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Studio City adults can access residential anxiety treatment at Villa Healing Center, located across the Valley in Woodland Hills. The program serves adults 18 and older with generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, and trauma-related anxiety through CBT, exposure therapy, EMDR, and psychiatric medication management when clinically indicated. We accept most major commercial insurance. Call (888) 669-0661.
Anxiety treatment at Villa Healing Center includes onsite psychiatric care, with a medication prescriber managing anxiety medication as part of the residential program rather than through a separate appointment elsewhere. For Studio City adults who have been searching for psychiatric medication management, this brings the prescriber, the therapists, and the daily program under one roof in Woodland Hills. The clinical team includes licensed therapists, a psychiatric medication prescriber, registered nurses, and behavioral health technicians, all onsite 24 hours a day. Medication decisions are made alongside therapy and adjusted as the clinical picture changes across the stay.
The program treats four adult anxiety disorders. Generalized anxiety disorder brings persistent worry across life with tension and disrupted sleep. Panic disorder produces recurrent panic attacks and fear of the next one. Social anxiety disorder centers on intense fear of judgment and avoidance. Trauma-related anxiety and PTSD follow a traumatic event, carrying hyperarousal, intrusive memories, and avoidance.
Anxiety needs residential care once it controls daily life despite weekly therapy and medication managed on an outpatient basis. For a Studio City adult, the signs include functioning breaking down, panic or avoidance disrupting work and routines, and anxiety appearing with depression, trauma, or self-harm urges that require 24-hour clinical contact. Villa Healing Center uses the LOCUS framework from the American Association of Community Psychiatrists to match each adult to the right level of care. Those stable at home receive PHP, IOP, or continued care rather than residential, based on the clinical assessment.
Medication for anxiety centers on SSRIs and SNRIs, prescribed and monitored by the program’s psychiatric prescriber. SSRIs such as sertraline, escitalopram, and fluoxetine, and SNRIs such as venlafaxine and duloxetine are the first-line options for long-term anxiety management. Benzodiazepines are used briefly and cautiously because of dependence risk. Because prescribing happens inside the residential program, dose changes and side-effect monitoring take place daily rather than across the weeks that separate outpatient visits, with medication adjusted in step with the therapy the resident is doing.
A residential week combines individual therapy, group therapy, family sessions, and integrative wellness programming, with the plan set at intake and reviewed weekly. Care opens with a clinical assessment by a licensed therapist that identifies the anxiety disorder, its severity, co-occurring conditions, and the correct level of care. The daily schedule includes individual and group sessions, scheduled family therapy, and wellness work in mindfulness, yoga, art therapy with credentialed art therapists, and movement therapy. Staff screen for suicidal ideation and self-harm at admission using the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, keeping monitoring and safety planning in place as clinically indicated.
Alongside medication, the program uses four psychotherapies. CBT reshapes the thoughts driving anxiety and adds structured exposure across individual and group sessions. Exposure and response prevention treats panic disorder, social anxiety, and phobia features through gradual, supervised exposure. DBT builds distress tolerance and emotional regulation for adults whose anxiety comes with emotional dysregulation or self-harm urges. EMDR, delivered by EMDRIA-certified clinicians, treats trauma-related anxiety and PTSD. Together with medication management, these give the program tools for anxiety across the range from generalized worry to trauma-driven panic.
Anxiety is treated with major depression, PTSD, ADHD, stress-related conditions, suicidal ideation, and self-harm when mental health is the primary concern. Treating these together in one residential program produces better outcomes than dividing care among separate providers. Villa Healing Center does not offer primary substance use disorder treatment. For needs outside the program’s scope, the SAMHSA locator at findtreatment.gov lists state-licensed programs nationwide.
Villa Healing Center accepts most major commercial insurance for anxiety treatment, and federal parity law requires plans covering mental health to match their medical and surgical benefits. Most commercial plans cover residential anxiety treatment with prior authorization, and continued-stay reviews follow medical necessity through the LOCUS framework. Out-of-pocket cost depends on plan deductible and coinsurance. For out-of-network plans, admissions works through reimbursement, single-case agreements, and self-pay options. Admission usually completes within a short window after insurance verification and clinical assessment, and same-day admission is possible in some cases. Call (888) 669-0661 to begin.
Villa Healing Center is at 23033 Ostronic Drive, Woodland Hills, California 91367, west of Studio City in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County. The residence is reachable from the 101 Freeway, a drive west across the Valley from Studio City, and serves adults across Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, and Van Nuys, with admissions coordinated from Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and Southern California.
Clinically reviewed by Dr. Courtney Scott, MD, Medical Director at Villa Healing Center. Board eligibility: Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine.
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Studio City adults whose anxiety needs psychiatric care and daily structure can find residential treatment across the Valley. Call our admissions team to start.
