Integral Care

About Integral Care

Integral Care is a low-cost public behavioral health provider in Austin, Texas, serving Travis County residents living with mental illness, substance use disorders, and intellectual or developmental disabilities. Their approach is person-centered and whole-person: staff assess each individual’s health needs and life circumstances, then build a care team and plan around the goals that person chooses. Their drug and alcohol treatment serves adults and children who also have a mental health concern, with medically supervised detox, residential care, and outpatient services. For urgent needs, they run a 24/7 helpline, a walk-in mental health urgent care, mobile crisis teams, and short-term crisis residential facilities, available regardless of ability to pay and in many languages.

Within addiction treatment, clients can expect individual counseling, group therapy, prevention education, and access to medications and a psychiatrist, with an emphasis on building trusting, honest relationships throughout recovery. Specialized programs extend that care to people who are often hard to reach. The C.A.R.E. program pairs substance use and mental health treatment for people living with or at risk of HIV and offers harm reduction supplies such as opioid overdose kits, while Assertive Community Treatment brings services to the homes of people with repeated hospitalizations. Street outreach teams and housing programs connect people experiencing homelessness with treatment and stable housing. Alongside this, they offer integrated primary care clinics, help quitting tobacco, employment support, peer support, and help applying for disability benefits, so recovery is supported on several fronts at once.