Psychiatric care
Your medication and your TMS, cared for together.
Our psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse practitioners diagnose, manage medication and oversee TMS for depression and anxiety, so your care is in one place. We’ll check what your insurance covers first.
What our psychiatric team does
- Diagnosis
A careful psychiatric evaluation: your history, what you’re living with now and what you’ve already tried. It can be by telehealth, and for insurance-covered TMS it’s usually the first step.
- Medication management
If medication is part of your care, we prescribe, adjust and review it with you, and we can work alongside your own doctor or therapist. You don’t have to choose between medication and TMS: many people stay on their medication during treatment.
- Overseeing your TMS
When insurance covers your TMS for depression, including anxiety that comes with depression, a psychiatric provider oversees your course. It’s the same provider who evaluated you and prescribed your TMS, so the person who knows your history is the one following your progress. They follow your questionnaires and how you’re feeling, watch for side effects, and adjust the plan with you and our clinical team.
- A weekly check-in
It isn’t required, but we encourage a short check-in with your psychiatric provider every week of your treatment. In our experience, people who do this tend to do best. Your provider sees how you’re responding, talks with you about whether any part of your treatment plan should change, and answers the clinical questions our TMS technicians can’t.
Think of them as your coach through treatment: there to make sure you get the help you need, and the best outcome possible.
- After your course
We follow up once treatment ends, and keep looking after your medication if you need us to. If you’d like to lower or stop a medication, we’ll talk it through and plan it carefully with you. Please don’t stop a medication on your own.
If you’re thinking about suicide or are in crisis, please call or text 988, any time, day or night.
Why it helps to have both
Depression and anxiety rarely have one cause, and the right plan often has more than one part. With psychiatric care and TMS under one roof, the people overseeing your medication and your treatment are talking to each other, and to you.
TMS itself involves no medication. If you’d rather not take medication, tell us: many people come to TMS for exactly that reason.
Insurance
TMS for major depression is often covered by insurance, and many plans also cover psychiatric visits. We’ll check what yours covers, at no cost, before anything is booked. A benefits check isn’t a guarantee of payment; your insurer makes the final decision.