Outpatient Psychiatry
Outpatient Psychiatry at UVM Health
The brain can experience illness just like any other body part. At University of Vermont Health, we care for people with mental and emotional disorders with skill and compassion.
You can get psychiatric help for the full scope of mental illnesses, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorders and self-harming behaviors. Our team of caring mental health experts supports you and your family with effective, proven therapies, either individually or in a group setting. Your treatment may include psychotherapy (talk therapy) alone or in combination with medication.
Why Choose UVM Health?
As one of the leading mental health providers in the region, we offer:
- Comprehensive outpatient psychiatric treatment: We offer all levels of outpatient psychiatric care, from therapy sessions in a clinic or office to daytime partial hospitalization. You can move among care levels as your condition changes.
- Highly trained providers: As part of a health system anchored by an academic medical center, our clinicians are active researchers, many of whom train the next generation of experts.
- Team approach to care: You are a key member your health care team, along with our psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health providers. We collaborate with your primary care provider to ensure coordinated care.
- Innovative physical and mental health support before birth: Research shows that when pregnant people and their partners feel positive and supported, their babies experience excellent health outcomes. Our outpatient mental health services include education and resources for soon-to-be-parents and new parents about mindfulness, nutrition, healthy relationships and positive parenting.
Conditions We Treat With Outpatient Psychiatry
Mental illnesses are conditions that affect your mood, emotions and behavior, and can make it difficult to participate in everyday activities. We care for people with mental health conditions such as:
- Adjustment disorders
- Attention-deficit disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Mood disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD)
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic and stress-related disorders
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Self-harming behaviors
What to Expect From Outpatient Psychiatry
We offer outpatient mental health care that's tailored to your needs. With you at the center, your mental health team can include a psychiatrist (medical doctor who specializes in mental health), a psychologist (expert in talk therapy) and other mental health professionals.
We listen to you carefully to understand your goals for treatment. Depending on your diagnosis, you can participate in different levels of psychiatric care, including:
In outpatient psychiatric care, you meet with your psychiatrist, psychologist or therapist in a clinic location for about an hour each week. Your provider may recommend meeting more frequently, depending on your needs.
This type of care helps if you are already receiving regular mental health care but are still experiencing symptoms. For approximately six hours each day, you participate in activities such as individual and group therapy, coping skills training and medication consultation.
Our partial hospitalization program offers hospital-level mental health treatment without an overnight hospital stay. You receive five to six hours of intensive therapy each day and return home in the evenings.
Advancing Medicine & Quality of Care
Better care, advanced procedures and cutting-edge treatments for you and your loved ones.
Improving the quality of your care now and into the future by training the next generation of health care professionals.
Immediate access to new treatments before they are widely available.
