School-Based Therapy

The Bradley Center offers school-based mental health services that are individualized, effective, and affordable

Bradley Center Therapists Are Happy to Meet Your Students Where They Are — Literally

As a parent or a teacher, we know you want children to have full access to safe and reliable mental health services, but you also don’t want their schedules and school days to be disrupted in the process. With Bradley’s school-based mental health services, we provide students the behavioral, emotional, and mental health support they need without needing to leave school.

Why Are School-Based Mental Health Services So Important?

Today’s students need more help than ever before with their mental and emotional health. This includes learning how to manage their behavior issues, concerns at home, trauma, anxiety, and ADHD and other focus disorders that affect their grades.

Making sure students have access to the care they need while remaining in their school is often the ideal solution. Our highly customized school-based mental health services program offers students personalized therapy that supports their academic, social, and emotional development without disrupting their education. Our on-site approach also enables schools to avoid expensive outplacement services, which keeps more of your district’s budget where it belongs: in the classroom.

How It Works

Every school we serve benefits from having a reliable, dedicated Bradley therapist on-site. You can think of them as a highly personal extension of your own district’s staff. This integrative approach enables our therapists to develop supportive relationships with students, teachers, and school staff, which makes it easier to identify problems and implement healthy solutions.

Students attending school-based mental health services will receive individualized age-appropriate therapy. This can include play therapy for young students, support for teen issues, group therapy for students with shared experiences such as grief and loss, and other engaging and effective approaches.

“The Bradley Center has provided us with two full-time therapists who have gone above our expectations in serving our students and their families. They have been flexible with our needs, responsive when situations required immediate attention, and were able to quickly make connections with our students in sessions that have been both positive and highly effective. As the school year progressed and students began to have more difficulty, The Bradley Center was easily able to add additional requested services to fit our needs, including training our teachers to implement the recommended strategies. Cornell School District has had many providers throughout the years; however, none of those has been able to assist our staff and students quite like The Bradley Center’s School-Based Mental Health team has. We look forward to many years of our partnership and endorse their services with the highest commendations!”

Carla Antoniades, Director of Pupil Services at Cornell School District

What Makes Bradley’s School-Based Therapy So Effective?

All Ages Served: Bradley’s mental health services are available for K-12 students, and can continue with a student from year to year as needed.

Fast Response: Unlike other providers who have long wait times for appointments, your student will usually be scheduled to start Bradley’s school-based therapy within two weeks of referral.

Minimal Disruption: Students typically receive one 40-minute appointment in school each week during the class period that is least disruptive to their academic schedule.

Family Updates: Bradley therapists maintain a direct and active connection with the parents/guardians of the students they serve.

Consistency of Care: To ensure that all students receive effective high-quality care, we only begin work in new districts when a Bradley therapist is available to serve that district.

Uninsured Support: If students are uninsured, supportive counseling from a Bradley therapist can be made available at no cost to the family.

The Positive Impact of School-Based Therapy

The Bradley Center’s school-based mental health services help students:

decrease anxiety
manage moods
improve peer social relations
improve family relations
increase focus and attention, leading to academic gains

Get Started

Wondering if The Bradley Center’s school-based services are right for your students? Fill out this form and our school-based therapy coordinator will follow up to learn more about your students’ mental health needs.

“The Bradley therapists who were assigned to our elementary, middle, and high schools were extremely professional in their interaction with school personnel, parents, and students. All the students they serviced were very pleased with the therapy they received. Communication between the therapists was just a phone call away along with an instant answer. Our school district was blessed to have had The Bradley Center providing their services. They have my highest recommendation.”

Joseph Martonik, Student Assistance Coordinator at Moon Area High School