For Patients
Seeking The Best Psychiatrist in Austin For Your Mental Health?
Pondworks offers general outpatient mental health care for adults. We focus on issues associated with depression, anxiety, attention deficit and some personality disorders. Our bio-psycho-social approach centers on a balance between psychotherapy (“talk therapy”) and pharmacology (medication) in the majority of treatment situations. Please look closely at our diagnoses of focus below. On a case-by-case basis, a Pondworks provider will consider establishing a treatment relationship with a patient whose diagnosis is not included.
Please note: Our services are targeted toward adult outpatient care, and our expectation is that our patients are capable of independently managing their schedules and bills. If you have an extenuating circumstance that hinders your ability to make your own appointment, please let us know. Otherwise, we prefer to work directly with our patients, rather than a family member, friend, and/or referring mental health provider.
Psychopharmacology (Medication) Services:
- Combined treatment: Single Pondworks provider for medication and therapy
- Split treatment: Pondworks therapist (or non-Pondworks therapist) + Pondworks medication provider
Psychotherapy Services:
- Combined treatment: Single Pondworks provider for medication and therapy
- Split treatment: Pondworks therapist (or non-Pondworks therapist) + Pondworks medication provider
Growth Targets:
- Creating life stability and structure to set and reach goals.
- Building self-image/esteem to clear road blocks in development.
- Improving assertiveness skills needed to productively establish healthy entitlements in professional/personal relationships.
- Resolving relationship conflicts contributing to depressed mood or non-productive anxiety.
- Increasing the skills needed for understanding one’s self and others, to deepen intimate relationships.
- Growing in one’s chosen profession.
General Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment Planning
Primary DSM Diagnoses of Focus:
- Major Depression
- Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
- Dysthymia
- Adjustment Disorders
- Bi-Polar Type II
- Generalized Anxiety
- Panic Disorder
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Social Anxiety/Phobia
- Personality Disorders
If Pondworks is not the right place for you, Seton Behavioral Health Care has a great guide to behavioral health care options in Central Texas that might help you find the right place.
