Outpatient Behavioral Health Care
Getting Started
Behavioral health services are available through multiple Cone Health locations and practices.
Cone Health Outpatient Behavioral Health
For therapy, psychiatry, medication management, substance use treatment, and partial hospitalization services.
Call 336-832-9800.
LeBauer Behavioral Medicine
For counseling, psychological evaluation, testing, and behavioral medicine services.
Call 336-547-1574.
Cone Health offers outpatient behavioral health services across our hospitals, medical practices, and primary care locations. Whether you need counseling, substance use treatment, support through a health challenge, or more intensive behavioral health services, we'll help connect you with the care that best meets your needs.
Therapy & Counseling
We provide individual, group, family, and couples therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Services are available through Cone Health Behavioral Health and LeBauer Behavioral Medicine and can help with:
- Anxiety and depression
- Stress and life transitions
- Grief and loss
- Trauma and PTSD
- ADHD
- Relationship and family concerns
- Chronic illness and pain management
- Behavioral and emotional concerns in children and adolescents
Our behavioral health specialists include psychologists, therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychiatrists who work together to support your goals.
Substance Use & Recovery Programs
Specialized outpatient programs help adolescents and adults address substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Services focus on:
- Recovery education
- Relapse prevention
- Group therapy
- Ongoing peer support
- Personalized treatment planning
These structured programs allow patients to receive treatment while continuing many daily responsibilities at home, work, or school.
Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
Depending on your unique needs, your provider may use one or more evidence-based approaches, including:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions
- Behavioral Activation
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Strengths-Based Therapy
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Counseling
- Play Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
For patients who need more support than traditional outpatient therapy but do not require inpatient hospitalization, our Partial Hospitalization Program provides intensive behavioral health treatment in a structured daytime setting.
Patients receive comprehensive care and return home each evening, helping bridge the gap between weekly therapy and inpatient treatment.
Advanced Treatment Options
For patients who need specialized care, Cone Health also offers:
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
For certain patients with severe mental health conditions and symptoms, including depression, mania, and dementia, ECT can provide significant and rapid improvements, especially when other medications or forms of therapy have not worked.
Performed under general anesthesia, ECT passes small electric currents through the brain, which causes changes in brain chemistry that can rapidly reverse symptoms of certain mental illnesses.
Although ECT is generally safe, there are some risks and side effects, which you can discuss with your provider.
Pharmacogenetic Testing
Pharmacogenetic or drug-gene testing uses laboratory results from a specialized genetic test to personalize medication and other therapies. Research has shown that when genetic factors inform the prescribing process, patient outcomes improve.
Your behavioral health provider may use pharmacogenetic testing to determine:
- Which medicines may be the most effective for you.
- Which dose may specifically work the best for you.
- If you are in any danger or side effects from a particular medication.
Pharmacogenetic testing is done through a blood or saliva sample. This testing does not work for all medications, so it may not always be ordered by your provider.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
TMS is an optional depression treatment for qualified patients to supplement medications and therapy. If you have tried psychotherapy and at least four medications for your current depressive episode without success, consider TMS.
This treatment for major depression sends gentle magnetic pulses through your scalp and into the part of your brain that affects mood. TMS treatments lasts about six weeks, with the option of taper-down sessions toward the end of that period. During the main treatment phase, you will visit Cone Health Outpatient Behavioral Health Center in Greensboro five days a week for 40-minute sessions. You can read, watch television or listen to music during treatment. You may drive yourself to and from TMS sessions.
These treatments provide additional options for patients whose needs extend beyond traditional therapy and medication management.
