Mental Health Care in El Cajon, CA

CRF Behavioral Healthcare

What Does CRF Behavioral Healthcare Offer?

CRF Behavioral Healthcare is a mental health facility at 700 North Johnson Avenue, Suite P, El Cajon, California, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid and offers a sliding fee scale and payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.

700 North Johnson Avenue, Suite P
El Cajon, CA 92020

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 CRF Behavioral Healthcare

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • 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

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral 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
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults

Language Services

  • Spanish
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Arabic
  • Farsi

Medications Used

  • Risperidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Family psychoeducation
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • 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 California lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near CRF Behavioral Healthcare

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

Sharp Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa

5555 Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa, CA 91942 · 2.6 mi

619-740-4800

  • Outpatient care
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Hospital inpatient care
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Walk-in crisis

Sources

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

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