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
Dr. Alison Netski, an associate professor and chair of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, specializes in the treatment of adults with a broad range of psychiatric illness, including mood, psychotic, and anxiety disorders.
Board certified from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. Netski attended the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine and completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt.
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.
Leo J. Terzian, LCSW
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Leo is passionate about helping children, adolescents, adults, and families that make up the diverse community in Southern Nevada, Leo meets clients where they are at in their lives and quickly forms an alliance. Leo has received specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma Informed Care (TIC), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Eye Movement Desensitization (EMDR).
Kathleen Wild, LCSW
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Kathy has 28 years of experience in the field of mental health
and has been practicing as a therapist for the past 13 years. She
has treated children, adolescents and adults with a variety of
mental health concerns, including extensive work with youth in
the foster care system. Her background includes treating
individuals who have experienced trauma as well as supporting
caregivers of children exposed to trauma.
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?