Company Profile
Mandala House, LLC
Company Overview
Mandala House, originated in Louisville, Kentucky in 2016, is a community of professionals who value the human experience and share an active commitment to providing compassionate, accessible, and informed mental health services. We are also dedicated to increasing the understanding of human suffering and effective intervention through ongoing research and training.
We are the chosen home to an interdisciplinary team that are dedicated collaborators and life long learners. The following disciplines are represented within our team: Psychiatry, Psychology, Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Professional Counseling. Our Clinical Staff have experience and passion across a broad range of areas, including:
§ Individual Adult and Adolescent Psychotherapy
§ Adult and Adolescent Psychiatry
§ Couple, Family, and Co-Parenting Psychotherapy
§ Anger Assessment and Psychotherapy
§ LGBTQ+ Health
§ Trauma-Focused Therapy / EMDR
§ Addiction Assessment and Psychotherapy for Individuals and Concerned Persons
§ Impaired Professionals Assessment and Psychotherapy
§ Immigration and Citizenship Evaluations
§ Diagnostic Psychological Evaluations
§ Mental Health Evaluation and Consultation
Our Clinical Team is supported by an equally diverse squad of Administrative/Office Support members, including Medical Assistants, Patient Schedulers, Insurance Billing & Accountants Receivable Specialists, and a Credentialing Specialist.
At the heart of our mission is ensuring accessibility to mental health services, especially to those who are traditionally marginalized in society. Our office is easily accessible by bus, with a TARC stop located in front of our main entrance. Related, we have also made renovations to our building that allow us to treat individuals who have limited mobility and/or require ambulatory-assistive devices. We also have three bilingual clinicians on staff, including two who speak Spanish and one who speaks Czech. Lastly, we offer both evening and weekend hours, allowing us to meet the scheduling needs of our patients.
It is also worth noting that we hold weekly, multidisciplinary case conferences that afford us the opportunity to explore best practices, hold one another accountable for clinical performance, discuss current research related to psychological assessment and intervention, and coordinate treatment conceptualization and planning. We know of no other local group practice of our size that is similarly structured in either composition or process. The coordination across psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care for our patients is a critical benefit to these meetings and facilitates the achievement and sustainment of their mental stability, which decreases the need for hospitalization and other costly crisis-response treatments.
Mandala House has increased its number of clinical staff each year to meet the demand for services, which are now provided on site six days per week. The monthly average of patient service units has increased from 164 in 2017, to 602 in 2018, to 743 in 2019. Because of our composition, Mandala House affords our clients access to a wide array of behavioral health services with passionate and professional providers.
Company History
The original concept for Mandala House started with Dr. Jacquelyn Gilles, who envisioned a place where clinicians could come together to work, learn, and challenge one another in a collaborative way. The usage of “Mandala,” literally meaning circle in Sanskrit, symbolizes unique parts joining to make an organized and balanced whole. Mandalas are ancient and are produced and used throughout the world to represent a cultural concept or identity as well as being a meditative practice in itself. The field of psychology was introduced to the process of mandala-making as a tool for exploring the self by Psychologist Carl Jung. As a design or functional element, mandalas can be found in art, architecture, engineering, and the natural environment.
Using the word House in our name reflects our emphasis on the space in which we work. We hold great reverence for the process of psychotherapy which is why we sought a building with warmth and texture as our physical backdrop. We were intentional in selecting our new location, formerly occupied by the Gilda’s Club of Kentuckiana, which holds a history of healing through creativity and collaboration.
In September of 2016 the idea of Mandala House found a home and became a reality. Located on East Broadway in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Dr. Gilles and her partner Dr. Barbara Beauchamp, along with Colgan Tyler, LCSW, opened Mandala House as an outpatient mental health center with the mission of providing community-minded, accessible, and informed clinical services, training, and research. Now, after three years of growth, Mandala House has relocated to a nearby home at 633 Baxter Avenue. In this expanded space, we will better be able to meet our mission of offering the most access to a diverse range of compassionate and professional services to our community.
It is a fundamental value of Mandala House, and research supports, that treatment is best for patients who have a relationship with an informed and fully present therapist, who is experienced in the challenging and vulnerable process that is psychotherapy. Our collaborative environment, with weekly treatment teams, training and consultation, provides for optimal support and knowledge for our clinicians to enter into this process with their patients.
Our hope is that patients will come to value themselves and their journey as much as we value our sharing of time and space with all who enter Mandala House.