Reno 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 at any hour, and we can talk through what’s on your mind and help you find the kind of support that fits in Reno.
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 Reno, Quest Counseling answers 775-786-6880 around the clock, and its team can meet you in person.
The Mental Health Hotline is an information and referral service. It is not a substitute for emergency services.
Asking for help can feel like admitting something is wrong, but it really means you are taking yourself seriously, or taking someone you love seriously, and that is worth doing well before anything reaches a breaking point. You don’t need a diagnosis or a referral to start.
Reno has more help available than most people realize. Quest Counseling on Plumas Street answers its phone every hour of every day, and its team can meet you at the office, at a hospital or somewhere else in the community, usually within a few hours. As a community behavioral health clinic, it doesn’t turn people away because of cost or insurance. When police respond to a mental health call in the city, the Mobile Outreach Safety Team sends a clinician along, with the goal of getting someone to care rather than to jail.
Paying for help is a common worry, and it doesn’t have to decide things for you. About one in eight working-age adults in Reno has no health insurance. Quest and Vitality Unlimited both serve people regardless of ability to pay, the peer support line is free, and it helps to know how mental health insurance coverage works before you rule anything out.
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 work out a next step at 866-903-3787. More Nevada mental health resources are gathered on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Reno
These are worth keeping close by. Some are for the moments when everything feels urgent, and more of them are for the quieter kind of struggle, when you are simply tired of handling it alone. Both are good reasons to reach out. If you’re wondering what happens when you dial, here is what 988 actually does.
Mental Health in Reno, by the Numbers
These three figures describe Reno as a whole. They are context for the resources above, not a description of you or anyone you love, and none of them change what is worth doing today.
Figures come from the CDC PLACES 2025 release, which models city-level estimates from 2023 BRFSS survey responses for adults 18 and over. Reno sits 21st of the 100 cities in this series for adults who feel socially isolated, where 1 is the highest rate, against a Nevada median of 33.8 percent. Model-based estimates describe a population, not any one person in it.
If you have been carrying this on your own, you don’t have to keep doing it that way. A first conversation doesn’t commit you to anything. The Mental Health Hotline can listen, talk through what is going on, and help you find the right next step in Reno, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.