Mental Health Care in Pittsburgh, PA
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
What Does UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Offer?
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is a mental health facility at 3708 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, partial hospitalization, residential care and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.
3708 5th Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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.
Types of Care at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
- Outpatient
- Partial hospitalization/day treatment
- Residential/24-hour residential
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Private health insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- U.S. Department of VA funds
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
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Group therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Individual psychotherapy
- Ketamine Infusion Therapy
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
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)
- 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
- Chlorpromazine
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- Loxapine
- Perphenazine
- Pimozide
- Prochlorperazine
- Thiothixene
- Thioridazine
- Trifluoperazine
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Brexpiprazole
- Cariprazine
- Clozapine
- Lurasidone
- Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
- Paliperidone
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Ziprasidone
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services
- Screening for tobacco use
- Housing services
- Mentoring/peer support
- Assertive community treatment
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Intensive case management
- Illness management and recovery
- Legal advocacy
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Therapeutic foster care
- Vocational rehabilitation services
- Case management service
- Integrated primary care services
- Suicide prevention services
- Education services
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- Laboratory testing
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 Pennsylvania lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.