Behavioral Health Panel

October is Depression Awareness Month and in this episode we have a panel discussion with five experts across the MercyOne system of care:

• Debra Georgia, LMFT, LMSW works with the MercyOne North Iowa Behavioral Services Center in Mason City
• Natasha Keller tLMHC, PLMHP, NCC works with children at MercyOne Siouxland Child Advocacy Center
• Michael Peroski, DO is a psychiatrist at MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center
• John Upshaw, LISW is from MercyOne Cedar Falls Behavioral Health Care
• Breanna Young LMHC is supervisor at MercyOne Psychiatry Residency Clinic in Des Moines

In this 45 minute discussion, we cover when to know when you're just having "the blues" or if you need professional help, some different methods of treating severe depression and medication-resistant depression, such as TMS Therapy and SPRAVATO, and the successes our experts have seen by using Telehealth.

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