Meet our teams: Central Iowa | Southeastern Iowa
To start services, contact your area’s Optimae Behavioral Health team to schedule an appointment. You will fill out an intake packet including demographics, insurance, history and release of information forms (with staff support as needed) and have a first appointment with a professional to assess your needs and goals.
Our services center around a caring relationship between Optimae staff and our customers based on our core values: choice, respect, teamwork and education.
Optimae Behavioral Health serves all customers regardless of ability to pay. Discounts for essential services are offered based on family size and income. In order to serve as many people as possible, we are pleased to offer a sliding fee scale for our services, based on the Federal Poverty Guidelines. View the sliding fee scale here.
About us
Optimae Behavioral Health provides therapy, psychiatric medication evaluation and management, and skill-building supports in our central and southeastern Iowa offices both in-person and via telehealth. Our highly trained professionals, which include therapists and psychiatric prescribers, incorporate Optimae’s core values of choice, respect, teamwork and education into the services we offer to help children, adolescents, adults, couples and families improve their mental health and create happier and healthier lives. Our services are strengths-based and positively oriented.
Optimae can help with life challenges such as:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma (PTSD)
- Stress
- Relationship problems
- Psychotic disorders
Our services
Optimae therapists are trained in a variety of treatment interventions, including:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Client Centered Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Play Therapy
- Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
Optimae’s psychiatric prescribers can evaluate the need for medications and prescribe and monitor them. Our team includes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) and physician assistants (PAs), who are supervised by a psychiatrist, as well as registered nurse support staff. Our prescribers’ main role is to evaluate and manage medications related to mental health. They may also provide brief therapy and/or refer to therapists for the counseling portion of treatment.
In some locations, Optimae Behavioral Health provides additional skill and support programs, such as:
- Behavioral Health Intervention Services (BHIS), funded through Iowa Medicaid, is based on skill building. A BHIS specialist meets with youth and their family in various settings to discuss behaviors that impact success in school, at home and in the community — while addressing a number of skills (communication skills, conflict resolution skills, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal relationship skills, problem-solving skills and social skills). Youth must be 4 years old to 20 years old.
- Community Support Services (CSS) provide an array of integrated services and supports to persons with a serious mental illness. Services help customers live successfully in the community with the supports they need and move toward a personal vision of recovery. An interdisciplinary team provides a range of services including assessment and service planning, monitoring of mental health symptoms, medication management, personal support and problem solving assistance, development of natural supports and coordination of appointments and transportation.
- Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation (IPR) provides individuals with mental illness additional rehabilitation services that aid in their recovery. It helps customers choose where to live, learn, work and socialize, while teaching them commitment to set goals and giving them the confidence to reach them. Guided by values of choice and self-determination, IPR participants set goals that enhance their lives. They receive support as they reach to fulfill these goals through one-on-one meetings with specially trained IPR practitioners, as well as group sessions.
- Recovery & Resource Centers in Bloomfield, Burlington, Centerville and Fairfield are a safe place where everyone is welcome and respected. Numerous support groups are offered, including skills-based groups, stress management, Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) and more. Caring and professional peer support staff are available to discuss concerns or worries, or just to chat. Optimae’s Recovery & Resource Centers recognize that recovery is not necessarily about a cure — it is about having opportunities for choices and living a meaningful, satisfying and purposeful life. We support and empower individuals to make their own choices and become valued members of their community.
For people managing serious and persistent mental illness, Optimae Behavioral Health collaborates with community-based habilitation programs to provide significant additional supports.
Benefits from Behavioral Health services may include:
- Increased hope
- More motivation for change
- New perspectives
- Increased coping
- Improved self-care
- Trauma resolution
- Improved functioning
- Skill building
- Problem solving
- Better relationships
- Increased happiness
We look forward to working with you!
Meet our Central Iowa behavioral health team
Meet our Southeastern Iowa behavioral health team
Employment
Valuing Choice | Optimae LifeServices
Interested in starting your career with Optimae Behavioral Health Services? We’re hiring for several positions across central and southeastern Iowa, including licensed therapists, clinical supervisors and registered nurses.