"I'll actually share a story that begins as a tragedy, because it demonstrates why Mindful Care exists today and how our model is designed to create a better outcome,"
"When I was in training, I met a young woman named Lauren. She had just come home from college to find her mother locked in the bathroom, dead from an overdose and her baby sister barely responsive. Her sister was rushed to the pediatric ICU, her mother was pronounced dead on arrival, and Lauren herself came to psychiatry. Despite her obvious trauma, she didn't meet the criteria for an"
Mindful Care delivers same-day and next-day psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and therapy across New York City with clinics in Midtown Manhattan, Midtown East, and West Hempstead plus secure telehealth visits. Each location offers traditional therapy alongside MicroTherapy, a 20-minute session format tailored for busy schedules, ensuring continuity between in-person and virtual care. Services emphasize affordability, accessibility, and flexible scheduling to reduce barriers to timely treatment. The organization’s mission prioritizes preventing delayed care after trauma, inspired by a training-era patient experience involving overdose and pediatric ICU hospitalization that revealed gaps in immediate psychiatric intervention.
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