Spokane Vet Center
Spokane Vet Center has qualified and experienced family counselors onsite to offer family, significant others, and couples counseling.
Care includes:
- Family counseling
- Individual family member
- Significant Others group
- Significant Other individual counseling
- Couple’s counseling and support
For family or significant other individual counseling, it is required that the Veteran is a current client.
Individual and family counseling is available to those who have lost an immediate family member in the line of duty.
Spokane Vet Center offers individual and group counseling, including
- Combat-related groups
- Cinema Group (Trauma and Readjustment based)
- Modern Warriors Group (Gulf War, Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.)
- Vietnam Groups
- Anger Management group
- Significant Others Support group
- All Era group (at our Sandpoint, ID location)
- Readjustment group (at our Coeur d'Alene, ID location)
We offer the following evidence-based therapies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Motivational interviewing (MI)
- Prolonged exposure therapy (PE)
We have experienced and trained military sexual trauma therapists to assist with your counseling needs. We offer significant others and family counseling for MST Survivors. We also offer referral services to VA Medical Centers.
The Spokane Vet Center has trained Chemical Dependency Counselors and support groups to address your needs, including a Sobriety Support group (alcohol and chemical sobriety).
We also provide referral to VA and local community counseling resources.
Spokane Vet Center supports local Veterans through partnerships with government and community agencies, including:
- Colleges and Universities
- Veteran Service Organizations
- American Legion
- Blind Veterans Association
- Disabled American Veterans
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Vietnam Veterans of America
- State Services
- Task Force
If you are struggling with mental health issues, identity, or need to process your military experience, we are here to help.
The Spokane Vet Center has professional therapists to provide empathic and non-judgmental counseling to address your needs.
Spokane Vet Center offers the following groups.
- Gay Veterans group
- Veteran Transgender group
Please call to get an updated list of groups, times, locations, and eligibility.
We offer trauma processing through group, family, and individual sessions, and evidence-based therapies, including:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Motivational interviewing (MI)
- Prolonged exposure therapy (PE)
We offer referrals to VA, state, or community treatment and therapy resources.
Our Vet Center can also connect you with ongoing counseling and services. We offer crisis walk-in counseling during normal operation hours (you do not need to be a current client).
Veterans in rural communities may be able to connect remotely with Spokane Vet Center counselors and staff to receive services.
Spokane Vet Center can help you:
- Understand VA medical benefits and provide guidance on documents needed for enrollment
- Find a VSO to file claims and other benefits paperwork
- Connect you to representatives for VA education benefits
- Overview and referral for VA and state burial benefits
- Learn more about housing and VA home loans
We can refer you to the VA’s Veteran Readiness and Education agency (formerly Vocational Rehabilitation) in Spokane or Lewiston or to other local resources for employment or career advancement.
If you have questions concerning women Veteran health and mental care, we can refer you to VA and community resources
We offer recreation and creative arts activities through the Vet Center or with a community partner. Call for information for known upcoming events.
Example of current and past events:
- Art Group
- Cowgirls and Women Warriors
- Inland Northwest Heroes Golf
- Martial Arts
- Red Badge Project – Creative Writing
- Vets on the Green
- Vietnam Veterans Retreat
- Yoga
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.