Aetna and Your Recovery

Treating your mental health symptoms is just as important as treating your physical health ones. Stigmas surrounding behavioral health care have dramatically decreased allowing individuals to more freely seek therapy and psychiatric medication management. Counseling can help to address intrusive symptoms or even major life changes such as death, divorce, or chronic illness. Medication management can also be an effective way to treat intrusive symptoms and be better able to implement skills you learn in therapy!

How Therapy and Medication Management Can Help Your Recovery

There can be many reasons and various motivations for pursuing counseling. Regardless of the motivator, it can take courage and dedication to start and stay in therapy. This may be why finding the right therapist can be the key to achieving recovery, improving relationships, promoting self-empowerment, and feeling like the best version of yourself. Therapy can help you to improve many aspects of your life and learn valuable communication, emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

Therapy can be invaluable, however, if your symptoms are severe and persistent it can be difficult to put what you learn into practice. This is where psychiatric medication management can be imperative. Finding a prescriber that is right for you can help you to develop a comprehensive treatment plan that is right for you.

Will Insurance Cover Counseling and Psychiatric Medications?

Apart from the stigma associated with therapy and medications, some people delay getting the care they need due to concerns related to insurance. If you have decided to see a therapist or psychiatric professional, one of the initial questions you may ask is whether or not your insurance is accepted. A lot can depend on what type of insurance policy you have. Many insurance companies have limited coverage and some types of mental health professionals, such as licensed counselors or psychiatric professionals, may not be included. Oftentimes, a referral from your primary care provider may be required.

This may not be the case if you are an Aetna health insurance beneficiary. With Aetna and Aetna State Health Plan you can easily receive the service you need.