UT Health San Antonio (School )

 UT Health San Antonio (formerly the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) is dedicated to providing the best in health careers education, biomedical research, patient care, and community service to San Antonio and the South Texas/Border Region.

Through undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs, the faculty is committed to educating health professionals who will provide excellent patient care and research that can be applied to treat and prevent disease.

UT Health San Antonio serves San Antonio and the 50,000-square-mile area of South Texas. It extends to campuses in the metropolitan border communities of Laredo, Harlingen, Edinburg, and the Rio Grande Valley.

For more information on the many ways we make lives better, visit uthscsa.edu.

Hours
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Online and Virtual Assistance

We distribute life-saving Naloxone (also known as Narcan) and evidence-based training to organizations and individuals across Texas.

Our goal is simple: To empower communities and equip individuals with the tools and training they need to respond swiftly and safely to opioid overdoses.

With your partnership, we can make a difference, one life at a time.

Visit naloxonetexas.com and click on get Naloxone to request yours.

Click here to access our virtual, on-demand training program that provides essential skills and evidence-based strategies for overdose reversal and prevention.

Updated within the last 5 months.

Teens across San Antonio and South Texas can improve their mental health while helping others through Project YES (Youth Empowerment & Support).

This online program helps adolescents address common mental health issues and has been shown to reduce depression and anxiety, decrease hopelessness, and boost a sense of control.

Participation is anonymous.

Project YES is available in both English and Spanish.

Click here to read more information

Youth 11 to 17 years old.

Free

Online 24/7
Updated within the last 5 months.
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Learn more about UT Teen Health Teens in Action

Patients and their families are supported with care and information that is age-appropriate and empowers good decision making and self-care.

Services:

  • Teen vaccines and immunizations
  • Teen health and puberty development
  • Reproductive health counseling
  • School/sports physicals
  • Behavioral and mental health counseling
  • Referrals to medical specialists
  • Referrals to social services, Nurse-Family Partnership, school-age parenting and GED programs

Ages: 10-24

Free.

Hours
Monday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Dr. Kristen Plastino
(210) 358-3582
Ernest Prince
Updated within the last 5 months.

Healthy teens, healthy communities.

UT Teen Health promotes adolescent health and wellness by encouraging positive youth development and healthy life choices.

Patients and their families are supported with care and information that is age-appropriate and empowers good decision-making and self-care.

We offer bilingual behavioral health counseling for teens.

The Teen Health Clinic offers integrative health care for pre-teens, teens, and young adults ages 10-24.

Free.

Hours
Monday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Walk-ins welcomed
Ambar Rios, LPC Send email
Maria Gomez, LPC
Updated within the last 5 months.

Individual Psychotherapy

Individual Psychotherapy services are available for individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, difficulty adjusting to life stressors, and interpersonal difficulties. Typically, individual psychotherapy consists of weekly or biweekly meetings that are 45 to 60 minutes in length.

Group Psychotherapy

Group Psychotherapy enables individuals to learn and gain support from others who are struggling with similar issues, while also providing the expertise of a trained group psychotherapist. The Department currently offers the following groups:

  • Anxiety and Depression Group-Wednesday from 1-2 PM
  • Mindfulness group-Thursday from 4-5 PM
  • Chronic Pain Group-Monday from 3-4 PM

Click here for more information

Psychotherapy appointments are made through the department’s appointment line, 210-450-6450. Services are provided in the 7th-floor Medical School clinic and the New Opportunities for Wellness (NOW) Clinic.

Located: UTH University Plaza- Transitional Care Clinic

NOW accepts most major insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid. We also accept CareLink

Updated within the last 5 months.

UT Teen Health is taking a critical leadership role in the effort to improve the health of teens in San Antonio schools. Equipped with health expertise, we provide insight and medical facts that help empower teens to delay sexual debut and make healthy decisions. Our evidence-based approach aims to decrease teen birth rates, decrease drop-out rates, lower the number of STIs, increase STD testing and treatment, and delay sexual debut in our partnering schools and community organizations.

Care Made Easy:

Tough Topics:

Teens Want to Know:

Click here for our curriculum implementation and training.

Need an educational brochure covering contraceptive options in a teen-friendly manner? Available in both English and Spanish.

Check out our products!

Updated within the last 5 months.

UT Teen Health has been awarded funding to carry out educational and clinical projects designed to strengthen youth and their families and prevent teen pregnancy in the San Antonio area as well as throughout Texas. Current federally funded projects focus on school and community-based education. UT Teen Health also partners with organizations for youth in the juvenile justice and foster care systems, or those working with pregnant or parenting teens.

The sexual risk avoidance education project partners with schools and community agencies to deliver relationships curricula that is medically accurate and age appropriate, promotes positive youth development, and teaches risk avoidance skills for middle and high school aged youth. In addition, this project builds community linkages and support for youth by working with a parent advisory board and youth leadership council.

Click here for more information.

Kristen Plastino MD
(210) 567-7036
Updated within the last 5 months.

The Caring for the Caregiver program supports family caregivers through education, research, and practice.

We provide education through classes and workshops for family caregivers, opportunities for socialization, and clinical care to support families living with dementia.

Caring for the Caregiver holds many educational and socialization events throughout the year, including our Essentials of Caregiving lecture series and Memory Cafés. Click here for our events calendar.

Click here to read our latest quarterly newsletter or explore our newsletter archives.

Click here to tell us a bit about yourself and your situation and to get connected.

Becky Garcia Send email
Updated within the last 5 months.

The Avanzando Caminos study will enroll 3,000 Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors in South Texas and Miami to help unpack the social, cultural, behavioral, mental, biological, and medical influences on post-cancer life.

What do Volunteers do?

  • Baseline visit: Assessment interview, blood draw
  • 6-month visit: Assessment Interview
  • 12-month visit: Assessment interview, blood draw
  • Year 2 Visit: Assessment interview
  • Year 3 Visit: Assessment interview, blood draw
  • Year 4 Visit: Assessment interview
  • Year 5 Visit: Assessment interview, blood draw

If interested, contact Dr. Ramirez’s Institute for Health Promotion Research team at UT Health San Antonio at:

Spanish:  https://cancer.uthscsa.edu/avanzando-caminos-study

English: https://cancer.uthscsa.edu/avanzando-caminos-study

Eligibility:

  • Age 18+
  • Able to read in English or Spanish
  • Willing to attend study visits
  • Completed primary treatment for breast, colon, kidney, liver, lung, prostate, stomach, or uterine cervix carcinoma in the past 10 years
  • No severe cognitive impairment or inpatient psychiatric treatment in the past 6 months

Volunteers get $50 per visit!

Updated within the last 3 months.

Ready to live tobacco free? UT Health San Antonio can help.

Smoking and tobacco use is the most common cause of preventable illness and death. Making the decision to quit is one of the most important things you can do for your health. The tobacco cessation programs at UT Health San Antonio can help you learn how to give up any kind of tobacco habit.

Individual Counseling

Personalized appointments are offered by tobacco cessation experts at UT Health Physicians. Call 210-450-9100 to schedule.

Consider an appointment if:

  • You are thinking about stopping smoking or other tobacco
  • You want to stop smoking, but aren't sure where to start
  • You are experiencing negative side effects from tobacco use
  • You have stopped smoking and would like support to remain tobacco-free

Private pay or private insurance. For insurance verifications, call 210-450-9100.

Updated within the last 5 months.

New Opportunities for Wellness (NOW) and the Be Well Clinic partner to deliver tailored behavioral health services, including mental health and substance use treatment.

Services:

  • Mental health and substance use evaluation
  • Adolescent psychological testing
  • Medical management of substance use disorders
  • Treatment of co-occurring psychiatric and substance
    use conditions
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents
  • Individual and group therapy
  • Peer support services
  • Family support and parental engagement
  • Care coordination and case management

Holistic Care:

  • Support for physical, mental, emotional, social, and
    academic well-being.
  • Youth-Focused Approach:
    Specialized care for adolescents and young adults.
  • In-Person & Virtual Services:
    Flexible options to meet individuals and their families
    where they are.
  • Multi-lingual support:
    Live translation services for calls and appointments.

Ages: 11- 21

Concerns about Mental and Behavioral Health?

  • Contact New Opportunities for Wellness (NOW): 210-450-7222

Concerns about Substance Use?

We accept most insurances. For patients without insurance, low and no-cost options are available.

24/7
Updated within the last month

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes, or ECHO, is a telementoring model for building online communities of practice amongst healthcare providers or other professionals.?Participants engage in conversation and learning that is specific to a particular condition or best practice. ECHO programs are hosted by a ‘hub’ of subject matter experts, that provide both education and case consultation.

Harm Reduction ECHO meets on the 1st Thursday of each month Public Safety Solutions ECHO meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month. TxRx (Medications for Substance Use Disorders) ECHO meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. SHOUT (Support Hospital Opioid Use Disorder Treatment) ECHO meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Recovery Support Services (RSS) ECHO meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month. Systems and Sustainability ECHO meets on the 4th Thursday of each month.
Updated within the last 5 months.

At this clinic, students and faculty provide free medical care to immigrant refugees living in the northwest region of San Antonio.

The primary goal of this clinic is to serve as an initial trustworthy location for refugees to overcome their inhibitions and adequately address their healthcare and social needs.

Services Provided:

  • Primary care
  • Mental health
  • Dental
  • Physical therapy
  • Health education

This program is for refugees.

Free

First Wednesday of each month from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Updated within the last 5 months.

The mission of NOW is to ensure that all Bexar County residents have rapid and continued access to behavioral health services. We help clients learn to manage their own behavioral health needs. This allows them to minimize disruption to their lifestyles and livelihoods and prevents psychiatric hospitalization.

Services:

  • Psychiatry/Medication Management
  • Counseling
    • Individual Therapy 
    • Couples & Family Therapy 
    • Group Therapy
    • Specialty Services
  • Case Management
  • Peer Support
  • Crisis Support
  • Pet Therapy
  • Relapse Prevention Workshops

Adult residents of Bexar County.

Call 210-450-7222 to be screened for eligibility and to schedule an appointment.

Not appropriate for patients experiencing a medical emergency.

NOW accepts most major insurances, including:

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • CareLink
Hours
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Referral line
(210) 450-7222
Updated within the last 5 months.

NOW for Adolescents specializes in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT-A), individual therapy, and family therapy. Medication management is also available, but our providers cannot prescribe ADHD medications. 

For most people, behavioral health difficulties occur occasionally, with periods of symptoms that may vary in type and severity. NOW treatment was developed to fit this pattern. Clients receive intensive services early in treatment and during periods when symptoms are worse and less intensive services in times of greater wellness.

Treatment episodes at NOW typically last 3–4 months. Counselors and clients work together to identify signs that clients may need to return for additional counseling sessions. Our care coordination team will work with every individual to create long-term care plans.

NOW for Adolescents serves people ages 12 to 19.

*All group therapy services are currently provided online. If you are interested in one of our groups, please contact the clinic and ask for more information.

Most Major Insurance Accepted

NOW accepts most major insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid. We also accept CareLink.

Hours
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Updated within the last 5 months.