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Mental health is a crisis impacting our youth in our community as a whole suicide is the seventh leading cause of death in Colorado with three of our neighbors taking their own life every day.
Each suicide costs Colorado 1.2 million dollars – that doesn’t include the pain and suffering of loved ones.
Successful treatment only costs 1% of that for the recommended two-year period it takes to stabilize mental illnesses.
It is worth the investment to help people, and we can avoid having to pick up the pieces after a preventable tragedy.
I’ve heard you say that mental illness and substance abuse are often co-occurring conditions.
942 deaths from substance abuse, 528 of which are deaths from opioids.
Opioid addiction costs Colorado over 750 million dollars each year with 78 percent of cost in lost productivity.
We founded Agami Mental Wellness to face this crisis head-on and help people end the cycle of pain created by mental health and substance abuse issues.
We recognize that mental health and substance abuse are medical illnesses just like cancer and diabetes and that they affect all demographics of the population.
Treatment should be compassionate and science-based.
We use the latest medications, psychotherapies, medical foods and innovative technologies such as genetic testing and transcranial magnetic stimulation to achieve measurable improvements in the lives of our patients and their families.
We have treated over 430 patients in the last two years.
Helping one person has an enormous ripple effect that spreads to family friends and the community.
It really takes a whole community working together to solve these problems – first responders, insurance carriers, our financial institution 1st Bank, employers, and families have all played an integral role in helping us at Agami grow our business and spread our vision of hope through innovation.
– E.M.
"Their entire team is FABULOUS. They have always treated me with dignity and respect. I have watched them with other clients as well and I see their genuine compassion for everyone that walks thru the door. I initially went to them because I moved to CO in late 2017 and they were the first place that had an opening. I needed a psychiatrist to keep me on my Rx. I was surprised when Dr Park spent more than 15 mins going over my past Rx history with me, as has been my experience for many years. Not only did we discuss Rx, he then spent another 45 mins talking to me as a counselor. I had never had a psychiatrist/counselor combo before and was amazed at how effective it is when your Dr hears more about what's going in your life than just the effects of your current Rx. This treatment model is not practiced by someone that doesn't care about his patients. He could offer the basics that most psychiatrists offer and still bill insurance the same amount but he wants his patients to succeed and is invested in their progress. He also doesn't believe in keeping someone in therapy forever. Even if it means less income for him, when you stabilize to the point that you have better things to do than spend 30 mins with him, it's a sign that you may be ready to engage in therapy less often and he will tell you that. Dr Park has been a life and marriage saver for me and he is amazingly efficient. He gets done in 1-2 sessions what would take 6 months for another counselor because he doesn't dance around the issues. To do this, he may be more blunt with you than you might have experienced before and that may be off putting to some. If you are ready to do the hard work to make your life enjoyable again, Dr Park is your man! He also got me hooked up with TMS. If you are someone that has struggled with depression for a long time and taken Rx that hasn't been effective, talk to someone about TMS. It's a game changer. It may sound like hokey fake science. It's not. It works and works fast. THANK YOU!"