It takes courage to ask for help, especially when emotional or mental illness is making it hard to live your life the way you’d like to. Allegheny Health Network (AHN) provides compassionate, expert care, including psychotherapy and new breakthrough treatments. We offer a variety of outpatient care programs and will help you find the one that works for you.
As an outpatient, you can get personalized treatment for behavioral health issues without staying in a hospital. This includes help with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. You can see a therapist close to home, at one of our many locations across western Pennsylvania.
Our providers include:
We have extensive experience treating patients for:
We know there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to behavioral health treatment. Your personalized treatment plans may use:
If you’re having a tough time during or following your pregnancy, your behavioral health provider can recommend our intensive mother-baby outpatient program for added support. We keep mothers and babies together during treatment to encourage bonding and to allow you to practice therapies during the sessions.
A partial hospitalization program (PHP) provides a higher level of mental healthcare than traditional outpatient therapy through structured, intensive group therapy. AHN offers either full-day PHP or half-day intensive outpatient programs (IOP).
Our PHPs meet four days a week for six hours a day and is trauma focused. Our IOPs are held three days a week for approximately three hours a day and serve general mental health concerns and do not have a specific trauma focus. The group therapy setting gives patients different perspectives on problems they may have with stressors, emotions and coping, or relationships. Therapy groups also provide needed support and encouragement. All programs also include medication management. Programs may occur in-person or virtually, depending on the program structure. It is important for patients and providers to work together to determine which level of care, and which program is the most appropriate fit. Currently, the adult trauma-focused PHP is virtual and conducted through Zoom.
Our program provides intensive psychiatric care for patients with a history of trauma and/or PTSD and acute psychiatric needs in a comfortable group environment. Patients attend the program virtually on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm.
We serve adult patients (ages 20+) presenting with a history of traumatic experiences, including physical, emotional, interpersonal, sexual, attachment, medical trauma, or other victimization, who may be experiencing significant psychiatric symptoms and mood disorders (such as co-occurring depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders.)
Our collaborative PHP care team includes psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, psychiatric nurses, psychiatric residents, psychology doctoral interns and practicum students. We provide comprehensive behavioral health evaluations, structured and process-oriented group treatments, behavioral health education, and medication management for patients. Patients participate in four groups each day, which include processing the impact of their traumatic and stressful experiences on their current functioning, skill building and practice, and goal setting. Our patients stay in the program for an average of five to six weeks with six hours per day of structured group treatment.
This program takes a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, integrative approach to stabilization, focusing on applying a trauma-focused lens to all treatment interventions. It integrates components of evidence-based models, including CBT, DBT, STAIRS, ACT, Behavior Activation, CPT, Motivational Interviewing, psychodynamic therapy, somatic interventions, and interpersonal processing.
The program is currently offered virtually, via Zoom. To refer, please note the following information:
Self-referrals are not accepted. Patient referrals must be sent by a provider. For more information or to initiate the referral process please email adulttraumaphp@ahn.org or call Information and Referral at (412) 330-4320 or fax (412) 330-4360.
To make a referral, providers can call or email. If you are a patient seeking treatment, you can call us for information at the number above or have your provider contact us directly. You can also email/call us for an information session and handouts about our program.
Our licensed psychologists have a wide variety of backgrounds and specialties. This diversity in experience helps us offer high-quality, personalized care to individuals struggling with:
We also treat patients living with bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and other mental illnesses.
Sometimes the chemicals or cells in your brain cause mental health conditions, such as severe depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. A neurologist, working with your psychiatrist or therapist, will ask you to undertake a neuropsychological evaluation to explore how your behaviors could be related to your brain or cognitive function.
Many patients come to us for help with:
We specialize in treating children and adolescents who live with conditions related to mental health, including:
Our Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents (CTSCA) is staffed by behavioral health providers who lead their profession in treating grief and trauma in young people. We specialize in treatments that allow children and adolescents to understand their emotions and function at home and school with increased confidence and independence.
We know there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to behavioral health treatment. We customize your treatment plan to fit your needs with the latest, advanced treatments to address severe mental illness, including treatment-resistant depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
If you or a loved one needs help, call us at (412) 330-4429, Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM, or weekends from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. If someone is in immediate danger, call The Hope Line: 1-800-SUICIDE, (412) 960-8673.
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