Frontier Health – Wise County Behavioral Health Services – Big Stone Gap, Virginia
43 Champions Avenue, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 24219
Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Insurance
Payment Options
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
- State welfare or child and family services funds
- State corrections or juvenile justice funds
- State education agency funds
- Other State funds
- Community Service Block Grants
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- U.S. Department of VA funds
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- Per session
- Cash or self-payment
Addiction Resource Score
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8.7
Out of 10
Wise County Behavioral Health Services, based in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, offers a full range of mental health and substance addiction treatment choices for children, adolescents, and adults. The hospital prioritizes specialized care through a variety of programs, including individual and family therapy, case management, outpatient services for adolescent clients, and drug abuse counseling. The center’s approach targets a wide spectrum of emotional, psychological, and substance-use issues, providing assistance through group and couple counseling.
Wise County Behavioral Health Services stands out for its mobile crisis intervention service for children and adolescents. This effort seeks to stabilize patients in their community while avoiding the need for emergency mental hospitalization. Evidence-based treatment modalities used at the facility include crisis intervention, evaluation and treatment planning, and comprehensive drug abuse planning. Wise County Behavioral Health Services, accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), is dedicated to delivering high-quality care that fits the unique requirements of the communities it serves.
Treatment Options
The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:
- Mentoring/peer support
- Housing services
- Discharge Planning
- Employment counseling or training
- Self-help groups
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
- Recovery coach
- Individualized Treatment
The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Veterans
- Active duty military
- Members of military families
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons with Alzheimers or dementia
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Persons with eating disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Screening for tobacco use
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Professional interventionist/educational consultant
- Complete medical history/physical exam
Treatment Modalities
- Individual psychotherapy
- Couples/family therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- 12-step facilitation
- Intervention Services
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Motivational interviewing
- Anger management
- Matrix Model
- Relapse prevention
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
Conditions Treated
- Alcoholism
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Co-occurring Disorders
Levels Of Care
- Outpatient
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Aftercare
License and Accreditation
- State mental health department
- State department of health
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
Ancillary Services
- Assertive community treatment
- Case management service
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Education services
- Family psychoeducation
- Integrated primary care services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Suicide prevention services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Therapeutic foster care
- Vocational rehabilitation services
- Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Early intervention for HIV
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
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