Across Stony Brook Medicine's healthcare system, you'll find the care we provide addresses both the mental and physical aspects of one's condition. We call this our integrated behavioral healthcare approach. It means we understand that a person's mental health is equally as important as their physical health. And we understand how each can impact the other while also affecting those individuals in a person's support system.
Breaking the stigma that is attached to seeking out mental health for the diverse reasons that people do, is core to what we believe. We're on a continuous mission to help raise awareness and support the mental health needs of those in the communities we serve. Whether it's addiction-related, age-related, gender-related or any one of a multitude of other reasons, we're here for you.
Below provides links to some of our specialty areas most often sought out for this approach:
BY SPECIALTY:
Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health
Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders
Women’s Mental Health Program (related to reproductive health or sex-linked health conditions)
GENERAL INFORMATION
To find out more about the many other specialty areas for which we provide services to help with your mental and physical health and wellbeing, visit:
Comprehensive Integrated Behavioral Health on Long Island's East End
Support Groups for Patients and Caregivers
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
We also work with a variety of local, community organizations to break the stigma and help ensure that your mental health needs are met. Some of these include:
Association for Mental Health and Wellness offers a variety of programs for those facing serious mental illness and people in our community who are facing mental health issues. They offer support for families and caregivers, too, and ensure that residents of Suffolk County have the support they require to gain and maintain mental wellness.
Association for Mental Health & Wellness Directory is a comprehensive compilation of all kinds of support groups and resources for mental health, abuse, bereavement, and more.
East End Mood Disorders Virtual Support Groups Held online via Zoom, Thursdays 6:30-8pm, For individuals with a mental health disorder, and for families and loved ones of those with a mental health disorder.
Family Service League provides support and security more than 50,000 Long Islanders, with over 60 social service programs in more than 20 locations. From seniors seeking companionship and purpose and the homeless seeking shelter and nourishment, to those suffering from addiction and mental illness and families working hard to stay together.
Fighting Chance provides free cancer counseling and free rides for cancer patients to their appointments.
HALI - Hands Across Long Island offers peer-delivered support and advocacy for people who experience trauma, mental health, substance use, and other life-altering challenges on Long Island and the NYC metro area, creating an empowering community in which people can heal, grow and learn.
LI Health Collaborative provides a compilation of resources regarding mental health, substance use, preentive health screenings, education, free testing, housing, health services, chronic disease, senior services and more.