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.
Ready to get started? Call us today!
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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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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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ARC Training November 9 & 10, 2026
Alaska Behavioral Health is pleased to offer in-person ARC Training! What is ARC? The Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency or ARC framework (Kinniburgh & Blaustein, 2005) is a flexible, components-based intervention developed for children and adolescents (3-18) who have experienced complex trauma, along with their caregiving systems. ARC is designed as both an individual level clinical intervention, to be used in treatment settings for…
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How internships at Alaska Behavioral Health support behavioral healthcare statewide
Why are our internships important? Written by Kaitlyn Gaub, Communications Intern When it comes to supporting statewide mental healthcare in Alaska, one question always hangs in the air: How do we keep providers here? Alaska Behavioral Health is welcoming about a dozen new interns this August. Teaching the next generation of mental healthcare workers to provide comprehensive, evidence-based practices…
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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. 💚
#MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW #EndTheStigma #AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessforEveryone
It's Mental Illness Awareness Week!
At Alaska Behavioral Health, every week is a good time to talk about mental health! Our mission is to strengthen communities and improve lives through exceptional behavioral health, in pursuit of our vision, Wellness for Everyone!
Struggling with mental illness doesn't make anyone weak, and no one in Alaska should face it alone.
We offer quick access to services and comprehensive care. Call 907-563-1000 to schedule during business hours.
If you or someone you love needs support right now, 988 is always available.
#MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #988 #AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessforEveryone
Our Little Tykes program has immediate openings!
Little Tykes is a therapeutic group program for children ages 2 - 5 who need extra support to be successful in a group setting. Our intensive half-day program uses play therapy and trauma-focused interventions in a pre-school-like setting. Individual and family therapy and case management are included to support caregivers, too!
Kiddos in Little Tykes create some fun artwork to decorate our halls. Art activities allows clients to develop emotional expression, problem-solving skills, social skills, coping strategies, and self-awareness.
Call 907-563-1000 for info, or learn more 👇
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#AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessForEveryone #littletykes #grouptherapy
Registration is open for our next round of ARC training!
The ARC (Attachment, Regulation, and Competency) framework is an evidence-based model for working with children who have experienced trauma.
ARC is an appropriate model for anyone who is working to support a child, adolescent, family, or system - including day care centers, teachers, foster parents and more.
Training is interactive and fun!
📆November 9 & 10
🕐9:00 am to 3:30 pm each day
In person in Anchorage
✅Register here! alaskabehavioralhealth.org/arc-training/
#trauminformed #mentalhealth #trainingtuesday #AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessforEveryone
As we reach the end of Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month, we're thinking back to our June training on addressing suicide risk from a public health perspective, and why universal screening is so important, presented by the Columbia Lighthouse Project, with support from GCI.
We learned that suicide kills more police officers than crime, more firefighters than fire, more soldiers than combat, and more Americans than car crashes. We also learned that more than 90% of suicide attempt survivors do NOT die by suicide. Helping someone through a suicidal crisis can be life-saving. If we Ask, we have a better chance of knowing someone needs support and intervening on-time.
If you're not sure how to ask, check out these resources:
cssrs.columbia.edu/
#suicideawareness #suicideprevention #universalscreening #columbialighthouseproject #AlaskaBehavioralHealth
Suicide Awareness Month
93% of people who attempt suicide DO NOT go on to die by suicide.
That leaves a lot of room for HOPE and RECOVERY.
Recovery looks different for everyone, and people may choose different pathways.
#SuicideAwareness #WellnessForEveryone #AlaskaBehavioralHealth
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Our Anchorage team was proud to support American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Alaska Chapter at the Out of the Darkness Walk in Anchorage last weekend. Let's do it again in Fairbanks this weekend!
Saturday, September 26
Check in @ 9 am, program & walk @ 10:00 am
West Valley High School
Join our team and stop by to see us!
afspwalks.donordrive.com/team/398356
More than half of Americans know someone who has died by suicide: a co-worker, a close friend, a family member.
There is no one "right way" to respond to suicide loss. Those who have been through it emphasize that with time, healing does occur. Seeking out information, community, communication, therapy, and practicing self-care can help.
Resources are available:
Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors -- allianceofhope.org/
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education -- save.org/programs/suicide-loss-support
#suicideawareness #suicideprevention #mentalhealth #AlaskaBehavioralHealth
Join us on Saturday for the Anchorage Out of the Darkness Walk.
These walks mark Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month (September) and raise funds for research and education to stop suicide and save lives. They also bring people together in community to remember loved ones lost, provide support and share hope.
We'll be at the Anchorage walk on September 19 and the Fairbanks walk on September 26 - come join us!
Joins out team!
Anchorage: afspwalks.donordrive.com/teams/391463
Fairbanks: afspwalks.donordrive.com/teams/398356
#SuicidePrevention #mentalhealth #AlaskaBehavioralHealth #WellnessforEveryone
