Mental Health Care in Wilkes Barre, PA
Wilkes Barre VAMC
What Does Wilkes Barre VAMC Offer?
Wilkes Barre VAMC is a mental health facility at 1111 East End Boulevard, Behavioral Health Services 116, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts private insurance and TRICARE. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.
1111 East End Boulevard, Behavioral Health Services 116
Wilkes Barre, PA 18711
SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: Wiiliamsport Outpatient Clinic; Allentown Outpatient Clinic.
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 VAMC
- 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 walk-in services
Therapy and Treatment Approaches
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Individual psychotherapy
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
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
- 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.