WBH services are primarily provided for clients with Medicaid insurance, but we do get funds from grants, donations, and contracts for those without Medicaid. For admission information and specific eligibility guidelines for other funding sources, contact the clinic nearest your home. We also have an insurance based clinic, Mountain Peaks Counseling, for those with standard insurance. 

Wasatch Behavioral Health has a variety of programs dedicated to serving the behavioral health needs of youth, children and families in Utah County and Wasatch County. Below is a brief summary of these programs: 

Six Outpatient Family Clinics: American Fork Family Clinic, Payson Family Clinic, Provo Family Clinic, Westpark Family Clinic, Wasatch County Family Clinic, Eagle Mountain Family Clinic:  Individual/Group/Family Therapy; Case Management' Medication Management. Nursing Services, Peer Support, Specialized groups such as: Domestic Violence treatment, Parenting Skills, Anger Management; Psychological testing, as needed; Skills Development and Behavior Management.

Crisis Services for Youth: CY FAST is the Children, Youth & Family Assessment Stabilization Team at Wasatch Behavioral Health. Their goal is to promote wellness mentally, emotionally, and physically through individual, family, and group therapy. Services include: mobile outreach, respite, group therapy, and overseeing Medicaid hospitilazations.

Mountain Peaks Counseling is a program of WBH for individuals with private insurance (NOT on Medicaid) or for those who would like to pay cash. Mountain Peaks Counseling is staffed with therapists who are committed to providing quality individual, marital, and family therapy and medication management. 

Vantage Point (Provo) & Vantage Point North (American Fork) Crisis Services for Youth provides 24-hour a day, 7 days a week crisis residential services for male and female youth ages 10-17 who are ungovernable, at risk of becoming runaways, or experiencing serious parent-child conflicts.

XCEL Adolescent Day Treatment Program provides a high quality afterschool program for adolescents with mental health disorders, behavior problems, and delays in social and daily living skills.  The curriculum will be based on the specific needs of the group participants and will include such skills as: anger management, stress management, emotional coping, problem solving, social interaction and getting along with others.

Aspire Academy is a "High Needs Mental Health Program" for adolescent females ages 12-17. Most of our clients are in DHS/DCFS/JJS custody of the State of Utah who require intensive psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and other structured rehabilitative interventions as well as continuous monitoring.

Stride is an after school day treatment services to assist children ages 5 to 12 who are experiencing challenges with behavior and social skills due to mental illness.

Strengthening Families is an evidence-based program for families to learn communication and relationship skills. There are sessions throughout the year, and each session is 1-day per week for 10 weeks (oftentimes in the evening). Dinner is provided at each session. The ages of children/youth are ages 5 – 18.  

School Based Services are offered in 90+ schools in the Alpine, Nebo and Provo School Districts in Utah County and Wasatch County.  There are two types of programs offered in School Based Services: (1) Site-Based (Special Education classes) (2) Onsite services in high-risk population schools.

GIANT Steps Autism Preschool is a day-treatment program for preschool-aged children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder either before or at the time of assessment. Our unit has six classrooms with a capacity of 12 children, serving a total of 72 preschoolers and their families (Medicaid & non-Medicaid). We have partnerships with the Alpine, Nebo, and Provo School Districts to provide Special Education services for our students. This relationship allows us to run our program in a typical school environment.

See website or contact for provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Ages 12-18, admission varies by program. Contact for current information.

Provides therapeutic, residential treatment center for teens in small, home-like settings.

Services Provided:

• Spark Academy- co-ed boarding school for ages 12-18, provides a treatment center for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental challenges.
• Elevate Academy- co-ed boarding school for teens ages 12-18, provides treatment for depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and defiance.
• Launch- short term program for male teens ages 16-18, provides transition services from residential programs to traditional or vocational school and more independent living.

Residents of Weber and Morgan Counties.

• Meditation
• Adult Residential Treatment Facilities
• General Counseling Services
• Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention
• Parenting Skills Classes
• General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
• Mental Health Evaluation
• Job Finding Assistance
• In Person Crisis Intervention
• Adolescent/Youth Counseling
• General Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
• Psychiatric Medication Services
• Psychiatric Case Management
• Substance Use Disorder Counseling
• Independent Living Skills Instruction
• Case/Care Management
• Children's In Home Respite Care

Local mental health authority

Females ages 12-17

Provides a 15-month drug and alcohol recovery program for young women. Assists with spiritual growth, improving their behavior and relationships, and inspiring change.

• Substance Use Disorder Day Treatment
• Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
• Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities
• Psychiatric Day Treatment

Provides services to those who are experiencing a mental health crisis including general/suicide/mental health crisis lines, general/adolescent counseling, adult residential treatment and psychiatric day treatment, psychiatric medication, child guidance, and mental health evaluation. Underinsured or uninsured children, youth, families, and individuals in the legal system and all Medicaid eligible individuals may qualify for service. Services are provided to those residing in Box Elder, Cache, and Rich counties. Includes Evidence-based program models for prevention including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). COVID-19 UPDATE: Facilities remain open during office hours. Providers are accessible via telehealth, telephone, or in-person with precautions. Visitors are not allowed in the facilities other than parents/guardians. Masks are required.

• Adult Residential Treatment Facilities
• Adolescent/Youth Counseling
• Child Guidance
• General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
• Suicide Prevention Hotlines
• Psychiatric Day Treatment
• Psychiatric Medication Services
• General Counseling Services
• Mental Health Evaluation
• Mental Health Crisis Lines

Select services also available at offices in Brigham City, Tremonton, Randolph, and Garden City.

Melanie Elder, LCSW

• Supportive, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-focused, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Parent Child Interaction Training, and Parent Management training.
• Specializes in Depression, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and ADHD.

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Must be referred and recommended by Wasatch Mental Health, Utah State hospital, or other recognized agency. May have a waiting list. Applicants must: be over the age of 18, have a favorable rehabilitative potential, and be willing to cooperate and live according to the expectations of the Alpine House.

• Mental Health Halfway Houses

Persons of all ages with mental health and/or substance issues. Accepts private pay, and several insurance plans including: Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, First Health (Coventry Health Care), and MultiPlan.

Insurance information changes frequently, contact for current information.

Provides comprehensive mental health services and psychiatric care. 

Services Include:

• Addiction/Substance Use Recovery
  • Inpatient Detoxification
  • Recovery Clinic
  • Recovery Works
• Autism Adventure Camp
• Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinic
• Bridge Program for Opioid Addiction
• Community Crisis Intervention & Support Services
• Comprehensive Assessment & Treatment (CAT) Program
  • Young Adult CAT Program
  • Youth CAT Program
• Day Treatment Program
• Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic
• Inpatient Hospital Services
• Perinatal/Maternal Mental Health
• Neurobehavior HOME Program
• Outpatient Behavioral Health
  • Downtown Behavioral Health Clinic
  • Farmington Behavioral Health Clinic
  • Park City Behavioral Health Clinic
• Psychiatry Consult Clinic
  • Call-Up: Physician Phone Consult
• ROPES Challenge Course
• Safe UT
• Same-Day Psychiatry Clinic
• Telebehavioral Health
• Treatment Resistant Mood Disorders Clinic
• Youth Residential Treatment

Adults needing short-term inpatient care. Adolescents may be admitted with director approval.

Provides inpatient and outpatient medical care.

Adults. must be able to qualify on a developmental assessment scale

• Adult Day Programs
• Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
• Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Developmental Disabilities Activity Centers
• Adult Residential Treatment Facilities

Ages 14-18, Medicaid, girls and boys programs

An intensive, psychiatric residential treatment center for youth in elementary, middle school and high school grade levels. Utilizes an "Acuity Based Care" (ABC) model that identifies and reassesses the strengths and needs of individual students continually in order to assign specific resources, supports and interventions for insuring the student’s greatest potential for personal success.

Ages 14-18 Self-pay

Provides residential treatment services for teens (ages 14-17).
Services Include:

• Family-Therapy-Based Intervention
• Nutrition
• Physical Fitness
• Academics
• Abuse/Addiction Therapy
• Equine Therapy
• Psychiatric Services

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Equine Therapy, Experiential Therapy

Ages 18 and up
Self-pay sliding scale

Outpatient individual mental health therapy
Outpatient family therapy
Residential services social skills training

Issues Treated:
Fear, worry & anxiety; obsession/compulsions
Sadness, hopelessness, & depression
Autism & related disorders

LCSW

Approaches USed:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Boys and girls ages 12 - 18

A residential treatment program, with a strong emphasis on both education and therapy, featuring a structured, therapeutic living environment, a fully accredited high quality education program, and a full range of group, individual, family and chemical dependency counseling. The therapy work is more insight-oriented, something we felt was critical to longer term success.

Ages 8 - 25, boys and girls, Varies per provider, private practice, DMBA
Health Insurance DMBA

A residential treatment center which includes a charter school, Eagle Summit Academy (2016), and a day program, Sunshine Solutions for underprivileged local kids, age 5 and up.

Outpatient individual mental health therapy
Outpatient family therapy
Outpatient group therapy
Day treatment/partial hospitalization
Residential services
In home services

Issues Treated:
Fear, worry & anxiety; obsession/compulsions
Sadness, hopelessness, & depression
Inattention & hyperactivity
Rule breaking, defiance, & "acting out"
Severe mood swings & bursts of rage
Drug & alcohol use
Mental health problems with co-existing chronic medical conditions
Somatoform and conversion disorders

Amy Whittaker, LCSW
Approach Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Biofeedback

Rachel Noble, LCSW
Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Known as Utah Boys Ranch until 2005
LCSW, LMFT

Children 0 - 18 who have a variety of behavioral and/or emotional problems. Most programs available statewide.

Provides support services to youth and families facing challenging life circumstances using evidence based solutions to positively influence healthy behaviors specialized family homes. Through therapeutic foster homes, in-home services, treatment facilities, homes for refugee children, mentoring program, online parenting education/ resources, and family preservation programs. COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC Guidelines.

Services Include:

• Families First: Therapeutic support and guidance to Utah youth and families facing challenging life circumstances
• Alpine Academy: Two therapeutic schools helping teens from around the United States thrive
• Treatment Foster Care: Providing safe family style environment to Utah’s foster children
• Smarter Parenting: Online resources and customized coaching to parents around the world
• Family Homes: Four Family Homes where youth are taught to live and thrive in a normal, healthy family environment
• Mentoring Program

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Jeffrey Bright, LCSW

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Biofeedback

Kim Mann, LCSW

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy
Biofeedback

Siope Kinikini,CMHC

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

Annette Curtis, LCSW

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Family Therapy
Trauma Focused CBT

Boys ages 9-17; Medicaid accepted

A therapeutically structured residential treatment program for boys age 9-17 suffering from mental health and behavior disorders with underlying emotional disturbances. Based on Cognitive Behavior Therapy, using true client-centered methods, interventions and treatments tailored to focus on patterns of thinking that are maladaptive and the beliefs that undermine such thinking.
Specialties: Behavioral Issues, Anger Management, Depression

Art Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Emotionally Focused
Family Systems
Play Therapy
Psychological Testing and Evaluation
Trauma Focused

• Adult Residential Treatment Facilities
• Adult Residential Care Homes

Provides screening, assessment, therapy, medication management, crisis intervention, and case management services for those with mental illness, substance abuse and behavioral health concerns. Services available throughout Salt Lake, Tooele, and Summit counties in a variety of settings including outpatient clinics, day treatment, mental health evaluations, step-down residential programs, and community-based programs.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Currently offering medication delivery through ValleyRx pharmacy and remote therapy by phone and telehealth.

• Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities
• Mental Health Evaluation
• Adolescent/Youth Counseling
• Geriatric Counseling
• Play Therapy
• Homeless Drop In Centers
• Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
• Low Income/Subsidized Rental Housing
• Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
• Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
• Job Finding Assistance
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Therapeutic Foster Homes
• Psychosocial Therapy
• Child Abuse Counseling
• Substance Use Disorder Intervention Programs
• Street Outreach Programs
• Behavioral Learning Therapy
• Psychiatric Case Management
• Psychiatric Day Treatment
• Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
• Special Education
• Case/Care Management
• Counseling/Information Support Volunteer Opportunities
• General Counseling Services
• Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
• Child Guidance
• Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
• Marriage Counseling
• Parent Counseling
• Sex Offender Counseling
• Runaway/Homeless Youth Counseling
• Sexual Assault Counseling
• Psychiatric Medication Services
• Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention
• Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
• Court Ordered DUI Evaluations
• Drug/Alcohol Testing
• General Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
• DUI Offender Programs
• Substance Use Disorder Counseling
• Substance Use Disorder Crisis Intervention

Ashcreek Academy is a residential treatment center for boys ages 13-17. Ashcreek helps boys that struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma and other emotional and mental problems.

Ages 11-17. In-network with the following insurance providers for residential and PHP levels of treatment:

• Aetna


• Cigna


• United Behavioral Health


• Value Options


• TRICARE

Provides mental health and addiction treatment to teens.

Services Include:

• Residential Treatment Program
• Accredited Academic Program
• Day Treatment Program