You Are Not Alone
People of all ages and from all walks of life experience behavioral health issues, including emotional distress, the burdens of life-altering circumstances, mental health illnesses, and chemical dependency. In fact, 1 in 5 adults will experience a mental health illness during their lifetime.
At CommonSpirit Health, we provide confidential, compassionate and professional behavioral health care, individualized to address your unique needs. Our behavioral health specialists work closely with you and your loved ones to help you understand the behavioral health condition, what to expect, and the pathway to improved health.
If you’re currently experiencing a mental health crisis, call or text 988 to connect with a trained specialist for confidential support, 24/7. If you or someone you know seems at high risk for suicide or is in the process of attempting suicide, get immediate medical care or call 911.
Our Services
We believe in nurturing the whole person – mind, body, and spirit – and understand that behavioral health is a cornerstone of overall wellbeing. Our compassionate care providers offer a comprehensive spectrum of behavioral health services, designed to meet you wherever you are on your unique journey. From acute needs requiring inpatient care to flexible outpatient programs, we provide evidence-based treatments and personalized support. We understand the importance of accessible care, which is why our innovative integrated behavioral health services embed mental health support directly within our primary care clinics, making it easier to receive the care you need as part of your routine health visits.
We stand beside you, offering guidance and hope every step of the way, even during life’s most challenging moments. Our commitment to your safety and wellbeing is paramount, demonstrated through our dedication to suicide prevention via our Zero Suicide platform. Whatever you’re experiencing – be it anxiety, depression, substance use challenges, or another behavioral health concern – know that CommonSpirit Health is here to partner with you, offering the resources, expertise, and compassionate care to help you discover a path to greater overall wellbeing and a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Behavioral Health Conditions We Treat
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Inpatient Services
Inpatient behavioral health services typically refer to when a person stays overnight in a hospital to get treatment for a mental illness. How long they stay depends on their symptoms, but it's usually for several days or longer.
Inpatient treatment may be done if a person tries to harm themself or others. A person also may go if they have mental illness symptoms, such as seeing or hearing things that aren't there. Or they may go if they are very depressed. Sometimes treatment is done to help people start or adjust medicines.
An inpatient hospital stay can be voluntary or involuntary. If a person is a threat to themself or others, an involuntary stay may be needed and an emergency hold may be placed on the person. This means that they must stay at the hospital for a certain amount of time, usually 72 hours.
Copyrighted material adapted with permission from Ignite Healthwise, LLC. This information does not replace the advice of a doctor.
Outpatient Services
Our outpatient behavioral health services are designed to support your mental wellness journey, whether it’s working collaboratively with you on an individualized care plan, utilizing evidence-based practices for medication management, or incorporating any of a range of therapies, including individual, family, and group sessions. Our licensed counselors specialize in areas like family, CBT, play, and trauma therapy, ensuring personalized support.
For more intensive support, our Behavioral Health Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a group-based program addressing adult needs in coping, emotion regulation, and communication. This program integrates evidence-based curricula from DBT, CBT, Seeking Safety, and Experiential Therapy. The IOP ultimately aims to decrease psychiatric symptoms through medication management and skills-based group therapy.
Zero Suicide
At CommonSpirit Health, improving the health of every person we serve, especially the most vulnerable, is at the heart of our mission. A vital part of this work is our commitment to reducing deaths by suicide in every community we serve. To achieve this, we follow the Zero Suicide framework, an internationally recognized, evidence-based approach that helps health care systems transform the way they identify and care for individuals at risk of suicide. Zero Suicide creates safer care environments, closes gaps in treatment, and provides consistent, life-saving support.
What Zero Suicide Means
Zero Suicide is more that a program. It's a comprehensive, system-wide commitment to safety and hope. It guides health care teams to:
- Lead culture change across the system, making suicide prevention a priority
- Train a competent, confident, and compassionate workforce
- Identify risk early with standardized screening and assessment
- Engage and support individuals at risk through personalized care management plans
- Treat suicidal thoughts and behaviors using proven, evidence-based therapies
- Ensure safe care transitions with warm hand-offs and follow-up contact after discharge
- Continuously improve by measuring outcomes and refining practices
Healthcare systems that fully implement Zero Suicide have seen up to a 75 percent reduction in suicide rates among patients.
Our Approach
At CommonSpirit, suicide prevention begins at a patient's first point of contact, whether that is in the Emergency Department, primary care clinic, or an outpatient clinic. Every patient is screened, assessed, and supported with tailored treatment and follow-up to ensure safety during care and after leaving our facilities.
If you or someone you know seems at high risk for suicide or is in the process of attempting suicide, get immediate medical care or call 911.
If you’re experiencing a mental health issue, call or text 988 to immediately connect with a trained specialist for confidential support 24/7.
CommonSpirit Health offers Integrated Behavioral Health directly within many of our primary care clinics. An integrated behavioral health specialist consultant works closely with your CommonSpirit primary care provider to address how habits, stress, or emotional concerns impact your physical health and daily life. The integrated behavioral health specialist consultant provides brief, solution-focused interventions to help manage chronic conditions (e.g., headaches, diabetes, chronic pain) and supports behavioral changes for concerns like smoking cessation, weight management, or improving sleep.
Available to established primary care patients, these 30- to 60-minute appointments (in-person or virtual) equip you with tools for managing challenges like anxiety, depression, or anger. This service is part of your overall healthcare and is not long-term specialty mental health. Should more intensive support be beneficial, the integrated behavioral health specialist consultant can facilitate referrals. Discuss integrated behavioral health with your primary care provider to access this convenient, whole-person care approach.
The behavioral health consultation service offers assistance when habits, behaviors, stress, worry, or emotional concerns about physical or other life problems are interfering with a person’s daily life and/or overall health. The behavioral health consultant works closely with your primary care provider to evaluate the mind-body behavior connection and provide brief, solution-focused interventions.
The behavioral health consultant has specialty training in the behavioral management of health problems. Together, the behavioral health consultant and your primary care provider can consider the physical, behavioral, and emotional aspects of your health concern and help determine a course of action that will work best for you.
The behavioral health consultant can help you reduce symptoms associated with various chronic medical conditions, or help you cope better with these conditions. A few of these are: headaches, sleep, high blood pressure, asthma, diabetes, obesity, chronic pain, and irritable bowel syndrome.
The behavioral health consultant can help you and your primary care provider develop behavioral change plans for smoking cessation, weight loss, alcohol use, exercise or other lifestyle modifications. The behavioral health consultant can also help you and your primary care provider develop skills to effectively manage emotional or behavioral difficulties such as anger, anxiety, bereavement, depression, and stress.
This service is available to all patients within CommonSpirit Primary Care Clinics as part of our commitment to whole person health care.
You can schedule either an in-person appointment at your primary care clinic, or a virtual appointment. The appointment will last between 30 and 60 minutes. The behavioral health consultant will conduct an assessment during the initial appointment, and subsequent sessions will include treatment to provide you with tools to manage life’s challenges.
The services provided by the behavioral health consultant are simply another part of your overall health care and are not specialty mental health care. Documentation of your appointment and recommendations from the behavioral health consultant will be written in your medical record. A separate mental health record will not be kept when you see the behavioral health consultant.
Communications with your behavioral health consultant may not be entirely confidential. Your behavioral health consultant will make every effort to protect your privacy. However, like all providers, they may have to report information regarding child or spouse abuse, or share information regarding those at risk to harm themselves or others.
The behavioral health consultant does not provide long-term therapy. If you request, or the behavioral health consultant thinks you would benefit from specialty mental health services, the behavioral health consultant will recommend and/or assist in a referral for those services that you and your primary care provider could consider.
Discuss with your primary care provider the desire to access this service and a referral can be made on your behalf. If you and your provider agree that this service would be helpful, call your CommonSpirit Primary Care Clinic to schedule a behavioral health appointment.
Behavioral Health addresses the needs of the whole person, including mental health and substance use health care needs.
Behavioral Health is an umbrella term that encompasses both mental health and substance use.
Potentially. There are various criteria, including insurance eligibility, that will determine if a referral is required. Typically, patients are able to access Behavioral Health services without a referral. CommonSpirit has contracts with most major insurance providers. It is advised that every patient check the providers included with their insurance plan.
For immediate 24/7 support, please call or text 988. The 988 number is the National Crisis and Suicide Prevention line.
If you are covered by health insurance, you are strongly encouraged to consult with your health insurer to determine accurate information about your financial responsibility for a particular health care service provided by a CommonSpirit Health facility.
Immediate Help & Crisis Support
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 (available 24/7) for immediate support for anyone experiencing mental health distress or suicidal thoughts.
- Crisis Text Line: Text Hello to 741741 to connect with a trained counselor.
- Emergency Services: If someone is in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
Mental Health and Wellness Information
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Helpline: Call 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or text HELPLINE to 62640 for information and support. nami.org/help
- MentalHealth.gov: Simple, clear info about mental health conditions, signs, and how to get help. mentalhealth.gov
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Helpline: Call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) for treatment referrals and support (24/7). findtreatment.gov
Resources for Families & Caregivers
- NAMI Family Support Groups: Free peer-led groups for people supporting loved ones with mental health conditions. nami.org/findsupport
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): Education and community support for those worried about suicide risk. afsp.org
- Mental Health America (MHA): Guides on how to talk with someone you’re worried about and find local resources. mhanational.org
Find Behavioral Health Services
Our locations, including many of our primary care, family medicine, women's health and internal medicine clinics, offer a range of behavioral health services. Learn more about services near you.
