Valley Mental Health is a licensed outpatient mental health clinic dedicated to providing compassionate therapy — individual, group, and family — for Medicaid clients across Marion, Polk, and Yamhill counties.
We partner with you on your healing journey
Serving children through seniors with individual and group treatment
- Mental
- Emotional
- Developmental
- Qualified Mental Health Professionals (QMHP)
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW)
- Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC)
- Certified Alcohol Drug Counselors (CADC)
- Licensed Psychiatrists (MD)
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP)
Patient Driven Care
Who We Serve
- children
- teens
- adults
- seniors
- developmentally disabled
- LGBTQ
Individual therapy through a range of emotional mental and developmental needs
Services Offered
Types of Therapy
- Individual
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Age-specific therapies for children and geriatric populations
- Gender identity
- EMDR
- Play Therapy
- Trauma-Informed therapy
- Culturally-specific therapy
- Couples Counseling
- Family Therapy
- Parent Child Interaction Therapy
- Parent/Child Psychotherapy
- Dialectical Behavioral-Therapy (DBT)
Specialties
VMH clinicians specialize in a broad-range of services. Some areas of specialty include: Dialectical Behavioral-Therapy (DBT), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), age-specific therapies for children and geriatric populations, Gender identity and transition, EMDR, Brainspotting, Play Therapy, Theraplay, Equine Therapy, trauma-informed and culturally-specific therapy.
- Child Mental Health
- Adolescents
- Transition Aged Youth (17-21)
- Adults
- Foster Care
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Geriatric populations
- Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI)
- Individuals identifying with the LGBTQ+ communities
- Individuals exploring gender identity and/or transitioning to their true gender
- Individuals who identify with populations that have faced historical oppression, including racial or cultural groups
Valley Mental Health
- 30 clinicians
- 6 Licensed Medical Providers
- 9 Qualified Mental Health Associates
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have an immediate emergency contact 911 or the Psychiatric Crisis Center at 503-585-4949 or their website here.
Contact your therapist.
On your first appointment you will be given written information about how to contact your therapist in an emergency. If an emergency occurs after office hours, the message on the Valley Mental Health answering machine will give you instructions about how to contact someone for help.
The Behavioral Health Crisis Center is located at 1118 Oak Street SE, just east of Salem Hospital. The Behavioral Health Crisis Center is staffed 24 hours a day every day. If you are going there in person, here is a map of the location
You can find your provider’s link here Online Appointments, or by contacting your provider.
Therapists manage their own schedules. Contact your therapist directly with the number they provided you. If you’re not sure, there should be an email sent by our intake department at the time you scheduled your first appointment. You can also call our front desk for that information.
Our medication providers call one time for phone appointments. If you missed the call, please call us back as soon as you can and press option 5. If you call back 10 minutes after the appointment time or later your appointment will be missed, and you can reschedule your appointment with the front desk.
There has been a nationwide shortage on some medications. Many of VMH clients are experiencing their pharmacy not always having their regular medications in stock. While your regular pharmacy might be temporarily out of stock, there are many pharmacies in town that carry the medication. We ask that you call the other pharmacies in town and call our clinic at 503-589-4046 letting us know which pharmacy has the medication, the dosage and whether they have the extended or immediate release.
After we send out a prescription to a pharmacy, we cannot move that existing script to a different pharmacy. Please call the new pharmacy where you would like to fill your medications and ask them to contact the old pharmacy where the prescriptions were originally sent and the new pharmacy pull the prescriptions to fill at the new pharmacy.
It’s totally understandable to want to transfer to a different therapist, sometimes people just don’t click! This is a normal process, and we ask that you contact your existing therapist to request they start the transfer process if there are openings with other therapists.
You can request your records by filling out this Forms or come to our clinic at 821 Saginaw St. South to fill out the records request form in person.
We will work directly with the insurance to confirm your coverage. If you have any questions about coverage please contact our Intake department at 503-589-4046.
Insurance accepted for Therapy
Blue Cross Anthem/Regence
Medicare
MODA
Oregon Health Plan
– – Open Card
– – PacificSource Community Solutions
– – PacificSource Dual Plan HMO D-SNP
– – Yamhill Community Care
Providence
PacificSource Health Plan
Insurance accepted for Medication Management
Aetna
Blue Cross Anthem
Blue Cross Regence
First Choice
MHN/Healthnet
Medicare
Moda
Oregon Health Plan
– – Open Card
– – PacificSource Community Solutions
– – PacificSource Dual Plan HMO D-SNP
– – Yamhill Community Care
Providence Regence/Blue Cross
PacificSource Health Plan
Providence
PBH/United Health Care
Samaritan Choice
UMR
Wellcare
You do not need a referral to request services from Valley Mental Health. Once in services, your team will work closely with your medical provider to coordinate all of your health and care needs.
Contact our office at 503-589-4046 or fill out the new client request form here and our intake department will work with you to match you with the clinician that meets your needs.
We know that finding the right provider or therapist is the first step in the process. Our helpful intake team will do an in-depth screening with you and can guide you through the process. Please request specific areas of treatment that you are interested in at the time while working with them.
Please request Prescription Refills with your prescriber during your scheduled appointment. If you need a refill before your next scheduled appointment, call your pharmacy at least four days before your medications run out. Even if you have no refills remaining, it is best to call your pharmacy first. If a prescriber’s approval is needed for your prescription to be refilled, your pharmacist will call or fax us.
No, you will need to call our clinic at 503-589-4046 to request a refill of your controlled medications.
Schedule II medications are closely monitored. Federal law requires that certain medications need a new, original prescription, written by your prescriber each time the medication is dispensed. It is not possible to have these prescriptions with refills.
If you are requesting refill of a prescription for a schedule II medication, please leave your prescriber a voice mail with the following information:
Your name and phone number
Prescription number
Name of the medication
Whether it is immediate release or timed release
Strength of the tablets or capsules
How many you take per day.
Unless you need to come in for an evaluation, you can expect a call back within 48 hours.
Medication Clinic:
The clinic’s phone hours are from 8:30AM to 4:30PM. Our providers offer appointments within normal business hours.
Therapy:
Most of the therapists in VMH keep their own schedules, offering a range of hours. After hours, a qualified professional is always on call to handle emergencies.
Valley Mental Health clinicians work in a variety of convenient locations in and around Salem, Oregon. The main administrative offices of VMH are located at 821 Saginaw Street S in Salem, on the southwest corner of Mission and Saginaw Streets, half a mile south of downtown.
If location is an important factor in your choice of mental health services, you may request a clinician in your area when you request services. Call our Intake department at 503-589-4046.
Online via the MYIO patient portal or by calling the main office at 503-589-4046