Child/Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
Mojave Counseling
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
The UNLV Health, Mojave Counseling outpatient clinic has been serving clients with mental illness in Las Vegas for more than 25 years. The clinic provides services to adults, adolescents, and children having a psychiatric disability or mental illness in a comprehensive multi-disciplinary manner. Clinicians and staff strive to help people maximize their health, wellbeing, and quality of life.
Mojave Counseling
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
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Alison Netski, MD
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Alison Netski, MD, is the vice dean of clinical affairs and professor of psychiatry at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Board certified from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Netski specializes in the treatment of adults with a broad range of psychiatric illness including mood, psychotic, and anxiety disorders.
Garnette McCracken, LCSW
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Garnette has provided individual and family therapy services for the last 21 years. She specializes in trauma, grief, mood and anxiety disorders. She treats children, adolescents and adults with a variety of mental health and medical concerns. Garnette specialized in grief working in the hospice field for 16 years prior to transitioning into trauma and foster/adoption care for the past 15 years. Garnette has experience treating individuals who have experienced trauma, reactive attachment, fetal alcohol syndrome and severe anxiety as well as supporting their caregivers.
Kathleen Wild, LCSW
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Kathy has 28 years of experience in the field of mental health
and has been practicing as a therapist for the past 13 years. She
has treated children, adolescents and adults with a variety of
mental health concerns, including extensive work with youth in
the foster care system. Her background includes treating
individuals who have experienced trauma as well as supporting
caregivers of children exposed to trauma.
Chad Terry, DO
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Education
Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Residency Program: Detroit Wayne County Health Authority GME Consortium Program
Medical School: Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine
Mojave Counseling Youth Clinic
Helping Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Difficulties
UNLV Medicine’s Mojave Counseling Youth Clinic offers assistance to some of Nevada’s youngest patients.
Responses to the questions below reflect input from the entire mental health team at the Mojave Counseling Youth Clinic, which is under the direction of Dr. Alison Netski, chair of the UNLV School of Medicine department of psychiatry and behavioral health.
How are the challenges different between helping adults and helping children?