Anchorage Vet Center
The Anchorage Vet Center offers:
- Anger management
- Stress management
- Anxiety management
- Social support and activity engagement
Evidence-based therapies such as:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Whole Health
The Anchorage Vet Center team currently has four licensed professional counselors that offer a variety of therapeutic treatments for symptoms of PTSD, MST, depression, anxiety and readjustment.
If you have lost a loved one, you do not have to go through this difficult life adjustment alone. The Anchorage Vet Center can offer counseling and other support services, such as:
- Bereavement counseling for families who have lost a loved one while they were serving on active duty
- Grief counseling
Whole health can be thought of as a circle of health with four key elements:
- Self
- Self-care
- Professional care
- Community
This concept puts the client at the center of their healthcare, rather than your illness or conditions.
The Anchorage Vet Center is pleased to offer iRest Nidra yoga and meditation. The benefits of iRest include:
- Improved sleep
- Stress relief
- Anxiety reduction
- Inner peace
- Improved well being
Please contact us for current dates and times.
The Anchorage Vet Center has specialized counseling services and recreational activities for female Veterans and service members. Please contact us at 907-563-6966 for current events.
Talk with us about overcoming substance abuse problems so we can offer services to meet your needs.
The Vet Center can also provide you with ongoing counseling services.
Do you need assistance learning more about VA and community resources that can support you in achieving your goals? The Anchorage Vet Center can help you navigate:
- How to get VA medical benefits and register for healthcare
- Where to file claims
- Understand your VA education benefits
- VA home loans
- VA burial benefits
Make your education benefits work for you! Talk with our staff about:
- GI Bill
- Vocational Rehabilitation
The Anchorage Vet Center collaborates with our community partners, building local referral networks, to expand support services. A few of the community partners we collaborate with are:
- Local military installation-Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
- Local Veteran/Service member support organizations
- National Guard and Reserve units
- Veterans Service Officers
The Anchorage Vet Center is pleased to offer telehealth services to clients. Telehealth can be advantageous for clients who:
- Desire to receive counseling services from the privacy of their own home
- Are traveling
- Feel too ill to drive to the Vet Center but are still able to engage in counseling services
How we're different than a clinic (FAQs)
How we’re different than a clinic
What are Vet Centers?
Vet Centers are small, non-medical, counseling centers conveniently located in your community. They’re staffed by highly trained counselors and team members dedicated to seeing you through the challenges that come with managing life during and after the military.
Whether you come in for one-on-one counseling or to participate in a group session, at Vet Centers you can form social connections, try new things, and build a support system with people who understand you and want to help you succeed.
Who is eligible to receive services at Vet Centers?
Vet Center services are available to you at no cost, regardless of discharge character, and without you needing to be enrolled in VA health care or having a service-connected disability. If you’re a Veteran or service member, including members of the National Guard and Reserve, you can access our services if you:
- Served on active military duty in any combat theater or area of hostility
- Experienced military sexual trauma (regardless of gender or service era)
- Provided mortuary services or direct emergent medical care to treat the casualties of war while serving on active military duty
- Performed as a member of an unmanned aerial vehicle crew that provided direct support to operations in a combat theater or area of hostility
- Accessed care at a Vet Center prior to January 2, 2013, as a Vietnam-Era Veteran
- Served on active military duty in response to a national emergency or major disaster declared by the president, or under orders of the governor or chief executive of a state in response to a disaster or civil disorder in that state.
- Are a current or former member of the Coast Guard who participated in a drug interdiction operation, regardless of the location.
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Are a current member of the Reserve Components assigned to a military command in a drilling status, including active Reserves, who has a behavioral health condition or psychological trauma related to military service that adversely effects quality of life or adjustment to civilian life.
We encourage you to contact us, even if you’re unsure if you meet these criteria. If we can’t help you, we’ll find someone who will.
Our services are also available to family members when their participation would support the growth and goals of the Veteran or active-duty service member. If you consider them family, so do we. We also offer bereavement services to family members of Veterans who were receiving Vet Center services at the time of the Veteran’s death, and to the families of service members who died while serving on active duty.
Do I have to be enrolled in VA health care to access Vet Center services?
No. You don’t have to be enrolled in VA health care or have a service-connected disability.
What about my privacy?
Safe and confidential. Our records can’t be accessed by other VA offices, the DoD, military units, or other community networks and providers without your permission or unless required to avert a life-threatening situation. Here, you can be as open as you want—there’s absolutely no judgment.