Better Care. Better Results.
Technology-Powered Collaborative Mental Health Care
for Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Abuse
We are Conquering
“Care as Usual”
There are HUGE BARRIERS to accessing quality mental healthcare.
Only 50% of people referred to care get access!
Only 1/3 of those who do access care get better!
Patients Get Better with Better Care!
We leverage our proprietary technology to improve self-care AND clinical care.
Patients are self-guided through a precisely personalized program that changes as they change.
Our clinicians are continuously guided through every encounter integrating the patient’s data to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical care.
Patients can Access Care from Anywhere!
Can’t make it into an office or clinic? No worries – ALL Portages Health Services are self-guided through the Portages Mobile App and all providers are accessed remotely via audio or video on your phone, tablet, or computer.
The Portages Way
To Portage is to carry your vessel and your gear on a path from one body of water to the next on your journey.
Similarly, improving mental health and wellbeing involves moving your mind and body through multiple paths of health behavior change to build new skills and habits.
We leverage our cutting-edge proprietary technology to guide patients on a personalized journey to make health behavior changes to overcome stress, anxiety, depression and substance abuse and transform their mental health and wellbeing.
Who We Serve
Patients
Primary Care Clinics
OBGYN / Women’s Health Clinics
Tribal Nations
Schools
Colleges / Universities
Employers and Unions
Our Services
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Screening and Self Assessment
Using the Portages mobile app, patients periodically complete the brief Portages Self-Assessment to understand their current areas of mental health and wellbeing strengths and opportunities. A personalized mental health and wellbeing program is generated guiding patients through their own Self-Care program.
Mental health and substance abuse screens are completed routinely as part of the Self-Assessment.
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Self Care
Using the Portages mobile app, patients develop their readiness for change and work on personalized change strategies, called Portages, which help them build habits and skills. Patients develop a daily practice of skill building by following their personalized Daily Journey. Through the app, patients can link to companions for support and providers for monitoring and guidance.
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Brief Intervention and Referral
When the mental health and substance abuse screens are positive for depression, anxiety or substance use concerns, patients can engage in a Brief Intervention with a Portages Care Navigator to discuss their needs, enhance motivation to make changes, and discuss options for treatment if indicated. If additional services are needed, the Care Navigator assists the individual in accessing care.
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Care Navigation
Portages Care Navigators make referrals to Portages Health for treatment and can facilitate referrals to other community services if indicated.
Collaborative and coordinated care across behavioral health, primary care, and other health services is crucial. The Portages Care Navigator monitors the progress of individuals and helps them access responsive services fitting their current needs.
Portages Care Navigators guide patients along their path to improve their mental health and well-being throughout their entire care journey.
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Treatment
Portages Health offers an expert team of therapists, psychiatry providers and coaches who provide a range of specialized, time-limited programs for mental health or substance abuse using digital and telehealth technology. A full continuum of services that vary in intensity are used to match each individual’s current needs. The Portages Way and the Portages Digital Therapeutic are the foundation of care used by our practitioners throughout the entire care journey to deliver personalized evidenced-based interventions with scientific rigor.
Treatment options include our Coaching Program, Outpatient Group Program, Intensive Outpatient Program, Individual Therapy, and Psychiatric Care.
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Collaborative Care
Busy primary care providers within Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB-GYN, or Pediatrics will benefit from using Portages to identify, manage, and coordinate care for their patients struggling with depression, anxiety, or substance abuse. The centerpiece of this solution is a free integrated suite of digital apps for primary care providers. Providers can enroll their patients in the Portages app, track and monitor patients’ status and progress, and make seamless referrals to and collaborate with Portages practitioners.
Portages Collaborative Care aligns with the American Medical Association 2022 call to action for digitally enabled collaborative care solutions to address the behavioral health crisis in the US.
The Portages Health Care Team
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Care Navigators
Portages Care Navigators are the “go to” people to help with questions and logistics of care provided by the Portages team. They are skillful in supporting individuals through screening, brief interventions, clinical assessments, and referral, as well as ongoing care management. They also help patients gain access to other clinical services and providers.
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Coaches
Portages Coaches assist patients in developing skills and encourage personal growth through individual and group telehealth visits. Our Coaches guide patients through the use of Portages and the process of change.
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Therapists
Portages Therapists provide clinical therapy and guidance to patients in developing skills and furthering personal growth through individual and group telehealth visits. Our therapists utilize the Portages Way to address the whole person needs and incorporate each patient’s Portages work to personalize treatment interventions and more efficiently and effectively develop the skills needed to overcome mental health and substance abuse problems.
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Psychiatry Providers
Portages Psychiatric Care Providers leverage the Portages Way and the patients Portages data to offer comprehensive evaluations and precisely personalized clinical care for patients seeking to understand more about their mental health and well-being, offering medications and supplements to support other therapeutic approaches as indicated. Sessions are conducted through telehealth.
A Message From Our Founder
At Portages Health, our core belief is that we all have an infinite capacity for positive change when given the right support and when guided down the right path. We also believe that the mental health care delivery system has an infinite capacity for, yet also a tremendous need, for change.
We are in a crisis. Today, nearly 50% of youth and adults report struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, or substance abuse. Yet only 1/2 of patients referred to mental healthcare professionals never get in to see them, and once they do get access, only about 1/3 get the right care that helps them actually get better. At Portages Health, we are committed to forge new paths, so all patients, providers and organizations can get better access to better care.
As a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist, and healthcare executive for well over 20 years, I have been committed to finding ways to improve access to mental health care while also seeking to improve the care delivered. I have had the honor and privilege to care for thousands of individual patients, often partnering with their families, schools, primary care providers, therapists and /or social workers, as we all worked together to transform lives. I have supported thousands of primary care and specialty care providers, psychiatrists, therapists, school administrators, teachers, and many other professionals as they strive to improve the lives of people they serve.
Through this effort, we have all contributed in some way to the tremendous Collaborative Care movement that has been underway for the past 20 years. The research has made it clear. Only through collaboration can we improve our delivery system, overcome our mental health crisis, and improve the lives of all patients grappling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse and other mental health conditions. Yet as the AMA called for in a groundbreaking report earlier this year, only through Technology-enabled Collaborative Care will we be able to achieve the efficiency and effectiveness of care that is needed.
Change, whether for individuals, organizations, or entire systems of care, especially when it involves technology, always seems really hard. But, imagine the following:
What if all healthcare providers and all organizations had a way to get better access and better care for all the people they serve with anxiety, depression, or substance abuse?
What if all patients had access to a mobile app that could easily identify exactly what they need to change at any moment in order to feel more happy, healthy and fulfilled.
What if the app could show all patients exactly what they needed to do and then it guided them through the steps to make these changes?
What if all patients were given the support they needed from their family and friends and healthcare providers?
What if this happened because their family, friends, and healthcare providers had access to technology that guided them in how to best be supportive and encouraging?
What if all patients and all healthcare providers could work as a collaborative team with mental health care providers and get easy access to specialized mental health care when needed?
What if the mental healthcare providers who treated each patient were guided by a sophisticated technology using the patients data, so that the best evidenced-based care matched to that patient’s current needs was delivered with scientific rigor at every point of care?
What if patients were, as a result of all of this, able to easily overcome stress, anxiety, depression, or substance abuse, become their best selves, and thrive?
Portages does all of this! I am thrilled to have the amazing team at Portages Health working with me to now bring to you the most efficient and effective mental health care solutions available, anywhere. At every point that care as usual has failed, we have solved for the structural causes, separating us from the ordinary.
Whether you are someone seeking care, a provider or organization seeking better access to better care for your people, or a mental healthcare professional seeking an exciting and meaningful new adventure, join us and let’s portage on, together!
L. Read Sulik, MD
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist and Pediatrician
Portages Health
“My journey with Portages started as a desperate search to correct my mental health. My only focus was on fixing my "problems" because that was all that I could see. Portages opened my eyes to a completely new path that I did not even know existed. It gave me direction and a clearer understanding of my whole self. It became my own accountability system, personal life coach, and allowed me to stay connected with my provider.
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Interested? Try the Portages App for Free.
Download the Portages app from the App Store or get it on Google Play. Anyone can use the app for free for the first month and then it is just $6 per month. If you are a patient of Portages Health, or have been enrolled in the app by your health care provider or organization, then it is always free.
