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How mental health care works in Georgia
If you're in crisis right now — or someone you love is — call or text 988, or call the Georgia Crisis & Access Line at 1-800-715-4225. Real people answer 24/7, they can talk you through tonight, and they can send a mobile crisis team instead of police in many situations.
For ongoing counseling, Georgia's community service boards offer therapy and psychiatry on a sliding scale — you don't need insurance. Be ready for a waitlist for regular appointments; crisis lines never have one. Some nonprofits and training clinics offer free or cheap counseling with shorter waits — ask 211 what's open near you.
What to expect when you call: a screening conversation (10–20 minutes) about what's going on, then an intake appointment. Saying "I'm in crisis" moves you faster. You can ask for a Spanish-speaking counselor.
Abrazo Adoption Associates is a licensed Texas nonprofit adoption agency in San Antonio. It helps pregnant people and parents make safe, confidential open adoption plans, and it also works with adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth families after adoption.
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DeafLEAD helps Deaf, hard of hearing, DeafBlind, and late-deafened people and their families, especially people in crisis or victims of crime. They offer 24/7 crisis support, advocacy, case management, mental health support, crisis interpreting, and trauma-sensitive yoga, mostly by phone, videophone, text, chat, or Zoom.
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Optum Behavioral Care provides mental health care, including therapy and help with mental health medications. Services appear to be offered virtually and may include in-person care where available.
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Springbrook Autism Behavioral Health is a residential behavioral health center in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, near Greenville. It helps children and teens with autism and related developmental disabilities who have serious behavior challenges, using therapy, ABA-based supports, nursing, medication management, education, family counseling, and discharge planning.
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