Access is an outpatient behavioral health clinic. We serve people of all communities and currently offer two locations in Boise and in Nampa. Our desire is to help improve the quality of daily life for our clients.
Access Behavioral Health Services is a for profit agency that serves the public without regard to race, creed, age, national origin, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or inability to pay. The owners have been in the field of human services for a combined 30+ years. At Access we pride ourselves on providing best-practice client-centered services.
Staff Directory
We value our employees as they are the most important resource. Our employees are highly trained, supervised, and receive ongoing levels of support during their employment. We hire people from a wide range of backgrounds to meet the individualized needs of our patients. We are always seeking out new dynamic individuals to add to our treatment team. We strive to make Access Behavioral Health Services a welcoming place to work and we believe that is reflected in our employees attitudes towards their work.
Aaron Andreasen
Clinician Access Behavioral HealthClinic
Biographical Info
I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) currently and have been counseling since 2021, and have multiple years of working as a case manager and CBRS prior to starting this position. This gives me a wide array of knowledge of systems and community supports, as well as the clinical experience and training to supports clients in the best possible way. For training I regularly attend the Adlerian conferences and use many of the skills learned from these in my counseling. Primarily however my focus is often on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and solution focused therapies or choice theories in a counseling session. In essence looking for repeated patterns in life and identifying what choices a person may have that they might not have identified yet, to work on minimizing or eliminating cognitive dissonance a person may be experiencing. I have worked at Access Behavioral Health since 2017 in various positions.
My style of counseling is not designed to tell you what to do, but more to guide you to finding your answers since you are the true authority in life and know yourself better than I do for sure. I work to ensure I understand what you are saying, and to understand it from your viewpoint if possible. I strive to be very upfront, real, and honest with you as I possibly can be. Previously clients have stated they appreciate my direct, compassionate responses, and most would say I will talk to you if I see something is not making sense (at the very least to understand where you are coming from). I prefer to work with adults (18 and up), but I do take some younger clients most usually not younger than 14. My approach requires abstract thinking and problem-solving which is often not appropriate or the best choice for counseling for the younger population as much.