Women's Program

Behavioral Health Behavioral Health

At Princeton House Behavioral Health, we have a long, proud history of helping women recover from acute mental health issues, and our Women’s Program is considered by many behavioral health professionals as the premier service of its kind in New Jersey. Utilizing evidence-based practices, our outpatient services address the special needs of women facing acute behavioral health crises involving trauma, trauma and addiction, or life transitions.

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Princeton House offers two levels of outpatient treatment for those identifying as women:

  • Partial hospital program: six hours per day, five days per week. This program generally lasts two weeks.
  • Intensive outpatient program: three to five days per week. This program is expected to last six to eight weeks. This level of care is also available via telehealth.

Our multidisciplinary team of board-certified psychiatrists, psychiatric advance practice nurses, and highly qualified counseling professionals provide comprehensive, compassionate care for women and their families.

 

Since its inception in 1991, the program has expanded to include:

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – for those who have difficulty processing emotions, and who tend to respond to their emotions with self-harming behaviors and suicidal thoughts
  • Trauma – to help women understand the impact of trauma or early experiences in their lives
  • Trauma and Addiction – committed to helping women understand the relationship between trauma and substance abuse. Women work on goals they set related to substance use disorder, including using drug screens and relapse prevention tools and plans.
  • Emotion Regulation – which incorporates mindfulness-based compassion and DBT-based principles to increase coping and regain a life worth living
  • Emotional Eating – to help women understand the connection between emotional dysregulation and eating behaviors, while offering alternative coping strategies and healthier life skills

 

In addition, Princeton Health offers inpatient eating disorders care at the Princeton Center for Eating Disorders at Princeton Medical Center.

Please note that the Women’s Program is an inclusive program of all who meet clinical criteria and identify as women.