Hours Open
- Mon-Fri 8:00am – 6:00pm
Contact Info
- Phone: 1-781-886-3020
Fax: 1-781-886-3010
Mental Health Counseling
HD Pediatrics believes in offering treatment for the whole child. Children experience the same spectrum of mental conditions and illness as adults ranging from dealing with a traumatic experience to everyday stress.
Younger children don’t know how to express what they’re feeling and sometimes older children don’t want to.
We know that primary care visits can often be driven by psychological needs caused by anxiety, panic, depression and stress. During the two or more years of the Covid-19 pandemic, when everyone faced significant changes in work and school, and our physical contact with family and friends was restricted, anxiety, stress and depression increased. That is true for children as well as adults.
Even during normal times, youngsters are confronted with situations that they don’t understand or know how to cope with:
- Bullying at school
- Parents getting a divorce
- Illness or death of a loved one
- School issues or anxiety about performance
- And more
Too often, mental health services are not readily available to children, which results in long waits and worsening situations.
At HD Pediatrics, our team of medical providers will work with three-full-time mental health counselors. They will meet as a group every two weeks to discuss case studies so that the counselors can educate the medical providers on mental health symptoms to look for in the different age groups. As a result, your child will get treatment earlier, along with tools to help them deal with future issues.
Our counselors are trained to work with children and young adults and to help them talk about their experiences, what scares them, or what they’re dealing with at school — even when they won’t confide in their own parents. Children deal with a lot of emotions. The more often they learn how to cope with those emotions, the healthier they will be.
Hours Open
- Mon-Fri 8:00am – 6:00pm
Contact Info
- Phone: 1-781-886-3020
Fax: 1-781-886-3010
Our Providers
About Robyn
MSN, RN, cPNP-PC, President of HD Pediatrics
Robyn has worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner for over 15 years, examining, diagnosing and treating children from newborns to 19 years old for both chronic and acute illnesses. She also performs well-child visits and educates parents and patients about their diagnoses so that together they can create the best care plans.
About JoséAlberto
Pediatrician, Named in “Best Doctors in America”
Dr. JoséAlberto (J.A.) Betances, MD graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in his hometown of the Bronx, N.Y. He spent his residency in social pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.
Insurances accepted