Louisville Mental Health Resources
If you or someone you love is struggling, you don’t have to sort out the system before you can ask for help. Call the Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787 to talk through what’s going on and get pointed toward mental health support in Louisville, 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 Louisville, Seven Counties Services answers around the clock at 502-589-4313 for adults and 502-589-8070 for children.
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 Louisville, you may be carrying something that has been getting heavier for a while. That might be depression that has drained the color out of ordinary days, drinking or using that has become harder to hold in check, or worry about someone in your family that you don’t know how to act on. All of that is a real reason to reach out, and you don’t need a diagnosis or a referral to do it.
Louisville has built something not many cities have. Deflection is an alternative response team that comes out for mental health calls instead of police, and it runs 24 hours a day across all eight police divisions. You can reach it by calling 911 and asking for deflection, or through the non-emergency number at 502-574-7111, option 5. The responders wear plain clothes, and they are people with their own lived experience of mental health, substance use and homelessness, which tends to make the first few minutes feel very different.
For everything else, Seven Counties Services is the community mental health center for Louisville and the six counties around it. Adults can call 502-589-4313 and families can call 502-589-8070 for a child, both answered at any hour, and either number can send out a mobile team if someone needs help where they are. If substance use is part of what’s happening, and in Kentucky it very often is, their addiction help line is 502-583-3951. Cost shouldn’t be the thing that stops you either, and Park DuValle Community Health Center at 502-774-4401 sees patients regardless of ability to pay.
You don’t need to know which of these is right before you reach out. Whether you’re calling for yourself or for someone you love, the Mental Health Hotline can help you talk it through and find a place to start, at 866-903-3787. More Kentucky mental health resources are gathered on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Louisville
Some of these are for the worst night of your life. Others are for an ordinary Tuesday when you can’t face the week, and that counts too. If you’re not sure what happens when you dial, here’s what 988 does and who answers it.
Mental Health in Kentucky, by the Numbers
Kentucky is one of two states with no recent city-level health survey data, so these are statewide figures rather than Louisville ones, and they are older than we would like. They still say something worth knowing about how often this happens and how rarely people get help.
Figures come from SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, state estimates for Kentucky, annual averages based on the 2009 and 2010 surveys. They are statewide rather than specific to Louisville, they predate the current DSM-5 definitions of substance use disorder, and Kentucky is absent from the CDC PLACES city-level release because the state did not meet the criteria for recent inclusion. Treat them as background rather than a current measurement.
Asking for help takes more than it should when you’re already worn down, and you shouldn’t have to do the sorting on your own. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Louisville, whatever time it is. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.