Amen Clinics in Atlanta takes a neurological focus to treating mental health disorders, eating disorders, drug addictions, and behavior addictions. They meet clients and perform a brain scan at their clinic. From the scans and conversation, Amen Clinics works with clients and their families to provide
outpatient care tailored to the clients' needs. Amen Clinics considers "mental health" as a part of "brain health".
The name Amen Clinics comes from their founder, Dr. Daniel G. Amen, who opened this chain of clinics in 1996.
Amen Clinics treats a wide variety of mental and physical conditions related to the brain, including attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), anger, intermittent explosive disorder, anxiety, depression (including post-partum depression), bipolar disorder, mania, hypomania, body dysmorphic disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), brain optimization, concussions, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, emotional trauma, physical brain trauma, addictions, hormonal imbalances, learning disabilities, lyme disease and other infections, dementia and other memory problems, multiple personality disorder, narcissism, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), panic disorder, panic attacs, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, postpartum depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), self-esteem issues, self-harm, suicidality, sleep disorders, exposure to toxins, and weight issues.
Amen Clinics treats addictions to alcohol, drugs, sex, pornography, gambling, gaming, internet, shopping, and other behaviors.
The eating disorders they treat include include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorders, orthorexia, pica, rumination disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and other specific feeding or eating disorder (OSFED).
Amen Clinics treats children, adolescents, adults, and couples.
The treatment plans that Amen Clinics create can include individual and family talk therapy like
cognitive behavioral therapy (
CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), neurofeedback, interactive metronome training, medication management, IV nutrient therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Their extensive biomedical treatments stand out from most clinics, which rely mostly on talk therapy and medication management
In addition to their location in the Atlanta metro area, Amen Clinics operates 10 clinics in other large cities with the same treatment options.
After the initial brain scan and assessment, clients can meet their therapists onsite or virtually.