Mental Health Care in Athens, GA

VA Augusta Healthcare System

What Does VA Augusta Healthcare System Offer?

VA Augusta Healthcare System is a mental health facility at 9249 Highway 29 North, Athens, Georgia, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

9249 Highway 29 North
Athens, GA 30601

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 VA Augusta Healthcare System

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • U.S. Department of VA funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Veterans
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Pimozide
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thiothixene
  • Thioridazine
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • 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
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial 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 Georgia lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near VA Augusta Healthcare System

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 · 23 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

Abhs, Elberton

50 Chestnut Street, Elberton, GA 30635 · 26 mi

706-213-2048 x2001

  • 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)

In crisis? Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. anxiety.help is an independent guide, not a mental health provider or crisis service, and doesn't give medical advice. For a free, confidential referral, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.