Immediate Openings: Aurora Mental Health & Wellness Now Offers More Treatment Options

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Aurora Mental Health & Wellness opened in Waite Park with the mission of helping clients address persistent mental health issues in a comfortable, spa-like setting.

Now, they are adding more options so you can manage more of your mental health treatment all at one location. They recently added a psychiatric nurse practitioner, Julie Black, who can manage mental health medications for clients who are just starting their journey as well as those who have had prior treatment.

Best of all, Aurora Mental Health & Wellness has immediate openings for new, in-person patients with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, postpartum depression, and bipolar disorder.

If oral medications alone aren't enough, Ms. Black can help you determine if you'd be a good candidate for ketamine infusion (IV) therapy or Spravato. Aurora Mental Health & Wellness also accepts referrals from other mental health specialists and can coordinate ongoing treatment with your existing provider, if desired.

If you're not familiar, IV ketamine and Spravato are cutting-edge therapies that often allow patients who have tried other treatments without success to see marked improvement quickly, according to Aurora Mental Health & Wellness.

They work differently than oral antidepressants such as Prozac or Zoloft, which target specific neurotransmitters in the brain. Instead, Spravato and IV ketamine block the NMDA receptor within nerve cells to restore normal brain function and create new neuronal connections.

Here's a more in-depth introduction from Yale Medicine:

Ketamine has been used for decades as a safe anesthetic and rapid pain reliever — and more recently "off-label" for mood disorders. Meanwhile, Spravato is a nasal spray form of ketamine that the FDA has approved specifically for stubborn depression after both short-term and long-term trials.

The experts at Aurora Mental Health & Wellness are committed to providing both these important treatments in a comfortable and serene setting. They are administered in private rooms under the supervision of medical staff, and support persons can wait in the public waiting area or join the patient in the treatment room.

To learn more and schedule a consultation — no matter where you are in your mental health journey — visit auroramhw.com or call 320-390-7338.