Strengthening Alaska communities and improving the lives of our clients through exceptional behavioral healthcare.
For more than 50 years, we’ve been providing support for Alaskans facing mental health challenges. We provide fast access to compassionate, whole-person care for you and your family, with integrated therapy, psychiatry and primary care. Help is just a phone call away, walk-ins are welcome, and we never turn anyone away based on ability to pay. We’re here for you when you need us most.
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Child & Family Services
Child and Family Services Continuum provides a wide range of therapeutic services to children and adolescents with mild, moderate, and severe emotional disturbance, along with their families.
Teen and Young Adult Services
Alaska Behavioral Health provides a wide range of services for young people ages 13-24 who are experiencing mental/behavioral health challenges.
Adult Services
Alaska Behavioral Health provides comprehensive outpatient treatment services for adults experiencing mild, moderate and severe mental illness. Alaska Behavioral Health assesses all clients through an intake process, based on their needs and functionality.
Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at AKBH
The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Alaska Behavioral Health provides confidential, high-quality behavioral healthcare services and local resource connection to post-9/11 veterans (including National Guard and Reserves), their families, active duty service members and the families of active duty service members.
Psychiatry & Primary Care
Our medical department is dedicated to helping our clients improve their lives through a coordinated approach to care involving clients, their caregivers, their clinical staff and primary care providers.
Crisis Services
Alaska Behavioral Health provides same-day walk in crisis at all of our clinics during business hours. In Fairbanks, we also offer a 24-hour crisis care line and Mobile Crisis Team response in partnership with the City and Borough.
We bill any insurance for services, including:
Latest News & Events
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Parent Child Interaction Therapy at Alaska Behavioral Health
When parent- child relationships are strained by challenging behaviors such as defiance, aggression and tantrums, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy can help. PCIT is an evidence-based practice for treating anxiety and trauma in children ages 2 to 7.
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Mental Health Lunch & Learn Winter Series
Join us for our third annual Mental Health Lunch and Learn Series — a free, online educational series open to everyone. Whether you’re a professional, a student, a parent, or just curious, you are welcome here. Details Who: You! These sessions are open to everyone What: Weekly webinars presented by therapists to explore new topics…
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Seasonal Affective Disorder vs. Winter Blues
What’s the difference between Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and “Winter Blues”? The first hard frost hits, the sun slips below the horizon by 4:30 p.m., and suddenly the couch feels like the only safe place in the world. You tell yourself it’s just the “winter blues.” You’ll snap out of it when the holidays pass.…
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Heads Up: Our outpatient clinics will be closed on Thursday, October 15 for an All Staff training day!
We prioritize training throughout the year, usually without disrupting services, but that means some teams can't fully participate. So this time, most teams services are taking a pause. That includes our client access team, so if you know you need to call this week, please call us before Thursday! All messages left on the 15th will be returned on Friday, October 16.
Our Residential program for adults and Partial Hospitalization Programs for children and adults will operate as usual.
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So much fun supporting the Fairbanks Ice Dogs this weekend and sharing the message that it’s ok to ask for help with mental health. #wellnessforeveryone #alaskabehavioralhealth #fairbanksicedogs
We're proud to partner with the Ice Dogs hockey team this Mental Illness Awareness Week!
All the services in the world don' t help if people don't know they exist or are too scared to access them. By inviting us on to the ice to speak about mental health and highlighting mental health throughout the week, the Ice Dogs send an important message: it's ok to need help, and it's ok to talk about it.
Come see us on Saturday at the Big Dipper Ice Arena in Fairbanks, when the Ice Dogs play the Kenai River Brown Bears!
#IceDogs #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW #EndTheStigma #AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessforEveryone
It takes whole communities to support Alaskans struggling with mental illness: no one can do it alone!
@NAMI Alaska and it's affiliates provide education and support for individuals and their family members, through NAMI Connection recovery support groups, Family Support Groups, and educational events - offered in person and on-line.
Learn more at namialaska.org!
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Not sure if what you're feeling is 'bad enough' to ask for help?
Take a quick, private self-check, then talk to someone. Start here: screening.mhanational.org/screening-tools/depression/
October 8 is National Depression Screening Day.
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Alaska is big, and getting care can be hard. But getting help shouldn't be dependent on weather and distance.
We offer telehealth for some services, work with families to coordinate schedules for in-person care, and work with insurance companies to cover travel when needed. We partner with providers across the state to help clients access the level of care they need, and transition back home when it is time.
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We're proud to partner with the Ice Dogs hockey team this Mental Illness Awareness Week!
All the services in the world don' t help if people don't know they exist or are too scared to access them. By inviting us on to the ice to speak about mental health and highlighting mental health throughout the week, the Ice Dogs send an important message: it's ok to need help, and it's ok to talk about it.
Come see us on Saturday at the Big Dipper Ice Arena in Fairbanks, when the Ice Dogs play the Kenai River Brown Bears!
#IceDogs #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW #EndTheStigma #AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessforEveryone
Myth: Mental Illness is rare.
Fact: It touches most Alaskan families.
1 in 5 US adults are diagnosed with depression during their lifetime, and millions more experience anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other mental health conditions. In Alaska, 132,000 adults have a mental health condition.
This week, we're raising awareness, sharing facts, and breaking down stigma. Join us. 💚
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