Mental Health Care in Barrow, AK

North Slope Borough Health Department: Gathering Place

What Does North Slope Borough Health Department: Gathering Place Offer?

North Slope Borough Health Department: Gathering Place is a mental health facility at 5326 Nathaniel Olemaun Jr Boulevard, Barrow, Alaska, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It offers payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

5326 Nathaniel Olemaun Jr Boulevard
Barrow, AK 99723

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 North Slope Borough Health Department: Gathering Place

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
  • Other State funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

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

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Cognitive remediation therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • American Indian or Alaska Native languages
  • Yupik

Licensing and Accreditation

  • Federally Qualified Health Center

Medications Used

  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Illness management and recovery
  • Legal advocacy
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Therapeutic foster care
  • 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 Alaska lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near North Slope Borough Health Department: Gathering Place

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

Sources

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

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