Give an Hour
Dr. Kukla is a Give an Hour provider. She is donating one hour a week of free mental health and substance use disorder services to active and returning military, National Guard, veterans, and their families of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. We are helping to provide military members with more options and availability for mental health care. For more information about Give an Hour, please visit their website at:http://www.giveanhour.org/Home.aspx.
Dr. Kukla has specialized training to work with military members and understand the nuances that are unique and specific to military culture. Some of the services we have experience in treating that are commonly seen with military life are:
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (1 in 5 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in diagnosed PTSD)
- Deployment challenges and post-deployment adjustment difficulties
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Substance use disorders (alcohol and/or drug problems)
- Intimate partner and domestic violence
- Military sexual trauma (Department of Defense reports there were an alarming 19,000 violent sex crimes in the military in 2010)
- Mood disorders
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