Psychiatric Evaluations
Psychiatric evaluations consist of an assessment of symptoms via interview and/or screening tools, obtaining a personal mental health history along with family and medical history, formulating a diagnosis, providing medication intervention, …
Medication Management
Depression is a mental illness, which one should not confuse with the short-term emotional distress, anxiety attacks or feeling low, which also are constituents of depression. Anyone can feel low for a brief period of time...
Concierge Services
For patients who desire more convenient or more in-depth care than is available in the Baton Rouge community, Dr. Shoptaugh is offering "concierge-style" services. For those with busy or inflexible work schedules, all of Dr. Shoptaugh's …
Marital Counseling
Intimate relationships may be the most common source of emotional distress as well as emotional satisfaction among adults. Having a mature, balanced person with experience to help couples wade through each others’ misunderstandings and …
Family Therapy
Mental health problems are frequently complicated by family issues or reactions to the member identified as having “the problem”. So to effectively resolve the problem all members of the family need to understand it and contribute to …
Parent-Child Interactional Therapy
Parent-Child Therapy is a research supported evidence based intervention model for children age 0-6 who are experiencing mental health, attachment, or behavioral concerns and/or have experienced some form of trauma. Therapy sessions include …
Supportive Therapy
Supportive therapy can be accomplished with individual and group therapies. We will occasionally have groups but tend to focus more on the individual. Supportive therapy is less instructive and more about recognizing and addressing patterns …
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Individual treatment is often termed as psychotherapy, and is meant to help people with their emotional issues, which can range in order of their severity or intensity. The main aim of this form of therapy is to change...
Parenting Guidance
Parenting guidance is crucial to any treatment with children. While we work with children to develop tools to deal with anxiety, depression, etc., it's impossible for us to make much headway without parents being an integral part of the process. <a …
Women's Issues
Women have specific needs for psychiatric care that is tailored to their changing hormonal needs depending on their stage in life. Each dynamic stage of a woman’s life can present variations in hormonal balance that can alter her mental/emotional …
Equine Facilitated Learning
Family Focus is excited to have EFL as an alternative to traditional models of treatment and learning for participants interested in self-exploration and personal growth. EFL is the practice of using horses for emotional growth. Participants …
