Mental Health Care in Wilkes Barre, PA
Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center
What Does Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center Offer?
Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center is a mental health facility at 1111 East End Boulevard, Behavioral Health Services 116, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and hospital inpatient care. It accepts private insurance and TRICARE. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, couples and family therapy and TMS. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.
1111 East End Boulevard, Behavioral Health Services 116
Wilkes Barre, PA 18711
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.
Types of Care at Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
- Outpatient
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Private health insurance
- U.S. Department of VA funds
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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Individual psychotherapy
- Ketamine Infusion Therapy
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
Who the Program Serves
- Veterans
- Ages: Young Adults
- Ages: Adults
- Ages: Seniors
Medications Used
- Chlorpromazine
- Droperidol
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- Loxapine
- Perphenazine
- Pimozide
- Prochlorperazine
- Thiothixene
- Thioridazine
- Trifluoperazine
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Brexpiprazole
- Cariprazine
- Clozapine
- IIoperidone
- Lurasidone
- Olanzapine
- Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
- 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
- Housing services
- Mentoring/peer support
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Intensive case management
- Illness management and recovery
- Legal advocacy
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Vocational rehabilitation services
- Case management service
- Integrated primary care services
- Suicide prevention services
- Education 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 Pennsylvania lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.