TMS for Rockland County

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is not a one-time procedure. A standard course for depression is roughly 30 to 36 visits, five days a week for four to six weeks, followed by a short taper. The single biggest practical question for most people is not “does it work?” but “can I actually get there every weekday for a month and a half?”

New City sits near the geographic middle of Rockland. Clarkstown, Ramapo, Orangetown, Haverstraw and Stony Point residents can all reach Congers Road without crossing the Hudson or getting onto the Thruway at rush hour. That central location is the reason we deliver all of our TMS treatment in New City rather than splitting it between sites: one treatment room, one team, one schedule that patients from every corner of the county can count on.

We have written a separate page for each of the towns our patients most often travel from, with turn-by-turn directions and the questions people from that town tend to ask. Drive times are approximate and assume ordinary traffic.

• TMS near Congers — about 7 minutes, straight down Congers Road
• TMS near Valley Cottage — about 8 minutes
• TMS near Nanuet — about 10 minutes up NY-304
• TMS near West Nyack — about 10 minutes
• TMS near Pomona — about 10 minutes
• TMS near Spring Valley — about 12 minutes
• TMS near Monsey — about 12 minutes
• TMS near Nyack — about 15 minutes
• TMS near Pearl River — about 15 minutes
• TMS near Haverstraw — about 15 minutes
• TMS near Suffern — about 18 minutes

Live in Stony Point, Bardonia, New Hempstead or Tappan? You are in the same range. Just call and we will give you the easiest route.

TMS is a medical treatment for a psychiatric illness, so the decisions around it are psychiatric decisions. Is this really unipolar depression, or could it be bipolar disorder? Is a medication interaction raising seizure risk? Has the depression improved enough to start tapering, or has it stalled and needs a different approach? Those questions are best answered by someone trained to diagnose and treat mental illness.

At Healing Mindz the psychiatrist who evaluates you is the one who sets your treatment plan, decides your dose, reviews your progress and stays involved after the course ends. Trained TMS staff run the daily sessions, but your physician is part of the process from the first consultation to the last follow-up rather than signing off from a distance. If you are still taking an antidepressant, the same practice can handle your medication management alongside TMS, so no one is guessing what the other clinician is doing.

Patients who have bounced between clinics often tell us the hardest part was repeating their story to a new person every few weeks. We set things up so that does not happen. Your consultation, your mid-course check-ins and your after-care visits are with the same psychiatrist. If TMS is not the right choice, the same doctor can talk with you about other options for treatment-resistant depression, adding therapy, or adjusting medication, without sending you elsewhere.

Continuity also matters when the course is over. Depression can return, and some people benefit from booster sessions later. Coming back to a team that already knows your history makes that conversation much simpler.

A daily treatment has to fit around jobs, school pickups and caregiving. Our New City office is open until 7 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays, in addition to weekday daytime hours. Many Rockland patients book a regular slot on the way home from work and keep it for the whole course, which turns treatment into a routine instead of a daily scheduling puzzle.

Sessions themselves are short, generally about 20 to 40 minutes depending on the protocol. You are awake the whole time, no anesthesia is involved, and you can drive yourself home and return to your normal day. Our page on what to expect at a TMS session walks through a typical visit.

Most major commercial plans and Medicare cover TMS for major depression when certain criteria are met, usually a documented history of antidepressant trials that did not help enough. The exact rules vary from plan to plan. Our team checks your benefits and handles the prior authorization before your first treatment session, so you know where you stand before you commit to a course. For TMS we are credentialed through Optum Behavioral Health, and we work with many other plans for psychiatric care.

The details are on our TMS cost and insurance page and the full list of plans is on the insurance page.

The first step is a consultation with a psychiatrist, either in person in New City or by video. We will review your history and past treatments, check for anything that would make TMS unsafe, and tell you honestly whether we think it is a reasonable next step. If it is, we start the insurance process the same week. You can read more about how TMS works on our main TMS therapy page, or call (845) 480-6678 to book.