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Phoenix Rising:
Suicide Intervention & Crisis Support Services
Your service to our nation brought you face-to-face with challenges and operational environments that few outside the military can understand. Carrying the weight of those experiences can feel very heavy and even alter how you see yourself, your struggles, and your future. But you don't have to navigate that internal battle alone.
Phoenix Rising—a specialized initiative of the New Mexico Veterans Integration Centers (NMVIC)—provides confidential individual counseling, hands-on benefit navigation, and dedicated personal advocacy to every veteran across New Mexico.
We are here to stand alongside you - and support you as you build a path toward a better, more balanced and hopeful life experience.
Transforming Hopelessness Through Direct, Individual Care
The mission of Phoenix Rising is to provide specialized Suicide Intervention & Crisis Support Services centered on cognitive change and practical support. While we cannot erase life's hardships, we can help you process them, challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, and discover new ways forward.
Our focus is strictly on you as an individual veteran with respect for your individual experiences and needs.
Time spent with a VIC representative is one-on-one, private, and healing-focused.
How Phoenix Rising Serves You
Available to New Mexican veterans, Phoenix Rising provides targeted,
1-on-1 support to help you gain perspective, rebuild resilience, and access critical resources.
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Mental Health Counseling: Confidential, individual counseling sessions focused on helping you examine and reframe experiences, process military memories, and build healthy coping mechanisms.
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VA Benefit Navigation & Application Assistance: Direct, hands-on support with your VA paperwork and filing. We help remove administrative stress to the best of our ability, so you can focus on your personal well-being.
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Baseline Risk & Well-Being Screenings: Respectful, individualized screenings designed to identify cognitive and emotional strain early, providing a safe space to talk before a crisis takes hold.
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Emergency Needs Assistance: Practical support for sudden financial, housing, or personal emergencies that add heavy weight to your daily life.
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Dedicated Peer Advocacy: Work directly with specialists who understand military service, speak your language, and walk alongside you as you navigate healthcare and community support statewide.
Taking the first step to challenge difficult thoughts
takes immense courage.
You don't have to face it alone,
and you don't
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allfigured out
right now.
Note on Medical & Psychiatric Services: The VIC focuses exclusively on therapy, skill development, and behavioral health. We do not offer stand-alone psychiatric services or manage medications. If pharmacological support is needed, our clinical team will directly connect you with a trusted local medical provider.
ROUTINE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Our services are FREE to eligible veterans per the following criteria:
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A Veteran of the US Armed Forces (Active, Reserve, National Guard) or Un-remarried Surviving Spouse of a Veteran
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Certain programs may require active duty service to be eligible
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Discharge Status: eligibility for programs varies and may depend upon the character of discharge. We encourage all Veterans to apply, as we offer diverse programs with different criteria
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Willing to accept help and improve your life
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Must live in New Mexico
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Unsure if you meet these requirements or don't have a copy of your ID or DD214? Apply anyway and we'll respond.