Mental Health Care in Seattle, WA

Downtown Emergency Service Center

What Does Downtown Emergency Service Center Offer?

Downtown Emergency Service Center is a mental health facility at 515 3rd Avenue, Seattle, Washington, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and residential care. It accepts Medicaid and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT and DBT. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

515 3rd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: Main Administration; Crisis Solutions Center (CSC).

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 Downtown Emergency Service Center

  • Outpatient
  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicaid
  • Other State funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral 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

  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • 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
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Legal advocacy
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • TB screening

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 Washington lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Downtown Emergency Service Center

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

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.