Offering comprehensive psychological services to the Greater Lansing community
At our comprehensive mental health outpatient center, we offer options for individual, family, couples, and group therapy, as well as a range of assessments from top experts in the field. We understand that every person's needs are unique. We aim to create a safe, inclusive, and affirming environment, embracing all identities that a person may hold.
We can help with:
- Adjustment Issues
- Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
- Trauma
- Depression
- Most Eating Disorders
- Aggression and Behavior Disorders
- Relationship Problems
- Personality Disorders
- Parenting
- Problems with Learning, Attention, and Cognition
Explore our specialty clinics led by expert MSU Faculty:
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Adult Anxiety Clinic
The Adult Anxiety Clinic provides evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) services for adults (18+) presenting with primary anxiety and related concerns in the MSU and Greater Lansing Community. We provide individual and group therapy services with specialties in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma and loss, sports-related performance anxiety, and body-focused repetitive behaviors (I.e., hair-pulling and skin-picking).
About the Director
Dr. Jason Moser, professor of Psychology, Kinesiology, and Neuroscience at Michigan State University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2009. As part of earning his PhD in Psychology from the University of Delaware, Jason was clinically trained at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety and completed a year-long clinical internship at the National Center for PTSD at the Boston VA Healthcare System. With 20 years of experience working with anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD, he studies how overwhelming anxiety makes it harder to control emotions, stay focused, and bounce back from mistakes and ways to overcome it. He is a Licensed Psychologist in Michigan who actively sees 2-3 clients a week and regularly supervises PhD student trainees in MSU’s Clinical Science program.
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Autism Clinic
The Autism Clinic provides evidence-based services to help children on the autism spectrum improve social communication, develop skills, and manage behaviors or emotional concerns, such as anxiety and depression. Therapists in the Autism Clinic receive specialized training in ASD assessment and treatment. We have a special emphasis on parent-mediated intervention to help parents support their child's social communication and emotion regulation development. We provide tailored services for children and their families following a careful and collaborative consultation phase. Based on need and availability, the following services are available through the clinic: diagnostic assessments, individual treatment, consultations, parent training, behavior management, and social skills training.
About the Director
Dr. Brooke Ingersoll is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2003. Brooke has more than 25 years of clinical experience working with children on the autism spectrum and their families. Her research focuses on the development, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based, community-viable interventions for children on the autism spectrum and their families, with the goal of improving meaningful outcomes. Brooke is the co-developer of Project ImPACT, an evidence-based, parent-mediated intervention for young children with social communication challenges. She regularly supervises PhD student trainees in MSU's clinical science program and provides training to community clinicians in Project ImPACT.
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Child Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Team
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves providing coping skills to children, asking families to practice at home, and monitoring progress. CBT helps individuals understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors. We offer empirically supported CBT for children with a range of presenting problems, located at our convenient, comfortable, state-of-the-art on-campus facility. Several treatment options are available including individual therapy, family therapy, parent consultation, school consultation, and group therapy. Treatment is tailored to individuals following a careful and collaborative consultation phase.
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Interpersonal Problems Clinic
Our goal is to help you understand the patterns that are involved in your current and past relationships and the underlying feelings and experiences that might impact these patterns. We believe understanding these patterns will help you be in a better position to change the patterns and relationships that you would like to change. Our approach involves active assessment and therapeutic processes that focus on helping people feel better and relate to others more effectively. The IPC offers empirically supported assessment and treatment for children, teens, and adults with a range of presenting problems, located at our convenient, comfortable, state -of-the-art on-campus facility. Treatment is tailored to individuals following a collaborative consultation phase.
About the Director
Dr. Alytia Levendosky is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995. Alytia has more than 30 years of clinical experience working with individual adults, children, and families. She focuses on helping clients understand their own relationship patterns in childhood and current relationships in order to help them make the changes that they desire. Her research focuses on the effects of family trauma, like intimate partner violence, and child abuse, on family functioning and examines what can protect individuals when they have had these experiences. She also studies psychotherapy processes to understand what processes are most important for client change. She actively sees 4-5 clients each week and regularly supervises PhD student trainees in MSU's clinical science program.
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Learning Assessments
We offer a series of assessments for attention, autism spectrum disorders, cognitive abilities, school achievement, and learning disorders.