Georgia Mental Health Centers

Skyland Trail provides nationally recognized residential and day treatment for adults and adolescents with mental health conditions in Atlanta, Georgia. The nonprofit organization offers specialized tracks for mood disorders, anxiety, psychotic disorders, first-episode psychosis, and dual diagnosis. Treatment incorporates evidence-based practices including CBT, DBT, and integrated primary care, with a focus on helping clients build the skills needed for independent living. Skyland Trail accepts private insurance, TRICARE, and works with most major commercial plans. The program serves clients ages 14 and older and maintains separate adult and adolescent residential campuses with structured therapeutic programming.

Advantage Behavioral Health Systems is the community service board for north-east Georgia and the safety-net provider for ten counties — Clarke, Barrow, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton — with this site in Elberton. It provides residential and outpatient treatment for mental illness, substance use and intellectual and developmental disabilities, and explicitly serves uninsured and underinsured people with severe and persistent mental illness, substance use disorder or IDD. Its residential program, Advantage Classic City Recovery, takes men and women aged 18 and over, prioritizing pregnant women and people who inject drugs. The agency is CARF-accredited, its services are accessible in 170 languages, and it is moving to a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model. Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and state funding are accepted.

Legacy Behavioral Health Services provides mental health and substance use treatment in Adel, Georgia, serving Cook County and surrounding communities. The program offers adult services, child and adolescent services, crisis intervention, residential and housing support, and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Legacy Behavioral Health uses evidence-based practices and operates multiple locations across South Georgia.

Southern Live Oak Wellness provides residential mental health and dual diagnosis treatment in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility offers structured programs including partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient levels of care for adolescents and adults, with specialized tracks for trauma, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Treatment integrates evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, and EMDR. Southern Live Oak Wellness accepts private insurance and works with most major commercial plans, with dedicated insurance verification staff. The residential setting offers same-day admissions and serves both mental health primary and co-occurring substance use clients.

Newport Academy provides residential mental health and substance use treatment for adolescents and young adults ages 7–35 in Georgia. The program offers gender-responsive residential programming, intensive outpatient (IOP), partial hospitalization (PHP), and telehealth services. Newport Academy treats teen depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma and PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, and suicidal ideation, with a focus on co-occurring disorders. Newport Academy accepts private insurance and provides complimentary insurance verification.