We specialize in treating adults who experience difficult emotions while they are dealing with a troubling diagnosis or another health problem. With locations across western Pennsylvania, we make it easier for you to meet with a behavioral health counselor in the neighborhoods where you live and work.
Our psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed behavioral health counselors offer assessments and treatments for:
Our providers also have deep experience treating patients who have experienced:
We also work with older patients and their families to help them cope with the effects of dementia. And our women’s behavioral health services address the specific mental and emotional issues women face, including before, during, and after pregnancy.
We understand every patient is different, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to treatment. We offer personalized treatment plans that may use the following evaluations and assessments, treatments, and therapies:
Our treatment teams include:
If you’re having a tough time during or following your pregnancy, your behavioral health provider might recommend intensive outpatient therapy to provide you with an extra layer of support. Our mother-baby intensive outpatient program provides more than nine hours of therapy each week, including:
Our skilled treatment teams consider each patient’s physical, mental, and social needs for a whole-person approach to care. This approach means we consider every aspect of your health, allowing us to offer highly personalized care.
We also apply the latest advances in medication and therapeutic research to provide superior treatment for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychotic disorders in patients of all ages.
You deserve behavioral health care that will help you find renewal and recovery in a relaxed, peaceful setting. Our intensive day treatment program, or partial hospitalization program (PHP), provides intensive psychiatric care in a comfortable environment for 12 to 29 hours each week.
Our program, one of the first-of-its-kind, provides personalized treatment to help prevent hospitalization or reduce the length of your hospital stay, allowing patients to remain at home.
An intensive day treatment program provides people experiencing a mental illness a structured, intensive outpatient therapy in a group setting. Intensive day treatment programs are either considered a full-day partial hospitalization program or half-day intensive outpatient program. In both programs, patients receive treatment during the day, but they return home to sleep at night.
This is a great alternative for patients who need intensive psychiatric care, but have a support system in place that allows them to return home every evening. A group therapy setting gives patients different perspectives on problems they may have with emotions or relationships. Therapy groups also provide needed support and encouragement.
Our collaborative PHP care teams include:
We provide comprehensive behavioral health evaluations, structured group treatments, and behavioral health disease education for patients and their families. Our patients stay in the program for an average of one month with three to six hours per day of structured group treatment.
The program is located at:
4 Allegheny Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Most patients are referred to the Intensive Day Treatment Program through their own provider. We promote a close relationship between patients and their referrers by involving referring providers during treatment as often as possible.
Learn more about our other intensive day treatment programs:
Our licensed psychologists have a wide variety of backgrounds and specialties. This diversity in experience help us offer high-quality, personalized care to adults and children with a range of behavioral and mental health needs.
Our behavioral health professionals provide tailored 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. We offer neuropsychological evaluations for children and adults.
These evaluations explore how your behaviors could be related to your brain or cognitive function.
Our neuropsychological providers include:
Many patients come to us for help with:
Our neuropsychologists provide detailed evaluations and therapies to people who seek support in coping with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems. Neuropsychology professionals also provide psychological assessment to explore psychological functioning, learn more about your diagnosis, and get insight into the best treatments and therapies for your health.
The Neuropsychology department at AHN is involved in the training of graduates, including practicum, internship, and postdoctoral trainees in psychology and neuropsychology.
We specialize in treating children and adolescents who live with a range of mental health-related problems, including:
Our Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents (CTCSA) is a world-renowned facility for treating trauma in youths. The CTCSA program has leading behavioral health providers in the field of childhood grief and trauma. Our various modes of treatment allow children and adolescents to function in their own environment and foster increased confidence and independence.
We know there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to behavioral health treatment. We use some advanced treatments to address severe mental illness, including treatment-resistant depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. We provide:
Patients experiencing severe depression, bipolar disorder (manic or depressive episodes as well as maintenance), and psychosis may benefit from ECT. ECT involves stimulation of the brain by a small, carefully prescribed amount of electrical current. The stimulation works to restore the brain's normal activity and lifts depression. These treatments are provided at a same day surgical suite setting under careful monitoring by a psychiatrist and anesthesiologist.
ECT requires a committed, intensive treatment schedule. Services provided include:
Not all patients need continuation therapy. Continuation therapy could take the form of ECT or medications that prevent relapse and help ensure the primary ECT treatment is effective. Follow-up treatment is conducted on an outpatient basis, usually for at least six months.
If you or a loved one might benefit from ECT, please contact us at (412) 858-2707.
Learn more about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Freespira® is a medication-free medical device that reduces or eliminates panic attacks associated with panic disorder and other anxiety disorders.
DBS is the practice of implanting electrodes in the brain to affect certain cells and brain chemicals. A device is also implanted into the upper chest, similar to a pacemaker, to control the amount of stimulation in your brain.
DBS can treat some neurological behavioral health conditions, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Our center specializes in the outpatient DBS programming for treatment of OCD.
Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (Deep TMS) is a breakthrough treatment for adults with depression. When other therapies and medications have not been effective, Deep TMS may help. It uses brief magnetic pulses that stimulate regions of your brain affected by depression.
In clinical settings, Deep TMS has been effective for 3 out of 4 patients with a 51 percent remission rate and 75 percent response rate.*
If you haven’t been helped with other therapies, ask your doctor if Deep TMS could help you, or call us at (412) 330-4000.
You don’t have to face psychiatric or behavioral health issues alone. Help is available.
If you or a loved one is:
Additional crisis hotlines and patient support information can be found on our AHN Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Institute Patient Resource Guide.
