Brainerd VA Clinic

Brainerd VA Clinic has a variety of quality, responsive and personalized services. This outpatient facility serves veterans in Brainerd and neighboring communities in Minnesota. They can assist if you’ve lingering mental issues including depression, anxiety and addictive behavior/substance misuse.

They can even assist you in overcoming co-occurring conditions. This is like when you’re dealing with both substance misuse and mental issues. Their confidential and personalized therapeutic support equips you with the tools to overcome these conditions. I also like that they offer same day help and support walk-in express care for urgent health issues.

They provide psychiatric consultations and evaluations to identify your unique needs. This helps them craft personalized treatment plans to guide your recovery process. The recovery process involves evidence-based individual and group therapy that helps you uncover the root causes of your behavioral challenges. You’ll participate in individual sessions with a skilled therapist to explore personal challenges like trauma, emotions and thought patterns that may contribute to substance use. The therapist will help you set recovery goals, monitor progress and provide support as necessary.

Group therapy lets you interact, connect and share experiences with peers facing similar challenges in a nonjudgmental setting. It’s a great way to develop beautiful relationships and create a strong recovery support network. You may even learn vital life skills like effective communication, anger/stress management and solving problems. It’s all about building strong coping skills, preventing relapse and staying sober. They may even offer medication assisted treatment (MAT) if relevant to your personalized treatment plans.

The best part is that you can access this therapeutic support from the comfort of your home. This is thanks to their secured telehealth services including videoconferencing and home telehealth support. They even offer store and forward telehealth. This lets you securely send or receive your health information to/from experts at their facilities. Accessing care this way can be super convenient.

You can also benefit from their smoke cessation program if you’re struggling with quitting smoking. They offer support and strategies that may complement optional nicotine replacement therapy. These may include FDA approved meds to manage nicotine withdrawal and the urge to smoke. This is supported with in-person and phone counseling to fast-track withdrawal. There’s even a Tobacco Cessation Quitline for counseling and cessation strategies.

There are many ways to pay for their services. They accept private and public insurance, including Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE. If uninsured, you can pay out of pocket in person, online or by phone. You may even qualify for VA financial hardship assistance. You may qualify for care in this facility without enrolling in the VA health care.