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West Hills adults can reach residential anxiety treatment at Villa Healing Center, located in immediately neighboring 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 medication management when clinically indicated. We accept most major commercial insurance. Call (888) 669-0661.
Villa Healing Center’s residential anxiety program sits directly next to West Hills in Woodland Hills, making it one of the closest live-in options for West Hills adults 18 and older. Residential care means living onsite with clinical staff present 24 hours a day, a level beyond the weekly outpatient therapy that fills most of the West Hills area. The onsite team includes licensed therapists, a psychiatric medication prescriber, registered nurses, and behavioral health technicians.
The program treats the four anxiety disorders most common in adults. 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.
Residential care is warranted once outpatient sessions stop keeping the anxiety in check. For a West Hills adult, that point arrives when daily functioning breaks down, when panic or avoidance disrupts work and normal routines, or when anxiety runs 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 place each adult at the right level of care. Those stable enough to stay home receive PHP, IOP, or continued care rather than residential, decided by the clinical assessment.
EMDR is a central therapy in the program, offered for adults whose anxiety is rooted in trauma or PTSD. Delivered by EMDRIA-certified clinicians, EMDR uses a structured eight-phase model to process traumatic memories that keep anxiety active. Because trauma-related anxiety often brings hypervigilance, intrusive memories, and panic, EMDR is combined with CBT and exposure work rather than used alone. West Hills adults searching specifically for EMDR will find it built into a residential program that also treats the co-occurring conditions trauma tends to bring.
A residential week pairs individual therapy and group therapy with family sessions and integrative wellness programming. It begins with a clinical assessment by a licensed therapist shortly after admission that establishes the anxiety disorder, its severity, co-occurring conditions, and the correct level of care, and the treatment team reviews the plan weekly. Daily programming 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, with monitoring and safety planning maintained as clinically indicated.
Beyond EMDR, treatment draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention, dialectical behavior therapy, and medication management. CBT anchors the daily work, reshaping anxious thought patterns and adding structured exposure across individual and group sessions. Exposure and response prevention treats panic disorder, social anxiety, and phobia features through gradual, supervised exposure. DBT is added for adults whose anxiety comes with emotional dysregulation or self-harm urges. A psychiatric prescriber manages medication, most often SSRIs such as sertraline, escitalopram, and fluoxetine, or SNRIs such as venlafaxine and duloxetine, with benzodiazepines used briefly and cautiously.
Adults often arrive with more than anxiety, so the residential program treats it alongside major depression, PTSD, ADHD, stress-related conditions, suicidal ideation, and self-harm when mental health is the primary concern. One integrated program produces better outcomes than care divided 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, immediately east of West Hills in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County. The residence is reachable from the 101 Freeway, a short drive from West Hills, and serves adults across West Hills, Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, Calabasas, Tarzana, and Chatsworth, 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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West Hills adults whose anxiety needs more than a weekly session have residential care right next door. Call our admissions team to start.
