Mental Health Care in Tuscaloosa, AL

Indian Rivers Behavioral Health

What Does Indian Rivers Behavioral Health Offer?

Indian Rivers Behavioral Health is a mental health facility at 2209 9th Street, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, partial hospitalization and residential care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale and payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

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2209 9th Street
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Indian Rivers Behavioral Health

  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment
  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Risperidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported employment
  • Supported housing
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Alabama lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Indian Rivers Behavioral Health

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Tuscaloosa mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

In crisis? Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. anxiety.help is an independent guide, not a mental health provider or crisis service, and doesn't give medical advice. For a free, confidential referral, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.