Pediatric mood disorder treatment.

Childhood mood symptoms (persistent sadness, irritability that doesn't lift, loss of interest in things a child used to love, sleep changes, somatic complaints) rarely resolve in isolation. They live inside a nervous system, a family, a school, a peer environment. We treat them in that context.

On our team, psychiatry sits in the same weekly meeting as the therapist, the OT, the family therapist, and the case manager. Coordinated care means the prescriber knows exactly what is happening with your child in therapy, and the therapy team knows where the medication sits. We work alongside parents, as a team, and the plan moves forward as one.

In our program, mood disorders may arrive with anxiety, with a history of trauma, with ADHD, with autism, or with significant sensory processing differences. The diagnosis captures one slice; the actual clinical picture is wider. In our program, we treat the whole child.

NorthStar Day is for children whose mood symptoms need more than a weekly outpatient appointment can offer, whose sadness, anger, and loss of interest show up at home and at school, and whose presentation often involves more than one diagnosis at a time.

The first call is a 15-minute conversation with our admissions specialists. We listen first, then point you toward the right next step for your child.