Austin Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in Austin, 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 Travis County, Integral Care answers 24/7 at 512-472-4357; press 1 for English, then 1 for mental health support.
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 Austin, 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.
In Travis County almost everything runs through Integral Care, the local authority for behavioral health. Its helpline at 512-472-4357 answers every hour of every day and is the front door to the rest: a psychiatric emergency walk-in clinic on the second floor of the Hopkins Building at 1165 Airport Blvd. for adults and children, mobile teams that come to you, and The Inn, a 16-bed place where an adult in crisis can stay up to a week instead of going to a hospital. Services are available regardless of ability to pay and in many languages.
Cost is the other wall people hit, and about one in seven working-age adults in Austin has no health insurance. That is lower than most Texas cities and still higher than most cities in this series. Integral Care doesn’t turn people away over money, and 211 can line up help with rent, food and utilities while you sort out care. 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 Austin 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 Texas mental health resources are collected on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Austin
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 Austin, 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. Austin ranks 42nd of the 100 cities in this series for diagnosed depression and 63rd for frequent mental distress, where 1 is the highest rate, but 16th for adults without health insurance. Texas cities dominate the top of that coverage measure, and Austin has the lowest uninsured rate of the four Texas cities here. Frequent mental distress means 14 or more poor mental health days in the past month. Loneliness and social support were not measured in Texas. 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 Austin, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.