Serving Our Armed Forces Service Members
Clinicians with Prior Service and Clinical Expertise for Your Needs: A Personalized Experience for Your Treatment
We Understand
Cuyahoga Valley Mindful Health and Wellness is run and operated by Veteran Eric Riesterer with 6 years of experience in the United States Army Reserves as a Petroleum Engineer and NCO. We understand that the VA can be overwhelming and impersonal, sometimes your physician forgetting your name or story.
Cuyahoga Valley Mindful Health and Wellness offers individualized mental health care for you and your battle buddies with same-day/next-day access to your provider.
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Emergency appointments are available next-day with approval from your provider. CVMHW prides itself in providing a personal and warm experience that is always close and nearby.
Same-Day and Next-Day Help: Why Private Practice?
"That would go far to ease what a recent VA Inspector General report identified as a major issue: Veterans are not being seen for mental health appointments as quickly as had been reported.
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According to the investigation, the Veterans Health Administration met its goal of fully evaluating patients within 14 days only about 49 percent of the time. The remaining 51 percent waited an average of 50 days for full evaluations (though situations considered mental health emergencies are handled differently). For follow-up treatments, the report indicated an appointment is scheduled within 14 days about 88 percent of the time. When seconds and minutes count—as they do in combat—VA did not meet its own standard."
Trauma and Addiction: Tools for Recovery
Our Founder and CEO began his journey in the Mental Health field working in addiction and recovery for Commquest Services in Canton, OH. We understand addiction as a biopsychosocial condition and live to eliminate stigma to mental health and addiction. We are prepared to work in coordination with local addiction specialist in-patient units and transition your care to outpatient services to work on your underlying causes to addiction.
HIPAA and Confidentiality
We serve our service members in the active-duty component with the unique ability to provide soldiers with confidential mental health treatment services.
Without a court subpoena, commanders are NOT authorized access to any of your personal health information (PHI) as we are a private practice not operating in any capacity for the United States government. Without court order, your information is confidential and protected via HIPAA. For court-ordered military care, we only provide clinically-significant information for all reports and honor your privacy to the best of our ability.
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We aim to provide soldiers with a treatment-focused environment where his/her condition is the main focus and recovery is our goal.
PTSD: Return from Chaos
PTSD & Suck-It-Up Culture: For Military, EMS, Firefighters &Â Police
"So after that, I started to make a change. I started seeing a therapist, and I already had seen three therapists... But we clicked immediately...
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So after tons and tons and tons of self-reflection, and it hurt and sometimes I couldn't speak after it was done, I started to get better.
I'm proud to say after getting my head straight with my family, friends and my therapist, that I'm 140 pounds lighter, and I don't suck it up anymore. I talk to everyone that I can about this. It is okay to not be okay.
It is okay to have emotion. It is okay to cry. It's okay.
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Suck it up doesn't work. If you know someone in this field, just check in. Sometimes the littlest things make the littlest differences."