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Mental health and wellness

Mental health is just as important as physical health. It includes your emotional, psychological and social well-being. With the right diagnosis and treatments, you can get what you need to live as healthy and happy a life as possible.

Mental health care in Asheville, North Carolina

Let us help you weather life's valleys so you can experience its joyful peaks.

Through Sweeten Creek Mental Health and Wellness Center, a campus of Mission Hospital, we provide comprehensive care to children, adults and seniors. By learning coping strategies and building distress tolerance, you can learn to lead a more emotionally balanced, meaningful life.

Related specialties

Learn more about our related specialties.

Mental health conditions we treat

Our mental and behavioral health programs help stabilize, support and educate you if you struggle with:

  • Anger management
  • Anxiety
  • Assertiveness skills
  • Depression
  • Grief and loss
  • Hopelessness
  • Managing stress
  • Mood disorders
  • Relationships
  • Rumination (negative thought loops)
  • Suicidal thoughts
  • Transitions in life

Features of our mental health program

Our facility features a number of amenities and services designed to keep you comfortable and engaged, including a gym, basketball court, horticulture space, cafeteria and outdoor courtyards.

Behavioral health services

At Sweeten Creek Mental Health and Wellness Center, our caring providers are dedicated to helping you when you need both acute and ongoing mental health services.

Features and services include:

  • 120 beds for inpatient care
  • Care programs for children, teens, adults and seniors
  • Inpatient stabilization, monitoring and care for high-need adults
  • Intensive outpatient program (IOP)
  • Outpatient services such as weekly therapy and marriage and family counseling
  • Partial hospitalization program (PHP)

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We also offer quality care at these other locations in our extended network.

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