Mayo Counseling Program
Contact Us:
- Phone: 207-564-4567
- Fax: 207-564-4478
- Department Leader:
John Spieker - E-mail:
jspieker@mayohospital.com
- Mayo Counseling Program
- 69 High St.
- Dover-Foxcroft , ME 04426
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The Mayo Counseling Program consolidated operations formerly located at the Mayo Regional Hospital campus and in Dexter, and moved to new office space at 69 High St. in Dover-Foxcroft in October, 2008.
Mental health and substance abuse counseling programs previously delivered at the Basket House on the hospital campus, and psychiatry services formerly located at a satellite site in Dexter, are now under one roof in a building that last housed the superintendent of school's office and adult education center for SAD 68. The new Counseling location is next door to the Penquis Higher Education Center.
Psychiatrist Timothy Rockcress, M.D. offers medication management services for psychiatric patients over the age of 18.
Other Counseling Program services include mental health evaluation and assessment; outpatient individual, family and group mental health counseling; substance abuse evaluation and assessment; outpatient individual, family and group substance abuse counseling; and DEEP.
Counseling Program staff are John Spieker, director; Allen Drucker, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor; Joel Makowski, and Anita Cooley, Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Tammi Boyce and Becca Noonan provide secretarial support.
Mayo Regional Hospital started a substance abuse treatment program in the 1980s to help patients who were abusing alcohol and drugs. In 2005 Mayo renamed this service the Counseling Program, and the name change emphasizes a new focus as a dual-diagnosis service. Many of the people who come to Mayo with substance abuse issues also have mental health issues, most frequently depression, anxiety and family issues. These issues are often so intertwined that it makes little sense to treat them separately.
Research suggests more and more that substance abuse and mental health issues need to be treated at the same time, rather than in sequence. Whereas counselors used to treat substance abuse first, then the co-occurring mental health issues, in recent years the emphasis has moved toward treating all these issues together.
Helpful Mental Health Links:
NIH has a website for self-evaluation of alcohol abuse risk. www.rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/
Dr. Timothy F. Rockcress MD
Medical Doctor
Education: M.D., University of Kentucky, 1994
B.A., Biology, University of Kentucky
Residency: Residency – University of Maryland, Baltimore, Department of Psychiatry, 1998
University of San Francisco, Valley Medical Center, Department of Family Practice, Fresno, California
Certification: Board Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2001
Scope of Practice:
Psychiatry
Other: American Psychiatric Association
Maine Psychiatric Association
Corabell Arps MD
Medical Doctor
Education: Dr. Arps received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She completed her internship in internal medicine/neurology from Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
Residency: Both her residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital in Dallas.
Certification: Dr. Arps is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Scope of Practice:
Psychiatry
Other: Dr. Arps, who was Medical Director and Psychiatrist since 2006 at Community Care of Maine in Bangor, is expected to begin delivering services at Mayo on Jan. 4, 2010. Dr. Arps is accepting new patients and welcomes referrals from all case management services who work with children.
Dr. Arps has worked as a psychiatrist for 20 years. She has spent most of her career in Maine, serving on the staff of The Acadia Hospital in Bangor from 1992-2006 before joining Community Care of Maine. At Acadia, she was Medical Director and Psychiatrist for the Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Programs, and was Medical Director of Adolescent Programs, among other duties.
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