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We are located at 1 East Broad Street, Suite 510 in downtown Bethlehem, PA 18018. (Melting Pot Restaurant occupies the first floor). We provide in-person therapy services at our Bethlehem location.

Virtual Services:

• Therapy Services: Available in states where our individual clinicians are licensed
• Functional Nutrition: Available globally
• Psychiatric Consultation and Drug Tapering: Available in states where our psychiatric medical professionals are licensed
• Consultation and Coaching Services: Available globally

Our virtual platform allows us to extend our integrated approach to clients across the United States and internationally, making our revolutionary mental healthcare model accessible regardless of your geographic location.

Simply contact our office at 610-865-4300 or through our website contact form to schedule an initial consultation. During this conversation, we’ll discuss your needs, answer questions about our services, and help you determine the best starting point. If you’re seeking virtual services, we’ll confirm availability in your location. There’s no pressure to commit to ongoing services; we want you to feel confident that our approach aligns with your goals for healing and growth.

Yes, for our therapy services, though we are not in-network with all insurance plans and availability depends on the specific provider. Please check with our office to confirm coverage options. Even if we are not in-network, most insurance companies offer out-of-network benefits, and you may receive reimbursement even if you pay out of pocket initially. However, using health insurance requires submitting diagnostic codes for reimbursement.

In order to maintain our independence from corporate control, our psychiatric services and functional nutrition programs do not accept health insurance. This allows us to provide truly personalized care focused on your needs rather than insurance company requirements and restrictions.

Our consultation and coaching services operate entirely outside the health insurance system on a private-pay basis. This ensures complete privacy without diagnostic codes, clinical documentation, or insurance involvement that could impact your personal or professional life.

Many clients prefer our private-pay approach as it allows them to choose their provider and treatment approach without insurance company limitations while maintaining complete confidentiality.

We are not against psychiatric medications in all circumstances, but we are fundamentally committed to true informed consent. Psychiatric drugs can be tools that may offer some benefit in emergency situations or short-term crisis intervention.

However, we believe people deserve honest information about the significant risks and extremely poor long-term efficacy of psychiatric medications that is rarely provided in traditional settings. Longer-term use of psychiatric drugs carries substantially more risks than most people are told, and these medications can actually impair progress and recovery in many cases.

We are against misleading people about the safety and effectiveness of psychiatric drugs. Our approach ensures you receive complete, honest information about both the potential benefits and serious risks so you can make truly informed decisions about your mental health care. This includes discussing alternatives and, when appropriate, providing safe tapering protocols for those who choose to reduce or discontinue medications under proper medical supervision.

We view mental health through a fundamentally different lens. Rather than quickly labeling symptoms and prescribing medications, we understand that your emotions, whether anxiety, depression, or distress, are meaningful signals pointing to legitimate problems that need attention.

Traditional psychiatry often misses or mislabels legitimate medical conditions as psychiatric disorders. Thyroid dysfunction, vitamin D deficiency, B12 deficiency, hormonal imbalances, autoimmune conditions, sleep apnea, and blood sugar dysregulation can all manifest as “depression,” “anxiety,” or “bipolar disorder.” In children, exposure to food additives, artificial dyes, and preservatives frequently manifests as behavioral problems, inattention, and hyperactivity that get mislabeled as ADHD or other psychiatric conditions. Instead of investigating these root causes, the standard approach is to prescribe psychiatric drugs that mask symptoms while the underlying medical issue remains unaddressed.

We reject today’s watered-down therapy culture that keeps people dependent, encourages identification with diagnoses, and often pushes ideological agendas rather than teaching proven skills. Therapy should not be forever. Our evidence-based interventions like CBT, DBT, and exposure therapies are designed to build resilience, teach concrete skills, and help you overcome challenges so you can move forward with your life. These proven approaches emphasize doing hard things, facing fears, developing emotional regulation, and creating lasting behavioral change. We focus on building your capacity to handle life’s challenges independently, not creating perpetual dependence on weekly sessions that avoid real change.

Our integrated team addresses root causes through comprehensive assessment, functional nutrition, lifestyle interventions, and safe medication tapering when appropriate. We help you build sustainable habits around sleep, movement, nutrition, stress management, and social connection that support genuine healing. This comprehensive approach respects your autonomy and provides truly informed consent about all treatment options, including the critical information about psychiatric drug risks and non-pharmaceutical alternatives that traditional settings rarely discuss.

Not everyone needs or wants to enter the formal mental health system. We recognize that seeking guidance for life challenges shouldn’t automatically mean receiving a psychiatric diagnosis, having your struggles documented in permanent medical records, or dealing with insurance companies. Many people are functioning well but could benefit from professional support, skill development, or an outside perspective without the pathologizing framework of traditional therapy.

Our coaching and consultation services provide an alternative path for those who want expert guidance without clinical labels. These services operate completely outside the medical model, meaning no diagnoses, no insurance claims, no permanent health records that could affect your career, insurance rates, or personal life. You maintain complete privacy and autonomy while still receiving professional support.

Sometimes you need help navigating a difficult decision, developing better parenting strategies, improving relationships, or building specific life skills. Not every struggle is a disorder, and not every challenge requires medical intervention. Our coaching and consultation services honor your natural capacity for growth and resilience while providing practical tools and support. This approach is particularly valuable for professionals, parents, and individuals who want to protect their privacy while still accessing high-quality guidance for personal development and life challenges.

Absolutely. Our integrated approach means you can seamlessly combine services, working with a therapist while also seeing our functional nutritionist, or receiving psychiatric consultation alongside coaching services. Our team collaborates to ensure coordinated care that addresses all aspects of your wellbeing. This integrated model is what sets us apart from fragmented traditional care where providers rarely communicate with each other.

We provide individual therapy services for adolescents age 12 and up, with particular expertise in non-medication approaches. For children under 12, we offer parent coaching and consultation services to help families navigate challenges without defaulting to psychiatric medications.

We are deeply concerned about the serious risks psychiatric drugs pose to developing brains. Research consistently shows these medications have poor efficacy in young people while carrying significant harmful effects including emotional numbing, developmental disruption, metabolic changes, increased suicidal thoughts (FDA Black Box Warning), and potential long-term alterations to brain development that continue into adulthood. Despite these documented risks, children and adolescents are increasingly prescribed these powerful drugs, often as first-line treatments.

We offer evidence-based alternatives including DBT skills training, family support, and nutritional interventions that address root causes without risking your child’s developing brain. For young people already on psychiatric medications, we strongly encourage families to meet with our psychiatrist for consultation about safe tapering protocols or to explore alternative approaches. Our psychiatric team specializes in helping young people safely reduce or discontinue psychiatric drugs while implementing effective non-pharmaceutical interventions. We work collaboratively with parents and, when appropriate, with current prescribing physicians to ensure the safest possible transition away from medications that may be causing more harm than benefit.

We ask that our clientele notify us 24 hours prior to a scheduled session if they have to cancel. Barring any emergency situation within 24 hours of their scheduled appointment, clients who do not contact us before the 24 hour window will be charged a late cancellation fee of $50.00. If you reserve an hour and fail to attend that session without notice (no show) you will be required to pay the clinician’s full fee for that session.

The privacy of information exchanged with your therapist is protected by law. The law also requires your therapist to break confidentiality with or without your permission if you or someone else is at risk of serious harm. Revelations that a child has been or is in danger of harm or neglect are required by law to be reported to Child Protective Services. You and your therapist may decide together that it is in your best interest for Center for Integrated Behavioral Health to exchange information with another party. In that case, your therapist may ask for written consent.

Our services are not designed for psychiatric emergencies. We provide information about appropriate emergency resources and encourage anyone experiencing a mental health crisis to contact emergency services or go to their nearest emergency room.