Mental Health Resources in Asheville, NC
This is a list of mental health resources in Asheville, NC. This list is ever changing and this inot a guarantee that the services listed below are actively open.
Crisis Resources
If you are experiencing a medical emergency, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. This is a list of behavioral health crisis resources specifically for Asheville, NC area. Example of crisis symptoms may include: hearing voices, hallucinating, irrational behavior, expressing intent to harm self or others, IV drug use, withdrawal from substance use including alcohol, withdrawal, using drugs while pregnant, and becoming unmanageable due to mental illness.
RHA Mobile Crisis Management (MCM)
(888) 573 - 1006
Mobile Crisis provides intensive, on-site response, stabilization and intervention for people of all ages who are experiencing a crisis due to mental health disturbances, developmental disabilities, or addiction. Mobile Crisis Services are available 24/7/365 to confidentially and safely stabilize the person at home, work, school or wherever in the community the crisis occurs. Contact Mobile Crisis 24/7 at (888) 573 - 1006. RHA MCM Wests serves the following counties: Alexander, Buncombe, Caldwell, Henderson, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.
Behavioral Health Crisis Center (BHCC)
Behavioral health Crisis Center (BHCC) is at 356 Biltmore Ave in Asheville, NC on the lower level of C3 365 Comprehensive Care Center. BHCC's services are currently available Sunday-Saturday 8 am - 8 pm.
Vaya Health Crisis Line (800) 849-6127
Anyone living in the WNC region can Vaya's toll-free, 24/7 Behavioral Health Crisis Line at 1-800-849-6127.
Community Resources
SeekHealing
SeekHealing is a community-sourced treatment model that empowers people to heal from trauma rather than achieve certain outcomes with the focus on community. SeekHealing provides free support services to any stage in the process of healing from trauma and/or addiction and mental health challenges. Seek healing is making opportunities for human connection universally accessible in order to improve social health in local communities and reduce deaths of despair.
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Webiste: https://www.seekhealing.org/
WNC Listening Line Call (828) 547-4547
Free emotional support. No judgments. WNC Listening Line is available from 8am-11pm for non-crisis community phone line serving communities in Western North Carolina. Call or text: 828-547-4547.
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Website: https://wncll.org/
Sunrise
Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness creates community through shared lived experience focused on whole person wellness through education, resource navigation and authentic peer support for ALL. Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness is a Recovery Community Organization (RCO) and is the first peer-staffed and managed organization in Western North Carolina, meaning all staff are persons certified by the state to utilize their lived experience with mental health and substance use disorders, houselessness or incarceration to help others with their life journey. Sunrise Community helps fill gaps in systems of care for some of the most vulnerable populations- the houseless, the recently incarcerated, individuals experiencing substance use and mental wellness challenges and more.
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Website: https://sunriseinasheville.org/