HONESDALE, PA — Renata Plonska-Brown has joined Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC) on its Integrated Behavioral Health Services team. She is currently seeing patients at both the Sterling Pediatric Center in Lake Ariel and the Women’s Health Center in Honesdale.

The health center locates behavioral health clinicians in primary care office settings.

“I look forward to working closely together and truly partnering on providing integrated treatment,” said Plonska-Brown. “Treating the whole person in their environment is a vision very much worth getting behind.”

Plonska-Brown has been a clinical social worker for nearly 15 years. Her experience spans hospital, community, outpatient mental health and private-practice psychotherapy settings. She specializes in trauma, anxiety, mood disorders, personality disorders and relationship conflict. She is skilled in crisis intervention and evidence-based treatment such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and mindfulness approaches.

Prior to joining WMCHC, Plonska-Brown worked at the Jacobi Medical Center as a clinical social worker and supervisor in the Bronx for 13 years.

Any patient established with a WMCHC primary care provider can be referred for Integrated Behavioral Health Services, the health center said. Patients are encouraged to speak to their primary care provider about these services if experiencing depression or anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, dealing with an acute stressor or struggling to manage chronic medical conditions.

For more information about WMCHC’s services, visit www.wmchc.net or call 570/253-8390.