Madisonville Psychiatrist
Dr. Whitney Gilley is a local psychiatrist in Hopkins County. She offers weekly psychotherapy and medication treatment options.
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC offers collaborative, whole-person care for life changes and challenges, stress, burnout, prolonged grief, social phobia, anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma recovery, and more.
You can access online care from the comfort of home, knowing your care is provided directly by a local Madisonville doctor trained and Board Certified in Psychiatry.
Dr. Whitney Gilley lives in Madisonville, KY. She is a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine’s Trover Campus in Madisonville.
After completing her psychiatry residency training in Tennessee and receiving Board Certification in Psychiatry, she returned to practice psychiatry in Madisonville.
Dr. Gilley serves as gratis Clinical Faculty for medical students at the UofL School of Medicine Trover Campus in Madisonville. She has been an invited speaker at Baptist Health Madisonville’s noon conference and regional conferences hosted locally including the Dr. Loman C. Trover Symposium.
Our Difference
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Time is needed to provide quality care for emotional and behavioral health conditions and concerns. Initial appointments are typically around 1.5 to 2 hours—all directly with your doctor. This provides time for a full evaluation, discussion of treatment options, brief counseling about your condition or concern, and the opportunity for questions.
At New Directions Psychiatry PLLC, no appointments are scheduled for less than 30 minutes. Patients have the option for more frequent appointments than available in many clinics. As a psychotherapy-oriented practice, most therapy sessions are 50 minutes, and many patients are seen weekly or every other week.
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To gain a greater sense of who you are as a person, Dr. Gilley makes it a priority to understand your needs, stressors, supports, goals, and values. To ensure time for a holistic approach to your care, this practice focuses on quality over seeing a large volume of patients.
There are many aspects in our lives that impact mood and behavior. When tailoring treatment options to an individual patient, Dr. Gilley considers things such as non-psychiatric health conditions and medications, nutrition, daily activities, family history or genetics, and prior treatment effects and experiences.
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Many sites advertise having psychiatry, but then schedule patients with clinicians that are not physicians with psychiatry specialty training. Not everyone who provides behavioral healthcare is a physician specialist, even if they prescribe medication. It can be even harder to know who is treating you with online therapy or virtual medication prescriptions. Whoever you see should always be open about their credentials, even before you book an appointment. At New Directions Psychiatry, PLLC, your appointment is always directly with a physician (MD) specializing in Psychiatry.
To specialize in psychiatry, a doctor receives the same rigorous medical school education all physicians receive to earn an MD. They then undergo years of specialty training in the diagnosis and treatment of emotional and behavioral health disorders and the use of medications for these conditions. Psychiatrists receive training in psychotherapy and other therapeutic interventions throughout their four-year residency training.
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Whether you feel comfortable at home or have another quiet, private space you can use for a virtual doctor’s visit, online care brings the specialist to you. No public waiting rooms or long drives to see a psychiatrist.
Because this is a small, patient-focused practice, there is often more flexibility in scheduling including option for more frequent appointments, Saturday appointments and weekly therapy options.
Having a psychiatrist that offers both medication and psychotherapy all in one place can simplify your care. It may also improve the quality of care as your doctor can see a broader, more in-depth picture of your response to treatment.
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Dr. Gilley works with you to determine what treatments align with your wellness goals. As a physician and psychiatrist, she is trained in a wide range of treatment options, she can counsel you on whether therapy, counseling, medication, integrative options, or a combination of these treatments would best fit your needs. Therapies offered including CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, integrative and supportive therapy. Dr. Gilley keeps up-to-date on the latest treatments and considers care from a whole-person, holistic approach.
Individualized care that fits your wellness goals
When your doctor understands the full range of treatment options, you can decide together on what treatment is right for you. You don’t have to wonder if medication-only or therapy-only treatment is your only option. You don’t have to split your care between medication prescribers and therapists.
Dr. Gilley is trained in both formal talk therapy and medication options and can discuss in-depth interventional and integrative options with you. Therapies offered include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), psychodynamic psychotherapy, and integrative therapy.
A Belief in Privacy
In Madisonville and our surrounding communities, privacy concerns may leave patients hesitant to seek help.
There may be busy, often very public waiting rooms at large outpatient facilities.
For those in healthcare, the undue stigma surrounding mental health treatment may create hesitation to seek care at a place of work.
Patients often have concerns about who sees and has access to behavioral health records.
Some of the ways we believe this practice promotes patient privacy:
No public waiting room in a busy behavioral health clinic.
No billers, coders, schedulers, secretaries, or administrative employees are involved with your personal information. Your physician takes care of these duties.
Because this practice does not bill insurance, you can have more control over your personal information. See Why Don’t You Take Insurance?
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC is not part of any large medical group practice, community health system, or hospital system. This is a small, private psychiatry practice in Madisonville.
You can choose a quiet, safe space for your appointment anywhere in Kentucky with a reliable internet connection for your visit. The physician will be in a private location. An encrypted connection using a healthcare telehealth videoconferencing platform helps prevent anyone not part of the visit from seeing you on the screen or hearing what is said.
For more about privacy and what limitations exist, please see our Privacy Practices.
Services
Clinical Evaluation & Second Opinion
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Medication
Online Care
Why see a Madisonville Psychiatrist?
With online care you can see psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physicians’ assistants, and therapists from all over the United States. Does it really matter if the person you see lives in New York or California and has never been to Kentucky?
A psychiatrist who has first-hand experience with life in Madisonville will be familiar with the culture and customs of where you live. This can be a very important aspect of therapy.
A psychiatrist that knows the mental health options in Madisonville and our region can help ensure you get the right kind of care. Sometimes, conditions require subspecialized therapy or other treatment. In rare urgent or emergency situations, a local psychiatrist can help guide you on the best options available to you, because they know the local services, hospitals and other resources available in your community and region.
Someone who has never lived in Madisonville simply can’t offer this level of first-hand knowledge. Dr. Gilley is from Kentucky and lives in Madisonville.
Behavioral Health in Madisonville
A CDC report released in 2023 found that Kentucky had the second highest rate of depression in the US with 24% of those surveyed reporting that they had been diagnosed with depression at some point in their life. Hopkins County levels were higher than some areas of the Commonwealth at 24.2-31.9%. That’s about one in four people with or having had depression.
The NIMH reports an estimated 19.1% of adults had an anxiety disorder in the past year, and that 31.1% of adults experience an anxiety disorder during their lifetime. The estimated lifetime prevalence of PTSD is 6.8%, with an estimated 3.6% of adults experiencing PTSD symptoms in the past year.
Madisonville has two outpatient community mental health centers that offer intensive behavioral health services like case management and crisis services. These community health clinic services include walk-in appointments for issues that can’t wait for a scheduled appointment. There are two inpatient psychiatry units within our local hospital, one for general adult psychiatry and one for geriatric psychiatry. These units are for short-term treatment for individuals in need of acute, high-level psychiatry care.
The city of Madisonville is currently facing a significant shortage of skilled mental health professionals, particularly outpatient psychiatrists. This has had a significant impact on the community. There are multiple therapists and counselors in Madisonville available to provide talk therapy and nurse practitioners that offer medication management. But, because of the shortage of mental health professionals, wait times for most non-urgent outpatient appointments in our area can be as long as a month or more. Many people seeking psychiatry care travel outside our area just to see a psychiatrist.
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC offers patients an alternative option for local care that involves one doctor providing counseling, therapy, and the choice for medication when it may be beneficial. You don’t have to travel to Owensboro, Evansville, or Nashville for psychiatry specialist care. At New Directions Psychiatry PLLC, new patient appointments with a psychiatrist are typically scheduled within 1-2 weeks.
Dr. Gilley is a psychiatrist in Madisonville. She offers psychiatry services across the Hopkins County and Kentucky.*
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC is located in Madisonville, Kentucky (42431, 42431) in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Our service area includes all of Western Kentucky including our local communities of Hanson, Manitou, Nebo, Dawson Springs, Mortons Gap, White Plains, and Nortonville.
*An internet connection capable of supporting synchronous audio and video from a physical location within the state of the physician is licensed is required for online care. Not all conditions or situations are appropriate for telehealth or virtual services.
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC was founded in March of 2021 by Whitney Gilley, MD, to provide direct, high-quality specialty care to patients who are looking for personalized treatment or who have had limited access to a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry because of where they live.
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC is located in Madisonville, KY, a city in Hopkins County Kentucky. Dr. Gilley understands the unique challenges to accessing mental health care in our region, and how difficult it can be to get an appointment with a psychiatrist, even in large cities. New Directions Psychiatry PLLC offers online visits across Kentucky for virtual psychiatry care including counseling, psychotherapy, and medication services.
About New Directions Psychiatry PLLC
Mailing:
Whitney Gilley, MD
New Directions Psychiatry PLLC
229 Madison Square Dr #239,
Madisonville, KY 42431
Office Phone: (270) 216-0938
FOR PATIENT RECORDS REQUESTS:
PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE AT (270) 216-0938
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