Skyland Trail

About

Skyland Trail, a nonprofit psychiatric treatment center in Atlanta, Georgia, provides residential and day treatment programs grounded in evidence-based and psychodynamic therapeutic approaches. Founded as a mission-driven organization, Skyland Trail treats adults and adolescents with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and substance use disorders across two residential campuses with private bedrooms and twenty-four-hour nursing support. The clinical program integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy — emphasizing insight into how past experiences and unconscious processes shape present emotional and relational patterns — with cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and trauma-focused modalities. Adjunctive therapies including art, music, horticulture, and recreational therapy provide additional channels for symbolic expression and experiential processing. The structured weekday programming and LEAP evening and weekend activities create over one hundred twenty-five therapeutic group opportunities weekly, generating an unusually rich relational milieu. Clinical leadership includes psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinicians trained across psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and trauma-focused orientations. Skyland Trail's status as an in-network provider with most major private insurance carriers makes it one of the more financially accessible residential programs that maintains a psychodynamic clinical component, though Medicaid and Medicare are not accepted.

Depth Orientation

Skyland Trail incorporates psychodynamic psychotherapy as a core modality within its residential and day treatment programs, with clinical staff trained in multiple psychotherapeutic orientations including psychodynamic approaches. The psychodynamic component focuses on developing clients' insight and self-awareness regarding how past relational patterns and unconscious dynamics shape current emotional functioning. This depth orientation is embedded within a comprehensive treatment structure offering over 125 therapeutic groups weekly, providing a density of relational contact that supports the emergence and working-through of transferential material in both individual and group settings.

Treatment Modalities

Program Details

Best for

• Treatment-resistant depression
• Bipolar disorder
• Borderline personality disorder
• Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
• Adolescent psychiatric conditions

Notable Clinicians

• Beth Finnerty, MBA, MHA — President and CEO
• Adam Meadows, MD — Interim Chief Medical Officer
• Ashley Kelly, LPC, MAC, CPCS — Lead Director of Adult Clinical Services

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