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Anxiety treatment for Tarzana adults is available at Villa Healing Center, a residential mental health program in neighboring Woodland Hills. The program serves adults 18 and older with generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, and trauma-related anxiety, using CBT, exposure therapy, EMDR, and medication management when clinically indicated. We accept most major commercial insurance. Call (888) 669-0661.
Adults in Tarzana can reach residential anxiety care without leaving the West Valley, since Villa Healing Center sits just west in Woodland Hills at 23033 Ostronic Drive. Residential treatment means living onsite with 24-hour clinical staffing, which fits adults whose anxiety has grown beyond what weekly appointments can hold. The clinical team includes licensed therapists, a psychiatric medication prescriber, registered nurses, and behavioral health technicians, all onsite around the clock.
The program is built around the four anxiety disorders adults most often carry. Generalized anxiety disorder brings constant worry across many areas of life, with physical tension and poor sleep. Panic disorder produces sudden panic attacks and fear of the next episode. Social anxiety disorder is marked by strong fear of judgment and social avoidance. Trauma-related anxiety and PTSD follow a traumatic event, with hyperarousal, intrusive memories, and avoidance.
Residential care becomes the right choice when weekly therapy has not brought anxiety under control. Tarzana adults reach that threshold when panic or avoidance interrupts work and daily life, when sleep and functioning collapse, or when anxiety pairs with depression, trauma, or self-harm urges that call for 24-hour support. Villa Healing Center uses the LOCUS framework from the American Association of Community Psychiatrists to match each adult to the correct level of care. Those who are stable at home are placed in PHP, IOP, or continued care rather than residential, based on the clinical assessment.
Residential days at Villa Healing Center pair individual and group therapy with family sessions and integrative wellness work. Care begins with a clinical assessment by a licensed therapist soon after admission, which identifies the specific anxiety disorder, its severity, co-occurring conditions, and the appropriate level of care. The treatment team then sets a plan and reviews it each week. Daily programming includes individual therapy, group therapy, scheduled family sessions, and wellness work spanning mindfulness, yoga, art therapy led by credentialed art therapists, and movement therapy. At admission, staff screen for suicidal ideation and self-harm using the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, with added monitoring and safety planning kept in place as clinically indicated.
Five evidence-based approaches carry the anxiety work at Villa Healing Center: cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and medication management. CBT anchors the daily schedule, combining cognitive restructuring with structured exposure in both individual and group formats. Exposure and response prevention works directly on panic disorder, social anxiety, and phobia features through gradual, supervised exposure. DBT supports adults whose anxiety arrives with emotional dysregulation or self-harm urges, building distress tolerance and emotional regulation skills. EMDR, provided by EMDRIA-certified clinicians, treats trauma-related anxiety and PTSD. Medication is managed by a psychiatric prescriber and typically involves SSRIs such as sertraline, escitalopram, and fluoxetine, or SNRIs such as venlafaxine and duloxetine, with benzodiazepines limited to careful short-term use.
Co-occurring conditions are treated in the same program, so anxiety is addressed alongside major depression, PTSD, ADHD, stress-related conditions, suicidal ideation, and self-harm when mental health is the primary concern. Handling these conditions in a single setting works better than splitting them across separate providers. Villa Healing Center does not offer primary substance use disorder treatment. When an adult’s needs sit outside the program’s scope, the SAMHSA locator at findtreatment.gov lists state-licensed programs across the country.
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 rest on medical necessity through the LOCUS framework. What a family pays out of pocket depends on plan deductible and coinsurance. For out-of-network plans, the admissions team works through reimbursement, single-case agreements, and self-pay options. Admission usually finishes within a short window after insurance verification and clinical assessment, and same-day admission is sometimes possible. Call (888) 669-0661 to begin.
Villa Healing Center is at 23033 Ostronic Drive, Woodland Hills, California 91367, directly west of Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County. The residence is reachable from the 101 and 405 Freeways, a short drive from Tarzana, and serves adults across Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Encino, Calabasas, West Hills, Canoga Park, and Agoura Hills, 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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