Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health is a tribal, not-for-profit, outpatient behavioral health clinic located on the 3rd floor of the Cherokee Nation Outpatient Health Center (CNOHC). Cherokee Nation Health Services is the largest tribally-operated health system in the country and offers a variety of services. Cherokee Nation’s newest 469,000-square-foot, four-story outpatient health facility, (CNOHC), is the largest health center operated by the Cherokee Nation and the largest Indian Health Service joint venture health facility in the United States. 

CNBH offers a variety of services and programs to Cherokee Nation citizens and citizens of other federally recognized tribes. These include mental health and substance use disorders counseling, community prevention, community outreach, research, and evaluation. Outpatient services include individual and group therapy, grief and trauma counseling, substance abuse counseling, relapse prevention, medication assistedtherapy (suboxone) clinic, parenting skills for disorders of childhood, psychiatry, psychological testing, and crisis intervention. At CNBH, interns gain experience inintegrative services and receive training in implementing brief consultation and intervention in various medical clinics. Diagnostic skills and implementation of appropriate recommendations/referrals will be emphasized. Intervention experience will be provided in numerous areas, including, but not limited to adjustment to chronicillness, health-maintenance behaviors, behavior management, emotional problems, school accommodations, toileting problems, and sleep difficulties. Consultation with other agencies, including schools or other health providers, will be provided as needed.

Cherokee Nation Adult Behavioral Health provides tribal citizens with individual and group outpatient therapy and psychiatric medication management. Inpatient referrals can be provided for psychiatric stabilization, residential mental health, substance/alcohol use disorders, and withdrawal management. In addition to these services, the Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) program utilizes an integrated behavioral health team approach to help treat opioid use disorders. Hero Project/Cherokee Nation’s Children’s Behavioral Health’s helps support children, youth, families, and communities. They provide counseling and support services for families with children from newborn to 21 years of age who are citizens of a federally recognized tribe.

CNBH staff are trained in: Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT); Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT); Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT); Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP); Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR); Positive Parenting Program (Triple P); Circles of Security (COS); Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS); Motivational Interviewing (MI); Infant Mental Health; and Integrated Behavioral Health.

 To learn more about Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health, go to https://health.cherokee.org/services-and-programs/behavioral-health/