Mental Health Care in Wilmington, NC

A Helping Hand of Wilmington

What Does a Helping Hand of Wilmington Offer?

A Helping Hand of Wilmington is a mental health facility at 5013 Wrightsville Avenue, Wilmington, North Carolina, offering outpatient care. 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.

5013 Wrightsville Avenue
Wilmington, NC 28403

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 a Helping Hand of Wilmington

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • 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
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Licensing and Accreditation

  • Mental Health Clinic or Mental Health Center

Medications Used

  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Illness management and recovery
  • 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 North Carolina lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near a Helping Hand of Wilmington

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

A Brighter Start, Wilmington

5710 Oleander Drive, Suite 100, Wilmington, NC 28403 · 1.4 mi

910-239-0377

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Payment help

Chrysalis Center, Wilmington

3240 Burnt Mills Drive, Suite 1, Wilmington, NC 28403 · 2.0 mi

910-790-9500

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance

Sources

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

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