Behavioral health services
We help children, youth, young adults, adults, and families build social, communication, emotional regulation, executive-functioning, daily living, motor, sensory, and community integration skills.
Approaches to care
Individual therapy and related outpatient services at Crimson Heights may draw from these evidence-based approaches. Care is available across Utah, Nevada, and Colorado—through clinics in Utah and Nevada and the Colorado location—and the clinician chooses methods that fit the person. Not every modality is used with every client.
Focus area
Approaches that help people work with mood, worry, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns connected to depression and anxiety, then practice more useful ways of responding in daily life.
Who it may help
People seeking outpatient support for depression, anxiety, or related mood and worry concerns.
Primary focus: Depression and anxiety; changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) builds psychological flexibility—making room for difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps guided by personal values. It can be an option when depression is part of the picture.
Who it may help
Individuals who want help relating differently to painful thoughts and feelings and moving toward meaningful action.
Primary focus: Psychological flexibility, acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings, and values-based action; an option for depression.
Behavioral Activation (BA) focuses on depression, withdrawal, and avoidance by helping people rebuild meaningful activities and routines, one manageable step at a time.
Who it may help
People whose depression has pulled them away from activities, structure, or connection.
Primary focus: Depression, withdrawal, and avoidance; rebuilding meaningful activities and routines.
Focus area
Skills-focused care for intense emotions, distress, relationships, and safety concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, and can support people working to reduce self-harm—particularly when borderline personality disorder is part of the clinical picture.
Who it may help
Individuals who struggle with intense emotions, relationship stress, or self-harm urges in an outpatient setting.
Primary focus: Emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal skills, and reducing self-harm, particularly for borderline personality disorder.
Focus area
Structured therapies that address trauma-related memories, beliefs, and avoidance.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is used for PTSD and helps people examine trauma-related beliefs, including guilt and self-blame, in a structured outpatient therapy process.
Who it may help
People living with PTSD symptoms who are ready to work on how trauma has shaped their thoughts about themselves and the world.
Primary focus: PTSD; addressing trauma-related beliefs, guilt, and self-blame.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured therapy for PTSD that supports processing of traumatic memories with a trained clinician.
Who it may help
Individuals seeking outpatient trauma therapy for PTSD-related concerns.
Primary focus: PTSD; structured processing of traumatic memories.
Prolonged Exposure (PE) helps people with PTSD gradually face avoided trauma memories and safe situations so fear and avoidance have less control over daily life.
Who it may help
People whose PTSD involves strong avoidance of memories or situations that are objectively safe.
Primary focus: PTSD; gradually addressing avoided trauma memories and safe situations.
Focus area
Exposure-based treatment that helps people face triggers while reducing rituals.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a treatment for OCD that helps people face triggers while practicing reducing compulsions and rituals, with clinician support.
Who it may help
Individuals with obsessive-compulsive symptoms who want structured outpatient help with triggers and rituals.
Primary focus: OCD; facing triggers while reducing compulsions and rituals.
Focus area
Collaborative conversations that strengthen a person’s own reasons to change.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative approach that strengthens a person’s own motivation and commitment to change, and is often used when substance use is part of treatment.
Who it may help
People who want support clarifying goals and building readiness for change, including around substance use.
Primary focus: Strengthening motivation and commitment to change, particularly in substance use treatment.
Focus area
Individualized skill-building support, especially for clients with autism.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) provides individualized support for communication, adaptive skills, independence, and reducing harmful behaviors—especially for clients with autism—through Crimson Heights’ ABA service pathway.
Who it may help
Children, youth, and adults who may benefit from ABA, with fit, intensity, and setting confirmed during intake.
Primary focus: Individualized communication, adaptive skills, independence, and reduction of harmful behaviors, especially for clients with autism.
Focus area
Trauma-focused outpatient care for youth, typically with caregiver involvement, where youth services are offered.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) addresses trauma-related symptoms in children and adolescents, typically with caregiver involvement, where youth outpatient services are offered at Crimson Heights clinics.
Who it may help
Youth with trauma-related concerns, and caregivers who can participate when clinically appropriate.
Primary focus: Trauma-related symptoms in children and adolescents, typically with caregiver involvement, where youth outpatient services are offered.
Common questions
Straight answers about approaches Crimson Heights may use in outpatient care. Intake still confirms fit, coverage, and the clinician who can help.
Yes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the evidence-based approaches Crimson Heights clinicians may use for PTSD in outpatient care. Provider specialty, clinical fit, and availability are confirmed during intake for Crimson Heights locations in Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
Depending on assessment and clinician scope, PTSD-related outpatient care at Crimson Heights may draw from Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), EMDR, Prolonged Exposure (PE), or—for children and adolescents where youth outpatient services are offered—Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT). Intake confirms which approach fits the person.
CBT focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, often for depression and anxiety. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal skills, and reducing self-harm, and is particularly associated with borderline personality disorder. A clinician helps decide which approach—or elements of each—fits the individual’s needs.
Yes. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is an evidence-based approach Crimson Heights may use for OCD, helping people face triggers while reducing compulsions and rituals. Fit, clinician assignment, and coverage are confirmed during intake.
Yes. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is active and accepting referrals at every Crimson Heights clinic. Sessions may occur in clinic, home, or community settings when appropriate. Individual fit, intensity, clinician assignment, and coverage are confirmed during intake.
Evidence-based outpatient therapies are offered across Utah, Nevada, and Colorado—through Crimson Heights’ clinics in Utah and Nevada and the Colorado location. Individual therapy and related outpatient services are accepting referrals at every clinic; provider specialty and appointment format are confirmed during intake. Review locations or contact the team to discuss the option that fits you.
