Connect your patients to effective trauma care

Have a patient in mind? There’s a few ways you can refer:

• Tell your patient about Nema, and have them contact us directly. We will then call you for more information prior to initiating care for them.
• Submit our HIPAA-compliant referral form and we will contact your patient within 48 business hours.
• Directly book a free info call or Clinical Evaluation on behalf of your patient.

Yes, we do. From current research, C-PTSD is a variant of PTSD that includes personality changes, attention issues, and struggles such as substance use or self-harm due to prolonged interpersonal trauma. Our program supports patients through grounding, DBT skills, case management, meds, peer support and 1:1 trauma therapy. 

CPT can work particularly well for C-PTSD because it focuses on processing the impact of trauma across life domains, including safety, trust, self-esteem and intimate relationships.

A lot of clients or therapists request EMDR because that’s the only trauma therapy they know. While EMDR is popular, it is not first-line in most practice guidelines and has less evidence than other therapies. 

At Nema, all of our therapists are trauma specialists cross-trained in CPT, PE, and EMDR. We always start with CPT first because it doesn’t require re-exposure like PE or EMDR, and it has data to show that symptom improvements last for 5-10 years or longer.

No. You can refer to us without a formal PTSD diagnosis. All patients will receive a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation from an expert clinician before starting care at Nema. During this evaluation, our clinician will work to determine an appropriate diagnosis for your patient.

We handle eligibility, insurance, and intake. After you refer your patient via form, we will contact them within 48 business hours. We will explain our model of care to them and discuss pricing. If they are interested in proceeding, we will also contact you (and any other outpatient mental health providers) for an update and keep you apprised of their progress through the program.

General talk therapy (“supportive therapy”) is not a treatment for PTSD and does not lead to symptom improvement for many years. At Nema, all our therapists are trauma specialists. We only use first-line therapies in the APA practice guidelines, and we are committed to ensuring that patients achieve symptom remission to the extent possible. 

We work with complex trauma and high-symptom patients using evidence-based modalities. For patients requiring in-person or higher level of care, we triage and redirect while keeping you updated. You receive discharge and outcome summaries.

You can refer adults (18+) with trauma-related symptoms, including complex trauma. We treat PTSD, 
“C-PTSD,” acute stress disorder, adjustment disorder, and other trauma and stress-related disorders (TSRD) that respond to first-line therapies. We also take higher-acuity patients. Our program features wraparound services designed to support patients with suicidality, active substance use, unsafe situations or legal involvement. 

Yes, you may continue to see them. We ask that you do not engage in trauma therapy with them but focus on supporting them through their Nema experience.

Yes! Please contact us at care@nemahealth.com or
(203) 208-8228. We’d be happy to discuss a case with you.

Your patients experiencing intrusive thoughts, nightmares, avoidance of triggers, persistent feelings of shame or guilt, and difficulty sleeping may benefit from specialized trauma treatment.

Yes. We are a short-term treatment program that offers ongoing support services, like DBT skills groups, but we do not do outpatient weekly therapy. When you refer a client, we will plan to send them back to you unless you request that we refer them elsewhere.

If your patient has completed a release of information, you will receive a copy of your patient’s discharge summary and a phone call to update you on their progress. Many patients also want to discuss their treatment or practice their skills learned at Nema with their outpatient provider. To assist therapists in helping patients after discharge, we send every provider a cognitive processing therapy (CPT) tip sheet and a copy of CPT worksheets. The tip sheet and worksheets help orient providers to CPT and offer guidance on how best to support patients who would like to discuss CPT skills.

The outpatient psychiatrist can, or we can step in while the client is in our IOP-like program. After discharge, Nema will then return responsibility to the OP psychiatrist or find a referral.