For many years, Stony Brook Psychiatric Associates has collaborated with behavioral health specialists on the East End of Long Island. Now we’ve expanded our collaboration to include behavioral health services via confidential videoconferencing to our East End community as the need for behavioral health specialty care services continues to grow. This method, which is called telepsychiatry, has been proven to be a timely, convenient and affordable option. Because while some people feel completely comfortable meeting face to face with a behavioral health specialist, others don’t. And sometimes an in-person appointment works fine and other times it doesn’t. For all those times when it doesn't, there’s telepsychiatry.
The way it works is that your behavioral health team collaborates closely with our counterparts at Stony Brook Psychiatric Associates to screen and identify whether you’re a potential candidate for Stony Brook Telepsychiatry Services. If we determine that you are, then together we can provide you with ongoing care.
Telepsychiatry sessions are designed to be a direct, private interaction between you and a psychiatrist. It can be for an evaluation, a therapy session (individual, group or family), and can also be used for patient education and medication management. Our telepsychiatry option also provides the opportunity for consults between members of our joint behavioral health team.
Your privacy and level of comfort are of paramount importance to use. Your telepsychiatry sessions will take place in a private room where you will not be disturbed during your treatment time. And the conversations with your Stony Brook Behavioral Health specialists are private. You and our joint behavioral health team will work together to develop a treatment plan that is right for you, right for your lifestyle and designed to aid your ability to lead a happy, healthy life.