Escanaba Vet Center
Escanaba Vet Center has specially trained therapists on staff to support your needs and can facilitate inpatient treatment if necessary.
Please call us at 906-233-0244 for more information.
Escanaba Vet Center can connect you with HUD-VASH or other community resources.
At Escanaba Vet Center we offer individual and group counseling. We also provide referral to VA counseling resources and therapy resources in your community. Specialty care at our center includes:
- Specialty group counseling for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, and Spouse/Significant Others
- Moral Injury retreats
- Evidence based therapies
Male and female counselors are available at Escanaba Vet Center to provide individual counseling.
At Escanaba Vet Center we offer individual and group counseling.
Specialty care at our Center includes:
- Anger management
- Sleep hygiene groups
- Moral Injury retreats
Escanaba Vet Center also offers evidence based therapies such as:
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Prolonged exposure (PE)
At Escanaba Vet Center, we serve our remote communities using VA videoconnect. Call us at 906-233-0244 to learn how we can complement your in-person care with virtual services.
At Escanaba Vet Center we offer therapeutic activities such as:
- Gardening
- Crossfit
- Narrative therapy
- Trauma-sensitive yoga
- Mindfulness
- Guided meditation
Escanaba Vet Center partners with Army National Guard units and state and local law enforcement.
Escanaba Vet Center has Licensed Marriage and Family therapists who can provide services such as:
- Individual counseling for couples, spouses, children, and significant others
- Spouse and Significant Other groups
- Couples counseling
Escanaba Vet Center offers counseling and other support such as:
- Bereavement counseling for families with a loved one who died during active duty
- Grief counseling
Escanaba Vet Center can help you know where to go and how to register for
- How to get VA medical benefits and register for care
- Where to go to file claims and other forms
- Understanding your VA education benefits
- Education and referral for VA burial benefits
- Housing and home loans
Veterans can meet with representatives from DAV and VFW at the Vet Center. Escanaba Vet Center can also connect you to other Veteran Service Organizations in your community.
Escanaba Vet Center offers resiliency classes.
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.