Ohio is one of the states in which both of our clinicians practice, so a household can often be looked after through a single office.
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Request an Ohio appointmentThis state contains two rather different situations at once. Around Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati a psychologist may be twenty minutes away, and the obstacle is a working day that leaves no room for the drive. In the towns built around one college, Gambier and Oberlin among them, the nearest clinician who does the particular work you need can sit several counties off. A secure video appointment answers both circumstances with the same hour.
Our Ohio caseload runs the length of a life. It includes children whose school has asked their parents to seek advice, teenagers who cannot yet put a name to what is wrong, adults in the middle of a difficult marriage or a difficult year at work, and older clients contending with illness or bereavement. Because both of our clinicians can practice here, two members of one family are sometimes in care at the same time, each with her own clinician and her own record.
The six areas below account for much of what Ohio clients bring us. Which of the two clinicians is the better fit for a given concern is settled with you in conversation.
A child or a teenager is seen with a parent taking part in consent and in the goals. What the hour looks like follows the age: play and short concrete tasks for the youngest, plainer conversation with an adolescent.
Some parents come without their children at all, wanting an end to the standoff that repeats every evening over homework or bedtime. We examine how the household runs, which adult holds which line, and what one month can realistically change.
We treat the worry and the retreat it has produced, including the rooms and invitations a person has learned to decline. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides the framework, and you set the speed at which anything is resumed.
Sessions follow sleep, appetite, and activity alongside the thinking that keeps a low stretch running, and rebuild the routines that fell away first. Where medication is a live question, your clinician coordinates with the prescriber.
New parents describe a tiredness that sleep does not touch, moods that turn without warning, and thoughts they are frightened to repeat aloud. Counseling takes all of it seriously and helps put practical support in place around you.
Relapse prevention looks closely at the settings, moods, and relationships that tend to precede a slip. We also work with family members shaped by someone else's drinking or use, whose own footing has eroded.
Nothing here is hurried, and we do not offer a quick fix. Your clinician says early on what she believes is happening and what a first course of work would consist of, and that account is revisited aloud instead of being quietly extended. Ohio calendars can complicate a course of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): a semester, a shift rotation, a school year that finishes in May all move the hour that can be kept, and we would sooner shift an appointment than lose someone to a timetable. Where two people from one family are seen here, each keeps her own clinician and her own record, and nothing passes between them without permission.
Both clinicians take Ohio clients. Dr. Lusk provides the psychological services, evaluation among them, while Ms. Braun-Dunagan provides counseling and handles intake for the practice, which is why she is usually the first person you speak to.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Ohio.
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., directs this practice and has worked as a licensed clinical psychologist for over twenty-five years. Ohio clients see her for therapy one to one, with a partner, as a family, or in a group, and for psychological evaluation where a school or a physician has put a specific question. She is bilingual, and an hour can be held in Spanish.
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Licensed Professional Counselor
Ms. Braun-Dunagan provides counseling to clients located in Ohio through the Counseling Compact™, and has availability for Medicare and TriCare clients.
Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Ohio is one of the states where she practices under the Counseling Compact™. She counsels children, adolescents, and adults, using Cognitive Behavioral techniques within a holistic and individualized approach. Her professional interests take in stress management, postpartum mood disorders, women's issues, and relapse prevention where an addiction is in the picture; with younger clients she also takes on advocacy and the repair of family relationships.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials and Ms. Braun-Dunagan’s licensure and areas of focus in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
Two separate agreements apply here, because two separate professions are involved. Dr. Lusk treats Ohio clients under PSYPACT®, which allows a qualified psychologist to provide telepsychology to a person situated in another participating state. Ms. Braun-Dunagan counsels Ohio clients under the Counseling Compact™, a different license with a different scope; psychological testing belongs to psychology rather than to counseling. The office confirms which clinician can see you before an appointment is made.
Either way, the authorization follows your body and not your mailbox. Be inside Ohio as the hour opens and the appointment is properly covered; where that week has taken you elsewhere, say so beforehand and we will tell you whether it can go ahead or look for another date. A move raises the same question, and raising it early lets your clinician either carry the work on or help you find somebody where you are going. Each compact publishes its own current list of participating jurisdictions.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Very large public universities and very small residential colleges stand side by side here, and we hear from people at both. Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, Kent State University, and Bowling Green State University are represented among our clients, as are Oberlin College, Kenyon College, Denison University, and the College of Wooster. Where everyone on a campus is known by sight, an outside clinician is simply more private.
Clients connect from Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo, and from Athens, Oxford, Oberlin, and Gambier. Living near a city is no assurance of an appointment with the clinician you need at an hour you can actually keep, which is what this format is for.
Our Ohio clients range from school-age children, brought to us by a parent, through adolescents, adults on their own, couples seen jointly, and families, to people in later life managing illness or loss. Group work is part of the practice too. Where what you describe sits outside what we do, or plainly needs somebody in the room with you, we will say as much during the intake call and try to suggest somewhere better suited.
Evaluation and testing are Dr. Lusk's, since those belong to psychology and not to counseling. Either clinician may take on therapy with an adult, with a child, or with a couple, and the choice turns on fit. Because Ms. Braun-Dunagan takes the intake calls, the question is generally answered during that first conversation, before any appointment exists.
A link reaches you beforehand and opens on a laptop, a tablet, or a phone. Your clinician starts by checking where you are sitting and noting a telephone number in case the picture fails. After that the hour is a conversation, no different in substance from one held in our Flagstaff consulting room. From your side the requirements are a room with a door, headphones if the house is full, and a connection that will carry video.
Yes, where a parent or guardian shares in the consent and in setting the goals. Before any of the work starts, the clinician spells out what she keeps between herself and the teenager and what a parent will hear, so that nobody is ambushed later on. Some adolescents speak more freely to a screen than across a desk and others do not, which is worth reviewing after a few weeks.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Telephone (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com. A member of staff takes down some practical details, listens to what you are hoping to address, and settles any out-of-network question before a first appointment is held. Nothing on that side should still be hanging over the work once it begins. Scheduling stays with the office rather than the clinicians.
We accept all major credit and debit cards, and we gladly accept HSA, FSA, and HRA cards so you can use pre-tax dollars toward your care. Our practice generally operates out-of-network. This allows us to protect your privacy, keep care highly personalized, and avoid insurance-mandated session limits.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Please check with your insurance company regarding your out-of-network benefits. As a courtesy, we will submit claims on your behalf upon request, and any reimbursement will be sent directly to the insured. Call (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com if you have questions.
Our services are by appointment only, during normal business hours. Evening, weekend, and early morning appointments are sometimes available for established clients.
A first appointment begins with a telephone call or an email to the office. We will ask what has brought you here now, what has already been tried, and which clinician the work suits, and then look for an hour that fits your Ohio week.
We do not offer crisis, walk-in, or inpatient services of any type, and this page is not a substitute for emergency care.
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This page provides general information about telehealth psychotherapy and psychological services. It is not medical or psychological advice, does not create a clinician–client relationship, and does not diagnose or treat any condition. Whether a particular service is appropriate for you is determined with a clinician during a confidential consultation. Telehealth authorization depends on your physical location at the time of each appointment; participating jurisdictions are published at psypact.gov and, for counseling, at CompactConnect. Arizona Behavioral Health Associates, P.C., 710 N Beaver Street, BLDG 4, Flagstaff, AZ 86001-3139 · (844) 774-7997
