About Us
Our Story
Dr. Smallwood conceived of and created our company, originally Smallwood Behavioral, in 2017 in Scottsdale, Arizona with the idea that behavioral healthcare should fit the modern world as a hybrid modality. We pioneered the way toward self-service and telemedicine care delivery, offering seamless transitions between both virtual and in-person treatment, allowing our clients control of their healthcare. This idea grew quickly, while we always maintained our value that care delivery should be personal and that clients should be highly engaged in their own decisions. We moved our primary practice headquarters to Colorado in 2022 and changed our name while continuing to maintain physical offices in our service locations. Forefront Psychotherapeutics will continue to promote and expand upon our foundational values, mission, and vision for behavioral healthcare toward a brighter future.
Constructivist Psychiatry
Our Values
We believe that every person has the right and responsibility to live up to his or her full potential in society, regardless of ethnicity, culture, race, sex, gender, age, sexual/affectional orientation, or genetic information. Every person has the right to dignity, respect, and compassion in an environment free of stigma and prejudice. Every person has a right to personal safety. Mental health is the foundation of personal well-being and is fundamental for having a balanced and healthy life. People are responsible and accountable for their own behavioral choices. Every person has the right to equal collaboration with his or her provider when developing treatment goals and plans.
Our Mission
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Healthcare must have a personal approach
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Embrace new technologies and use these technologies to close gaps in mental health treatment related to geography
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Improve the delivery of mental health treatment with a more holistic, innovative, and collaborative approach
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Close gaps in mental health services for underserved groups
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Improve the understanding of mental health and the body - mind connection within the general population
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Generate new knowledge that improves the lives of people with mental health conditions
Our Values
We believe that every person has the right and responsibility to live up to his or her full potential in society, regardless of ethnicity, culture, race, sex, gender, age, sexual/affectional orientation, or genetic information. Every person has the right to dignity, respect, and compassion in an environment free of stigma and prejudice. Every person has a right to personal safety. Mental health is the foundation of personal well-being and is fundamental for having a balanced and healthy life. People are responsible and accountable for their own behavioral choices. Every person has the right to equal collaboration with his or her provider when developing treatment goals and plans.
Our constructivist approach values human knowledge, and the experience of the world around us, as something that is constructed by an individual and not something that is passively acquired. Constructivism holds that humans continuously learn by synthesizing what is experienced with what is already known, building their own representations. Therefore, each person's ideas and experiences of themselves, the world around them, and their interactions between themselves and the world are not all exactly the same.