Mental Health Care in Tampa, FL

BayCare Behavioral Health: Northside Behavioral Health Center

What Does BayCare Behavioral Health: Northside Behavioral Health Center Offer?

BayCare Behavioral Health: Northside Behavioral Health Center is a mental health facility at 12512 Bruce B Downs Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Therapy approaches include CBT and couples and family therapy.

12512 Bruce B Downs Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33612

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 BayCare Behavioral Health: Northside Behavioral Health Center

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

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

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Members of military families
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Clozapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • Risperidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • 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 Florida lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near BayCare Behavioral Health: Northside Behavioral Health Center

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

Sophros Recovery Tampa, Tampa

10500 University Center Drive, Suite 215, Tampa, FL 33612 · 1.2 mi

813-733-7319

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee

Sources

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

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