Integrated Behavioral Health: Anxiety Clinic at Westminster
The Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Anxiety Clinic minor rotation at the University of Colorado Family Medicine Westminster (UCFMW) Clinic provides interns the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team in providing whole-person, patient-centered interventions for anxiety and related disorders in an integrated primary care setting. UCFMW is a Level III NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home that serves patients of all ages (patients seen by the anxiety service are typically 12+).
Within this model, clinical psychology interns serve as behavioral health providers (BHPs) who provide high-quality, specialized anxiety treatment (primarily exposure therapy & ACT-informed treatment) in focused treatment episodes of 6-8 visits in close collaboration with primary care providers, telepsychiatry consultants, nurse care managers, social workers, clinical pharmacists, and other members of patients’ healthcare teams. Supervision uses the precepting model and is inspired by the medical model of “see one, do one, teach one”—interns will shadow the primary supervisor and engage in co-therapy to quickly familiarize themselves with the interventions used before building their own caseload, after which they will continue to engage in shadowing and shared visits to build mastery with the skills they are learning and practicing.