Mental Health Services Gain Traction in Broadwater County
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Nancy Marks, Reporter
Nancy Marks: MT43 News Secretary and News Editor |
Mental Health Services Gain Traction in Broadwater County
Nancy Marks
Reporter
Treeline Psychiatry has opened a counseling service in Townsend on Broadway. Carly Sell a licensed psychiatrist, is now seeing patients. She, along with several other county health services, a counselor at Billings Clinic Broadwater and other private counselors in Townsend, are making every effort to meet the needs of adults and children who need help with depression and suicidal thoughts.
She and her partner Michelle Herron operate a practice in Helena. Sell had gained numerous patients who are from Townsend, so decided to open an office in Townsend.
Sell explained her background and her role in helping people. She graduated in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Carroll College.” I knew from the beginning I wanted to be a psychiatric nurse. I served for 13 years at Shodair Children’s Hospital where I worked my way up from nurse to program director. I loved working with kids and their families,” she said.
The need for mental health services has grown tremendously since COVID and the use of the internet has caused so much isolation for children and adults Sell explained. She compared mental health to medical health: ” As nurses and doctors, we provide medicines or physical therapy for those with medical problems. It is the same with mental health. We give patients the tools to make better lifestyle choices, or help with medications.”
Psychiatric counseling involves seeing the whole person, not just their problems. “Each person is different. Two people may have depression and trauma, but each reacts differently to their situation, so each person needs different support. My job is to ask the questions that have not been asked before,” she explained.
Sell pointed out that rural areas such as Broadwater County have a greater need for services for teenagers. In her counseling, she tries to help teens understand it is okay to talk about their feelings of being alone and depressed. “I try to give voice to their scary thoughts and to have them feel my office is a safe place for them,” she said.
Treeline Psychiatry takes most insurances, but also self-pay. The counselors work with other mental health providers in the area and with Townsend Schools. Their practice includes referrals from the Montana Department of Family Services counseling foster and adoptive families. “We want to give everyone a voice. We want to be one more person in the kid’s corner,” she concluded.
Sell lives in Winston with her husband of 20 years, Justin. They have three children, two of whom attend Townsend Schools.
For more information or an appointment with Sell, please call (406) 422-6355 or leave a message on the website.
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