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Compass Program

Compass Program

 

Our Goal

Milestones Psychology’s Compass Program provides innovative, evidence-based therapeutic services in settings such as homes, schools, and your neighborhood. We at Milestones have realized a current gap in community-based services. Our community-based services allow us to provide care where patient’s strengths and challenges naturally occur so that we can address them live, in the moment. Working with patients and families in real-life scenarios, we aim to make active progress in situations where in-office treatment is not the most effective. Our experience and current research indicate that interventions in settings where your children spend the most time can be more efficient and more likely to generalize to everyday situations.

Sometimes, challenges can get in the way of access to necessary treatment. For example, a child whose OCD presentation impacts their success with consistently getting to school may be a great candidate for in-home or in-school services. A child whose teachers are struggling with supporting the child in the classroom may be referred for in-school teacher training or direct behavioral work.

Compass clinicians draw from a variety of practice modalities when designing treatment plans. Our Compass team is composed of fully licensed professionals and advanced clinical trainees capable of providing services such as exposure therapy, direct behavioral and psychotherapy, parent and teacher training, and school refusal treatment. Our Compass clinicians are multi-tasking gurus. We aim to provide services that help families in all areas where support is needed; anxiety related to school or other areas of life, family dynamics, school behavior plans, and psychotherapy can all be targeted simultaneously. We have clinicians who are passionate about working with all families. 

Our clinicians have also developed specific interests and expertise in various presentations and populations, including early childhood interventions, pre-kindergarten readiness, parent-child and teacher-child interaction coaching, test anxiety, school refusal intervention, and OCD exposure and response prevention therapy for adolescents. 

The Compass Program’s goal is to support the growth of each child in their everyday environments by overcoming the barriers that may interfere with more typical in-office treatment.


We offer services in the real world


CONDITIONS WE TREAT


What makes our Compass Program Different?

All Compass clinicians are fully licensed professionals or advanced clinical trainees.

Our in-depth intake process ensures that we are designing the best treatment plan for your family, matching you with the clinician and treatments that target the reason you are seeking treatment. 

We don’t have a single definition of what qualifies as a Compass family. We analyze each family’s unique situation, and if we believe that community-based services may be warranted, that is what we will recommend. 

A team-based approach is applied to all cases so that you receive treatment that is expertly tailored to your needs.

Compass clinicians are constantly monitoring for progress and roadblocks. We modify treatment to ensure that progress on your treatment goals is being made.  

We are empathetic to the rigorous academic and social standards in NYC schools and want to help. Our clinicians love collaborating with school staff and working within school settings.

Our services aren’t just parent training or direct therapy with a patient. We can provide direct behavioral and/or psychotherapy while simultaneously coaching parents or teachers to use similar techniques when we aren’t around!


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