Sentara initiative expands mental health care access, embedding therapists in primary care

Sentara initiative expands mental health care access, embedding therapists in primary care

After 40 years of managing an anxiety disorder, Gussie Belisario knows when she needs professional help. Last fall, she did. Belisario, 60, had relocated to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in 2022 to help care for her mother, who has memory loss. She also was struggling to maintain her speech-language pathology practice with virtual appointments and spotty internet service. “I told my doctor, ‘My anxiety is way out of the norm,’” she said. “And …