Mental Health Care in Athens, GA

Family Counseling Service of Athens

What Does Family Counseling Service of Athens Offer?

Family Counseling Service of Athens is a mental health facility at 1435 Oglethorpe Avenue, Athens, Georgia, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.

1435 Oglethorpe Avenue
Athens, GA 30606

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 Family Counseling Service of Athens

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Private or Community foundation
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

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

  • Veterans
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Suicide prevention services

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 Georgia lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Family Counseling Service of Athens

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

Barrow County Clinic, Winder

98 Lanthier Street, Winder, GA 30680 · 17 mi

855-333-9544

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Residential care
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee
  • Payment help
  • Walk-in crisis

Sources

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

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