Treatment Services
SMH Academy provides residential mental health treatment for young adults navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and neurodevelopmental conditions.
Treatment is delivered through an individualized model that addresses nutrition and its role in brain health, regulation of sleep cycles and healthy sleep hygiene, individual talk therapy, medication management where clinically appropriate, and structured peer and staff engagement to prevent isolation behaviors.
Depression. Treatment for major depressive disorder and related depressive presentations, addressing mood, functioning, and associated risk factors.
Anxiety Disorders. Treatment for generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic-related presentations, and related conditions affecting daily functioning.
PTSD and Trauma. Trauma-informed treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related presentations.
Bipolar Disorder. Treatment addressing mood stabilization, symptom management, and functional recovery for bipolar I, bipolar II, and related presentations.
Adjustment Disorder. Treatment for emotional and behavioral symptoms arising in response to identifiable stressors.
Borderline Personality Disorder. Treatment addressing emotion regulation, interpersonal functioning, and associated symptom patterns.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Treatment addressing obsessive thought patterns and compulsive behaviors and their impact on daily functioning.
Mood Disorders. Treatment for mood-related conditions not otherwise specified above, individualized to presentation.
Autism Spectrum Disorder. Support and treatment addressing co-occurring mental health needs in the context of autism spectrum presentations, with attention to individual communication, sensory, and support needs.
ADHD. Treatment addressing attention, executive functioning, and impulsivity, including co-occurring mental health needs where present.
What Sets Us Apart
Our treatment model combines standard Western psychiatric and medical care with complementary practices from Eastern medicine. It prioritizes the idea that mental and physical health are linked and should be treated together. Treatment plans consider the resident’s environment as part of the healing process, and the program provides a stable, supportive setting where residents can develop a foundation for lasting, balanced functioning.
Exercise
Structured physical activity, in recognition of the role of exercise in regulating brain chemistry and supporting overall mental health.
Environment
The residential environment is structured and maintained with attention to its effect on mental health, recognizing that a resident's physical and social surroundings play a contributing role in the process of psychological change and recovery.
Nutrition
Structured nutrition support recognizing the relationship between dietary intake and brain health, mood regulation, and overall functioning.
Community
Structured peer and staff engagement, including social skill-building and group activities, designed to reduce social withdrawal and isolation behaviors and support residents in building and maintaining functional social connection.
Sleep hygiene
Structured routines supporting regulation of sleep-wake cycles and healthy sleep hygiene, in recognition of the relationship between sleep and psychiatric symptom management.
Therapy and Medication
Individualized therapy and psychiatric medication management provided where clinically indicated, under the oversight of qualified prescribing clinical staff.
Spirituality
Accommodation of each resident's spiritual and religious practices and beliefs as part of overall wellbeing, consistent with individual preference.
Let’s Work Together
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