San Antonio Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in San Antonio, 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 Bexar County, the Center for Health Care Services answers 24/7 at 210-223-7233 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 San Antonio, 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.
San Antonio built something other cities come to study. The Restoration Center campus at 601 N. Frio Street puts crisis care, sobering services and detox in one place, and its Crisis Care Center takes walk-ins around the clock, which keeps people out of emergency rooms and jail cells. The Center for Health Care Services answers 210-223-7233 or 800-316-9241 any hour and sends a mobile crisis team out for face-to-face assessments wherever you are.
Cost is the other wall people hit, and it is a tall one here: roughly one in four working-age adults in San Antonio has no health insurance, the second highest rate among the 100 cities in this series. The Center for Health Care Services is the county’s public provider, with weekday intake at 210-261-2427, and 211 can help with rent, food and utilities in the meantime. 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 San Antonio 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 San Antonio
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 San Antonio, 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. San Antonio ranks 2nd of the 100 cities in this series for adults without health insurance and 11th for adults reporting fair or poor general health, where 1 is the highest rate, with diagnosed depression right at the middle of the series at 50th. Coverage, not distress, is the measure that sets this city apart. 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 San Antonio, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.