From trauma and mood disorders to co-occurring and complex conditions, Solara delivers veteran-exclusive care grounded in clinical expertise and trauma-informed principles.
Discover how we approach each condition with clarity, compassion, and a deep respect for your service.
Follow the links below to learn more about the mental health and substance use disorders we treat—and how Solara can help.
Mood disorders affect how you think, feel, and function. For veterans, these changes often stem from prolonged exposure to stress, unresolved trauma, moral injury, or the identity loss that can come with leaving service. These conditions are not character flaws. They are treatable mental health challenges that affect thousands of veterans.
Whether you feel stuck in a cycle of hopelessness or overwhelmed by unpredictable energy shifts, support is available. With evidence-based care and a veteran-only environment, you can begin to restore balance, purpose, and connection.
Bipolar Disorder causes disruptive mood cycles that can affect everything from relationships to personal safety. Solara provides bipolar treatment for veterans in a stable, structured environment that understands the impact of military life.
Bipolar Disorder is characterized by shifts between depressive and manic or hypomanic states. In a depressive episode, you may feel exhausted, withdrawn, and hopeless. In a manic or hypomanic state, you may feel energized, impulsive, and restless, with racing thoughts and difficulty sleeping. These shifts can affect decision-making, strain relationships, and create instability in daily life. For veterans, the condition may be worsened by trauma history, disrupted routines, or stigma around emotional health.
You are not too intense, too unpredictable, or beyond help. Bipolar disorder is a real condition that can be stabilized with care. Support helps you recognize early signs, build coping skills, and find steadier footing so that mood swings no longer control your life.
Solara offers a structured, veteran-specific treatment model that includes mood stabilization through psychiatric care, skills training, psychoeducation, and trauma-informed therapy. We help veterans learn how to track their mood states, prevent crisis escalation, and navigate relationships with greater clarity and safety.
Complicated bereavement involves prolonged, unresolved grief that disrupts daily life. Veterans who have lost close friends in combat or experienced repeated transitions may carry this pain for years. Solara provides grief therapy for veterans with a focus on integration, meaning, and healing.
Grief is a natural response to loss. But when it remains unresolved for months or years and begins to interfere with daily life, it may develop into complicated bereavement. For veterans, this may be linked to the loss of fellow service members, survivor’s guilt, or mourning a version of themselves that existed before trauma. You may experience persistent yearning, emotional detachment, identity confusion, or an inability to envision a future. This kind of grief can feel isolating and difficult to explain, even to those close to you.
You are allowed to honor your loss without being consumed by it. Support can help you carry grief in a way that allows space for living, connection, and purpose. Healing does not mean forgetting. It means making room for life again.
Solara provides grief-informed therapy that includes narrative work, emotional regulation, peer connection, and space to process military-specific loss. Our team understands the cultural, moral, and spiritual layers of veteran grief and tailors care to respect your values. We never rush the process. We walk with you through it.
Depression in veterans is a serious, yet manageable condition that impacts mood, motivation, and daily life. Solara offers trauma-informed, VA-covered veteran depression treatment in a supportive, military-exclusive setting. If you’re looking for military depression help that’s grounded in evidence and respect, you’re not alone.
Depression affects more than mood. It impacts energy levels, sleep, appetite, concentration, and motivation. For many veterans, depression shows up as emotional numbness, irritability, withdrawal, or a constant sense of fatigue. You may feel disconnected from others, unmotivated to engage with daily life, or convinced that things will not get better. These patterns often take root after exposure to trauma, isolation, or transition stress, and they can gradually limit your ability to function, connect, or care.
Depression often makes the idea of reaching out feel impossible. That is part of the condition. But support can help lift the weight and reconnect you to parts of yourself that may feel out of reach. Even if it has been years, it is not too late to find clarity and direction again.
At Solara, we offer personalized therapy that includes emotional regulation strategies, trauma-informed care, and advanced options like Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) when needed. You will work with clinicians who understand the military mindset and who respect your pace. We also offer structured group programming, peer connection, and support for reintegration.
Major Depressive Disorder is a clinical form of depression that can disrupt nearly every aspect of life. Solara offers MDD treatment for veterans through intensive, trauma-informed programming that supports both emotional and functional recovery.
Major Depressive Disorder is a persistent condition that affects your mood, thoughts, and physical health. Symptoms may include deep sadness, apathy, difficulty concentrating, overwhelming guilt, disrupted sleep, and thoughts of death or self-harm. For veterans, MDD is often compounded by moral injury, grief, or a sense of lost identity after discharge. These symptoms can interfere with relationships, work, and day-to-day stability, especially when left unaddressed.
You do not need to wait for rock bottom. If you have felt emotionally flat, hopeless, or lost in your own life, help is available. Support is not about making you feel better overnight. It is about giving you tools to manage what you carry and to move forward with steadiness and support.
Solara provides integrated MDD care that includes weekly one-on-one therapy, psychiatric medication management, trauma-responsive group programming, and access to TMS for treatment-resistant symptoms. Our team understands the complex layers of depression in the veteran community and offers care that respects your background, beliefs, and lived experience.
If you are a veteran struggling with suicidal thoughts, intrusive urges, or a persistent sense of hopelessness, you are not alone. Solara provides veteran-centered treatment for suicidal ideation by addressing the root causes, such as trauma, depression, and moral injury within a safe, structured environment.
Suicidal ideation refers to thoughts about ending your life or not wanting to live. These thoughts may range from passive feelings like wishing you would not wake up to more active planning or urges. Veterans experiencing suicidal ideation often describe feeling like a burden, disconnected from others, or stuck in emotional pain with no clear way out.
These thoughts are rarely just about death. More often, they reflect a need for the suffering to stop. Suicidal ideation is frequently linked to conditions such as PTSD, depression, substance use, and unresolved moral injury. For many veterans, these experiences are intensified by isolation, loss of identity, or a sense of being misunderstood.
Without support, suicidal thoughts can spiral into emotional shutdown, increased risk of self-harm, or impulsive behaviors. But with treatment, veterans can begin to reduce these thoughts, regain perspective, and reconnect with what matters.
If you are thinking about suicide, it does not mean you are broken. It means you are carrying more pain than your current tools can manage. You may feel exhausted, detached, or convinced that nothing will change—but those thoughts are symptoms, not facts.
You do not have to be in crisis to deserve support. And you do not need to know what healing looks like before taking a step toward it. Treatment is not about talking you out of anything. It is about creating space where your pain is taken seriously, where you’re not alone with it, and where change becomes possible.
At Solara, suicidal ideation is treated as a serious symptom of deeper pain. Our clinicians work closely with each veteran through frequent one-on-one therapy, trauma-informed treatment planning, and comprehensive psychiatric support when needed. We help address the root causes, whether they include PTSD, depression, or unresolved grief, while also teaching immediate strategies for emotional regulation and safety. Veterans receive care in a calm, contained environment where connection, privacy, and dignity are always respected.
Anxiety is a natural response to stress, but when it becomes chronic, overwhelming, or unpredictable, it can interfere with a veteran’s ability to function and feel safe. Whether rooted in combat exposure, operational hypervigilance, or the loss of military structure, anxiety can take many forms—and often hides behind anger, avoidance, or physical symptoms.
For veterans, anxiety disorders are common and treatable. With targeted support, it’s possible to reduce symptoms, regain calm, and build lasting skills to manage stress. Recovery doesn’t mean forgetting what you’ve been through—it means learning how to live without being consumed by it.
Anxiety affects a large portion of the veteran population. It can feel like something’s always about to go wrong—even when things are calm. Solara offers VA-covered, veteran-specific anxiety treatment that’s grounded in trauma-informed care and real-world tools.
Anxiety is more than feeling nervous. It’s a physiological and psychological state of hyperarousal that can cause rapid heartbeat, tight muscles, digestive issues, insomnia, and persistent worry. For veterans, anxiety often develops after years of needing to stay alert in unpredictable, high-risk environments. Even after service, your body may remain in “ready mode,” constantly scanning for threats. Over time, this leads to fatigue, difficulty concentrating, emotional outbursts, or withdrawal. Untreated anxiety can strain relationships, impair decision-making, and make rest feel unsafe or unfamiliar.
If you’ve been holding it together for years, but inside everything still feels tense, it’s not a personal failure—it’s your body still doing its job long after the threat has passed. Support helps you rebuild a sense of calm and stop bracing for what might go wrong. This isn’t about fixing you. It’s about giving you tools that respect what you’ve already survived.
Solara’s approach to anxiety focuses on helping you regulate the nervous system and build practical coping strategies. We combine trauma-informed individual therapy with mindfulness-based stress reduction, body awareness training, and medication support if needed. You’ll work with clinicians who understand military conditioning and how it shapes your response to stress.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder causes nonstop worry that doesn’t ease with logic or reassurance. For veterans, it often overlaps with hypervigilance, moral injury, or transition stress. Solara offers veteran GAD treatment that addresses both the root and the ripple effects.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder involves constant, intrusive worry that is difficult to turn off. You might feel keyed up, tense, or restless most days—without knowing why. Sleep is often disrupted, and even minor decisions can feel overwhelming. For veterans, GAD may take root during service when anticipating threats became second nature. After discharge, the worry often shifts: about family safety, finances, or personal failure. GAD can interfere with trust, routines, and long-term goals, often leading to burnout or emotional numbness if left untreated.
Living in a state of constant worry isn’t weakness. For many veterans, it was once necessary to anticipate everything that could go wrong. But it doesn’t have to run your life anymore. Getting care is not about making you “less alert”—it’s about helping you choose when to be.
Our GAD track includes cognitive behavioral therapy focused on thought patterns, emotion regulation skills to reduce overwhelm, and somatic tools to help quiet physical tension. We offer structured routines, psychoeducation, and targeted support that speaks directly to the experience of being “always on” even when the danger is past.
Panic disorder involves sudden, intense episodes of physical fear that may feel like a heart attack or sense of losing control. Veterans often experience panic as the body’s way of releasing suppressed stress or trauma.
Understanding the Condition & Its Impact: Panic disorder causes recurring episodes of intense physical fear. During a panic attack, symptoms can include chest pain, dizziness, sweating, nausea, a choking sensation, and a fear of losing control or dying. These episodes may come out of nowhere or be triggered by certain environments, body sensations, or memories. Veterans often confuse panic with physical health crises or suppress it due to stigma. Over time, the fear of having another attack can lead to avoidance of public spaces, driving, flying, or even medical appointments—narrowing your life to avoid the next unknown “flare.”
Panic attacks can feel like you’re under threat even when everything looks calm on the outside. You may have gotten good at hiding it, avoiding triggers, or pushing through. But living that way takes a toll. Getting help doesn’t mean you’ve lost control—it means you’re ready to take it back on your terms.
We help veterans understand the physiology of panic and use body-based techniques to break the cycle of fear and avoidance. Our clinical team offers breath training, cognitive interventions, and desensitization strategies, along with trauma-informed therapy to address underlying causes when appropriate. The environment is quiet, structured, and built for emotional safety.
Social anxiety disorder makes everyday interactions feel risky or uncomfortable. For veterans, this often develops during post-service transition or after exposure to trauma that damaged trust.
Social anxiety is not shyness—it’s a deep fear of judgment, rejection, or embarrassment in social settings. Veterans with social anxiety may avoid speaking in groups, struggle with eye contact, or overthink interactions for hours afterward. This is especially common among those who feel disconnected from civilian culture, fear being misunderstood, or carry shame linked to trauma or identity. Social anxiety can erode self-esteem, limit employment and relationship opportunities, and reinforce isolation, particularly when it’s mistaken for introversion or resistance.
If connection feels risky or exhausting, you’re not alone. Many veterans feel like outsiders after leaving service. Real support can help you step back into relationships, not by forcing anything—but by creating space where you can set the pace, define the boundaries, and decide who gets close.
Treatment at Solara helps veterans gradually re-engage in social spaces through exposure techniques, skill-building, and peer validation in a low-pressure setting. Our groups are veteran-only, creating a space where connection can be rebuilt with safety and understanding. Individual sessions address the roots of social fear and work toward self-trust.
Military service can expose individuals to experiences that overwhelm the nervous system and alter how the brain processes safety, memory, and trust. Trauma-related conditions often do not fade with time. They may resurface in the form of nightmares, flashbacks, emotional numbing, panic, or difficulties with memory and relationships.
Whether the trauma came from combat, assault, betrayal, or early life experiences, you are not alone. Healing is possible. The impact of trauma can be profound, but with structured support, it does not have to define the rest of your life.
Childhood trauma affects how the brain and nervous system develop—and its impact can last well into adulthood, even if military service delayed its recognition. Veterans with childhood trauma may experience emotional flashbacks, chronic tension, or difficulties with trust and identity. Solara provides specialized trauma treatment for veterans with early-life trauma, offering support that addresses both the roots of pain and the tools needed to heal.
ASD feels like being trapped in the immediate, high-alert aftermath of a trauma. It can flood the mind with intrusive flashbacks and nightmares while creating a conflicting sense of emotional numbness or detachment from reality. This state of constant survival mode makes the world feel fundamentally unsafe and normal life feel impossible.
The period immediately following a trauma is a critical window. Addressing acute stress with professional support is the most effective way to prevent it from developing into chronic, long-term PTSD. Seeking help is a strategic mission to protect your future mental health.
Our immediate focus is on stabilization. We provide a safe, contained environment and teach powerful grounding skills to calm your nervous system. This allows you to begin processing the traumatic event without being overwhelmed, restoring your sense of safety in the world.
Adjustment Disorder is a stress-related condition characterized by an excessive or unhealthy emotional or behavioral reaction to an identifiable life stressor. For many veterans, the single greatest stressor is the monumental task of transitioning from the structure of military service to the ambiguity of civilian life.
Losing the built-in structure, mission, and camaraderie of the military can leave a veteran feeling adrift and overwhelmed. This disorder often manifests as significant anxiety or depression, straining relationships and making it difficult to find your footing at work or at home. It is a profound struggle with identity and purpose.
The challenge of transitioning to civilian life is immense, and you are not expected to navigate it alone. Seeking support provides the tools and community needed to build a new framework for success, preventing the stress from escalating into more severe conditions like major depression.
We help you translate your inherent military strengths, like discipline and resilience, into a new civilian context. Through individual skill-building and the vital support of veteran peer groups, we focus on helping you forge a new sense of purpose, identity, and connection.
Childhood trauma affects how the brain and nervous system develop—and its impact can last well into adulthood, even if military service delayed its recognition. Veterans with childhood trauma may experience emotional flashbacks, chronic tension, or difficulties with trust and identity. Solara provides specialized trauma treatment for veterans with early-life trauma, offering support that addresses both the roots of pain and the tools needed to heal.
Trauma that happens during childhood—such as neglect, abuse, loss, or exposure to violence—can shape how the brain and nervous system develop. For veterans, early trauma often goes unaddressed until adulthood, when it begins to show up as mood instability, relationship difficulties, dissociation, chronic health issues, or difficulty trusting others.
Even if your adult life seems structured or successful, childhood trauma can silently influence your reactions, beliefs, and patterns. You may experience emotional flashbacks, intense self-criticism, or a constant sense of needing to prove yourself or stay in control.
Early trauma does not have to be the foundation of your future. You are not weak for being affected by things you had no control over. Support can help you begin to separate from those old scripts and build a life that reflects who you are today—not who you had to be back then.
Solara offers care that acknowledges how early trauma lives in the body, mind, and relationships. We use approaches that integrate trauma-informed therapy, attachment repair, and nervous system regulation. Our environment offers consistency, trust, and safety—especially for veterans who never had that early in life.
Complex PTSD affects veterans who have endured repeated or layered trauma, including long deployments, childhood abuse, or institutional betrayal. Symptoms often include intense emotional shifts, chronic distrust, shame, and difficulty regulating relationships or reactions. Solara offers veteran-focused complex PTSD care that integrates evidence-based therapy, nervous system regulation, and deep emotional support.
Complex PTSD develops after prolonged or repeated trauma, often beginning in early life or across multiple service deployments. It includes the core symptoms of PTSD but also involves long-term difficulties with emotional regulation, trust, identity, and relationships. Veterans with CPTSD may struggle with self-worth, persistent shame, anger, dissociation, and intense reactivity. You may also feel like your reactions are “too much,” or that you can never fully relax, even when nothing is wrong.
Unlike acute trauma, CPTSD can shape how you see yourself, others, and the world. It may impact work, parenting, friendships, and physical health over time.
If it feels like your trauma is woven into how you live and think, that does not mean you are broken. It means your system adapted to survive. With support, you can begin to shift those patterns and build a life that feels safer and more flexible.
Our team is trained to treat complex trauma with depth, respect, and patience. We use approaches like EMDR, Internal Family Systems-informed care, and somatic therapies that go beyond talk. Solara offers one-on-one therapy multiple times per week, skills training for emotional regulation, and a peer-based community where you do not have to explain why certain things feel hard. You will not be rushed. We move at your pace.
Dissociative disorders involve disruptions in memory, identity, and awareness. For many veterans, dissociation develops after years of compartmentalizing pain or surviving high-impact trauma. You may feel detached from your body, lose time, or struggle to stay present. Solara offers trauma-informed dissociative disorder treatment for veterans, with a focus on stability, safety, and restoring a sense of control.
Dissociation is the brain’s way of creating distance from overwhelming experiences. It can feel like zoning out, losing time, disconnecting from your body, or feeling like the world is unreal. In its more severe forms, dissociation can involve identity confusion, memory gaps, or distinct shifts in behavior and emotion. For veterans, this may develop in response to repeated trauma, betrayal, or unprocessed early-life abuse.
You may not recognize dissociation at first. Others might notice you “go blank,” shut down emotionally, or seem far away. Dissociative symptoms often go misdiagnosed as ADHD, depression, or anxiety.
If you feel like you lose time, space out, or cannot stay grounded in your own life, that is not something you have to hide or figure out alone. Dissociation is a protective response—but over time, it can get in the way of healing, connection, and consistency.
Solara treats dissociation with gentle, phased care that builds safety, body awareness, and coherence before exploring deeper content. Our clinicians are trained in structural dissociation, ego state work, and somatic stabilization. You will never be pushed into reliving trauma. We focus on helping you stay present, connected, and in control of your process.
Military sexual trauma can deeply disrupt a veteran’s sense of safety, trust, and connection. For many, it leads to symptoms that persist long after service ends, including hypervigilance, withdrawal, and emotional shutdown. MST can affect veterans of any gender or branch and often goes unspoken for years due to shame or fear of retaliation.
MST includes a range of experiences, from unwanted sexual advances to physical assault, often involving complex power dynamics, coercion, and betrayal by peers or leadership. Survivors may carry feelings of shame, guilt, numbness, anger, or self-blame for years. Many avoid reporting due to fear of retaliation or lack of faith in the system. These experiences can leave a lasting psychological impact and are frequently linked to PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance use, disordered eating, and chronic health conditions.
The effects of MST may include hypervigilance, panic attacks, dissociation, relationship avoidance, sleep disruption, and difficulty trusting others. For some, it also creates conflict around sexual identity, boundaries, or body awareness. Left untreated, MST can silently erode a veteran’s ability to feel safe, connected, or in control.
You may not want to talk about it. You may have been hurt by systems that were supposed to protect you. But MST does not have to define your future. Getting help is not about reliving trauma. It is about reclaiming the parts of you that have been silenced or shut down. Therapy can give you the space to heal without judgment, rebuild safety, and move at a pace that honors your story.
Solara offers private, trauma-informed treatment for MST in a veteran-only environment. Care includes multiple individual therapy sessions per week, access to clinicians trained in MST-specific trauma, and programming that supports emotional regulation, boundaries, and nervous system healing. Survivors receive tailored support that may include EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and trauma-sensitive bodywork. Our team provides gender- and identity-affirming care and works closely with each veteran to ensure treatment respects autonomy, privacy, and lived experience.
PTSD is a common response to military trauma and continues to impact thousands of veterans long after service ends. Symptoms like flashbacks, emotional numbness, nightmares, and hyper-alertness can make daily life feel unpredictable or unsafe. Solara provides PTSD treatment for veterans in a trauma-informed, veteran-only setting that prioritizes emotional safety, structure, and trust.
PTSD is a response to experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening or deeply distressing event. For veterans, this may include combat exposure, explosions, death of comrades, military sexual trauma, or moral injury. Symptoms often include re-experiencing (such as flashbacks or nightmares), avoidance of reminders, negative shifts in mood or beliefs, and heightened reactivity. You might feel emotionally numb, hyper-alert in everyday settings, or trapped in memories that will not stay in the past.
PTSD can affect sleep, concentration, emotional regulation, relationships, and your ability to feel safe in your body or environment. It often co-occurs with depression, substance use, or chronic pain.
PTSD can make you feel like you have to choose between emotional shutdown or being overwhelmed. But that is not the full story. There are tools that can help reduce the intensity of symptoms, reconnect you to yourself, and make life feel less like a threat.
Solara offers trauma-specific care for veterans that includes evidence-based therapies like EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. We also offer body-based regulation tools, peer support, and individual therapy with clinicians trained in combat, MST, and complex trauma. Care is always paced in collaboration with you—not imposed.
Personality disorders often take shape in response to early instability, trauma, or chronic stress. For veterans, these patterns may intensify after service, especially when military structure fades and old coping strategies begin to break down.
You may struggle with emotional extremes, trust, self-image, or relationships that feel stuck in a cycle. These are not personal flaws—they are patterns that once helped you survive. With the right support, they can be understood, managed, and changed.
Veterans struggling with impulsivity, disregard for rules, or strained relationships may have traits of Antisocial Personality Disorder. Solara offers respectful, evidence-based treatment for veterans who want to change harmful patterns and build a different future.
Antisocial Personality Disorder includes a longstanding pattern of rule-breaking, disregard for others, and emotional detachment. Veterans may experience conflict with authority, legal issues, or substance use that masks emotional pain. Many developed these traits as protective adaptations to trauma, instability, or high-risk environments. Without treatment, these patterns often lead to fractured relationships and chronic isolation.
If you’re tired of hurting people you care about, losing control in high-stakes moments, or feeling nothing at all—help is available. Treatment is not about blame. It’s about giving you better tools to manage your reactions, take responsibility for your choices, and live in a way that earns trust without losing your edge.
Solara provides structured care for veterans with antisocial traits by combining accountability with respect. We focus on improving impulse control, reducing self-destructive behavior, and helping you understand how past experiences shaped your decision-making. Therapy includes emotional processing and behavioral strategies designed for real-world change. This is not a space for judgment. It is a space to reset direction and choose what kind of leader you want to be going forward.
Avoidant Personality Disorder causes deep fear of rejection, low self-worth, and emotional withdrawal. Solara provides specialized treatment for veterans with avoidant patterns who are ready to reconnect with life without fear of being judged.
Avoidant Personality Disorder is marked by intense social anxiety, a need to avoid evaluation, and chronic feelings of inadequacy. Veterans may avoid new opportunities or relationships not because they do not care, but because they fear embarrassment or judgment. These patterns may form after childhood trauma or rejection and are often reinforced by service-related shame or loss of purpose.
Avoiding people, opportunities, or connection might feel safer—but it often leads to loneliness, regret, and low confidence. If you want relationships but constantly pull away, support can help you understand why, and give you strategies to re-engage without feeling exposed. You can build courage and still feel protected.
Solara helps veterans with avoidant patterns reconnect at a pace that feels safe and respectful. You will receive one-on-one support that targets self-esteem, emotional safety, and practical social confidence. Exposure work is optional and always voluntary. Our program is structured to reduce shame and increase trust in yourself and others, without pressure or judgment. You are not expected to change overnight. We help you take one step at a time.
Borderline Personality Disorder affects many veterans who carry unresolved trauma or emotional sensitivity. If you’re navigating extreme emotional shifts, fear of abandonment, or unstable relationships, BPD treatment for veterans at Solara offers a path toward stability and self-trust.
BPD involves intense mood swings, impulsive behavior, and patterns of pushing people away while desperately wanting connection. Veterans may feel abandoned, empty, or overwhelmed by shame or anger. These symptoms often trace back to trauma, loss, or relationships that failed to provide safety. BPD can make relationships chaotic, increase the risk of self-harm, and create a cycle of emotional exhaustion.
Living with BPD can feel like your emotions run your life. Relationships become a cycle of closeness and rupture. You may feel abandoned, angry, or empty—and not know how to break the pattern. Getting help can reduce emotional volatility, lower your risk of self-harm or impulsive decisions, and give you a way to feel safe without needing constant reassurance. You can keep your intensity and gain stability.
Solara’s treatment for BPD includes intensive DBT-focused care designed for veterans. You will work with a dedicated therapist multiple times per week to build skills in managing emotions, navigating relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors. Group sessions reinforce boundaries and communication strategies, while trauma-specific support is available for those who need to process underlying experiences. The goal is stability without sacrificing emotional depth.
Histrionic Personality Disorder involves intense emotional expression, sensitivity to approval, and patterns of seeking reassurance. Solara offers affirming, evidence-based treatment for veterans with histrionic traits who are ready to explore deeper healing.
Histrionic Personality Disorder is marked by dramatic emotional displays, difficulty feeling seen, and efforts to gain attention as a source of worth. Veterans with this condition may be misjudged as manipulative or shallow, when the real issue is unmet emotional needs and fear of abandonment. These behaviors often develop as survival strategies in chaotic or invalidating environments.
If you feel unseen no matter how hard you try to connect, or if your emotions feel overwhelming and hard to regulate, treatment can help. It’s possible to feel secure in your identity without constantly seeking validation. You don’t have to perform to be accepted—you can build emotional steadiness that makes relationships more rewarding and less exhausting.
At Solara, care for Histrionic Personality Disorder focuses on emotional regulation, self-validation, and healthy connection. We use therapy to explore the origins of your emotional patterns while building tools to reduce anxiety and improve self-awareness. You will have access to one-on-one care, trauma-informed processing, and structured peer settings that reinforce secure identity. You will be met with empathy, not evaluation.
Veterans living with chronic distrust, suspicion, or emotional distance may be experiencing symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder. Solara offers trauma-informed treatment for veterans with paranoid traits, helping them restore safety without losing vigilance.
Paranoid Personality Disorder involves deep-rooted mistrust, hypersensitivity to criticism, and belief that others are deceiving or exploiting you. Veterans with this condition may avoid intimacy, question others’ motives, or interpret small gestures as threats. These beliefs can be shaped by betrayal, combat experiences, or environments where trust came with risk. Over time, this worldview can create isolation, hypervigilance, and difficulty maintaining long-term relationships.
If you feel like you can’t let your guard down, even with people close to you, it takes a toll. Constant suspicion limits connection, blocks support, and fuels isolation. Seeking help doesn’t mean abandoning your instincts—it means learning how to tell the difference between real risk and a defensive reflex. With support, you can feel more secure without being hypervigilant.
We support veterans with paranoid traits by focusing on safety, predictability, and control. Our therapists build trust gradually, using cognitive and narrative approaches that help you assess threats more accurately and respond with confidence rather than fear. Therapy is private, consistent, and built around your comfort level. You choose when and how to engage. We focus on helping you feel safer without lowering your standards for self-protection.
Personality disorders are long-standing patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that can make everyday life more difficult. For veterans, these challenges often intensify after trauma, transition out of the military, or the loss of identity that comes with civilian life. Solara provides veteran-focused personality disorder treatment in a trauma-informed setting that emphasizes emotional regulation, boundaries, and healthy connection.
Personality disorders affect how someone interprets relationships, handles emotions, and forms a sense of self. Veterans may experience black-and-white thinking, intense reactions to rejection, chronic mistrust, or a strong need to avoid vulnerability. These patterns are often shaped by childhood experiences, trauma, or military culture. Left untreated, they can lead to relationship breakdowns, impulsive behavior, and persistent feelings of isolation or shame.
If your relationships feel like constant conflict, if emotional reactions escalate quickly, or if you’re tired of repeating patterns that leave you isolated or ashamed—treatment can help. Support gives you tools to better manage emotions, set clearer boundaries, and stop living in survival mode. You deserve the chance to feel steady and connected without sacrificing who you are.
At Solara, we treat personality disorders using structured, veteran-informed care. Our clinical team integrates therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), schema therapy, and trauma-responsive models to address emotional regulation, identity, and interpersonal dynamics. You will have multiple individual therapy sessions each week, access to skills-based groups, and a stable therapeutic environment. We prioritize safety, consistency, and respect at every step.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) involves persistent patterns of grandiosity, sensitivity to criticism, and difficulty with empathy that can strain trust and connection. Solara supports veterans living with NPD through structured, accountability-based therapy that honors dignity while building healthier relationship skills.
NPD often presents as intense reactions to perceived slights, volatile anger or withdrawal, and a strong need for validation that can overshadow closeness. Beneath this can be shame, fear of inadequacy, and rigid coping learned in high-demand environments. For veterans, transitions out of rank-and-mission structures, moral conflicts, or trauma can intensify control needs, perfectionism, and relational friction at home and work.
You are not your defenses. Therapy helps separate identity from behavior, reduce reactivity, and increase accurate self-appraisal so relationships become steadier and more mutual. Growth does not erase strength, it refines it.
Solara provides schema-focused therapy, CBT and DBT skills for emotion regulation, mentalization-based interventions to improve perspective-taking, and boundary-centered group work that promotes accountability without humiliation. We integrate trauma-informed care, address anger, shame, and perfectionism, and coordinate care for co-occurring conditions such as depression or substance use when present.
Psychotic disorders affect how you think, feel, and perceive reality. For veterans, these disruptions can emerge after trauma, prolonged isolation, or untreated mental health conditions. Experiences like hallucinations, delusional beliefs, and disorganized thinking can feel confusing, frightening, or deeply isolating. These symptoms are not a sign of weakness. They are serious, treatable mental health conditions that require structured support.
Whether you feel disconnected from reality or overwhelmed by thoughts that no longer make sense, you are not alone. With evidence-based psychiatric care, veteran-informed therapy, and a calm, secure setting, it is possible to regain clarity, function, and self-trust.
Schizoaffective disorder causes symptoms of both psychosis and mood instability. Veterans may experience hallucinations, paranoia, depression, or episodes of mania. Solara offers targeted schizoaffective disorder treatment for veterans in a trauma-informed setting designed to improve insight, emotional regulation, and daily functioning.
Schizoaffective disorder includes symptoms of schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thoughts) combined with either depressive or bipolar mood episodes. For veterans, the experience can feel like reality keeps slipping, energy crashes or spikes without warning, and thoughts move faster or slower than they should. These symptoms may come and go or remain constant, making it difficult to keep work, housing, or relationships stable. Many veterans with schizoaffective disorder are misdiagnosed or treated for one half of the condition without addressing the other.
Without integrated care, symptoms often persist and contribute to hospitalization, substance use, or avoidance of treatment out of fear or confusion.
Living in extremes—between feeling overwhelmed and emotionally flat, between reality and distortion is exhausting. Treatment helps stabilize mood, reduce symptoms, and give you back the ability to make decisions based on clarity, not chaos. You are not too complex to be helped.
Solara provides coordinated care for veterans with schizoaffective disorder that addresses both psychotic and mood-related symptoms. Our treatment includes psychiatric stabilization, tailored medication support, trauma-informed psychotherapy, and skills training to strengthen daily functioning. You will receive multiple individual sessions per week and access to a quiet, structured residential environment designed to reduce stress and promote recovery.
Schizophrenia affects how a person thinks, feels, and perceives reality. Symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized behavior can disrupt daily life and relationships. Solara offers comprehensive schizophrenia treatment for veterans in a safe, structured environment with full psychiatric and therapeutic support.
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental health condition that involves disturbances in perception, cognition, emotion, and behavior. Symptoms may include hallucinations (especially auditory), delusions (such as persecution or grandiosity), disorganized speech, cognitive impairment, flat affect, and withdrawal. Veterans may feel out of sync with reality, struggle to trust others, or become unable to manage day-to-day responsibilities. Early signs often include isolation, odd beliefs, or decreased motivation. If untreated, schizophrenia can severely impact functioning, safety, and long-term quality of life.
Veterans are frequently misdiagnosed or untreated due to the overlap with trauma responses, substance use, or fear of stigma. When addressed early, many symptoms can be stabilized or significantly reduced.
You are not imagining your struggle. If your thoughts don’t feel like your own, or if it feels like you’re losing connection to the world around you, you deserve real support. Treatment won’t erase what’s happened but it can help you live with more stability, clarity, and control.
Solara offers full-spectrum care for veterans living with schizophrenia, including psychiatric stabilization, evidence-based antipsychotic medication support, cognitive enhancement therapy, and trauma-informed psychotherapy. We emphasize consistency and structure to reduce internal chaos and improve real-world functioning. Care is delivered in a veteran-only environment, where safety, privacy, and dignity come first.
Service often leaves wounds, both visible and invisible. Managing chronic pain, coping with the memories of trauma, or navigating the stress of transitioning to civilian life can lead veterans to seek relief. Substances like alcohol or drugs, or behaviors like gambling, can offer a temporary way to numb pain or escape difficult emotions. Over time, this attempt to cope can become a dependency that creates a new, isolating battle.
Turning to a substance or a behavior to manage overwhelming pain is not a moral failing; it is a human response to an impossible situation. Acknowledging that the solution has become a problem takes immense courage. Recovery is possible, and you do not have to fight this battle alone. With structured support, you can break the cycle of addiction, develop healthier ways to cope, and rebuild a life of purpose, connection, and control.
Co-occurring disorders involve the simultaneous presence of a mental health condition and a substance use disorder, creating a cycle where each one fuels the other and complicates recovery.
A co-occurring disorder means you're fighting battles on two fronts. For example, you might use alcohol to quiet anxiety or turn to substances to escape depressive thoughts. This self-medication offers temporary relief but ultimately worsens the underlying mental health condition and creates dependency. The impact is a draining cycle of instability, where progress in one area is undermined by the other. This can lead to overwhelming feelings of being trapped, strained relationships due to unpredictable behavior, and a decline in physical and emotional health as both conditions escalate.
Feeling stuck between two interconnected struggles is not a sign of weakness; it’s the nature of this complex condition. You don’t have to break this cycle alone. Integrated support helps you untangle the symptoms, address the root causes of your pain, and build a foundation for lasting stability—not just sobriety or symptom management, but genuine well-being.
Solara provides a truly integrated treatment model for co-occurring disorders. We address both the mental health and substance use conditions simultaneously in one cohesive treatment plan. Our approach combines evidence-based therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to build coping skills, with relapse prevention strategies to address addiction. We help you understand the connection between the disorders and develop the tools to manage both effectively for a unified recovery.
Veterans dealing with sudden outbursts, aggression, or compulsive behavior may be facing an impulse control disorder alongside another condition like PTSD or depression. Solara offers co-occurring impulse control disorder treatment for veterans, combining trauma-focused care with skills training to reduce reactivity and build emotional regulation.
Impulse control disorders include conditions like Intermittent Explosive Disorder, compulsive stealing, or risky behavior that feels hard to stop in the moment. For veterans, these patterns may arise from hypervigilance, unresolved anger, or trauma that was never processed. You may find yourself reacting too quickly, saying or doing things you regret, or engaging in behaviors that escalate conflict or risk. These reactions can strain relationships, cause legal or career consequences, and create a cycle of shame and self-isolation.
Impulse issues often co-occur with other mental health conditions such as PTSD, substance use disorders, or mood disorders. Treating one without addressing the other often leads to relapse or stalled progress.
If you feel like you’re always one step away from snapping, or if you lose time, control, or relationships because of impulsive behavior, treatment can help you break the cycle. Seeking help is not about shame. It is about gaining the ability to choose your next move instead of being hijacked by emotion or habit.
Solara treats impulse control challenges alongside the mental health conditions that drive them. Veterans receive multiple one-on-one therapy sessions each week focused on emotion regulation, frustration tolerance, and identifying early warning signs of escalation. We use trauma-informed DBT principles to help you slow reactions and regain control before anger or impulse takes over. Group settings offer structure, peer accountability, and a place to practice boundary setting and response flexibility. You will not be punished for your past reactions. Instead, we work with you to understand where they come from and how to build a response system that works in the real world—without needing to explode or shut down.
Veterans struggling with alcohol or drug use often face additional mental health conditions like PTSD, depression, or anxiety. Solara provides co-occurring substance abuse treatment for veterans in a fully integrated setting that addresses both addiction and the psychological pain beneath it.
Co-occurring substance use disorders are not just about the substances. For many veterans, drinking or drug use begins as a way to manage intrusive memories, physical pain, or emotional numbness. Over time, what once felt like relief becomes dependence. Substance use often masks or worsens other conditions like depression, trauma, or personality disorders. You may feel caught between withdrawal and emotional collapse, or you may hide your use while silently losing control of your health, relationships, or goals.
When addiction co-exists with mental health conditions, treating only one side often leads to relapse or crisis. Long-term recovery requires a full-spectrum approach.
You have survived worse than this. Getting help does not mean weakness. It means being willing to look at the full picture and choose to stop numbing your pain in ways that hurt you. Treatment can help you stay sober and also help you sleep better, feel less anxious, and reconnect with your values.
You will receive a personalized treatment plan that integrates trauma-focused therapy, psychiatric care, and relapse prevention without shaming or shortcuts. Veterans engage in multiple weekly therapy sessions to process the roots of their substance use, whether those include combat trauma, pain, moral injury, or emotional suppression. We offer medication-assisted treatment when appropriate, and our residential setting provides a structured, sober environment that still feels private and respectful. Group work reinforces accountability, coping strategies, and community, while individual care ensures your plan reflects your story.
Gambling disorder is an impulse-control disorder characterized by a persistent and uncontrollable urge to gamble, driven by a need for excitement or an attempt to escape emotional distress.
Gambling disorder is marked by a fixation on betting that escalates over time. It often involves "chasing" losses, needing to risk more money to feel the same thrill, and hiding the behavior from loved ones. The impact extends far beyond finances; it erodes trust, creates a life of secrecy and high-stress, and can decimate relationships and professional opportunities. Individuals often feel a profound sense of shame and isolation, trapped in a cycle of hope and despair dictated by the outcome of the next bet.
The compulsion to gamble isn't a moral failing; it's a powerful behavioral addiction that rewires the brain’s reward system. Acknowledging you’ve lost control is the first step toward regaining it. Support helps you break free from the cycle, address the financial devastation, and start rebuilding a life based on stability and trust, not risk and chance.
We offer specialized care that targets the irrational thoughts and beliefs fueling the compulsion to gamble. Our therapy focuses on developing strong impulse-control strategies, managing triggers, and finding healthier ways to cope with stress and emotional pain. We also provide support for addressing the financial and relational damage, empowering you to build a future free from the grip of gambling.
Impulse Control Disorder involves difficulty resisting urges that can lead to risky or aggressive behaviors. Solara helps veterans build impulse awareness, delay skills, and safer decision-making in a calm, structured setting.
Common features include sudden anger, risk-taking, compulsive actions, and relief followed by regret. Triggers often include stress, sleep loss, trauma cues, or sensory overload. The fallout can touch relationships, legal standing, finances, and safety. Veterans may notice patterns tied to operational hyper-arousal, moral distress, or transition stress.
Urges are signals, not orders. Treatment increases the space between urge and action, so choices align with your values. With practice, control feels practical rather than forced.
Solara uses CBT for impulse awareness, DBT skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation, anger-management protocols, habit reversal, and exposure with response prevention when indicated. We incorporate sleep strategies, exercise planning, and medication evaluation for contributing factors such as attention, mood, or irritability. You will leave with concrete tools like urge-surfing, crisis planning, and post-incident repair skills.
Process addictions are behavioral disorders where a person becomes dependent on a specific activity—like gaming, shopping, or internet use—to cope with life, resulting in a loss of control and negative consequences.
A process addiction turns a normal activity into a compulsive, all-consuming behavior. Whether it’s endless hours of gaming, compulsive online shopping, or a fixation on pornography, the behavior provides a temporary escape or "high." This creates a powerful reward loop in the brain that demands repetition. The impact is a slow withdrawal from real life; responsibilities are neglected, relationships suffer, and a secret life forms around the behavior. This often leads to deep feelings of shame, loneliness, and powerlessness as the behavior you once controlled now controls you.
These addictions are real, and the loss of control you feel is valid, even if the behavior seems harmless to others. You are not just "undisciplined." Seeking help is about understanding the emotional void the behavior is trying to fill. It’s a path to rediscovering balance, re-engaging with your life, and finding fulfillment beyond the screen or the fleeting rush of the activity.
At Solara, we treat process addictions by identifying and addressing their underlying emotional drivers. We use evidence-based therapies to help you recognize triggers, manage impulses, and develop healthy, sustainable coping mechanisms. Our focus is on helping you break the compulsive cycle, repair the parts of your life that have been neglected, and build a sense of purpose and connection in the offline world.
Substance Use Disorder affects mind, body, community, and mission readiness. Solara offers trauma-informed, veteran-specific SUD care that addresses both substance use and the pain beneath it.
SUD can look like loss of control, tolerance, withdrawal, and continued use despite consequences. For many veterans, substances start as pain or sleep solutions, numbing for trauma, or social coping. Over time, SUD can erode trust, health, finances, and purpose, and often travels with PTSD, depression, chronic pain, or TBI.
Recovery is not about willpower alone. It is about right tools, right support, right timing. Treatment helps restore clarity, connection, and stability, and builds a path where progress is measurable and repeatable.
Solara provides integrated SUD and trauma care, motivational interviewing, relapse-prevention planning, and skills-based groups. When appropriate, we coordinate medication-assisted treatment for alcohol or opioid use and manage co-occurring mental health conditions in the same plan. We include family education, sleep and pain strategies, and peer support tailored to the veteran community.
Military life demands order, precision, and an intense sense of responsibility. In high-stakes environments, the mind learns to scan for threats and create rigid routines to ensure safety and control. When you return to civilian life, however, the brain can struggle to downshift, applying those same patterns of hypervigilance and perfectionism where they no longer serve you. This can manifest as intrusive thoughts, repetitive checking, mental rituals, or a fixation on perceived flaws.
These patterns are not a character flaw; they are a survival strategy that has outlived its mission. The need for things to feel "just right" is exhausting, but you are not trapped in these loops forever. Healing from these conditions is possible. With support, you can learn to quiet the mental noise, reduce the power of rituals, and regain the flexibility to live life on your own terms, guided by your values instead of your fears.
OCD involves intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that temporarily reduce anxiety. In veterans, these patterns may form around safety, responsibility, or moral themes linked to service experiences.
OCD is marked by persistent, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive actions or mental rituals (compulsions) intended to reduce distress. These may involve excessive checking, counting, organizing, or thought-neutralizing behaviors. For veterans, OCD often arises in the context of safety, control, or guilt—especially in those who had high-stakes responsibilities or experienced moral injury. The condition can feel exhausting and shame-inducing, especially when rituals interfere with daily life, take up hours of your day, or strain relationships due to perceived rigidity or avoidance.
You’re not weak, and you’re not “crazy” for needing things to feel a certain way. OCD is the brain’s way of trying to create order in the aftermath of chaos. Support helps you quiet the rituals, challenge the guilt, and live with more clarity—not perfection, but peace.
At Solara, our approach to OCD is specifically adapted for the realities of veteran life. We help you systematically reduce the power of compulsive rituals by building the skills to manage uncertainty and reconnect with your core values. We place a special focus on addressing the complex themes of guilt, moral injury, and high-responsibility beliefs that often drive OCD symptoms after service.
BDD is a disorder involving an obsessive preoccupation with one or more perceived flaws in appearance that are minimal or unobservable to others, leading to significant emotional distress and repetitive behaviors.
BDD is characterized by intrusive, persistent thoughts about a "defect" in your appearance, whether it's your skin, nose, hair, or any other body part. This obsession fuels compulsive behaviors like constant mirror-checking, skin-picking, excessive grooming, or seeking reassurance from others. The emotional toll is immense, causing crippling anxiety, shame, and social isolation as you try to hide the perceived flaw. Life becomes a painful performance of trying to appear "normal" while feeling deformed, often leading to avoidance of work, school, and relationships.
This is not vanity. BDD is a serious mental health condition that hijacks your perception and traps you in a prison of self-scrutiny. You deserve to live without the constant weight of appearance-based anxiety. Support helps you challenge the distorted thoughts, reduce the rituals, and learn to see yourself with acceptance—not perfection, but peace.
We provide compassionate and understanding care tailored to the unique challenges of BDD. Our therapy focuses on gradually reducing compulsive behaviors like mirror-checking and reassurance-seeking while helping you challenge the core beliefs that drive the disorder. We help you build self-worth that is independent of appearance, allowing you to step out of the shadows of BDD and into a more confident, engaged life.
Not every struggle fits neatly into a diagnostic category. For veterans, emotional distress often shows up through physical symptoms, stuck thought patterns, or deep disconnection from identity or direction. These issues may not always be named right away, but they are real. They affect how you function, how you relate to others, and how you feel about yourself.
Whether you are battling exhaustion, uncertainty, or internal conflict, these challenges deserve attention. With trauma-informed, veteran-specific care, it is possible to build clarity, reduce suffering, and move forward with a deeper sense of who you are and what matters next.
ADHD affects veterans by impairing attention, memory, and follow-through. The structure of military life often hides symptoms until after transition, when routines disappear and stress increases.
ADHD in adults affects focus, impulse control, time management, and organization. Veterans with ADHD may struggle to complete tasks, stay on schedule, or manage transitions. Many perform well in military settings due to structure and accountability but find civilian life disorienting, with fewer external cues and more self-direction. Symptoms include forgetfulness, restlessness, racing thoughts, missed deadlines, and chronic underperformance despite strong effort. Untreated ADHD can lead to career instability, self-criticism, and missed opportunities for growth, especially when co-occurring with trauma or anxiety.
If you’ve always blamed yourself for being scattered, impulsive, or disorganized, there may be a reason—and it’s not about laziness. Getting a clear diagnosis and learning how your brain works can give you back agency. You can be focused, capable, and consistent without burning out.
Our ADHD services focus on building structure, improving focus, and reducing shame. Veterans receive support through executive functioning coaching, cognitive-behavioral techniques for attention management, and optional medication oversight. We also explore how trauma and service environments may have masked symptoms or complicated diagnosis.
Gender Dysphoria refers to clinically significant distress related to a mismatch between one’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth. Solara provides gender-affirming, trauma-informed care that centers safety, dignity, and personal values.
Distress may involve body-related discomfort, social anxiety, depression, or avoidance. Veterans can face institutional barriers, stigma, and moral distress that magnify isolation. Dysphoria is not an identity problem, it is distress that deserves competent, affirming treatment.
You deserve care that respects who you are and reduces suffering. Support helps clarify goals, expand coping, and improve daily functioning at your pace.
Solara offers affirming psychotherapy, trauma-responsive care, and skills for emotion regulation and minority stress. We provide psychoeducation, family support when desired, and coordinated referrals for gender-affirming medical care with external providers when appropriate. Treatment plans are individualized, private, and values-aligned.
Moral Injury occurs when experiences violate deeply held beliefs, leading to guilt, shame, grief, anger, or spiritual distress. Solara helps veterans process what happened, what it means, and how to live forward.
Moral injury can follow combat decisions, witnessed harm, betrayals of trust, or role-conflicts. Symptoms often include self-condemnation, numbing, isolation, rage, and a sense of being unworthy of repair. It can complicate PTSD, depression, and suicidality, and affect intimacy, purpose, and hope.
Accountability and compassion can coexist. Treatment helps tell the story truthfully, restore agency, and reconnect with values without minimizing what happened.
Solara integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, narrative and meaning-centered work, and values-rebuilding practices. We make space for grief and forgiveness processes, include peer connection, and, when desired, spiritually integrated care. The goal is not erasure, it is integration, so you can carry memory with less pain and more purpose.
TBI, including concussion and blast-related injury, can impact memory, attention, mood, sleep, and balance. Solara provides neuro-informed, trauma-aware care that addresses both cognitive and emotional recovery.
Symptoms may include headaches, light and noise sensitivity, slowed thinking, irritability, sleep disruption, and anxiety. For veterans, TBI often overlaps with PTSD, pain, and vestibular issues, which can intensify frustration and reduce confidence in daily tasks.
You can improve function with the right supports. Targeted strategies help reduce overload, optimize sleep, rebuild attention and memory skills, and support return to work and relationships.
Solara coordinates neuropsychological screening, cognitive rehabilitation strategies, and behavioral sleep interventions. We integrate PTSD treatment, headache management coordination, vestibular and speech-language referrals when indicated, and family education so your support network understands how to help. Plans are paced, practical, and measurable.