United Counseling Service — Bennington

United Counseling Service is Bennington County's non-profit community mental health agency, providing residential, partial hospitalization and outpatient treatment for substance use and mental health conditions in Bennington, Vermont. Its clinicians are trained in EMDR, and it partners with Kanthaka of North Bennington to offer equine-assisted therapy and learning. The agency's reach goes well beyond addiction treatment: emergency services that can arrange a hospital admission or short-term crisis bed, developmental services, a children's intensive outpatient program for pupils from kindergarten to sixth grade, and the county's Head Start program, running since 1965. Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance, state funding and public assistance are accepted.