Mental Health Care in Ames, IA

Richmond Center

What Does Richmond Center Offer?

Richmond Center is a mental health facility at 1619 South High Avenue, Ames, Iowa, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale and payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

1619 South High Avenue
Ames, IA 50010

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 Richmond Center

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • U.S. Department of VA funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

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

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Thioridazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • IIoperidone
  • 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
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Illness management and recovery
  • 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 Iowa lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Richmond Center

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

Eyerly Ball CMHS, Ames

2521 University Boulevard, Suite 121, Ames, IA 50010 · 1.8 mi

515-598-3300

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee
  • Payment help
  • Walk-in crisis

UCS Healthcare, Ankeny

1555 SE Delaware Avenue, Suite M, Ankeny, IA 50021 · 20 mi

515-280-3860

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • CBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee

Sources

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

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