Mental Health Care in Salem, VA

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

What Does Veterans Affairs Medical Center Offer?

Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a mental health facility at 1970 Roanoke Boulevard, Salem, Virginia, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, residential care and hospital inpatient care. It accepts private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

1970 Roanoke Boulevard
Salem, VA 24153

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 Veterans Affairs Medical Center

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient
  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • 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
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Members of military families
  • 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 Alzheimer's or dementia
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thiothixene
  • Thioridazine
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • 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
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Illness management and recovery
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported employment
  • Supported housing
  • Vocational rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • 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 Virginia lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Veterans Affairs Medical Center

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

LewisGale, Salem

1902 Braeburn Drive, Salem, VA 24153 · 1.1 mi

540-772-2801

  • Outpatient care
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Hospital inpatient care
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance

EHS Roanoke, Roanoke

601 Campbell Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA 24016 · 3.5 mi

434-582-1305

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Private insurance

Sources

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

In crisis? Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. anxiety.help is an independent guide, not a mental health provider or crisis service, and doesn't give medical advice. For a free, confidential referral, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.