Hartford Behavioral Health

Hartford Behavioral Health is a psychiatrist in Hartford, CT, providing outpatient behavioral health services for adults, children, youth, and families throughout the greater Hartford area. The agency offers adult outpatient mental health and substance abuse services including psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluations, and medication monitoring, with frequently addressed issues spanning grief and loss, trauma, depression and anxiety, couples and family relationships, and recovery supports. A separate child and adolescent outpatient clinic accepts referrals for school-age children, and the agency runs Project S.A.V.E. (Stop Abuse & Violence; Empowerment), funded by the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Office of Victim Services, which provides individual, group, and family counseling, case management, and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and other underserved crimes, with bilingual staff available. The practice holds a rating of 3.7 based on 26 reviews.

Hartford Behavioral Health is a private, non-profit community agency that has served the region for over 40 years. Its clinical team is described as dedicated and trauma-informed, employing evidence-based therapeutic treatment modalities to cultivate healing, happiness, and goal attainment. The agency uses several best-practice models, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Strength Based Wrap-around Services, and Trauma Focus Therapy. Hartford Behavioral Health has been awarded the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for health care quality and excellence. Office hours run Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from 8:30 to 4:30 and Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 to 7:00, with Saturday hours closed.

The office is located at 2550 Main Street in the Phillips Health Care Building in Hartford, CT 06120, on Main Street and roughly a tenth of a mile from Parker Memorial Community Center, with Willie Ware Park and Willie Ware Community Center about a fifth of a mile away and Windsor Street within a short distance. The Hartford Housing Authority Departments of Purchasing and Skilled Trades is also nearby.

For more than four decades, this non-profit agency has focused on the behavioral health needs of ethnic minority communities in the greater Hartford area, combining outpatient mental health and substance abuse care with victim services and bilingual support in a single practice.