Child/Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
Mojave Counseling
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
The UNLV Health, Mojave Counseling outpatient clinic has been serving clients with mental illness in Las Vegas for more than 25 years. The clinic provides services to adults, adolescents, and children having a psychiatric disability or mental illness in a comprehensive multi-disciplinary manner. Clinicians and staff strive to help people maximize their health, wellbeing, and quality of life.
Mojave Counseling
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health
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Alison Netski, MD
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Alison Netski, MD, is the vice dean of clinical affairs and professor of psychiatry at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Board certified from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Netski specializes in the treatment of adults with a broad range of psychiatric illness including mood, psychotic, and anxiety disorders.
Garnette McCracken, LCSW
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Garnette has provided individual and family therapy services for the last 21 years. She specializes in trauma, grief, mood and anxiety disorders. She treats children, adolescents and adults with a variety of mental health and medical concerns. Garnette specialized in grief working in the hospice field for 16 years prior to transitioning into trauma and foster/adoption care for the past 15 years. Garnette has experience treating individuals who have experienced trauma, reactive attachment, fetal alcohol syndrome and severe anxiety as well as supporting their caregivers.
Jason Schwartz, LSW, MS
Director of Community Support Services
Jason Schwartz holds a BASW from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and a Terminal Master’s degree in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His career in social work began in 1975 as a VISTA volunteer, where he dedicated 30 hours per week to supporting youth at a runaway hostel.
Kathleen Wild, LCSW
Mojave Counseling Agency Director
Kathy’s leadership at Mojave Counseling, a role she has held since June 2022, is a testament to her managerial skills and dedication to the field. Her journey at Mojave began in 1996 as a psychiatric case manager, and she later obtained her MSW degree in social work with a focus on administration in 2000. She furthered her qualifications by obtaining her LCSW and has been practicing as a therapist for 19 years. Her experience includes treating children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of mental health concerns.
Angela Williams, LCPC
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Angela is a licensed clinical therapist who earned her master’s degree in 2007. Her experience includes working with children, families, adults, and individuals with various psychotic and mood disorders, trauma, anxiety, and severe mental illness. This includes children with severe emotional disturbance (SED), and individuals who have had their first encounter with psychosis through the First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) Program. Angela also provides Family Education to the family members of individuals with their first episode of psychosis.
Chad Terry, DO
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Education
Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Residency Program: Detroit Wayne County Health Authority GME Consortium Program
Medical School: Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine
Mojave Counseling Youth Clinic
Helping Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Difficulties
UNLV Medicine’s Mojave Counseling Youth Clinic offers assistance to some of Nevada’s youngest patients.
Responses to the questions below reflect input from the entire mental health team at the Mojave Counseling Youth Clinic, which is under the direction of Dr. Alison Netski, chair of the UNLV School of Medicine department of psychiatry and behavioral health.
How are the challenges different between helping adults and helping children?