Clinical and Research Sites

The new SLUCare medical building, known as the Center for Specialized Medicine, is a state-of-the-art outpatient hub for our primary care providers and specialists. Located on Grand and connected to the new SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, the Center for Specialized Medicine offers behavioral health services to patients and families through Family and Community Medicine. The clinic also shares space with internal medicine and other departments, offering a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care.

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The SLUCare University tower offers comprehensive services from different departments at Saint Louis University. Family medicine, located on the 11th floor, offers behavioral health services to patients and families with bio-psychosocial needs. Behavioral health is integrated into ambulatory care services, helping to coordinate effective care with physicians, nurses, and medical assistants. The clinic is also connected to cardiology services on the same floor.

Medical Family Therapy offers services at the Des Peres Medical Arts Pavilion on Dougherty Ferry Road. Behavioral health services are integrated through a medical team of physicians, nurses, and other providers to provide quality care to patients and families. Services cover a range of needs to address specialized mental health or chronic health conditions that are referred from attending physicians. Family Medicine also shares space with Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.

As one of the leading community health care providers in St. Louis, Family Care Health Centers is dedicated to providing comprehensive primary health care services to the residents of St. Louis. With two state-of-the-art facilities in the metropolitan area, family care also works to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by reducing barriers to health care. Medical Family Therapy students integrated their clinical work with the Family and Community Medicine residency at this site. As the primary outpatient for the residency program, residents often use MedF.T.s to help streamline referrals, coordinate complex patients needs, and review behavioral health areas in the lives of patients and families. Some of the past and current roles of Medical Family Therapy interns at this site include:

• Providing behavioral health services to patients and families from underserved backgrounds
• Receive warm handoffs from providers for establishing mental health services
• Facilitating behavioral health needs in precepting with doctors and residents
• Conducting focus groups with staff and/or providers about quality improvement areas
• Observe pediatric and adult visits with other behavioral health providers
• Observe and provide feedback to residents on family-centered skills in their outpatient appointments

SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis is centrally located in metro St. Louis, providing exceptional care to all patients, and is a Level II Time Critical Diagnosis STEMI Center. The hospital specializes in high-risk pregnancy care and fetal surgery. SSM St. Mary’s also operates as a teaching hospital, serving as the primary location for St. Louis University School of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and its Family Practice Residency programs. Medical Family Therapy interns have served as behavioral health consultants on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service team. Interns have opportunities to do brief behavioral health screenings, medical genograms, crisis counseling, and precepting with residents around family and social issues of hospital patients.

The Memory Clinic is a multidisciplinary clinic that offers family-centered services to patients and families suffering from dementia and older adult issues. We take a holistic and biopsychosocial approach to aging, where we see the health and well-being of older adults as being connected to many areas of their lives. Our care also extends to all areas and regions of St. Louis and surrounding areas, helping provide services to individuals and families who otherwise cannot afford care.

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The Queer and Trans Wellness Clinic @ Saint Louis University provides financially accessible, culturally-attuned therapeutic care and advocacy for the LGBTQIA+ community and their families of Missouri.

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Director: Dixie Meyer

Dr. Meyer’s research interests include Neurobiological applications in counseling, couples counseling, drama therapy, affect regulations and attachment. This lab includes both master’s and doctoral students to help study cutting edge research on the associations between areas of the brain and intimate relationships. Dr. Meyer runs several studies and projects from this lab, disseminating findings through peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and other community outreach activities.

Director: Dr. Dixie Meyer

About Us
The MOMs Clinic is designed to help families during life transitions.

Mission
The overarching goal is to improve the mental well-being of pregnant women and birthing persons, parents, and their families across pregnancy, adverse pregnancy events, and the first two years postpartum. 

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Director: Michelle R. Dalton, Ph.D., L.P.C.
 
The Social Determinants and Minority Stress Lab is a multidisciplinary research lab with a focus on intersections of identity that include race, gender identity, and neurotype, social determinants of health, and reducing barriers to care for LGBTQIA+ individuals. The research team includes masters and doctoral students in medical family therapy, medical students and residents, and collaborators in allied health fields across SLU and outside universities.
 
Projects:

The Impact of Racial and Gender Minority Stressors Among BIPOC TGNC Adults in the U.S.
Collaborators: Scott Secrest, Deb Coolhart, PhD, LMFT, CRE-2 Core at WashU
 
Toward a Typology of Nonbinary Gender Identity
Collaborators: Stacey Harris, PhD, Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhD, LMFT