Southwest Behavioral Health Center in Panguitch, Utah, focuses on mental health and substance abuse treatment for individuals of all ages. Known for its dual diagnosis specialty, this center offers a comprehensive outpatient program, enhancing treatment with evidence-based therapies such as CBT and DBT.
As part of its mission, Southwest Behavioral Health Center is dedicated to supporting clients, families, and communities in preventing and recovering from severe mental illness and addiction. Their aim is to deliver high-quality treatment that promotes long-term sobriety and mental wellness.
- Comprehensive outpatient services, including counseling and group therapy.
- Specialized programs for adolescents, adults, and women facing addiction and mental health challenges.
- Evidence-based therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
- Collaborative partnerships for inpatient or residential treatment if more intensive care is required.
Southwest Behavioral Health Center treats opioid addiction, mental health disorders, and other substance abuse issues. Services cater to both adolescents and adults, with additional support for women and children.
- 4 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 6 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 21 Therapies & Programs
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Panguitch, UT, you may be suffering from substance abuse.
Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at Southwest Behavioral Health Center are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Utah curb their drug use. The selection of a treatment setting depends on the severity of the addiction. Mild cases are usually treated in outpatient facilities; severe cases need hospitalization or treatment in a residential facility. Doctors use medicines along with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat the addiction. The treatment includes medication, counseling and therapy. It can also include group counseling, individual counseling and family counseling.
Dual-Diagnosis
Conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are part of mental illness. This may occur that opioid abuse and vice versa are induced by mental illness. Diagnosing a concurrent diagnosis or co-occurring condition at Southwest Behavioral Health Center is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, with additional therapies available as listed below.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Southwest Behavioral Health Center offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Utah patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.
A partial hospitalization program is set up to cover those struggling with acute symptoms of addiction. This means that the individual is cared for in a hospital-like environment in Panguitch, UT during the struggle of those symptoms, but allowed to go home at night. Most PHPs require approximately six-hours of therapy, at least three days per week.
Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Utah activities. It can last a year or even longer. Services include individual and family counseling, medications to reduce cravings, and treatment of psychiatric and other medical conditions. Aftercare support begins once you have completed earlier stages of treatment.
Therapies & Programs
Therapy plays a major role in addiction recovery. It encourages patients to get to the root of their addiction and learn how to better handle the issues that led to using. Therapy can be conducted in group and one on one settings. In Southwest Behavioral Health Center‘s individual therapy, the patient meets with the therapist in a one on one setting. This allows them to focus on the underlying issues of addiction and come up with solutions to prevent future abuse.
When the whole family is involved, healing can be far more successful. Family counseling involves genetic factors to the family of the addict. This offers the means to cope with addiction and its underlying emotional disorders for loved ones. It is a helpful method for addicts in helping to adjust to sober living.
Trauma therapy allows people who struggled with a past trauma to face the situation and learn to overcome the situation. Many people who went through trauma early on, struggle with addiction later in life. By addressing the trauma and moving past the issues, it can help someone attending treatment at Southwest Behavioral Health Center in Panguitch, UT move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
REBT stands for rational emotional behavior therapy. This is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, that combines images with thoughts and behaviors. It allows for deeper education and understanding of what one can do to help themselves with recovery. It is a deep sense of self-help education managed by Southwest Behavioral Health Center that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.
Training someone on improved life skills allows for someone recovering from an addiction to feel more capable at taking care of him or herself. The skills taught at Southwest Behavioral Health Center in Panguitch, UT are daily skills that give a better recovery foundation by simply giving someone the tools they need to survive. They include communicating, time and money management, career guidance, and more.
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Location & Contact

601 E Center St
Panguitch, UT 84759
Phone Number
(435) 676-8176
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Panguitch, Utah Addiction and Treatment
More than 500 people in Utah die each year from the effects of drug abuse and/or addiction. Substance abuse rates in Utah have seen an upward trend for a variety of drugs. Opioids are involved in almost 70% of all drug-related deaths in the state, annually. In 2014, Utah officials created a Good Samaritan Law to protect drug users who report possible overdoses from being prosecuted themselves.
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