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The Center City Philadelphia 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

​​​​​​The Center City Philadelphia Vet Center has male and female counselors who work with families, including Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers.

Our counselors implement the following clinical therapeutic modalities:

• Family Systems
• Emotionally Focused Therapy
• Gottman Method
• Strategic Family Therapy
• Structural Family Therapy
• Attachment-based Family Therapy

In addition, counselors may provide education to family members regarding the Veteran’s military related problems and/or post military readjustment. We will offer future groups in communication skills  and spousal support.

Center City Philadelphia offers counseling to family members who have lost a service member while on active duty.

Our staff works to help you process how the loss has affected you and help you reconnect with life.

We can provide Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to address issues related to grief and bereavement.

Here at Center City Philadelphia Vet Center, our staff utilize interventions in helping Veterans and service members with PTSD, addiction and substance abuse, including

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
• Harm Reduction
• 12-step facilitation

At the Center City Philadelphia Vet Center, our staff are trained to work with military sexual trauma and address the unique factors that arise in a military setting. Our staff stays current through monthly consultations and focused training sessions.

We provide information about the effects of experiencing military sexual trauma and offer talk therapy to help you process effects of the MST in your life and relationships.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is also available at the Center City Philadelphia Vet Center. 

If you’re returning from military service, we’ll help you transition to civilian life. We can connect you with educational and career counseling, mental health services, and other programs and benefits that will support your transition.

We understand that the transition from military to civilian life can be a challenge. We offer a variety of ways to assist you in that process such as:

• How to get VA medical benefits and register for care
• Where to go to file claims and other forms
• Understanding your VA education and VR&E benefits
• Housing and home loans
• Education and referral for VA burial benefits

The Wilmington Vet Center can also connect you to Veterans Service Organizations in your community.

We also work closely with LGBTQIA+ service providers at the VA and other community partners, and we can make a direct referrals.  Learn more about the Syracuse VA's services for LGBTQIA+ Veterans.

The Pittsburgh Vet Center understands that the transition from military to civilian life can be a challenge. We offer a variety of ways to assist you in that process such as:

• How to get VA medical benefits and register for care
• Where to go to file claims and other forms
• Understanding your VA education benefits
• Housing and home loans
• Education and referral for VA burial benefits

We can also connect you to Veterans Service Organizations in your community.