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Best Fit Counseling & PsychiatryAnn Arbor, Michigan
Are We the Right Fit?
HomeServicesIntegrated Collaborative Care
Are you tired of being the messenger between your providers?

Your care works better when your team works together.

Your psychiatrist and therapist share one plan, so you are not left carrying the coordination alone.

Are We the Right Fit?
Why Integrated Collaborative Care

Psychiatry and Therapy, Working From the Same Plan.

Many people receive therapy in one office and medication management somewhere else. Often those providers rarely communicate, which can mean repeating your story, receiving conflicting recommendations, and feeling like no one is looking at the whole picture.

At Best Fit Counseling & Psychiatry, our psychiatrists and therapists work together as one team, allowing us to coordinate treatment, adjust medications when needed, and keep everyone moving toward the same goals.

A therapist and client sitting together during a session

"We don't believe healing comes from one treatment. We believe healing happens when the right treatments are delivered at the right time, by the right team, in a way that helps your brain and your life change together."

— Terry Dunivin, LMSW, Director of BFC&P

The benefits

Integrated Collaborative Care That Gets You Where You Wanna Go.

  • Seamless collaboration, your psychiatrist and therapist consult each other directly, so nothing gets lost between offices.
  • Better outcomes, therapy and medication management working together often outperforms either treatment alone.
  • One coordinated experience, you're not the one relaying your history between separate providers.
  • A plan built around you, care shaped by what's actually going on, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
  • Extra support for complex cases, conditions like bipolar disorder or overlapping physical and mental health needs benefit most from unified management.
Hands joined together, representing collaborative care
Backed by research

The Evidence Behind Collaborative Care

This isn't a new idea we invented. The Collaborative Care Model has been studied in more than 90 randomized controlled trials since the foundational IMPACT Trial in 2002, consistently showing better outcomes for depression, anxiety, and other conditions compared to usual, disconnected care, along with higher patient and provider satisfaction. It's also shown to help patients managing a mental health condition alongside a physical one, like diabetes or a chronic illness.

Understanding the model

Watch: What Is the Collaborative Care Model?

A short explainer from the American Psychiatric Association on how team-based mental health care works.

Frequently asked questions

Integrated Collaborative Care, Explained

No. Some patients only need medication management, others only need therapy. When you need both, integrated care means those two providers are working from the same plan instead of operating in isolation.
They share your treatment record and consult each other directly when your plan needs to change, so you're not stuck relaying information between two separate offices.
Not inherently. You're billed for the visits you have, the same as separate providers. Research on the collaborative care model has actually found it's associated with lower overall healthcare costs over time, in part because problems get caught and addressed sooner.

Ready for Care That Talks to Itself?

Request an appointment and we'll build a coordinated plan around what's going on for you.

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