Salt Lake City Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in Salt Lake City, you don’t have to understand the whole system before you make a call. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what you’re dealing with and point you toward the kind of support that fits. Call 866-903-3787 any hour of the day or night.
If this is an emergency
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you are in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7.
In Utah, the statewide line answers 24/7 at 988 or 801-587-3000, and can send a mobile team to you.
The Mental Health Hotline is an information and referral service. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
If you’re looking for mental health help in Salt Lake City, the reason could be almost anything: depression that has flattened everything out, anxiety that won’t switch off, drinking or using more than you meant to, a diagnosis you’re still learning to live with, or a stretch that has simply gotten heavier than you can carry on your own. You don’t need a referral or a diagnosis to start asking, and none of it needs to reach an emergency before it counts.
Salt Lake City now has something most of the country doesn’t. In March 2025 the Kem and Carolyn Gardner Mental Health Crisis Care Center opened at 955 West 3300 South in South Salt Lake, and it takes walk-ins 24 hours a day for any adult 18 or over in a mental health or substance use crisis. No appointment, and stabilization is provided regardless of your ability to pay. It served 9,500 people in its first year. The statewide line behind it, run by Huntsman Mental Health Institute, answers at 988 or 801-587-3000 and can send a mobile outreach team to wherever you are, free of charge.
Cost is the other wall people hit, and about one in eight working-age adults here has no health insurance, higher than the Utah figure. If you’re not in crisis and just want someone to talk to, a peer support line at 801-587-1055 is answered by people who have been through it themselves, from 8am to 11pm every day. There’s more on mental health insurance coverage if that’s the sticking point.
You don’t need to know which of these is right before you reach out. The figures further down describe Salt Lake City in aggregate; they aren’t a description of you. Whether you’re looking for yourself or for someone you care about, the Mental Health Hotline can help you sort through the options at 866-903-3787. More Utah mental health resources are collected on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Salt Lake City
These are the numbers and addresses worth having. Some are for the worst night of your life and some are for a Tuesday afternoon when you just can’t face the week, and both of those are reasons to call. If you’re not sure what happens when you dial, here’s what 988 actually does.
Mental Health in Salt Lake City, by the Numbers
Three figures that say something about the conditions people here are dealing with. They set context for the resources above rather than explaining any one person’s situation.
Figures come from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, which models city-level estimates from 2023 BRFSS survey responses for adults 18 and over. Salt Lake City ranks 7th of the 100 cities in this series for diagnosed depression, where 1 is the highest rate, 32nd for loneliness and 44th for adults without health insurance. It also ranks 95th for routine checkups, meaning fewer adults here see a doctor in a given year than in almost any other city in the series. Model-based estimates describe a population, not any one person in it.
Working out where to start is often the hardest part, especially when you’re already worn down and the list of numbers is long. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Salt Lake City, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.