Grady Behavioral Health – Outpatient - Atlanta, GA

About the Facility

Grady Behavioral Health–Outpatient, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an integrative mental health care facility for adults with major mental illness and/or co-occurring addiction. They offer outpatient and assertive community treatment (ACT), with dedicated programs for seniors, young adults, and persons with hearing impairment.

Grady Behavioral Health–Outpatient offers mental health services and programs for adults with co-occurring addiction in Atlanta, Georgia. They specialize in the treatment of persistent and severe mental illness with or without co-occurring addiction. Dedicated programs for seniors, young adults, housebound persons, and persons with hearing impairment are available.

Grady’s assertive community treatment (ACT) program provides in home care for clients with severe, treatment resistant mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD). Services include mental health assessments, personalized treatment planning, and medication induction and maintenance. Trauma informed, DBT based individual and family counseling are also available.

Grady Behavioral Health’s outpatient program supports long term recovery through a full suite of services, including therapeutic interventions, patient and family education, and individual, group, and family counseling. They also emphasize the development of recovery focused, independent living skills, including training in coping, disease management, trauma resolution, self care, and relapse prevention. Community, family, and workplace reintegration are facilitated through wraparound services, including career counseling, peer coaching, vocational training, employment assistance, and social services referrals.

Grady Behavioral Health–Outpatient accepts private insurance, self pay, and Medicaid. Sliding scale payment assistance is available.

Treatment

Mental Health

While in treatment for a substance use disorder, mental health services are provided, and you have access to a mental health counselor or therapist round the clock. Clinical staff constantly monitor your care, and you receive a number of mental health therapies including individual and group counseling, relapse prevention education, and coping skills training. Other mental health offerings will vary by rehab.

Insurance and Financial

Sliding scale payment assistance
Medicaid
Private insurance

Programs

Adult program
Hearing impaired program
Program for men
Program for women
Young adult program

Levels of Care

Outpatient

Outpatient rehab enables clients to receive addiction treatment while continuing to work and reside at home. Many programs offer evening, night, and weekend services so that clients may receive treatment on their own schedule. Outpatient treatment modalities typically include addiction counseling, recovery-focused life skills training, and/or medication assisted treatment (MAT). Many programs also provide step-down care, including partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and standard outpatient services, to align with clients’ evolving needs.

Clinical Services

Assertive Community Treatment

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a structured way of helping those with major mental illnesses and/or substance abuse by bringing services directly to the patient in home. Instead of hospitalization or an outpatient program, staff members like social workers, psychiatrists, and counselors come directly to the patient’s house for treatment. ACT is used primarily for those with severe and persistent mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, some of whom also contend with substance abuse. ACT can be short- or long-term (months to years), and provides the same multidisciplinary, 24/7 staffing of a psychiatric unit, but in the comfort of the patient's own home and/or community.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.

Family Therapy

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Group Therapy

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.