Mental Health
Intensive Assessment & Treatment Program
Create the foundation for lasting change
There are many reasons you might feel “stuck” in life. Maybe your relationships or career aren’t going as you hoped. Maybe you feel like no matter what you try, you can’t move forward. Something’s not working.
The Mental Health Intensive program is designed to help you understand why. Together, we’ll uncover the thoughts and feelings beneath the challenges you’re facing. We’ll determine your strategies for navigating the world, and understand where they might be falling short.
Most importantly, we’ll create a plan that allows you to take charge of your own recovery, with measurable outcomes to ensure you’re making progress. This is a foundation you can build on for years to come, creating lasting change.
Program Details
Day programDuration
4-Week Assessment
10+ Weeks Treatment
Group Schedule
Mon, Tues, Thurs, 12 – 3PM
Start Date
Rolling Admissions
Evening programDuration
2-Week Discovery & Assessment
+ Ongoing Long-Term Treatment
Group Schedule
Mon – Fri, 5:30 – 7:30PM
Start Date
August 11 – 21
September 8 – 18
October 6 – 16
Is this program right for me?
Our program is designed to treat a broad range of mental health issues. You may already have one or more diagnoses, such as anxiety or depression. Or this may be your first time in treatment. Regardless of history or labels, we meet you where you are, and build an actionable plan forward.
If the phrases below resonate, the Intensive may be a good fit for you.
“I feel stuck”
“I don’t know who I am”
“I feel empty inside”
“My emotions are all over the place”
“I can go from fine to falling apart in minutes.”
“I either cling too much or push people away.”
“I’ve tried to get help before, and nothing has worked”
Common issues include:
Depression & Mood Difficulties
Anxiety & Panic
Personality Difficulties & Disorders
Relationship Challenges
Identity Challenges
Multiple or Co-Occurring Mental Health Issues
Substance Use (In Some Cases)
To learn more and discuss if the program is a fit for you, schedule an intro call with our team. Call (212) 838-0044 Email admissions@silverhillnewyork.org
Key Concepts: Personality
In the mental health field, personality refers to individual differences in patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Many mental health challenges can be caused by personality difficulties and disorders.
What is personality?
What to expect
In-Depth Assessment
In sessions with our clinical team, we’ll build a comprehensive picture of where you are and how you got here. You’ll also learn key mental health concepts and terms, helping you take control of your recovery.
A Customized Plan
Together, we’ll build a customized treatment plan, which includes your key patterns, and specific recommended treatments to address them. This treatment plan will be our guide throughout the next phase of the program.
Treatment & Refinement
Through group work and individual therapy, you’ll make progress toward your goals. Monthly treatment reviews will allow us to check in and see what’s working, refine our approach, and adjust treatment and targets as needs change.
The Discovery Phase
A journey of self-discovery
At Silver Hill New York, we get to know you as an individual. Together, we develop a treatment plan that targets the challenges most important to your recovery. Once we’ve agreed on the path forward, we put the plan into action, refining and adjusting to make sure you’re on track.
Individual Assessment
Getting to know you
The first step is a series of individual assessments with our expert psychiatrists and clinicians. We’ll get to know your history and your challenges, and develop a shared understanding of your goals.
Discovery Phase
A deep dive of insight and education
The Discovery Phase is all about developing deep insight. We’ll provide an overview of important psychological terms and concepts that will help you better understand mental health. Then we’ll work together to apply these concepts, building insights about your triggers and vulnerabilities, which we’ll focus on in the next phase of treatment.
Treatment Passport
Your blueprint for the journey ahead
At the end of the Discovery Phase, we’ll create your Treatment Passport. This document collects the insights we’ve developed together, as well as our team’s analysis and recommendations. You and your treatment team will meet together to review and discuss the passport and ensure we’re aligned on the path forward.
Treatment Phase
Doing the work
In the Treatment Phase, we put everything we’ve learned into action. This can include individual therapy, outpatient groups, medication management, support services, or a combination of the above.
If you already have an outside provider like a therapist or psychiatrist, we’ll work with them to coordinate your treatment.
Working on ourselves, together
MBT Group
Creating a better understanding of yourself and others
Mentalization is the ability to understand your own thoughts and feelings, as well as the thoughts and feelings of others. Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) focuses on how your mental states influence your own and others’ behavior, focusing on present, rather than past, experiences.
DBT Group
Learning to manage difficult situations and emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help you manage emotions and get a better handle on life’s ups and downs. This treatment provides clients with mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills, all tools to help you cope with difficult situations and improve relationships.
Goals Group
Building together towards a life worth living
What defines a life worth living? That’s the question at the heart of the Goals Group. Members will be asked to set and share goals, track their progress, and think critically about what’s standing in their way. By focusing on both practical skills and underlying challenges, we’ll improve outcomes on the path to a better life.
Key Concepts: Mentalization
Mentalization is the ability to understand your own thoughts and feelings, as well as the thoughts and feelings of others. Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) can give you a clearer picture of your own mental state, and help better manage stressful interactions.
Dr. Peter Fonagy, founder of Mentalization Based Therapy, explains the core concepts of mentalization.
Data-driven results
In the past, clinicians only had access to a tiny sliver of information relevant to your mental health. This made it difficult to build an accurate picture of your strengths and challenges.
We take a different approach. We seek to understand each patient through multiple lenses, creating a more detailed, holistic model of you. Our approach allows us to better understand your current struggles, and to have quantitative measures for whether treatment is working, allowing us to refine our treatment strategy in real time.
How We MeasureSession Recordings
With your permission, we video record all sessions for assessment and supervision purposes.
In-App Responses
We will ask you to complete daily mood tracking, surveys and journaling to fill in the gaps in our understanding of how things are going outside of sessions.
Phone & Wearables
We provide all clients with an Apple Watch that allows us to capture key measures like sleep, activity, location, and heart rate, so we can understand how these physiological aspects impact your mental health, and vice versa.
