Texas Mental Health Centers

Bluebonnet Trails Community Services is the community mental health authority for a group of Central Texas counties, and this Marble Falls site on Innovation Loop provides outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use treatment. Its licensed substance use counselors work with adolescents as well as adults, alongside the organization's mental health, autism and early childhood intervention services and its crisis services. Bluebonnet Trails works with the Texas Veterans Commission on veteran services, and holds Federal Transit Administration grants — so getting to appointments across a rural catchment is something the organization actually addresses. The program takes Medicaid and Medicare alongside private and military insurance and state funding.

Oceans Behavioral Hospital in Amarillo provides partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient behavioral health care for adolescents, adults, older adults, service members and first responders, treating mental health conditions alongside co-occurring substance use. Oceans runs a dedicated STAR military program and a track for first responders built around service-related stress, trauma and professional identity, and offers a virtual outpatient program for people who cannot attend in person. Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA benefits, private insurance and self-pay are accepted.

Carrus Behavioral Health is the children's and adolescent service of Carrus Health, operating across Texas and Oklahoma since 2008. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient care run for ages 8 to 17, with an inpatient hospital taking children from age 5 — the step up or down happens without changing provider. Accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by Texas Health and Human Services.

Metrocare's South Lancaster Road clinic in southern Dallas provides outpatient and intensive outpatient care for substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions, and — unlike Metrocare's other Dallas sites in this directory — it runs an opioid treatment program with outpatient withdrawal management, meaning methadone or buprenorphine can be started and maintained here rather than referred elsewhere. Metrocare has served Dallas County for over fifty years and is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, reaching more than 55,000 people a year; its substance use programs are person-centered and trauma-informed. Accepted coverage includes Medicaid, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Magellan, Scott & White, TRICARE through Humana and UnitedHealthcare, along with Medicare, military insurance and state funding.

Care Star Recovery and Wellness runs outpatient mental health and addiction treatment on an integrated model, with therapy, psychiatry and medication management under one roof rather than referred out to separate providers. Its partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and standard outpatient tracks are scheduled around work and family commitments, and the practice is in network with commercial insurers — its stated reason being to keep the cost barrier low enough that people start.

BasePoint Academy treats teenagers and adolescents for mental and behavioral health conditions, and is built around the practical obstacles that stop families starting: same-day assessments are offered by phone, and its programming is designed to be compatible with school, including academic support and a virtual option so treatment does not cost a term. The site serves families across the northern Dallas–Fort Worth area, in Collin and Denton counties.

Blue Heron Recovery is a drug rehab center in San Antonio, Texas offering 24/7 medically supervised detoxification, a partial hospitalization program, an intensive outpatient program, evening IOP, and outpatient therapy for substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns. It notes that residential treatment is coming soon, and currently supports clients through structured day and evening care while they live at home.

Denton County MHMR Center is the county's mental health and intellectual and developmental disability authority, offering substance use treatment alongside adult and child mental health care as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic. Around-the-clock access runs through a 24/7 crisis line (1-800-762-0157, or 988) — accredited by the American Association of Suicidology and operated in partnership with MHMR of Tarrant County — and a 24-hour psychiatric triage facility. Specialist services include COPSD for people with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders, weekly groups, and vocational support. Fee schedules and the mental health rights handbook are published in Spanish as well as English. Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance, state funding and public assistance are accepted, with a published sliding scale.

Shannon Medical Center's behavioral health service in San Angelo provides inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care within a general medical center, so a patient whose mental health condition sits alongside a physical one is treated in the same institution. The service states that it customizes care to the individual and monitors progress to adjust treatment rather than running a fixed program.

Carrus Behavioral Health is the children's and adolescent arm of Carrus Health, operating in Texas and Oklahoma since 2008. Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs serve ages 8 to 17, and the inpatient hospital takes children from age 5, so a family does not change organization when the level of care changes. Accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by Texas Health and Human Services.

This is Metrocare Services' Dallas East clinic on Samuell Boulevard, offering outpatient and intensive outpatient behavioral health care — counseling and mental health treatment alongside substance use programs that Metrocare describes as person-centered and trauma-informed. Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving more than 55,000 people a year across Dallas County for over fifty years, and a client at this clinic has the rest of that organization behind them: accessible pharmacies, veterans and military family services through the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic, housing and supportive social services, and intellectual and developmental disability services. Accepted coverage includes Medicaid, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Magellan, Scott & White, TRICARE through Humana and UnitedHealthcare, along with Medicare, military insurance and state funding.

Emergence Health Network is the designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Authority for El Paso County — the body the county relies on rather than one provider among several. It runs mental health crisis and emergency services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, reachable on its own crisis line at 915-779-1800 or through 988, and operates programs at multiple locations across the area. EHN holds The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for Behavioral Health Care and is recognized as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic.

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A long term treatment program for teens with dual diagnosis challenges. Payment assistance is available for those in need.

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Residential drug and alcohol treatment for adult men and women. Detox is available and services are offered at a fee assessed relating to income and ability to pay.