A Path Forward: Home Base Texas Offers Hope and Healing to Veterans and Families

Menninger Clinic | Home Base Texas Offers Hope and Healing to Veterans

Texas is home to the second-largest veteran population in the United States, with approximately 1.5 million veterans living in the state, according to the Hogg Foundation at UT Austin. This large population faces significant challenges: studies show PTSD affects roughly 7% of veterans compared to about 6% of U.S. adults overall and is more common in those who served in combat operations (US Dept. Of Veteran Affairs). These numbers highlight a clear need for accessible, veteran-focused mental health care within Texas.

Home Base Texas, an evidence-based outpatient program, was created to meet that need where veterans live. In partnership with The Menninger Clinic, Home Base Texas provides compassionate, individualized, no-cost mental health care for veterans, service members, and their families. While Home Base also offers a two-week intensive inpatient program at its headquarters in Boston, Home Base Texas offers flexible outpatient care, tailored to the lives and needs of Texas veterans and their families.

Compassionate, Individualized Care That Honors the Whole Person

Veterans deserve more than symptom management. At Home Base Texas, care begins with listening and is built around each individual’s lived experience, goals, and strengths. Whether someone is dealing with post-traumatic stress, healing from a physical injury, anxiety, depression, or the transition to civilian life, treatment of the invisible wounds of service is grounded in trust, compassion, and cultural understanding.

The outpatient structure allows for flexibility, dignity, and ease of access. Texas veterans, active service members, military families, and families of the fallen can receive care on a schedule that fits their lives. This program is free of cost to veterans and families, with no prior diagnosis required. Veterans of any discharge status, regardless of when or where they served, are eligible.

Healing Families, Not Just Individuals

Mental health challenges affect more than the individual who served; they affect marriages, parent‑child relationships, friendships, and entire communities. That is why Home Base Texas includes family therapy, education, and support. Loved ones are welcomed into the healing process.

Coupled with clinical expertise and a deep understanding of military culture, the program provides space for real transformation, not just for veterans, but for the people who support them.

Restoring Hope to Those Who Served

In the launch video linked above, one Texas veteran shared that Home Base gave him something he had not felt in a long time: hope. That renewed possibility is at the core of what Home Base Texas exists to provide.

The program is led by experienced clinicians, veteran outreach specialists, and health care leaders from across Texas, grounded in The Menninger Clinic’s tradition of evidencebased, relationship‑centered care. This is a team deeply committed to serving those who have served us, with compassion and clinical excellence.

This program is more than treatment. It is a path forward. It is healing that honors the whole person and support that uplifts families and communities.

For more information about Home Base Texas, contact Leonard Montgomery, Veteran Outreach Manager, at 850‑206‑8256 or mghhbtexas@mgb.org.