Mental Health Treatment: The provider’s listed below may offer a range of services from talk therapy, intensive outpatient therapy, inpatient hospitalization and medication management. Professional staff in these organizations may consist of psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists and recovery support specialists among others.
Anchor Health Initiative – Case Management Program: Through the efforts of our Care Team and Senior Manager of Community Services, we are able to provide a holistic approach to wellness for LGBTQ clients in need of support. These services are available to patients of Anchor Health Initiative. If you’re not currently a patient, call or email to make an appointment today.
Locations: Stamford & Hamden, CT
• Access to basic needs, including housing, food, clothing, toiletries, etc.
• Transportation to medical appointments
• Employment resources
• Insurance and affordable healthcare assistance
• Connections to mental health providers and support groups
• Help with substance use
• Resources for STI/STD prevention
• Assistance with updating gender ID documents, including licenses, birth certificates, social security, passports, etc.
• Connections to legal counselors for help with immigration status
• Help for individuals in abusive relationships
• Resources for emergency financial assistance
Backus Hospital: It is the mission of The William W. Backus Hospital Department of Psychiatric Services to provide the highest quality mental health services to adults residing in eastern Connecticut. The department provides services for a wide range of psychiatric disorders and difficulties including individuals with severe and prolonged mental illness.
Location: Norwich, CT
BHcare is a regional nonprofit organization that provides a comprehensive and integrated system of care for adults, children and families who are struggling with mental health issues, substance use issues, or domestic violence.
The BHcare family of services includes: The Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence Services, Parent Child Resource Center, and Alliance for Prevention and Wellness.
Locations: Ansonia, Branford, Derby, & North Haven, CT
Bridge Family Center: is a comprehensive, regional nonprofit agency that provides a broad range of services for children and families throughout the Greater Hartford area. Founded in 1969, the Bridge offers a safe haven for children and families in crisis as well as positive, healthy intervention and prevention programs.
We offer a safe haven for teens and young adults throughout our region, many of whom have experienced significant trauma. A high percentage of the girls we care for are victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking.
- Short-Term Assessment and Respite youth shelters throughout Greater Hartford and beyond for children ages 11-18 (DCF referred);
- Therapeutic Group Home for boys ages 13-18 (DCF referred);
- Emergency Shelter for homeless children and teens ages 13-17;
- Transitional and Independent Living programs for young adults ages 16-21.
Location: West Hartford, CT
Bridgeport Hospital: Mental Health Services. Emotional or mental pain can hurt just as deeply as physical pain. And, like physical pain, symptoms shouldn’t be ignored. If you, or someone you love, needs help coping with emotional, behavioral or psychiatric problems, Bridgeport Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health has a variety of services and programs that can help – including inpatient hospital care and outpatient day programs. A 24-hour Emergency Department crisis service is also available.
Location: Bridgeport, CT
Bridges Healthcare: offers mental health and addiction recovery programs and services have helped adults, children and families move toward healing, recovery and renewal. Bridges is unique in its ability to offer care and treatment for the whole family, children and adults, in the same location, which can make it easier to access services and afford better outcomes for all.
Locations: Milford, Orange, & West Haven, CT
Bristol Health Behavioral Health Services: are among the most comprehensive in Connecticut. Our experienced specialists — psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, counselors, social workers, nurses and others — have committed their professional lives to helping those with mental health illnesses and issues. We respect your heart, mind and voice at all times, and will tailor an individual care plan based on your specific needs.
Adult Behavioral Health: The Barnes III Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit provides 24-hour care and monitoring for adults aged 18 and older. This unit provides the most intense level of treatment for mental health and addictive disorders, including danger of suicide or other self-harm. We treat a diverse group of patients with a wide range of conditions and problems, including bipolar disorder, addiction and substance abuse, major depression and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
Senior Behavioral Health: Our Senior Behavioral Health Unit serves those 65 and older, as well as younger adults who may have early onset Alzheimer’s or dementia or other disorders common in seniors. The unit is specially designed to provide a safe and secure environment that is also attractive, comfortable and full of natural light.
Location: Bristol, CT
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County, Inc. has been a leader in providing affordable and accessible mental health services to economically disadvantaged individuals and families for over fifty years and is one of the only providers of subsidized mental health services in the region. Clinic staff consists of skilled master level and licensed clinicians with training in various mental health disciplines, including counseling, clinical social work, medication management, and marriage and family therapy.
Locations Danbury & Norwalk, CT
Center for Discovery – Eating Disorder Treatment: we’re passionate about providing compassionate care that utilizes the very best evidence-based treatment options. With us, you’ll have a team of experts who will design a treatment plan that’s just as unique as you are. You’ll learn about what’s underlying your eating disorder. You’ll practice new coping skills, including how to forge a healthier relationship with food through hands-on meal preparation.
In Fairfield County there are 4 locations for this service, each with its own website.
Follow the links for a facility near you.
Capitol Region Mental Health Center (CRMHC): is a community based mental health center, operated by the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, which provides an array of innovative clinical and community support services to individuals with a psychiatric disability, in many cases with co-occurring problems of substance abuse.
Our mission is to partner with persons in recovery to ensure access to high quality and culturally competent person-centered behavioral healthcare services.
Location: Hartford, CT
Change Incorporated: Offers home care services in CT and behavioral health services and Counseling for Depression in Connecticut. Home Care Services in CT.
Our trained professionals provide assistance to individuals with many different disabilities. Alzheimer’s home care in Connecticut, counseling for depression Connecticut, Elderly care services in Middletown, Connecticut. We deliver quality home care services to ensure each individual we serve will enjoy a productive, independent, and fulfilling life.
Service Area: Litchfield, Hartford, Tolland, Windham, New London, Middlesex, and New Haven Counties
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: Connecticut Mental Health Center has a certified opiate addiction counselor tasked with connecting and assisting individuals that are opiate-dependent with resources throughout the region.
Location: Torrington, CT
- Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program
- Adolescent Partial Hospital Program
- Adult Dual Diagnosis
- Adult Inpatient Psychiatry
- Adult Partial Hospital Program
- Autism Connections
- Behavioral Health Center
- Bridges Extended Day Treatment
- Charlotte’s Place
- Child Abuse Investigation Team
- Crisis Intervention
- Foster Care Clinic
- Homicidal & Suicidal Ideation SAFE Program
- Opiate Addiction Counseling
Child and Family Guidance Center: Our Mission, We provide children and families with culturally-informed mental health care and complementary supports, regardless of ability to pay.
Location: Bridgeport, Norwalk, & Stratford, CT
Child Guidance Center of Mid-Fairfield County: OUR MISSION is to help all children with mental and behavioral health needs achieve emotional stability, academic success, and happy and productive lives.
We are the largest provider of child mental health care in Mid-Fairfield County. Our experienced team of board certified psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical therapists provide individualized, evidence-based treatment services to children struggling with a broad range of mental and behavioral disorders including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, and trauma related disorders.
Location: Norwalk, CT
Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut is dedicated to improving the mental and behavioral health of children and teens through treatment, education, and community support. We take pride in meeting and exceeding the standards of excellence in accountability, transparency and good governance.
Locations: Stamford – Greenwich
CMHC: The Connecticut Mental Health Center: providing the latest treatments and comprehensive behavioral health services in the community to disadvantaged individuals suffering form serious mental illness and/or addiction disorders.
As treatment cannot stand alone, we are committed to closely coordinated and integrated psychosocial, rehabilitative and residential services. Our ultimate goal is to provide the services and support that enable ill individuals to participate in community life.
Location: New Haven, CT
CommuniCare: Latino Behavioral Health System particitant: The CT LBHS represents a regional collaborative of thirteen behavioral health organizations
We have a shared mission to expand and enhance the existing network of recovery-oriented and community-based services, and to ensure that behavioral healthcare is both accessible, and culturally and linguistically appropriate, for Latinos throughout south central Connecticut.
Sarah Finke, Latino Coordinator
phone: 203-483-2630 x1236
sfinke@communicare-ct.org
Location: New Haven, CT
Community Renewal Team – Asian Family Services: offers counseling and support services to individuals and families from many cultures. We can help clients deal with issues such as unhealthy relationships, poor anger management, compulsive gambling and substance abuse.
- Individual and family therapy
- Medication management
- Court-mandated services including mental health and substance abuse evaluation
Connecticut Renaissance has provided quality substance abuse and mental health treatment to men, women, and adolescents throughout the state of Connecticut. Through programs run by a compassionate, committed, results-oriented team of counselors, therapists and administrators, Renaissance has earned the reputation as a leader in Evidence-Based Treatment practices.
We continue to break new ground in the areas of positive outcomes, outreach, research, and community involvement.
Locations: Several addresses are listed for this organization, since they offer a wide range of services it stands to reason that not all locations offer the same services. Please see their Facilities Page for more information.
The Connection, Inc. has been one of Connecticut’s leading private, nonprofit human service and community development agencies. Each month thousands people throughout Connecticut are assisted by The Connection’s diverse behavioral health, family support and community justice programs.
These programs reunite families, break the generational cycles of abuse and neglect, create safer, healthier communities and assist with mental illness and addiction issues. Our staff of 600, spread across offices throughout Connecticut, work to provide you with services when you need them most.
Locations: Middletown, New Haven & Norwich, CT
Connecticut Valley Hospital: At CVH individuals receive services that assist them to better manage their illnesses, achieve personal goals, and develop skills and supports that lead to living the most constructive and satisfying lives possible.
Location: Middletown, CT
Danbury Hospital: offers inpatient psychiatric care for adult and geriatric patients. Our Crisis Intervention team provides acute psychiatric and behavioral intervention for patients in the Emergency Department. The inpatient unit offers a variety of services aimed to stabilize acute psychiatric symptoms including:
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation – Individualized treatment planning – Medication management – Group and recreational therapy – Electroconvulsive therapy – Referral to community resources
Location: Danbury, CT
Danbury Vet Center: We offer confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Our services include counseling for needs such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military sexual trauma (MST). We can also connect you with more support in VA and your community.
Direct Line 203-790-4000
Location: Danbury, CT
Day Kimball Hospital: Our inpatient behavioral health services provide short-term intensive inpatient care for individuals who have voiced or demonstrated an intent to hurt themselves or others, or who behave in a manner that is considered gravely disabled. Located within Day Kimball Hospital, our Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit is a 15-bed locked unit, which means that individuals can be admitted on either a voluntary or involuntary basis. Patients served are primarily ages 16 and older.
Location: Putnam, CT
Dorothy Bennett Behavioral Health Center: specializes in Mental Health Treatment Services with Outpatient treatment. Specialized programs and groups are conducted regularly focusing on Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Seniors or older adults.
Location: Stamford, CT
Family & Children’s Agency (FCA) has been helping individuals and families throughout Fairfield County and beyond to realize life’s possibilities. We increase the social and emotional well-being of our clients by providing strength-based, solution-focused services for every stage of life.
Every year, FCA serves more than 13,000 people.
Location: Norwalk, CT
Franklin S. DuBois Center (FSDC): Serves the greater Stamford/Norwalk area. FSDC is responsible for providing ongoing, individualized treatment to persons living in the community with severe behavioral health disorders who are publicly insured, uninsured and in some cases underinsured.
All services offered at the F. S. DuBois Center are aligned with the Commissioner’s initiative to move our practice to one offering Community Support and Recovery Pathways. At the end of the day, people ought to have more advanced skills for self-management. Within many areas of service at FSDC, Peers have become integral components. Person-centered care is a given and evidence-based practices are growing.
Location: Stamford, CT
Greater Bridgeport Community Mental Health Center (GBCMHC): The Hospital Services Division offers an array of services to meet the needs of individuals.
18 years of age and older with prolonged psychiatric and co-occurring illnesses, who require hospitalization due to acute exacerbation of their symptoms and for those requiring continued rehabilitation before returning to the community. Patients are served in the following locations: The admissions unit (PICU I), the extended care unit (PICU II), and the Co-Occurring Treatment Unit (CTU).
Location: Bridgeport, CT
Greenwich Hospital’s: psychiatrists and psychologists evaluate and treat individuals with a wide variety of emotional and mental health concerns. People struggling with mental illness, depression, anxiety and other psychological and psychiatric conditions receive compassionate care and treatment according to their needs. Counseling is available for individuals and families dealing with a difficult life transition, or issues relating to relationships, family and parenting. Specialists at Greenwich Hospital’s Addiction Recovery Center work with individuals struggling with substance abuse and addiction.
Location: Greenwich, CT
Griffin Hospital: Department of Psychiatry offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health and chemical dependency programs in a comfortable, healing environment.
If you or someone you know needs some help, including mental health services for those with state insurance or no insurance, services for alcohol or drug abuse, suicide prevention, medication needs, and more, we’re here for you.
Location: Derby, CT
Hartford HealthCare – ‘Our Families’: New Mental Health Support Group for African Americans: Depression is a very individual experience, influenced by everything from body chemistry, living situation, education level and even race.
Location: Hartford, CT
Hartford Hospital: Helping others isn’t just what we do. It’s who we are. We are one of Connecticut’s leading providers of addiction and mental health services. Every year, right here in Connecticut, we meet children, adults and families dealing with the devastating effects of addiction and mental health issues.
Location: Hartford, CT
Hartford Veteran Center Readjustment counseling for veterans who served in combat zones or experienced military sexual trauma.
M: 8am-7:30pm; T: 7:30am-7:30pm; W: 8am-6:30pm; Th: 7:30am-7:30pm; F: 7:30am-6:30pm; Sat: 8:30am-5pm
1-877-WAR-VETS (1-877-927-8387)
Location: Rocky Hill, CT
HELP, Inc.: Our mission is to integrate people in recovery into their communities and improve the quality of their lives through mental health and substance abuse treatment. We focus on residential and non-residential substance abuse therapy, support and skill development.
A 4-month Residential treatment program for substance abuse or co-occurring disorders. Gender-specific groups, medication management services, and discharge planning are offered.
An Outpatient treatment program for substance abuse or co-occurring disorders. Same day screenings, gender-specific groups, and medication management are offered.
Intermediate and Long-term Licensed Community Residences and Residential Support Programs for Individuals in Recovery from a Psychiatric Illness.
Locations: Danbury, Torrington, & Waterbury, CT
InterCommunity, Inc. Our community health center provides same-day primary care services to every member of the community who walks in, regardless of life situation or ability to pay. We also provide a wide array of behavioral health services. Our Addiction Services offers a similarly wide range of substance use treatment and recovery-supportive services, with many sites in the Hartford area.
Locations: Hartford – East Hartford
The Institute of Living: Hartford Hospital’s The Institute of Living’s model of care is derived from a long-standing humanistic tradition and a rigorous commitment to scientific advances. Treatment at the Institute of Living is based on respect for the dignity and individuality of each patient. Learn more by downloading the Patient Healthcare Guide & Journal.
For a current list of services click HERE
Location: Hartford, CT
