Comprehensive Mental & Behavioral Health Care

When you are living with a mental or behavioral health issue, it can be difficult to participate in daily activities or to enjoy life. You may avoid going to work, miss out family time, or damage close relationships with family and friends. You may also experience health problems.

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center’s Division of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine can help. We care for adults with a full range of psychiatric, psychological and behavioral health conditions, including:

  • Addiction problems
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Coping with mental illness of family members
  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • Mood disorders
  • Relationship problems
  • Stress-related conditions
  • Psychosis

Whether your needs are urgent, ongoing or related to another medical condition, our goal is to help you get back to living life to the fullest. Our team includes psychiatrists, advanced practitioners, psychologists, licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists—all working together to provide you with personalized, high-quality care.

Comprehensive Services & Integrated Care

We are a hospital-based, outpatient program for adults with complex medical and psychiatric needs in a single care setting. This is a unique service within our community. Our psychiatry and behavioral health specialists coordinate your evaluation and treatment, along with medical and surgical specialists, to provide whole-person care.

This multidisciplinary, integrated care model enables us to offer a broad variety of quality services, including:

  • 24-hour emergency care
  • Family therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual or couples therapy
  • Inpatient care
  • Mindfulness program
  • Outpatient care
  • Psychiatric care for those with acute and chronic medical conditions
  • Psychopharmacological evaluation and treatment
  • Referrals to community resources
  • Stress management

Lahey Health Behavioral Services—one of the largest, most comprehensive, community-based psychiatric organizations in eastern Massachusetts—is also available to connect you with system-wide options when needed.

Teaching & Research

The Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Program, jointly run by the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, is committed to training the next generation of clinical and academic experts in the diagnosis and management of brain disorders.