El Paso Veterans Affairs Healthcare Behavioral Health Services

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Veterans
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Federal Government

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Intensive case management
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Supported housing
• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Education services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Illness management and recovery

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds

Treatment Approaches

• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Couples/family therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Group therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy

Pharmacotherapies

• Clozapine
• Lurasidone
• Ziprasidone
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Paliperidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Aripiprazole
• Risperidone
• Quetiapine
• Olanzapine

Type of Care

• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Language Services

• Spanish