Mental & Behavioral Health

Good health often starts with good mental health. While you and your loved ones probably know a lot about how to stay physically healthy, finding the best approach, support or care for your specific mental health concerns may seem far out of reach. That’s when you’ll benefit from working with OU Health mental and behavioral health professionals in Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Tulsa.

Caring for Your Mental Well-Being Close to Home

Rely on the psychiatrists, psychotherapists and other therapeutic experts at OU Health to help you through challenging times of life – when you or your loved ones face the most difficult health conditions, family or other relationship questions, workplace situations and life stresses – or when everyday events feel like just too much to handle. Your OU Health provider listens deeply to your concerns before arriving at a diagnosis designed to support you as you work through your situation and find a path forward.

Adult Mental & Behavioral Health Conditions

No matter what age or relationship status, you and your loved ones — individually, as a couple or as a family – can find the help you need at OU Health for a wide range of mental and behavioral health issues such as:

• Addiction disorders, including substance and behavioral
• Anxiety disorders, including anxiety, stress, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder
• Marital and relationship issues
• Memory concerns
• Mood disorders, including depression, grief and bipolar disorder
• Neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, memory/neurocognitive disorders
• Personality disorders
• Psychotic disorders including schizophrenia
• Somatic symptom disorders, including pain, sleep and obesity
• Stress
• Women’s mental health, including issues of domestic violence

Mental & Behavioral Health Services & Treatments for Adults

When you choose to work with the mental and behavioral health experts at OU Health in Oklahoma City, Edmond and Tulsa, you benefit from an extensive array of non-emergency, evidence-based interventions, services and treatments for adults, including:

• Psychiatry medication management – Psychiatric medication management with or without psychotherapy to achieve the best balance of care for individual situations
• Psychotherapy for children and adults – including cognitive behavioral therapy, geriatric psychotherapy
• Counseling – Assistance to handle short-term issues
• Neuropsychological testing – Complete medical and neurologic evaluation

Additional Treatment Services in Oklahoma City & Edmond

At our OU Health locations in Oklahoma City and Edmond, you’ll find more mental and behavioral health treatment services, including:

• Autumn Life Behavioral Health Program — Dedicated geriatric psychiatry inpatient program at OU Health Edmond Medical Center
• CARES Program — Comprehensive addiction recovery and education program
• Forensic psychiatry — Expertise to legal issues, including criminal and civil cases

Additional Services in Tulsa

if you or your loved ones live in northeast Oklahoma or the nearby region, you can take advantage of additional mental health services at OU Health in Tulsa, including:

• IMPACT “wraparound” community-based support program for Tulsa County residents needing a higher level of mental health care
• Stress management support group
• Social services specialists to coordinate care across multiple community-based agencies and providers to meet the specific needs of you or your loved ones

Related Services

Get compassionate professional care from OU Health mental and behavioral health professionals in Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Tulsa to help you or your loved ones cope with the challenges, problems and concerns of life. At both locations, you'll also find a full spectrum of mental and behavioral health services for children and adolescents.

Your Expert Mental Health Care Team

At OU Health, mental and behavioral health experts work with you as part of a multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals extensively trained in evidence-based treatments. You benefit from their emphasis on treating the whole person in a primary care setting, which integrates psychiatric and behavioral health services into regular medical care.

Your team members may include specialists in addiction psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, geriatric psychiatry, psychiatry and the law (forensic psychiatry), and telepsychiatry or telebehavioral healthcare, which expands mental health services to many rural areas of Oklahoma.

Through our collaboration with OU Health scientists, you also may benefit from innovative clinical research designed to provide better understanding of effective treatment, the best conditions to administer treatments, and effective strategies to prevent or reduce the burden of psychiatric illness and substance use disorders in the region.