Memphis Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in Memphis, 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 Memphis, Alliance Healthcare Services answers a crisis number 24/7 at 901-577-9400 and can send a mobile team.
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 Memphis, 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.
Memphis has a walk-in crisis center that never closes. The Alliance Crisis Wellness Center at 3200 Broad Avenue takes adults 18 and over any hour, with no appointment and no insurance required, for assessment and stabilization that usually lasts hours rather than days. Since May 2026 there’s a companion building for children and teens aged 4 to 17 at 602 Malcomb Street, the first of its kind in West Tennessee. Alliance also answers 901-577-9400 around the clock and sends mobile teams across Shelby County.
Cost is the other wall people hit, and Memphis has one of the higher uninsured rates in this series, at roughly one in seven working-age adults. Alliance says no one is turned away from crisis care for inability to pay, and it offers the Behavioral Health Safety Net and sliding-scale fees for ongoing outpatient care at 901-369-1410. 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 Memphis 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 Tennessee mental health resources are collected on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Memphis
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 Memphis, 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. Memphis ranks 6th of the 100 cities in this series for frequent mental distress and 17th for adults without health insurance, where 1 is the highest rate, but 27th for diagnosed depression. The gap between how people feel and how many have a diagnosis often reflects who has been able to see someone. Frequent mental distress means 14 or more poor mental health days in the past month. Loneliness and social support were not measured in Tennessee. 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 Memphis, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.