Individual, couples, and family counseling for children, teens, and adults in Corbin and surrounding Southeast Kentucky communities. A calm, relational place to feel heard and find a path forward.
Comprehensive Community Support Services are a behavioral health service designed to help children, teens, and adults build and use important skills in everyday life.
Counseling often provides a place to talk, understand patterns, process experiences, and learn new strategies. Community Support helps a person practice and use those skills in the situations and environments where they are actually needed.
Often called “Community Support.”
What is a Community Support Associate (CSA)?
A Community Support Associate, or CSA, is a trained provider who helps a person practice and build skills connected to their behavioral health treatment plan.
CSAs work under the supervision of a qualified behavioral health professional. Depending on the person’s needs and goals, services may take place in everyday settings where skills can be practiced and used in real life.
Been told to look for “CSA services”? You’re in the right place. Community Support is the service, and a CSA is the trained provider who helps deliver it.
Comprehensive Community Support Services — the serviceCSA — the trained provider
WHAT SUPPORT CAN LOOK LIKE
Building skills for everyday life.
Support is individualized. Depending on the person’s needs and treatment goals, Community Support may focus on areas such as:
Emotional regulation & coping
Practicing strategies for managing strong emotions, stress, and difficult situations.
Daily routines & independence
Building routines and practical skills that support greater independence.
Communication & relationships
Practicing interpersonal, social, and communication skills.
Community participation
Building confidence and skills for participating in everyday activities and accessing community resources.
Managing behavioral health needs
Learning to recognize changes, use strategies from the treatment plan, and better manage behavioral health needs in everyday life.
Practical life skills
Building skills such as organization, planning, shopping, budgeting, transportation, and other daily responsibilities when they are connected to the person’s identified needs and treatment goals.
Community Support focuses on building the person’s own skills and independence rather than simply doing tasks for them.
WHO MAY BENEFIT
When knowing the skill isn’t the same as using it.
Community Support may be worth exploring when a child, teen, or adult has behavioral health needs that are affecting everyday life and needs additional support practicing skills outside of traditional counseling.
Community Support may be helpful for someone who:
✓understands coping strategies but has difficulty using them during real-life situations
✓struggles with emotional regulation, routines, or responsibilities
✓has difficulty using communication or relationship skills outside of therapy
✓needs support carrying behavioral health treatment goals into everyday life
✓has difficulty participating successfully at home or in the community
✓would benefit from structured skill-building connected to behavioral health needs
COULD COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES BE A FIT?
Not sure if Comprehensive Community Support Services is the right fit?
Tell us a little about what is making everyday life difficult, and our team can help you understand whether Community Support may be an appropriate next step.
You do not have to know whether someone qualifies before reaching out.
Community Support is a behavioral health service, and eligibility is determined individually based on the person’s needs, assessment, treatment plan, medical necessity, and insurance requirements.
Bridgeway can help families understand the referral and assessment process and determine whether Comprehensive Community Support may be an appropriate service to explore.
Medicaid requirements and authorization processes may vary by health plan.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP
Dr. Jodi Lefevers Carroll, PhD, LCSW
Director of Behavioral Health
Dr. Jodi Lefevers Carroll, PhD, LCSW brings more than 30 years of clinical practice. Her work includes supporting children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
At Bridgeway, she leads behavioral health programming with a thoughtful, evidence-informed approach centered on each person’s story, strengths, relationships, and goals.
Questions about counseling at Bridgeway
Who can join the counseling wait list?
Children, teens, adults, couples, and families can join Bridgeway Health’s counseling wait list. Counseling is opening soon in Corbin, Kentucky. Our team will contact you when the service is ready and discuss whether it fits your needs.
Who leads counseling at Bridgeway Health?
Dr. Jodi Lefevers Carroll, PhD, LCSW, is Bridgeway Health’s Director of Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of clinical practice supporting children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Will counseling be available through telehealth?
In-person and telehealth counseling are planned. Telehealth is offered when clinically appropriate, permitted by your health plan, and agreed to in advance. Our team will confirm available options before scheduling.
How do I confirm insurance coverage before counseling?
Contact Bridgeway Health at (606) 202-7654 to ask about your plan. Insurance participation and benefits must be confirmed before scheduling. Coverage for couples and family sessions varies by plan. Joining the wait list does not confirm coverage or reserve an appointment.
Bridgeway Health is an outpatient practice, not a 24-hour crisis service. Phone, text, email, and other communications are not monitored continuously.
For immediate danger or a life-threatening emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. For suicide, self-harm, or mental health crisis support, call or text 988.