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Julie's Experience and Qualifications

  • EXPERIENCE in completing Substance Use Evaluations in the following settings:  Correctional Settings, Psychiatric Office, Medical Hospital Units, Skilled Nursing Facility Unit, Residential Treatment Unit, Acute & Sub-Acute Psychiatric Unit.  Private Practice Substance Counsellor since Fall of 2015.

  • CMS-HHS National Provider Identification.

  • FULLY LICENSED Nebraska Alcohol & Drug Counselor since 2008.  Seventeen years of clinical substance counseling & clinical substance evaluation experience.  

  • MEMBERSHIPS with:  Panhandle Partnership for HHS, National Association of Social Workers, International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium.

  • Network Insurance Provider contracts with:  Midlands Choice Inc., FedMed Inc., CIGNA, Blue Cross & Blue Shield (PPO), Behavioral Health Systems (BHS), and all three Nebraska Medicaid managed care Heritage Health Plans 

    • Optum/UHC​  (Community Plan)

    • Nebraska Totalcare (Community Plan)

    • Nebraska Wellcare (Community Plan)

  • Specialty Contracts accepted in advance with:

    • State of Nebraska​

    • Tribal Authorities

    • Nebraska Probation Voucher (sliding fee scale)

    • COMHT for persons in rural areas -- YOU must call the Hotline in advance.

  • Contracted Provider (Registered Service Provider) with Nebraska's Supreme Court & Probation to see Adolescents & Adults.

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Serving Clients

     PANHANDLE-WIDE

  • Scottsbluff Office (main location)

  • Upon request: 

    • Mental Health Alliance office in Alliance

    • Scotts Bluff County Detention Center

    • County Courthouses/Jails/etc. - Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball

    • Other panhandle locations for 'outreach appointments' can be arranged dependent on the client's travel situation

Let's Connect

Thanks for submitting!

Email: EvalsByEck@gmail.com

Phone: (308) 225-6572

   '1' for scheduling 

   '0', then '58543' for Julie's voicemail

Send me an e-mail today!

The staff at Mental Health Alliance answer the scheduling phone calls.

Clients with Nebraska Medicaid are seen under QSO arrangement with Mental Health Alliance.  Clinician supervision of 'Evals By Eck' for Nebraska Medicaid clients is provided by Michael L. Leach, MS, LIMHP, LADC.

Scottsbluff office:  3321 Avenue I, Suite 100

Mailing address:  POB 1603, Scottsbluff  NE 69363

Fax:  (308) 217-4277

Published by Julie D. Eckland 2020.

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