Mental Health Care in Union City, NJ

Greater Essex Counseling Services

What Does Greater Essex Counseling Services Offer?

Greater Essex Counseling Services is a mental health facility at 4522 Kennedy Boulevard, Floor 2, Union City, New Jersey, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Therapy approaches include CBT and couples and family therapy.

4522 Kennedy Boulevard, Floor 2
Union City, NJ 07087

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 Greater Essex Counseling Services

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

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

Who the Program Serves

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

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Aripiprazole
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • 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
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • 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 New Jersey lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Greater Essex Counseling Services

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

Sources

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

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