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Facility Listings: SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov

FindTreatment.gov is run by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It lists state-licensed facilities that treat mental health and substance use conditions.

SAMHSA builds the directory from its National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS), which facilities answer about the care they offer. It also posts corrections weekly and adds new facilities monthly, according to FindTreatment.gov's about page. SAMHSA's listing data is federal and carries no reuse restriction.

Anxiety Help uses the mental health facilities in that directory. The current copy was taken on October 5, 2026 and is refreshed from SAMHSA periodically. Each listing shows the date its information was checked.

A listing shows only SAMHSA's own service fields: what the facility reported about its payment options, settings, therapies, crisis services and the people it serves. Anxiety Help never adds ratings, reviews, outcomes or claims of its own to a listing.

One Facility, One Listing

SAMHSA sometimes lists one facility several times, once for each program it runs at the same address. Anxiety Help combines listings that share a name, street address and ZIP code into one entry, with every program and service from each listing kept. That is why the 13,397 listings in SAMHSA's data become 12,467 facilities here; 776 of them combine two or more program listings.

What Each Filter Means

Each filter in the finder reads one or two fields of the facility's SAMHSA listing. A facility appears under a filter only when its own listing says so. The count is how many of the 12,467 facilities match.

Cost and Payment

• Sliding fee or payment help (5,770 facilities). The payment assistance field lists a sliding fee scale (SAMHSA: “fee is based on income and other factors”) or payment assistance. Ask the facility what its lowest fee is and what proof of income it needs. SAMHSA field: Payment Assistance Available.
• Accepts Medicaid (10,558 facilities). The payment field lists “Medicaid”. If your state runs Medicaid through managed care plans, check that the facility works with your plan. SAMHSA field: Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted.
• Accepts Medicare (8,330 facilities). The payment field lists “Medicare”. SAMHSA field: Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted.
• Private insurance (10,853 facilities). The payment field lists “Private health insurance”. It doesn't tell you whether the facility is in your plan's network, so check with your insurer. SAMHSA field: Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted.
• TRICARE (6,328 facilities). The payment field lists TRICARE, the health program for service members, military retirees and their families. SAMHSA field: Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted.
• Publicly funded (6,878 facilities). The payment field lists state mental health agency funds, county or local government funds, Community Mental Health Block Grants or other state funds. Publicly funded facilities often serve people with low incomes or no insurance. SAMHSA field: Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted.

Type of Care

• Outpatient (10,754 facilities). The service setting includes “Outpatient”: scheduled visits while you live at home. SAMHSA field: Service Setting.
• Telehealth (10,324 facilities). The treatment approaches field lists “Telemedicine/telehealth therapy”. Telehealth rules and coverage vary by state and plan. SAMHSA field: Treatment Approaches.
• Partial hospitalization (2,161 facilities). The service setting includes “Partial hospitalization/day treatment”: treatment for most of the day, returning home at night. SAMHSA field: Service Setting.
• Residential (1,776 facilities). The service setting includes “Residential/24-hour residential”, where you live at the facility. SAMHSA field: Service Setting.
• Hospital inpatient (1,021 facilities). The service setting includes “Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient”. SAMHSA field: Service Setting.
• Community mental health center (1,479 facilities). The facility type is “Community mental health center”. SAMHSA field: Facility Type.

Therapy

• CBT (11,636 facilities). The treatment approaches field lists “Cognitive behavioral therapy”. SAMHSA field: Treatment Approaches.
• DBT (8,628 facilities). The treatment approaches field lists “Dialectical behavior therapy”. SAMHSA field: Treatment Approaches.
• EMDR (3,432 facilities). The treatment approaches field lists “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy”. SAMHSA field: Treatment Approaches.
• Couples and family therapy (9,424 facilities). The treatment approaches field lists “Couples/family therapy”. SAMHSA field: Treatment Approaches.
• TMS (354 facilities). The treatment approaches field lists “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation”. SAMHSA field: Treatment Approaches.

Crisis Care

• Walk-in psychiatric emergency (3,048 facilities). The emergency mental health services field lists “Psychiatric emergency walk-in services”. Hours vary, so call ahead if you can; in danger, call 911. SAMHSA field: Emergency Mental Health Services.
• Mobile crisis (2,455 facilities). The emergency mental health services field lists “Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services”: a team that can come to you. SAMHSA field: Emergency Mental Health Services.

Who It Serves

• Children and teens (8,115 facilities). The ages field lists “Children/Adolescents”. SAMHSA field: Age Groups Accepted.
• PTSD (6,910 facilities). The special programs field lists a program for “Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)”. SAMHSA field: Special Programs/Groups Offered.
• Veterans (4,040 facilities). The special programs field lists a program for veterans, or the facility is a VA medical center or other VA health care facility. SAMHSA field: Special Programs/Groups Offered; Facility Type.
• Eating disorders (2,301 facilities). The special programs field lists a program for “Persons with eating disorders”. SAMHSA field: Special Programs/Groups Offered.
• Older adults (10,994 facilities). The ages field lists “Seniors”, or the special programs field lists a program for seniors or older adults. SAMHSA field: Age Groups Accepted; Special Programs/Groups Offered.
• Spanish-speaking (3,234 facilities). The language fields list services in Spanish. SAMHSA field: Language Services; Other Languages.

A filter tells you what the facility reported, not whether it has an opening this week or takes your specific plan. Call the facility to confirm before you go.

Listing Isn't Endorsement

Facilities can't pay to be listed, moved up or featured, and Anxiety Help doesn't take referral fees. Finder results are sorted by distance from the place you search, and nothing on a state or city page is ordered by payment. A listing means the facility is in SAMHSA's directory; it isn't a recommendation, a rating or a judgment of quality. SAMHSA says the same of its own listings.

The phone number on a listing is the facility's own number from SAMHSA. Anxiety Help never swaps in tracked or call-center numbers.

Which Pages Appear in Google

Every city with at least one listed facility has its own page (4,356 cities). A page with only a few listings doesn't add much to a Google search, so city pages with fewer than 10 facilities, and filtered state and city pages with fewer than 15, ask Google not to index them. They stay open to you and to Bing. Today 179 city pages meet the bar. Individual facility pages are kept out of Google for the same reason.

State Facts: Official State Sources

Each state page draws on that state's own official pages: its mental health authority, its Medicaid agency (for how Medicaid covers therapy and psychiatric care), its crisis line and mobile crisis pages, and its licensing boards for psychologists, counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists. Each fact carries a link to the page it came from. State facts are checked again at least once a year, and sooner when a state changes a program.

Guides: Federal Health Agencies

• Conditions and therapies: the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for what anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, ADHD and other conditions are and how they're treated, including CBT, DBT, EMDR and exposure therapy.
• Crisis care: SAMHSA and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for 988, mobile crisis and crisis centers.
• Medicare: CMS and Medicare.gov for what Part B pays for mental health care and which professionals can bill Medicare.
• Insurance and parity: the U.S. Department of Labor and CMS for the mental health parity law and how to appeal a denial.
• Medicines: FDA-approved drug labels only, for what a medicine is approved to treat and its boxed warnings.
• Veterans: the Department of Veterans Affairs for VA mental health care.

Each figure carries its year and source.

Sources We Never Use

Psychology Today and other therapist directories, online-therapy companies, treatment center marketing, news stories, forums and Wikipedia are never used as sources. They can be useful to read, but they aren't where a fact on this site comes from.

What We Don't Do

The site doesn't diagnose, doesn't offer screening quizzes and doesn't recommend a treatment, medication or provider for any one person. Guides explain how care works and how to find and pay for it. Deciding what's right for you is a conversation with a licensed clinician.

Who Does This Work

The research is done by the Anxiety Help Editorial Team. It records each fact with its official source and checked date, and automated checks confirm that figures trace back to those records and that internal links work before a page is published. The team doesn't include clinicians and doesn't give medical advice. The editorial policy has the full standards.

How Corrections Work

Facility details come from SAMHSA, so changes to a listing go through SAMHSA. A facility that wants to fix its address, phone number, services or payment options, or add itself to the directory, should contact SAMHSA's Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS) at 1-833-888-1553 or go through FindTreatment.gov. Once SAMHSA posts the change, it appears here at the next refresh.

For anything else, such as a state fact that has changed, a guide that looks wrong or a broken link, use the contact form. Include the page and, if you can, the official source that shows the right detail. Every report is checked against the official source before a page changes.

Pages give information, not medical advice. If you're in crisis, call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. For help finding care, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.