Mental Health Care in Newington, CT

Veterans Affairs

What Does Veterans Affairs Offer?

Veterans Affairs is a mental health facility at 555 Willard Avenue, Suite 116-A, Newington, Connecticut, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and partial hospitalization. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE and state-financed insurance and offers a sliding fee scale and payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

555 Willard Avenue, Suite 116-A
Newington, CT 06111

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Veterans Affairs

  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • U.S. Department of VA funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Aripiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported employment
  • Supported housing
  • Vocational rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Connecticut lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Veterans Affairs

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Newington mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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