The purpose for establishment of Sitota mental health care is mainly considering the unmet need of mental health care of our country. We this in mind the company has brought skilled and specialized multi-disciplinary  professionals into this institution to provide a quality, affordable and specialized service.

Our expertise of more than 110 staffs offering a collaborative impeccable service to champion the field of mental health. We are here to support our patients and their families to minimize their struggle and inspire hope.

Who We Treat

Sitota mental health care and rehabilitation center offers high-quality mental health treatment for individuals of all ages experiencing a wide array of symptoms and diagnoses.

Our services are ideal for those who are having trouble identifying mental health diagnoses or struggling with managing symptoms. We specialize in hard-to-treat cases and in working with individuals who have been in treatment but are not achieving their desired treatment goals.

VISION

• TO be a center of choice for mental health care through reaching, caring and healing for patients, care providers and volunteers in East Africa.

MISSION

• To improve a quality of life through providing the highest quality care with holistic environment where patients and families are guided to their journey of recovery with a reasonable cost.
• Values
• Care
• Respect
• Professionalism
• Compassionate
• Integrity
• synergy

What is keeping you from seeking care?

Many myths and misconceptions about mental health persist through our country and across the world.

Stigma often becomes a barrier to seeking care for mental health difficulties. Stigma often conveyed with shame, blame, distress, misrepresentation in media and reluctant to seek or accept necessary care.

However 1 in 10 people globally lives with a mental health disorder, whereas Prevalence of mental health disorder in Ethiopia is    reported to be 18% in adults and 15% in children. (Sathiyasusuman, 2011). If you are straggling with symptoms of an illness or if you feel like no one would understand what you’re experiencing, you are not alone, sitota is here to help with its compassionate, caring and confidential staff in its secured location which is convenient for your privacy.

At Sitota mental health center, we place high regard for safety, professionalism and clear understanding of the patient’s needs which are the hallmarks of our culture.

              We are open to serve you 24/7

Psychiatric Service:-

• schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depressive Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder
• Eating Disorder
• Substance Related Disorder
• Sexual dysfunction
• Old Age Psychiatry
• Psychological Services:- cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Positive Psychotherapy
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Supportive Psychotherapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Group therapy
• Art therapy
• Music Therapy
• Marriage/Couple/ Family Therapy
• Yoga Exercise Therapy
• Book therapy
• Occupational therapy

• Child Psychotherapy:- Intellectual Disability
• Learning Disability
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Attention Hypersensitivity Disorder
• Speech and language Disorder

Our facilities include;

• Outpatient department
• Stabilization unit
• Inpatient department
• ECT theatre (Electro Convulsive Therapy)
• EEG (Electro Encephalo Graphy)
• Laboratory
• Pharmacy
• Recreational Therapy
• Art Therapy
• Music therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Cafeteria

OUR committed and specialized teams are a collective of;

• prominent and well renowned Psychiatrists
• Experienced general practitioners
• clinical and general psychologists
• with skillful and compassionate clinical and psychiatric nurses
• Passionate and competent Art ,music and occupational therapist
• Expert laboratory technologist and pharmacist
• Dedicated quality assurance team

Our Departments  

Waiting area: – Our main reception is about 100sq.m with comfortable sittings and good ventilation, clean and refreshing paints allover with different self -educating materials, and mass media education with great customer welcoming service

Outpatient department (OPD):

We have sufficient examination rooms with more than seven multi-disciplinary psychiatrists and psychologists, including child and adolescent psychiatrist with a special care and child-friendly set up.

Laboratory department
Our diagnostic laboratory services are well organized.
Routine and specialized hematology, microbiology, biochemistry and serology examinations with robust documentation and quality management.

Inpatient Services

With the consideration of  the unavailability and lack of coverage for psychiatric inpatient units in the community, our center provides an exceptional inpatient care with a total of more than 60 inpatient beds in different categories. Our inpatient facility is well organized department providing excellent patient care with multi-disciplinary team.

Our inpatient rooms are

• Well maintained with clean rooms and refreshing paints all over the department
• With comfortable beds
• Different psycho-social activities
• Recreational activities

Psycho-social therapy department

Our psycho-social activities encompasses

ART Therapy

People do not need to have artistic ability or special talent to participate in art therapy; it is an important part of the therapeutic field and is used in some assessment and treatment techniques.

This unit is led by an artist and psychologists. Our well organized art studio is serving our patients clients ranging from adolescents to older adults in exploring self-expression to gain personal insight and develop new coping skills.

Music therapy

Music therapy is an evidence-based treatment to accomplish individualized goals such as reducing stress, improving mood and self-expression and a variety of mental plus medical disorders.  Musical skills or talents are not required to participate.

Our music therapy unit is led by musician and psychologists in our music therapy room with musical instrument helping our patients in psychological, emotional, physical, cognitive and social aspects

Yoga therapy

Yoga therapy encourages the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Our well scheduled yoga session attended by our patient guided via their well-trained yoga instructor.

Occupational therapy

 Occupational therapy is used for a variety of therapeutic functions. This unit is led by our occupational therapist, psychologists and psychiatry nurses enabling our patients in problem-solving, organizing and carrying out tasks.

Family therapy

Family therapy is a type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts. Our family therapy is provided by a psychologist, psychiatry nurses and senior psychiatrists.

Benefits of counseling to patients’ family include improving communication, improving family dynamics and relationships and providing strength, coping tools for family members and our clients gets more satisfaction, confidence and capability in taking care of their beloved ones.

Group therapy

Group therapy, as the name implies, is a type of psychological therapy that is conducted with a group of people, rather than between an individual and mental health professional. Usually, people in the group are facing similar issues, like anxiety or addiction and so on.

Our group therapy well organized session which is facilitated with skilled and experienced psychologists in our well ventilated and refreshing hall.

Quality Standards and Protocols

In order to ensure that all our clients receive the same high quality of service, we operate a quality management policy, which is continually updated and re- appraised, to ensure that the highest level of service is delivered at all times. All the departments have tailor-made standard operating procedures that act as guidelines and maps for efficiency and effective service delivery. The procedures contain instructions of service delivery methods, safety and security of clients amongst others. There are protocols laid down to deal with integrity, ethics, confidentiality of information and other aspects of service provision and wellbeing of the staff. We aim to agree with each client a service standard relating to our work and we monitor our performance against that standard.