivers understand their child’s needs and available resources, empowering all support system members to engage in the care plan. In addition to involving parents and caregivers, our therapists work with primary care physicians, community partners and the KVC Kentucky care team to assess progress, set goals and ensure comprehensive support for the child or adult.
Flexible Services: Meeting Children and Families Where They Are
Sometimes, the hardest part of managing mental health is overcoming obstacles to getting care. At KVC Kentucky, we provide flexible, accessible services with outpatient therapy options to make mental healthcare easier.
Outpatient Therapy
Outpatient therapy at KVC Kentucky is professional, discreet and trauma-informed, with evidence-based interventions. If you’re exploring outpatient therapy options in Kentucky, we have flexible solutions for children and families here as well! We offer outpatient and virtual services, along with wraparound support such as in-home Case Management and CSA services.
Virtual Therapy
Therapy no longer requires an in-person meeting! KVC Kentucky proudly offers tele-health as an option through our outpatient Behavioral Health services program. With virtual therapy, you receive the same collaborative, wraparound approach, all in the comfort and privacy of your home. All you need is a stable internet connection, a video-capable device (tablet, computer, or smartphone) and a private, confidential space.
Evidence-Based Interventions for Lasting Change
The behavioral health services we provide at KVC Kentucky are effective! We know this because research backs our evidence-based interventions, proving their effectiveness in mental health and wellness. Our caring professionals tailor interventions to meet each client’s specific needs and situation. Here are some of the evidence-based practices we incorporate into our services and how they serve to create lasting change:
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Focused on addressing the mental health needs of children and families suffering from early trauma, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT) is a short-term intervention with long-term results. This intervention applies cognitive behavioral techniques to address negative behaviors, intrusive thoughts, stress, communication, and parenting, emphasizing trauma’s impact.
Motivational Interviewing
At times, a child or adolescent may feel indifferent or disinterested in receiving behavioral health care. We understand, and we’re here to help with motivational interviewing. Motivational interviewing (MI) fosters collaboration and goal-setting, helping clients engage in treatment while compassionately exploring and normalizing their ambivalence.
Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement
As part of our collaborative approach to behavioral health care, we incorporate the evidence-based approach child-adult relationship enhancement (CARE) to help parents and caregivers better understand and help their children with mental health struggles.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of evidence-based psychotherapy that has proven effective in treating personality disorders, mood disorders, suicidal ideation, self-harm and substance abuse. DBT helps clients develop four core skills for sustainable change:
- Mindfulness: Better awareness of personal thoughts and feelings
- Distress Tolerance: Ability to deal with difficult situations and cope
- Emotion Regulation: Manage emotions, changing unproductive emotions and creating positive emotions
- Interpersonal Effectiveness: Learn how to manage relationships, set boundaries, manage conflicts and create friendships
Nurturing Parenting Program
As a family development intervention, Nurturing Parenting Programs are designed as interventions in situations of active or potential child abuse or neglect. Our team teaches Nurturing Parenting® skills to help parents and caregivers create a safe, stable and supportive environment.
Trauma Systems Therapy
Parents or caregivers often seek help for traumatized children due to challenging behaviors like aggression, self-harm, substance abuse or emotional episodes. Our caring professionals are trained to assess these behaviors, known as Survival States, and provide appropriate treatment through the trauma systems therapy (TST) model.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) started as an approach to treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but has grown to be a useful intervention in many different trauma-based approaches. This intervention addresses unprocessed trauma, creating a safe space for healing with bilateral stimulation to reduce negative impacts.
Get a Fresh Start with KVC Kentucky
At KVC Kentucky, we provide many different behavioral health services and approaches to support individuals and families in Kentucky with getting the help they need. Our services include diagnostic assessments, psychological testing, psychotherapy, family therapy and multisystemic therapy to address mental health needs holistically for real, sustained change. There is hope, and we’re here to help.
If you are interested in KVC Kentucky’s behavioral health services for yourself or a loved one, you can make a referral in one of three ways:
- Call our office at (859) 254-1035
- Download and complete the KVC Referral Form and email it to us at KYReferrals@kvc.org or fax to (859) 254-2075.
- Complete this online form to get started.
