Texas Mental Health Centers

El Paso Psychiatric Center is a state-operated inpatient psychiatric hospital in El Paso, Texas, run by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. It provides acute inpatient mental health care for adults, with services including psychiatric evaluation, medication management, individual and group therapy, and discharge planning. As a state facility, it serves individuals with serious mental illness, including those referred through the criminal justice system. The center accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE.

The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Endeavors provides outpatient mental health services to veterans, service members, and military families in El Paso, Texas. Founded in 1969, Endeavors is a faith-based community service organization that also offers shelter services for vulnerable populations. The clinic treats PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other behavioral health concerns using evidence-based therapies including EMDR and cognitive behavioral therapy. It accepts TRICARE, Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance.

Pecan Valley Centers for Behavioral & Developmental Healthcare has served Texas communities for more than 50 years, providing mental health, substance use, and intellectual and developmental disability services. Its Weatherford location offers outpatient substance use treatment, veteran support, crisis services, and peer support, with a 24-hour mental health crisis line. As a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, it accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance.

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.

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.

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.

Paradigm Treatment in Austin, Texas, provides residential inpatient mental health and addiction treatment for teens and young adults ages 13 to 26. The program offers individual therapy, group counseling, family programming, psychiatric care, and academic support in a structured therapeutic environment. Paradigm Treatment accepts private health insurance. The Austin campus serves adolescents and young adults with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, with treatment that integrates clinical care and life skills development.

Mesa Springs treats mental health and addiction in Fort Worth, beginning every admission with an assessment by a qualified mental health professional rather than a fixed intake track. Alongside its general programming it runs Help for Heroes, a named outpatient service built for military personnel, veterans and first responders — a population whose treatment needs and confidentiality concerns differ enough that a general program often does not fit.

Lucent Recovery and Wellness treats adults and young adults in Austin across a spectrum that includes partial hospitalisation and intensive outpatient programmes, individualised transitional services and mental health housing. The outpatient clinic is at 4807 Spicewood Springs, Suite 1100.

Real Deal Recovery provides partial hospitalization (PHP) and outpatient treatment in Richardson, Texas. The program offers drug rehab, alcohol rehab, and sober living services. Real Deal Recovery accepts private insurance.

The Menninger Clinic's outpatient services in Dallas, Texas, offer comprehensive psychiatric and addiction assessments and treatment for adults and young adults. The nationally recognized nonprofit psychiatric hospital provides specialized addiction medicine through its Center for Addiction Medicine, with services including comprehensive addictions assessments, outpatient therapy, and referrals to its Houston-based residential programs when needed.

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.

Life Challenge of Amarillo is a faith-based residential recovery program on Hope Road in Amarillo, part of the Adult & Teen Challenge network. It provides long-term residential care for adults, young adults and seniors, and runs Revivify Coffee — a social enterprise that has been importing and roasting arabica beans since 2018 and now supplies stores across the area and a mobile coffee shop, giving residents work and training as part of recovery. The program operates on a self-pay basis, and HIV testing is available.

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.

Sage Recovery Villa provides residential treatment and a partial hospitalization program at a dedicated facility in Manor, Texas, just east of Austin. The program maintains a 1:5 client-to-staff ratio and delivers trauma-informed, holistic care for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Sage also operates a specialized business executive track and an adolescent care program. The facility accepts private insurance.

Bayes Achievement Center has served children and young people with severe behavioral challenges and diverse exceptionalities for over 30 years in Huntsville, Texas. Its therapeutic residential program combines an on-campus school with counseling services, music therapy, horticulture, and vocational training. Founded on the principle of unconditional care, BAC creates supportive environments where students with the greatest needs can thrive academically and behaviorally.

Rio Vista Behavioral Health Hospital is an inpatient psychiatric and detox hospital in El Paso, serving a metropolitan area of more than a million people across El Paso and Hudspeth counties. Its acute inpatient program runs 24/7 supervision in a low-stimulation setting, and the hospital separates its populations rather than mixing them: distinct adolescent and adult inpatient units, a stabilization and recovery unit, the PRISM program, a specialty unit, and a Women's Wellness Program, with outpatient care alongside. Confidential online assessments and a campus tour are offered before admission.

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.

Lakes Regional Community Center is a nonprofit community center in Paris, Texas, providing mental health, intellectual/developmental disability and substance use services across Northeast Texas. It offers outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use counseling and treatment for teens and adults, and accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

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.