Vermont Mental Health Centers

Northshire is United Counseling Service's office at 5312 Main Street in Manchester Center, Vermont. UCS is the region's non-profit designated agency, providing outpatient mental health services, substance use services, psychiatric care and 24-hour emergency support. Services span children, families and adults, with referral into residential and day programs elsewhere in the UCS network.

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.

FortySeven Main Street is a residential therapeutic community in Castleton, Vermont for adults 21 and older living with mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Residents take part in a structured weekday work program with vocational components alongside weekly individual and group therapy and psychiatric medication management. Long-term and short-term stays are offered with a three-month minimum, plus step-down, aftercare and family respite options.

Spring Lake Ranch is a farm-based therapeutic community in Cuttingsville, Vermont, offering licensed residential treatment for adults with mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use. Residents share in the daily work of the ranch — forestry, the shop crew, agriculture — alongside clinical treatment, in a model that treats meaningful work as part of recovery rather than as an activity around it. Support continues after the residential stay through the Ranch's transitional programs, including supported housing in nearby Rutland.

Washington County Mental Health Services operates a program site on Heaton Street in Montpelier, Vermont. The non-profit designated agency provides residential and outpatient support for substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions, alongside intensive adult mental health services and psychiatric and nursing care. Crisis response is available 24 hours a day across the agency's Washington County programs.

Lund provides residential and outpatient substance use treatment for pregnant and parenting women and their children in Burlington, Vermont. The non-profit combines treatment with early education, family support and adoption services, so parents can keep their children with them during care. Outpatient clinical services, case management and community supports continue after residential treatment ends.

Valley Vista provides medical detoxification and residential inpatient addiction treatment at its campus on Upper Plain in Bradford, Vermont, with separate programs for men and women. Treatment addresses substance use alongside co-occurring conditions including anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, PTSD and trauma, and the program also serves veterans. Low-intensity inpatient care and aftercare planning support the step down from residential treatment.

The White River Junction VA Medical Center provides health care to veterans across Vermont and parts of New Hampshire, including mental health care and treatment for substance use disorders. Programming at this site covers residential and outpatient care for veterans with addiction and co-occurring conditions. Care is provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to enrolled veterans.

Howard Center provides residential substance use treatment at its Pine Street location in Burlington, Vermont. As the non-profit designated community mental health agency for Chittenden County, it offers counseling for alcohol and other substances, opioid recovery services, housing and community supports, and mental health urgent care. Residential care connects with the agency's ongoing outpatient and community-based programs.

Washington County Mental Health Services runs a program on Kynoch Avenue in Barre, Vermont providing residential and partial hospitalization level care. The non-profit designated agency supports adults with substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions through intensive day programming and residential support. It forms part of the agency's wider network of Washington County services.

Lamoille County Mental Health Services is Vermont's non-profit designated agency for the Morrisville area, providing adult outpatient behavioral health, intensive adult mental health services, psychiatric care, children, youth and family services, developmental services, and 24-hour emergency cover through a mobile crisis team and the Oasis House. Its residential programs include Copley House — created in 2001 on the site of Morrisville's former Copley Hospital — and the seven-bed Johnson Group Home, which teaches life and daily living skills. Residents often qualify for Assistive Community Care Services Medicaid funding, which helps pay for the higher levels of care. The agency also runs school-based clinician services and the Zero Suicide Project. Coverage includes Medicaid and Medicare as well as private and military insurance.

Northwestern Counseling & Support Services is a non-profit designated agency based on Fisher Pond Road in Saint Albans, Vermont. It provides outpatient mental health therapy, youth outpatient substance use treatment, community-based crisis and emergency services, integrated healthcare, and community rehabilitation and treatment. The agency also runs developmental, autism, deaf and hard of hearing, traumatic brain injury, school-based and early childhood programs.