Virginia Beach Mental Health Resources
If you’re looking for mental health help in Virginia Beach, you don’t have to work out which agency covers what 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 Virginia Beach, the Department of Human Services answers a 24-hour emergency line at 757-385-0888.
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 Virginia Beach, 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. None of that needs to reach an emergency before it counts as a reason to ask for help.
Virginia Beach has somewhere to go in the middle of the night that isn’t an emergency room. The city’s Crisis Intervention Team Assessment Center runs inside Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center every hour of every day, and the way in is to call 988 from a 757 number. That reaches the regional call center, which can also send a mobile team to wherever you are in the city. Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center separately offers free, confidential assessments around the clock at 757-496-3500, with no appointment or referral needed. And because the city runs its behavioral health and social services out of one department, the agency that handles a mental health assessment can also help with financial assistance and other practical needs.
Cost is the other wall people hit. About one in twelve working-age adults in Virginia Beach has no health insurance. That’s lower than most large cities, but it’s cold comfort if you’re one of them. Human Services offers same-day behavioral health assessments for adults at its Pembroke 6 building on Independence Boulevard, and walk-in assessments for kids and teens in the same building on weekday mornings. Mental Health Virginia’s peer-run support line and NAMI Coastal Virginia’s groups are free. More on mental health insurance coverage is available if that’s the sticking point.
You don’t need to know which of these is right for you before you reach out. The figures further down describe Virginia Beach in aggregate, not 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 Virginia mental health resources are collected on the state page.
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Where to Get Help in Virginia Beach
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 Virginia Beach, 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; poor mental health days are counted over the past 30 days. Virginia Beach sits 39th of the 100 cities in this series for depression, 66th for frequent mental distress and 40th for loneliness, where 1 is the highest rate, which puts it mid-pack or lower on all three. A lower number doesn’t make anyone’s hard week lighter. 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 every number you try seems to lead to another number. The Mental Health Hotline can talk through what’s going on and help you find the right next step in Virginia Beach, at any hour. Call 866-903-3787 when you’re ready.