At the Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, our outpatient programs are designed to meet a wide variety of needs within our community, treating mental health disorders of varying severities as well as the specialized needs of children, adolescents, young adults, and geriatric patients. We offer a full range of services that enable highly personalized treatment plans, addressing each patient’s needs in an individualized manner.

Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center offers an integrated continuum of mental health, substance use, and primary medical care services at a single location. We believe integrating these elements improves health outcomes and the patient experience. This begins with a comprehensive evaluation to assess the mental health, substance use, and primary care needs of each patient. Care is provided by multi-disciplinary teams of clinicians with expertise in mental health, substance use, and physical health.

Comprehensive Evaluation Service

All outpatient services begin with the Comprehensive Evaluation Service to understand your behavioral health needs and goals. Based on this assessment, we discuss recommendations regarding which services will best meet each person’s needs, and if appropriate, make a follow-up appointment.

During the evaluation, you will be assessed for a wide range of conditions, including:

• Mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder
• Psychosis, such as schizophrenia
• Anxiety disorders, such as panic disorder
• Trauma and stress, including as post-traumatic stress disorder
• Substance use disorders, such as alcohol use disorders and opioid use disorders
• Personality disorders

Referral Process:
Email us at POSintakecenter@mountsinai.org or call at 332-243-1750. You will be prompted to complete our referral email, and we will notify you if we participate in your insurance plan. Currently, we are not in-network with: United Health Care (except for Mount Sinai Health System employees), Oxford, Humana (except for Humana Medicare Risk HMO), and AmeriChoice.

Behavioral Health Express Care

We provide walk-in evaluations and referrals for adults 18 years of age and older who are experiencing a mental health crisis or require acute substance use treatment (detoxification or inpatient rehabilitation). Our team of psychiatrists, social workers, physician assistants, and care coordinators evaluates each person to determine their unique needs.

You do not need an appointment to be evaluated. You may call us before arriving to determine wait times to be seen.

Services Offered:

• Diagnostic evaluation
• Brief crisis counseling
• Prescriptions for psychiatric medications
• Referral and connection to inpatient or outpatient mental health and substance use treatment
• Care coordination

If you are experiencing an acute emergency—medical or psychiatric—please call 911, go to your nearest emergency room, or the Mount Sinai Health System Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP).

• Mount Sinai West CPEP
  1000 10th Avenue
  New York, NY 10019
  Tel: 212-523-6773
• Mount Sinai Morningside CPEP
  443 West 113th Street
  New York, NY 10025
  Tel: 212-523-3347

Behavioral Health Express Care Exclusions:

• We cannot evaluate clients under age 18
• We cannot treat acute medical emergencies
• We cannot provide letters for work/school-related absences or clearance to return
• We do not provide disability or forensic evaluations

This walk-in service is open Monday through Friday, 9 am-4 pm. Call us at 332-243-1760.

Detox and Inpatient Rehabilitation Services

You can make an appointment for the Comprehensive Evaluation Service or come to our walk-in Behavioral Health Express Care for an evaluation by one of our specialists in substance use. Referrals can also be sent via email to MSBHCAddiction@mountsinai.org. At Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, we offer both inpatient detoxification and inpatient rehabilitation. There you will be connected to a team of providers, including addiction medicine specialists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, and addiction counselors. They will work with you on planning your next steps, which can include ongoing outpatient treatment at our Integrated Outpatient Behavioral Health Services.

Integrated Outpatient Behavioral Health Service (IOS)

For most people, our Integrated Outpatient Services will best meet your needs. This service provides mental health, substance use, and primary care services in one location—a “single door” approach to care. For example, for those suffering from both depression and alcohol use disorder, our multidisciplinary team works together to provide all aspects of your care seamlessly through our integrated program, rather than requiring separate programs for mental health and substance use treatment. As part of the Mount Sinai Health System, we can connect you with specialty care and other types of services available in our network. We work with a range of ages (five years and up), offering specialty child and geriatric psychiatry and therapy services.

We offer:

• Medication-based treatment for psychiatric and substance use related disorders
• Individual psychotherapies and counseling, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and supportive counseling
• Group therapies, including but not limited to: Dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, skills groups, support/coping groups, and specialized groups for substance use, including some tailored specifically to younger people
• General primary care service
• Family and couples therapy

Outpatient Clinical Services for Children and Adolescents
The clinical program for children and adolescents provides advanced and cutting-edge clinical care and support research, and serves as academic training sites for child psychiatrists, adult psychiatric residents, and psychologists. All clinical programs emphasize the use of innovative treatment approaches that incorporate the clinical, social, and cultural characteristics of each patient and family. Treatment is delivered using a multidisciplinary team-based approach, with clinicians who emphasize family involvement for both diagnostic and therapeutic services.

Treatment options include:

• Medication management
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Psychodynamic therapy
• Dialectical behavioral therapy
• Group therapy
• Parent training/support
• Child skills training
• Family therapy
• Trauma treatment
• Substance use treatment

This program serves children and adolescents who present with a variety of emotional and behavioral problems. Our clinicians have been trained in several evidenced-based treatment models, including coping power (an individual- and group-based cognitive intervention for aggressive children), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, and parent training for disruptive behavior disorders, among others. 

Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs

When your mental health symptoms worsen or new symptoms develop in response to life stressors, you may need access to more consistent, intensive treatment for a period of time. In our Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs, we offer ambulatory care that is an alternative to emergency room visits, inpatient hospitalizations, or seeing your providers weekly.

Research shows that patients who fully participate in our program experience significant improvements to:

• Suicidality
• Urges to inflict self-harm, use psychoactive substances, and engage in other forms of maladaptive coping
• Emotion dysregulation
• Mood-related symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder
• Trauma-related symptoms
• Interpersonal and self-esteem difficulties

To start a referral, please have your outpatient provider visit our secure referral portal at Redcap.link/BHCPHPIOP. We are unable to accept self-referrals currently.

For any questions, please reach out to BHCPHPIOP@mountsinai.org or call 332-243-1727.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

This team serves the most vulnerable people with severe mental illnesses in Manhattan. The Assertive Community Treatment team provides direct care for individuals who need intensive treatment and support provided in the community. For patients or families who are interested in ACT services, referrals can be submitted through the New York Department of Health Single Point of Access.