The Brookline Center | Mental Health Care for Our Community
Behavioral Health • Boston, MA • Since 1958
About
The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health is a nonprofit mental health provider based in Brookline, MA (founded 1958). It operates as a hybrid outpatient and innovation hub, offering affordable, high-quality mental health services to children and adults across Massachusetts and beyond. Services include individual, group, and school-based counseling, care management, crisis intervention, mediation, and community-based supports. The organization aims to expand access and promote health equity within a system that is effective and equitable for all. It employs about 73 staff and reports annual revenue around $25.6 million. Main office: 41 Garrison Rd, Brookline, MA 02445. Contact: info@brooklinecenter.org; +1-617-277-8107.
Clinic Type
Behavioral Health
Address
41 Garrison Rd, Brookline, Massachusetts 02445, US
Phone
6172778107
info@brooklinecenter.org
Opening Hours
Not published — contact the clinic to confirm hours.
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What Patients Say
Overall sentiment across review platforms: negative
- Yelp/LocalityBiz: predominantly low (1 star) on public review platforms
Patients praise
- serves as an accessible community resource regardless of ability to pay
- provides outreach services in public schools
- partnerships with public agencies and healthcare providers
Common complaints
- poor communication and scheduling issues
- unresponsive staff and difficulty getting follow-up appointments
- reports of unprofessionalism and dismissive therapist interactions
- concerns regarding high staff turnover and therapist inexperience
- limited parental involvement in child therapy practices
"Waited 6+ weeks to be matched with a therapist and get to the first appointment date. Therapist canceled the appointment without notice and apparently assigned me to a different provider. Did not provide a reason."
— LocalityBiz review"Incredibly shady, no respect for patients, hard to reach, incompetent therapists."
— LocalityBiz review"At Brookline Center has been so dismissive and retaliatory. They have huge turnover and a lot of incompetent therapists."
— Reddit commentSynthesized from public review platforms as of Jul 11, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4].
In the News
- Boston Public Schools Ensures Every Student, Family, and Staff Member Has Mental Health Care — Dec 12, 2025
- Twenty Years of Transforming Lives — The Brookline Center — Jul 14, 2025
- Healthy Lives Press Release - The Brookline Center — Jul 28, 2025
- Boston Public Schools Innovates Mental Health Support for Students and Families - Third News — Dec 12, 2025
- Town's new online platform CARES serves as a one-stop-shop for people looking for social services - Brookline.News — May 26, 2026
Information sourced from the clinic's website as of July 11, 2026.
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