Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic

Our team provides an evidence-based approach to treating patients with many different types of addiction, including behavioral addictions, substance use disorders, and co-occurring psychiatric disorders. We offer several different once-weekly therapy groups for patients in all stages of recovery, and we have some availability for individual therapy as well.

The Stanford Medicine Adult PTSD Clinic provides time-limited, evidence-based treatment for people 18 and older who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Treatments include:

• Cognitive processing therapy
• Prolonged exposure therapy
• Acceptance and commitment therapy for trauma
• Written exposure therapy
  

We provide evaluation and treatment for individuals with a primary diagnosis of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder.

At the Stanford Medicine ADAPT Clinic, all patients receive high-quality care with an emphasis on tailoring interventions to the individual and monitoring treatment progress. Psychotherapy may be delivered in an individual or group format.

We offer second-opinion consultations, evaluation, and medication management for bipolar disorder types I and II.

At our centerspace Clinic, we provide culturally contextualized, trauma-informed care. We care for people for whom the experience of carrying marginalized, multiple, and/or intersecting identities is an important part of their mental health and well-being. We work with individuals to achieve meaningful recovery in complex contexts, including:

• Cross-cultural dynamics
• Integrating spirituality and faith, spiritual and/or racial trauma
• Immigration and displacement

This training clinic offers patients comprehensive evaluations and up to one year of management for all psychiatric conditions. Treatment includes:

• Medication management
• Brief psychotherapy
• Recommendations and referrals for longer-term psychotherapy or interventional therapies where appropriate
• Collaborative care with patients’ psychotherapists and primary care providers

We offer evaluation and treatment of relationship problems, marital conflict, divorce, remarriage, and parenting issues.

DBT4FND, a 12-week psychotherapy group skills training program for ages 18 and up, provides evidence-informed group psychotherapy and skills training to people diagnosed with functional neurological symptom disorder (FND). These disorders include: 

• Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures 
• Functional movement disorders 
• Functional voice disorders 
• Persistent postural perceptual dizziness

We offer second-opinion consultations and ongoing medication management for mood disorders, including depression, dysthymia, and cyclothymia. We also provide electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) evaluations and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression.

The Stanford Medicine Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Adult Program offers evidence-based care to adults (ages 18–75) with suicidal behavior and self-harm, as well as those with a range of diagnostic presentations underpinned by emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, difficulty with interpersonal relationships, and reduced quality of life.

The Stanford Medicine Digital Mental Health Clinic provides a hybrid of one-on-one individual therapy and digital mental health treatments for patients with depression and anxiety disorders.

In our clinic, patients use a digital therapy program, delivered via smartphone app, to learn cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness skills. Patients engage with the digital treatment daily in addition to attending biweekly virtual visits for one-on-one therapy with a clinician.

We provide time-limited, evidence-based outpatient treatment to patients with disordered eating behaviors that impact their health and quality of life. Our mission is to provide efficient, efficacious outpatient treatment for our patients while supporting clinician and trainee professional development and well-being.

Our Adult Eating Disorders Program, housed within Stanford Medicine Department of Psychiatry Psychosocial Treatment Clinic, serves patients ages 18–75.

This clinic has both a training and faculty component and offers comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and brief management (up to three months) for stabilization and support. Treatment modalities include medication management, supportive psychotherapy, and time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. Comprehensive recommendations and referrals will be provided for ongoing treatment.

We treat patients suffering from FND with a collaborative, multispecialty approach.

• Consultation clinic: Clients receive a clinical evaluation resulting in an individualized treatment plan.
  
  
• Individual psychotherapy: We offer select opportunities for time-limited services.

Patients who complete time-limited FND treatment at Stanford Health Care or who are unable to participate in on-site therapy will receive treatment plans designed around the local resources available to them. 

We provide evaluation and treatment for patients 65 years and older with depression, anxiety, and behavioral symptoms of dementia and other psychiatric disorders complicated by the biological and psychological effects of aging.

We offer evaluation and management of intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, pathological gambling, trichotillomania, and pyromania.

We offer long-term psychotherapy for patients with relationship or personal difficulties. All diagnoses, including those requiring medication, are considered.

Inspire is a person-centered program providing interdisciplinary and evidence-based care for people experiencing psychosis. We work with individuals and their families to achieve meaningful recovery from psychosis. We are also training a new generation of professionals and advancing knowledge through research.

The Stanford Medicine Interventional Psychiatry Clinic provides specialized treatments that use device-based interventions such as:

• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
• Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS)

We provide consultations for patients with major depressive disorder who may benefit from TMS or ECT and patients with treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorder who may benefit from TMS or DBS.

In addition to these clinical interventions, active research using novel forms of TMS, DBS, focused ultrasound, and other device-based interventions is available for patients.

Es el nuevo servicio ambulatorio de Stanford Health Care que brinda a nuestros pacientes latinos que hablan español atención psiquiátrica en su idioma y que toma en cuenta la cultura latina. Contamos con servicios por videollamada. Ofrecemos servicio de evaluación y seguimiento de medicamentos psiquiátricos también como servicios de psicoterapia.

La Clinica Latina is Stanford Health Care's new outpatient service that provides our Spanish-speaking Latino patients with psychiatric care that considers their culture. We have video call services and services for psychiatric medication management. We also offer psychotherapy services.

We provide holistic psychiatric care, psychotherapy, and health and well-being coaching that integrates mind and body. We use interventions including exercise, diet, yoga, mindfulness, and sleep optimization as primary modalities for patients to use in managing their mental health in addition to medication and/or psychotherapy.

Patients should be interested and motivated to use these modalities in their daily lives, with the goal of acquiring skills that they can continue to use and assuming responsibility for their mental health.

We treat psychiatric or behavioral complications of neurological disorders such as movement disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, head trauma, or stroke.

We provide comprehensive assessments of symptoms and functioning, which will lead to an accurate diagnostic conceptualization and guidance regarding the most effective treatments. We offer a combination of cognitive and psychological testing.

We offer evaluation and treatment for patients with a primary diagnosis of an obsessive-compulsive spectrum condition, including:

• OCD, hair-pulling (trichotillomania)
• Skin picking
• Hoarding
• Body dysmorphia
• Gambling
• Internet/smartphone/video game addiction
• Compulsive shopping

We offer evaluation and treatment for patients who have psychiatric or behavioral symptoms as a result of, or related to, a serious medical illness or injury such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, or chronic pain.

Our SHIP program offers effective, non-drug treatments for adults and children with sleep difficulties. We offer a variety of brief treatments that are sleep-focused and based on scientific knowledge of how sleep is regulated.

We provide evaluation and treatment for professional, Olympic, and NCAA athletes from around the San Francisco Bay area. We also provide integrated behavioral health services to actively enrolled Stanford student-athletes, including a full-service sports psychology program. We provide psychological services to varsity student-athletes that:

• Foster mental health and well-being
• Promote excellence in educational and athletic goals
• Contribute to a safe, welcoming, and multiculturally aware athletic department and campus community

This is a person-centered program that works with individuals and their families to provide interdisciplinary, culturally informed applications of evidence-based mental health care to Asians aged 18 years and over.

We offer consultation and medication management for patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and psychosis.

THRIVE is the mental health arm of the Stanford Health Care LGBTQ+ Health Program and works closely with the primary care providers and specialists in this program to provide affirming and inclusive mental health care for individuals across the gender and sexuality spectrum.

Those who may benefit include older adolescents and adults who have experienced significant stress and are coping with changes in mood, anxiety, sleep disturbances, or disruption to performance and interpersonal relationships.

Services are personalized through an integrative and strengths-based approach to promote resilience in each individual served.

Clinical services include:

• Psychiatric consultation
• Short-term individual and group psychotherapy
• Couples therapy
• Letter consultation
• Referral for the following conditions: 
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Trauma
  • Loss
  • Gender and sexuality concerns
  • Stress
  • Burnout
  • Relationship conflict

The VR-IT Clinic incorporates the most current and emerging methods of virtual and augmented reality treatments into traditional cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based therapies, taking a holistic, customized, and personal approach to each patient.

The merging of immersive technology with the biology of sensation allows behavioral shaping and conditioning procedures specifically targeting symptoms unique to each patient.

The Clinic bridges evidence-based behavioral psychotherapies, clinical research, and medical technologies to treat a varying spectrum of psychiatric conditions. 

We offer evaluation and treatment of female-specific psychiatric disorders and behavioral or psychiatric symptoms related to postpartum depression, PMS, menopause, infertility, and pregnancy issues.