What We Treat

We focus all the strengths of Silver Hill on building your individual course of treatment. We do it by deeply understanding who you are and what you are struggling with. Everyone is unique. Previous diagnoses may be wrong. One condition can mask another. Medical factors may impact behaviors. We believe that fresh insights lead to fresh outcomes.

Our expert clinicians – including 15 board-certified psychiatrists on staff – working within a collaborative team structure, have the breadth of knowledge and experience to successfully treat a wide variety of conditions and their co-occurring disorders. These capabilities make Silver Hill a leader among private mental health hospitals in Connecticut, the Northeast, and beyond.

We successfully treat this broad array of conditions, both individually and in combination:

Addiction is a complex disease with both emotional and physical components. It requires skilled and sensitive treatment to repair deep impacts to the many aspects of your life.

Our clinicians are skilled in the use of “Dialectical Behavioral Therapy,” a practical and skills-based therapeutic approach to help you regulate the worrisome thoughts that impact your peace of mind.

If you are suffering from a mood disorder you have reason to hope again. Silver Hill has the experience, proven therapeutic tools and expertise to stabilize your pervasive feelings of sadness, or extreme fluctuations between happiness and sadness, and put you on the road to a lasting recovery.

Your personality disorder can be successfully treated at Silver Hill. You can return to your rewarding life. As a full service psychiatric hospital, we rank among the best inpatient, transitional living and outpatient private treatment centers for borderline personality disorder.

To address the needs of individuals who have experienced lasting impact from traumatic events and struggle to recover from symptoms of post-traumatic stress, Silver Hill Hospital offers intensive trauma therapy. Through the expert guidance of clinicians trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an evidence-based PTSD treatment, individuals within the Silver Hill Transitional Living Program have the option of pursuing CPT with a referral from their treatment team.

Patients referred for CPT are educated about the treatment, how it works, and are assessed for readiness by the manager of the program. If ready and appropriate, patients are assigned a CPT therapist. Patients will then work with their additional assigned therapist to identify “stuck points.” Stuck points are places where recovery from trauma is impeded, and often includes self-blame. The other areas of focus include safety, trust, power & control, esteem, and intimacy and how they have been impacted by their trauma history. CPT can be completed in 12 sessions. This makes it possible to complete a course of treatment during a regular TLP stay by engaging in multiple therapy appointments per week.  This service is provided solely based upon assessment and recommendation upon arrival to the hospital and it is an additional cost to an individual’s larger TLP programing.

If you suffer with a condition that distorts reality you need skilled treatment, but it definitely doesn’t have to prevent you from living a rewarding life. Our goal at Silver Hill is to employ highly individualized but proven therapies to help you take charge of your symptoms and take back your life.