Mental Health Care in Brooklyn, NY

NYC Health and Hospital/Kings

What Does NYC Health and Hospital/Kings Offer?

NYC Health and Hospital/Kings is a mental health facility at 451 Clarkson Avenue, Building R, Brooklyn, New York, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, 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. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

451 Clarkson Avenue, Building R
Brooklyn, NY 11203

SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: KCHC/BH/Adult Inpatient Services; KCHC/BH/Adult Outpatient Services.

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 NYC Health and Hospital/Kings

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • U.S. Department of VA funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Crisis and Emergency Services

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

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

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

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Spanish
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Creole
  • French
  • Arabic

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • 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
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • 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 New York lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near NYC Health and Hospital/Kings

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

Health and Hospitals/Kings, Brooklyn

451 Clarkson Avenue, R Building, 7th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11203 · 0.0 mi

718-245-2520

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

NYC/HHC Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn

451 Clarkson Avenue, Building R, Brooklyn, NY 11203 · 0.0 mi

718-245-2751

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

League School, Brooklyn

567 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203 · 0.2 mi

718-498-2500

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Medicaid
  • Private insurance
  • Payment help

Sources

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

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