Behavioral Health

PAGS offers Psychiatry (medication management) services to treat more complex mental health disorders for our patients.  If you feel your child would benefit from seeing one of our providers, please reach out to your primary care physician and discuss your concerns with them.

Dr. Lisa Barreto-D'Silva is our Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She sees PAGS patients who are referred to her by our providers.   Dr. Barreto-D'Silva has been working as a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at North Shore Medical Center since 2004. She sees PAGS patients one day per month in our Beverly office. 

Ali Pelletier, PMHNP is our Psychiatric Child and Adolescent Nurse Practitioner. She sees PAGS patients referred by our providers. She has experience working with families navigating a variety of diagnoses including depression, anxiety, and ADHD, as well as early childhood trauma, eating disorders, and issues related to substance use. She is available for PAGS patients Monday through Thursday in our Beverly office. 

Sarah Gifford, PMHNP is our Psychiatric Child and Adolescent Nurse Practitioner. She has been providing care across the lifespan since 2013 and works with families with a variety of diagnoses including depression, anxiety, and ADHD. She provides medication management for children, adolescents, and adults. She speaks Spanish and enjoys working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. She sees patients in our Beverly office.

PAGS PLUS is our Behavioral Health therapy team located in our Beverly office. The care team consists of licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and other counselors and clinicians who specialize in treating the emotional and behavioral aspects of a person’s mental well-being (they do not prescribe medication). 

PAGS PLUS works with PAGS patients ages 5ys. - 25 yrs. The team has extensive experience working with young children and adolescents struggling with stressors related to social interactions, family conflicts, academic problems, trauma history and difficulties regulating their mood and behavior. They also counsel young adults to manage a variety of concerns including anxiety, depression, eating disorders,  substance use, trauma, grief, and life transitions.

Currently, many behavioral health therapists have long waitlists. Please put your child on all available waitlists, the offices often fill openings from these waitlists. If you are offered an appointment during your child’s school day, we encourage you to take that appointment and arrange for a note to excuse your child from school during that time or consider a telehealth appointment that your child can attend while still (physically) in school. 

When an afternoon appointment opens, it is likely filled from the morning patients who are established patients and have committed to their therapy.

We encourage you to visit https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists to locate therapists who are accepting new patients.

You are not alone. There are adults who care.

If you or your child is experiencing a psychiatric crisis, please go to your nearest emergency room.

Massachusetts Behavioral Health Helpline

Call or text: 833-733-2445

BHHL is here to connect you directly to clinical help, when and where you need it. Even if you’re not sure what kind of help or treatment you may need, we can help guide you.

Eliot Community Human Services Community Behavioral Health Center 

Call: 1-800-988-1111

Community Behavioral Health Centers serve as a single-entry point for timely, high-quality, mental health and substance use disorder treatment for youth, families, and adults 24/7. 

North Shore Rape Crisis Center

Call: 1-877-509-YWCA (9922)

Free counseling for survivors of sexual assault ages 12 and up.

Childmind.org 

Independent nonporfit resource for children's mental health.

Healthychildren.org

Parenting website from the American Academy of Pediatrics committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.