Integrated Behavioral Health
Integrated Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) at UC Davis Health provides comprehensive, team-based mental health care embedded within primary care settings across the lifespan. As part of a large academic health system serving a diverse patient population across Northern California, IBHS is designed to meet patients where they already receive care and to expand timely access to high-quality mental health services.
IBHS integrates psychiatry, behavioral health clinicians, and primary care providers into a collaborative, tiered model of care that emphasizes early identification, evidence-based treatment and measurement-driven outcomes. This approach allows many patients with mild to early moderate mental health concerns to receive effective care within primary care, while ensuring that individuals with more complex or severe conditions are efficiently connected to specialty psychiatry services.
During routine primary care visits, UC Davis Health providers assess mental health concerns and connect patients to the most appropriate level of care. Straightforward concerns are often managed within primary care with consultation, support and care coordination from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ IBHS team. More complex or higher-acuity conditions are referred to specialty psychiatry clinics when needed.
Mental health cases managed through primary care include:
Psychiatry consultation (all ages)
- Adults
- Children and adolescents
Psychiatry consultations for children and adolescents may include:
- General psychiatric consultation
- Consultation related to chronic or complex medical conditions
Electronic consultations (e-consults)
- Asynchronous psychiatry consultation to primary care providers
- Guidance on diagnosis, medication management, and treatment planning
- Supports timely access to psychiatric expertise without requiring an in-person specialty visit
Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) Program
- Short-term, evidence-based psychotherapy (such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)) for anxiety and depression
- Measurement-based care with close collaboration between primary care, behavioral health clinicians, and psychiatry
- Adults (50+) — to expand mid-2026
- Youth (typically ages 8–17)
Patients with more severe, complex, or treatment-resistant conditions are referred to and managed in one of the UC Davis Health Psychiatry Clinics. These include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced Psychiatric Therapeutics Clinic
- Co-Occurring Disorders Clinic
- General Adult and Child Psychiatry Evaluation Clinics
- Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic
- Integrative Psychiatry Clinic
- Intensive Outpatient Program for adolescents with mood and anxiety disorders
- LGBTQ+ Mental Health Clinic
- Medically Complex Psychiatry Clinic
- Mood Disorders Clinic
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Anxiety Disorders Clinic
- Psychosis Services Programs
- Substance Use Disorders Clinic
- Trauma Clinic
- Women’s Mental Health Clinic
Depression care outcomes through IBHS in 2023-24:
72%of patients seen for depression achieved a response to treatment within 12 weeks
Access to care in 2023-24:
38%of new referrals were seen by the IBHS team
Questions and Contact
Melissa Hopkins, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health Services
Email Melissa Hopkins