Johnson City Vet Center
Unhealthy substance use is often connected with PTSD, depression, or stress. We can help you understand how problematic drinking, substance use, or gambling might be related to other stressors in your life and we can teach you how to take control over your substance use.
We can refer to our local VA Mountain Home Domiciliary or to agencies in our community.
We offer individual and group counseling, including a group for significant others.
We encourage your partner or other family members to join your individual therapy sessions, once or twice to learn more about your needs and ways to best support you during your treatment.
If you or your organization would like to learn about working with Veterans and military culture, we can provide individual or education briefings.
We've established partnerships with the following groups:
- National Guard and Reserve units
- State universities and community colleges
- Veterans Service Organizations
- Tennessee Department of Veteran Services (TDVS)
- Community legal services
Call us to discuss how we can partner to support the local Veteran community.
We offer grief and bereavement counseling services to family members and significant others who may have lost a loved one on active duty. We also offer services to family members of a Veteran or service member who was receiving Vet Center services at the time of their death.
Individual and group sessions are available.
We offer individual, group, and family counseling at our main Vet Center and various satellite locations in the surrounding community. Face-to-face, virtual, and phone sessions are available.
Veterans and service members must be screened prior to attending a group.
We offer evidence-based therapies such as these:
- Talk therapy
- Behavior therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Marriage and family therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)
We offer groups such as these:
- Desert Storm/Persian Gulf Veteran support group
- Vietnam Veteran support groups
- PTSD processing groups
- Women's equine therapy group
- Significant others support group
- Retired Old Men Eating Out (ROMEO) Outreach
- Retired Old Dames Eating Out (RODEO) Outreach
- Various educational groups (such as depression, stress/relaxation, anger management, relationships, communication)
Please speak with a counselor about the right group for you.
We have male and female counselors available with specialized training in trauma counseling.
If you’re feeling on edge and on guard, having trouble with sleep or motivation, or just feeling unlike yourself following a major event or critical incident, we can help. We’ll teach you tools to manage these problems and get back on track. Asking for help takes courage and we provide the private, comfortable setting with expert counselors to help you take that next step.
Our counselors specialize in the treatment of PTSD and offer individual and group counseling at our main Vet Center and various satellite locations within the community.
We offer evidence-based therapies such as these:
- Traditional psychotherapy (talk therapy)
- Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Marriage and family therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)
We recognize that completing military service can come with a variety of new challenges. Navigating the VA system and other benefits alone can be overwhelming, We can provide education and connection for:
- Enrollment in VA health care benefits
- Filing a service-related disability claim
- Connection to employment opportunities
- Using VA education benefits
- Using your VA home loan
- Connecting to state benefits and services
Our primary focus is your safety. If you feel hopeless, suicidal, or in need of crisis care, just let your counselor know so you can work together to help you feel safer and more optimistic about your future.
We understand that searching for resources can be challenging. Let us help you navigate these types of challenges:
- How to activate VA medical benefits and enroll in care
- Where to file disability claims and other forms
- How to make the most of your VA education benefits
- How to use your VA home loan
- How to access VA burial benefits
We can also connect you to the local Veteran Service Officer in your town.
Call us at 423-928-8387 to find out more.
We specialize in women Veteran care and offer the following groups:
- Women’s equine therapy
- Painting and arts and crafts
- Retired Old Dames Eating Out (RODEO)
Please speak with a counselor about the best group for you.
We offer whole health integration services such as these:
- Equine therapy for women with sexual trauma
- Expressive art counseling modalities (such as art therapy, music therapy, movement therapy)
- Guitars for Vets (currently in development)
- Yoga (currently in development)
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.