Jacksonville, FL Vet Center
We refer Veterans to VA and other community partners. Southpoint VA's Jacksonville Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Team provides a variety of evidence-based individual and group therapies that are the gold-standard treatments for substance use disorders.
Call 904-399-8351 for more information on substance use treatment and referral options.
We understand the benefits found in including family members in treatment and are honored to be able to support the Veteran's readjustment with these additional services. If you consider them family, we do, too!
We value community partnerships. Our partnerships include:
- Military installations, National Guard, and Reserve units
- Colleges, universities, and vocational schools
- Florida Department of Veterans Affairs (FDVA)
- County Veteran services and councils
- Veterans Service Organizations
- Community mental health facilities and legal services
- American Red Cross
- Faith-based organizations
Our Mobile Vet Center is also present at a lot of community events in Jacksonville and other areas in northeast and central Florida to connect our Veterans and service members with their benefits and resources. We also educate family members and communities on how to best serve and honor their loved one and service members.
For those who have lost someone, we support counseling, education, and referrals (as needed). If you’re a Gold Star family member, we’re here for you, no matter how distant or recent your loss.
We commonly address the following concerns (no diagnosis needed):
- Anxiety or stress reactions, like PTSD
- Hypervigilance, isolation, difficulty trusting others
- Depression or lack of motivation
- Sleep difficulties
- Anger, rage, and aggressive or reckless behaviors
- Difficulties returning to civilian life after a deployment or activation
Visit us in-person or via telehealth to receive support or for individual or group therapy.
Our licensed professionals will treat symptoms that you present, but won’t diagnose any mental health conditions nor prescribe medications for treatment.
Military sexual trauma (MST) can happen to both men and women. We have male and female counselors who provide trauma-informed individual and group therapy and supportive services for those who experienced military sexual trauma, regardless of if it was reported.
Care at our center includes:
- Gender-specific therapist at your request
- Individual therapy
- Male and female support and therapeutic groups
- Relaxation groups
- Interpersonal violence seminars
We offer individual and group counseling.
Care at our center includes:
- Gender-specific therapist at your request
- Anger management
- Stress management
- Activity engagement
- Therapeutic groups (Vietnam Veteran Legacy, 12-session anger management, combat, MST)
- Support groups (Vietnam Veteran Legacy, combat, MST, men’s, women’s)
- Relaxation groups (art, coloring, cinema)
- PTSD 101 (quarterly for clients and family members)
- Interpersonal violence seminar
You may see our outreach team and other VA services during your drill weekends or trainings, before departing for and after returning from deployments or activations, and retirement presentations.
We understand that searching for resources can be challenging. Let us help you navigate through and connect with:
- Activating VA medical benefits and enrolling in care
- Filing for service-connected disability claims and other forms
- Making the most of your VA education benefits
- Using your VA home loan guarantee benefits
- Accessing VA burial benefits
- Searching for employment opportunities/development
We can also connect you to the local Veteran Service Officer/Claims Examiner in your area. Call us to find out more.
If you do not want to enroll or are ineligible for VA health care, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Jacksonville provides information on local resources for you and your family.
Learn more about NAMI Jacksonville
It doesn’t matter if you have been out for a while, recently separated or are currently serving, we can help. Care at our center includes:
- Women Veteran support group
- Relaxation groups
- Gender-specific therapist at your request
Our team works closely with LGBTQ+ Veteran care coordinators and transgender care coordinators locally and throughout the North Florida/South Georgia Health Care System and can ease the process of providing a warm hand-off referral, based on the Veteran’s or service member’s needs.
Learn more about North Florida/South Georgia Health Care LGBTQ+ services
Look for our Mobile Vet Center and staff at many LGBTQ+ events and celebrations, including annual pride parades.
Let us help connect you with VA’s “one-stop shop” Community Resource & Referral Center (CRRC) at 605 West Beaver Street in Jacksonville or dial 904-798-2800 for services.
Whether you’re experiencing intimate partner violence or are concerned about someone else, there are things you can do to enhance safety, emotional well-being, and physical well-being. For more information or assistance, contact us. We offer a quarterly seminar on identifying interpersonal violence and how we can help.
Your North Florida/South Georgia Health Care System offers support through the Intimate Violence Assistance Program. You can reach their two program coordinators at 352-548-6000 for information or assistance.
Learn more about the Intimate Violence Assistance Program
For emergency assistance, the National Domestic Violence hotline can help. You can visit them online or call the hotline at 800-799-7233 (TTY: 800-787-3224).
Go to the National Domestic Violence Hotline website
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.