Joven Noble Curriculum:
This is an evaluated 10-session curriculum that includes youth positive development, support, and leadership enhancement, which heals childhood trauma and preparedness for adulthood. The curriculum also promotes responsible and respectful behavior in relationships with their family and community. We create sacred space where they learn that they have a sacred purpose.

Counseling:
Is offered to address the many issues youth face today, common problems range from depressive symptoms, anger or explosive episodes, defiance toward authority, drug use (experimental and dependency), poor academic performance, mood swings, social and peer conflict. Also includes, anger management skill training, behavioral training, and teen parent training.

Mentoring:
The philosophy of MP360 is that through adults teaching and role modeling for adolescents the principles of true young man and woman will have a deeper meaning and purpose for life. The MP360 program participant spends time with his adult mentor on a one to one basis beginning the process of restoring the broken image of a “Male Role Model”. As their relationship builds the mentor begins to instill in the youth the Concept of La Palabra, the Word, is instilled in the youth. With statements that is, I give you my Word, I will not hurt you. I will be a good example for you. I will get you the help you need. I will value you. You can trust me.”

Job Readiness:
Consists of weekly sessions of job readiness training (e.g., educating participants in knowing how to interview, complete job applications, understand employer expectation, and learning professional dress technique.)

Faith Sharing:
As a way to continue helping youth grow in a positive way the mentors and staff will present the many ways youth can begin to learn more about faith. This may include learning and understanding the bible, entering a faith-based church, learning an examination of consciousness, and responsibility of community service and charity.

Rites of Passage Retreat:
The Hero’s Journey is an exciting three-day retreat for youth under the guidance of adult mentors, finding sacredness and purpose, crossing the bridge from adolescence into young adulthood, healing wounds and learning life skills, discover their talents and gifts. The setting of the retreat takes place at an outdoors natural environment where students experience fishing, canoeing, boating, building sacred fires and cooking, swimming, hiking (day and night), setting up tents outdoor equipment operation, meditation and relaxation, Indigenous arts, crafts, archery, walking sticks, and spirit sticks. For the majority of our participants this is the first time they have ever done or participated in any of these outdoor activities.

University seeks to provide support to those serving in the military and their loved ones through various areas.

For more information, contact Melissa Supak by email at [email protected]

Free.

Steve Welch brings more than 25 years of experience to the counseling ministry at the University. His clinical training includes family systems, solution-focused, and cognitive-behavioral models of treatment. He has experience working with adult men and women, couples and families, as well as adolescents.

He also works out of a deep faith in Christ and the perspective that God loves each of us and desires to meet us in the midst of whatever struggles we are experiencing. Examples of issues that Steve can offer help in addressing are depression, anxiety, relational conflict, parenting struggles, life transitions, addictions, job or school stress, and vocational decisions.

Adults, couples, families, and adolescents.

Anyone interested in scheduling an appointment or obtaining more information may email Steve here, or you may call him at (210) 690-7345.

University’s financial support of the counseling ministry allows Steve to conduct sessions at a reduced fee.

Although he does not accept any insurance payments, sessions only cost $50, and if there is financial need can be reduced to as low as $25.

You do not have to be a member of the University UMC to access counseling services.

At CommuniCare, we aim to cater to the needs of every teenager and their parents by offering exceptional outpatient care and personalized treatment plans for each individual.

We offer the following Teen Health services:

• Puberty Development Education
• Reproductive Health
• Acute Care
• Well Visits
• Immunizations
• School and Sports Physicals
• Chronic Disease Management (for asthma, allergies, diabetes, etc.)
• ADHD Care
• Individual and Family Counseling

These clinics were established to provide primary care to the Veteran in their community.

The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) continually seeks to improve our delivery of health care services and is excited about our existing Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) Program. STVHCS contracts with community providers to provide primary care to Veterans closer to their home or work.

Please call STVHCS Telecare at 1-888-686-6350 for more information on locations, assignments, appointments, and services.

Your Primary Care Provider will provide you with:

• Annual Physical Exam (Not limited to just the annual physical exam)
• Continuous Primary Care
• Pneumonia Vaccine
• Routine Labs and X-rays
• Prescriptions

In addition to the primary care services you receive from this clinic, the full array of VA medical services (including specialty tests and consultations) will be made available through the STVHCS VA Medical Center.

These clinics are by enrollment only and interested Veterans should call our Telephone Liaison Care Nurse Program at 1-888-686-6350 for further information and enrollment. Please do not call or visit these clinics for an appointment until you have called to enroll and received a confirmation of enrollment letter and clinic brochure.

Veterans and their families.

Call TTY if you have hearing loss 800-799-4889

This facility provides high-quality medical care and access to Veterans' services.

PRIMARY CARE: You will be assigned a provider for your medical care. Physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants work closely with a team of other clinic staff to ensure you receive the best care available. Specialists are available by referral.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES:

• Nutrition Counseling
• Pharmacy Services
• Gender-Specific Health Services
• Social Work Services
• Patient Education Programs
• Mental Health Outpatient Services
• Compensation and Pension Program

Your primary care provider, nurse, or health benefits advisor can answer any questions about these programs.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS:

• Gulf War Registry
• Agent Orange Program
• Ex-Prisoner of War Program
• Ionizing Radiation Program
• Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation New Dawn (OND)

This is not an emergency facility. Call 911 or your local medical emergency system if you have a medical emergency.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Boone Elementary School.

Couples therapy (sometimes referred to as marriage counseling) is for partners in a relationship, married or not. The goal of couples therapy is to improve the relationship.

This type of therapy helps couples decide whether they should continue to stay together. Although couples therapy focuses on the couple, sometimes one or both parties’ psychological issues need addressing.

Therapy often includes sessions designed to improve problem-solving, build communication skills, and identify life goals and relationship responsibilities. Other common issues are infidelity, financial problems, illness, and other life changes – as well as anger.

I offer both Gottman's Method of Counseling and Emotionally Focused Therapy.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East
• Aetna
• Out-of-network
• Private Pay

What is Discernment Counseling?

Discernment counseling is a short-term therapy (five sessions or fewer) designed to help couples on the brink of divorce gain clarity and confidence about deciding on a direction for their marriage.

Couples decide whether they’d like to stay in the marriage as-is, pursue a divorce, or reconcile and repair the relationship.

What makes Discernment counseling powerful is that it meets spouses where they are.

This form of counseling honors the fact that one spouse is “leaning out” or unsure of the marriage while the other spouse is “leaning in” or wanting to make the marriage work.

Couples openly explore their problems.

• Discernment counseling lasts up to five sessions. At the end of every session, the couple decides whether they’d like to return for the next session.
• In each session, the counselor meets with the couple for about 45 minutes. Then, each partner meets individually with the counselor for about 30 minutes.
• Most couples find the format of both conjoint and individual sessions quite relieving and useful because it allows them to bring up issues together and discuss how they feel about them.
• Individually, they explore how they contributed to the problem and what they need to correct the problem.

Many factors lead couples to consider divorce.
Nobody gets married hoping to be divorced one day.

Unfortunately, people change. When hardships occur, many couples find themselves faced with deciding if divorce is the next step for them.

The reasons couples consider divorce may be as simple as personality conflicts that seem irreconcilable to cases of abuse.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

What is group counseling?

Group counseling is a very positive experience for most people because the therapist and group members build a safe place to explore the problems surrounding their relationships.

Through the sharing process, members develop a level of trust that allows them to be honest, open with one another, and accept each other despite any faults.

Group counseling usually is effective because members behave in ways that reflect how they are outside of the group. Other members can support the individual by changing those unproductive patterns through feedback.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

What is individual counseling?

Individual counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy, talk therapy, or treatment) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

The counseling focuses on everyday issues that come with development – issues where a helping hand or leg-up would resolve the issue before it became a problem.

Counseling seeks to help people before the problem becomes heightened or when the problem becomes overwhelming.

Individual counseling’s expectation is to…

• Help improve the relationships between two people.
• Typically, the relationship is a critical part of what makes counseling successful.
• Counselors assist individuals with expressing emotions, solving personal problems, and understanding oneself better.
• They also offer support and resources.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

Recovery from an affair is hard.

After an affair has happened, the challenge becomes recovery.

Is it possible to put the past behind you when the past includes you or your partner’s affair?

Recovery after upsetting events is a skill set that all couples need – one that they especially need to use after the trauma of infidelity.

The good news is that full recovery, even after long-standing or multiple affairs, is possible. Ideally, recovery ends up with everyone having learned and grown.

Does counseling help with recovery?

The aftermath of betrayal can be long and painful. Healing after an affair might seem to be a harrowing task.

Working with a trained counselor helps with surviving infidelity.

Counseling is an effective way to recover after an affair. Through counseling, both partners regain trust in one another.

So, if you ask, does a marriage survive infidelity, or does marriage counseling work in healing from infidelity in marriage? The answer is yes, but only if you are determined to do the work!

Deceiver – explore your relationship.

• Understanding and clarifying personal decisions and problems in the marriage need to be explored by both partners.
• Become aware of the deeper problems within yourself and your marriage and commit to making active changes.
• You need to understand if there was a long-standing sense of inadequacy that the affair partner soothed.
• Did underlying anger regarding your partner cause your marital distance? Was there insufficient prioritizing of the marriage?

The Deceived needs to heal from the betrayal.

• Recovery for the Deceived begins with healing the pain caused by the marital breach itself. Healing begins when the Deceiver expresses genuine compassion for the pain that the betrayal has caused.
• Demonstrating real empathy over the pain and hurt created by the Deceiver helps prevent long-term resentment by the betrayed partner.
• Over time, the betrayed spouse/partner must explore their feelings of shock, rage, hurt, confusion, and sadness. A safe place allows the betrayed spouse/partner to be heard and listened to by the Deceiver.
• Clarity regarding how and why the affair happened needs exploration while using empathy and support.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

What is Sex Therapy?

Sex therapy is simply a specialized way of treating sexual concerns from a psychological perspective, including addressing any mental health conditions that may relate to or arise from these concerns.

Sex therapy never involves sexual contact or sexual behavior in front of the therapist.

A sex therapist supports a person with any issue related to sex and sexuality and explores sexuality, sexual identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and general mental health issues associated with a healthy sexual life.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

• Child Counseling - Here are Mind Works we believe that every child deserves to reach their fullest potential. We believe in helping children feel capable and confident, while working with parents to give them the tools necessary to support their children. We implement play therapy with children. Through play, children learn about themselves and their relationships in the world around them.
• Teen Counseling - At Mind Works, we understand the challenges that the adolescent period brings, and we are here to support you. We want you to feel that your teenager can have a safe place to talk about normal and developmental changes they are experiencing. We want to be able to help your teen gain the tools needed to navigate their changing world, while also being able to provide them with life skills necessary for their future.

Click here to request an appointment or for more information on our fees.

In-person or telehealth visits.

Insurance accepted:

• Aetna
• Humana
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield PPO
• Tricare
• Medicaid - Superior Health

In our practice, we provide a non-judgmental, supportive environment to meet your family’s needs. We combine evidence-based techniques and therapies to foster confidence, openness, and respect, and help your family work together to improve relationships with each other and themselves.

You can improve your relationships, creating authentic communication and respect to begin to heal past or current emotional wounds. You and each member of your family could feel validated, heard, and better understood.

Mind Works can provide you with the right tools, appropriate approaches, and healthy insights. Client frustrations often ease or disappear, problems become manageable, validation and openness increase, and healthy communication paves the way for calmer, happier relationships and a healthy way forward.

Click here to request an appointment or for more information on fees.

Insurance Accepted:

• Aetna
• Humana
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield PPO
• Tricare
• Medicaid - Superior

With technology at the forefront, many parents are concerned that their child or teenager may not be getting enough positive social interactions. They worry that their child or teenager may not be making friends, and lack the confidence or tools needed to navigate social interactions.

Mind Works offers group counseling for children and teenagers to be able to learn, grow, and facilitate positive interactions in a safe and nurturing environment.

Mind Works offers weekly group counseling throughout the year for:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Anger
• Body Image
• Low Self-Esteem
• Autism
• Poor Social Interactions
• Emotional Awareness

New groups are constantly being added. Call today to sign your child up for a group or call our office to learn more.

Click here to contact us or for more information regarding fees.

Insurance Accepted:

• Aetna
• Humana
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield PPO
• Tricare
• Medicaid - Superior Health

Out-of-pocket payment

Here’s how Safe Place works:

Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.

Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).

Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter.  If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter. 

Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.

This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.

Free.

MCECC provides counseling services for individuals and families. If we are not able to help someone, we will assist in finding a specialist.

Counseling is based on Islamic teachings. Complex issues or those requiring clinical counseling may be referred to outside agencies or professionals.

Areas of counseling include:

• Religious Counseling
• Reconciliation/Dispute Resolution
• Pre-Marital Counseling
• Marital Counseling
• Parent/Child Counseling
• Family Counseling
• Grief Counseling

Click here to schedule an appointment.

Community Care is a service offered by City Church to help individuals in crisis, hereby referred to as Care Recipient, identify their immediate next step. Due to the high demand from a large community, Community Care sessions are limited to 50 minutes and two occurrences per year.

Community Care Leaders, hereinafter referred to as CCLs, advise purely from a Free Grace Theological Perspective. CCLs are not licensed professionals and do not have the training or skills for the long-term process of repairing severe emotional or relational issues.

Additionally, City Church does not provide, in any form or manner, psychiatric treatment or clinical mental health counseling. Referrals to licensed mental health professionals may be provided upon request.

CCLs reserve the right to cease any Community Care session, at any time, for any reason.

Information shared by the Care Recipient will be held in confidence within the Community Care Leaders team

Anybody in Crisis

Click here for Mental Health Resourses

Free.

Our Behavioral Health Services provide care that are limited to patients that can be assisted by out-patient psychiatric and counseling treatment. We offer the following scope of services in our Behavioral Health Program:

• Anxiety / Depression
• Adjustment Disorders to Major Life Stressors
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children (2 to 18) and associated problems (Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Insomnia)
• Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder in adults who have transferred from our child behavioral health program
• Tobacco cessation
• Emotional Difficulties secondary to a general medical condition
• Schizophrenia and other Psychotic disorders, excluding patients on injectable antipsychotics or Clozaril
• Bipolar Disorders Type I or II
• Eating disorders – Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia
• Mild to moderate Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual and Development Disability

We accept these insurances:

• Aetna (HMO/PPO)
• Ambetter (HMO)
• Blue Cross Blue Shield (HMO/PPO)
• Community First (HMO)
• Humana (HMO/PPO)
• Multiplan/PHCS (PPO)
• Oscar Health Insurance
• TRICARE (East Region)
• United Healthcare (PPO)
• University Community Care Plan
• Medicare
• Medicaid

At CommuniCare, we aim to cater to the needs of every teenager and their parents by offering exceptional outpatient care and personalized treatment plans for each individual.

We offer the following Teen Health services:

• Puberty Development Education
• Reproductive Health
• Acute Care
• Well Visits
• Immunizations
• School and Sports Physicals
• Chronic Disease Management (for asthma, allergies, diabetes, etc.)
• ADHD Care
• Individual and Family Counseling

Our Adaya program helps youths without a permanent placement know they are valued and cherished. Our personnel coaches engage with these young people, not just as therapists, but as partners to help them build attachment and start a journey towards healing. Coaches are going to the youth, wherever their temporary placement is, to ensure they receive the trauma-responsive intervention they need and deserve.

When a placement is identified for these youth, Chosen’s staff “follow the child,” helping the transition to a family, ensuring stability and higher success rates. This essential component is critical to help youth heal in safe, loving, and permanent relationships. 

Contact us here.

Chosen’s Addy Program offers a comprehensive approach for adoptive parents and caregivers seeking to strengthen family bonds and support children with unique needs. The program focuses on understanding the trauma experienced by children while acknowledging the profound losses they have endured.

Click here to learn more about our process.

Parents who have been separated from their children need support to create a stable environment. By walking the path of healing together, Chosen empowers families to build trust. Home can become a place of safety, security, and hope.

To contact us, click here.

Fostering Connections is a program geared toward foster parents, recognizing the unique dynamics and challenges they face. In the child welfare system, simply being involved can be traumatic. At Chosen, we recognize this and are dedicated to helping children and foster families navigate the path to healing.

To contact us, click here.

Families raising other relatives’ children never expected to be parenting again. Shifting roles with birth parents and financial hardship add to the challenges. Our team helps you navigate tumultuous waters. We help build bonds of trust. We walk the path of healing together.

To contact us click here.

We offer:

• therapy
• in-home behavioral consultation
• parent coaching.

We are currently NOT offering:

• testing services
• forensic or custody evaluations
• medication or psychiatric services

We do not have a psychiatrist (MD) on our team.

New clients are required to complete all required forms online before their initial appointment.

Click here to contact us.

We reserve the right to refer your inquiry based on your current concerns, appointment availability, and current practice resources.

Payment options:

• Cash pay (parent coaching, in-home services, therapy)
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield* (therapy)
• Humana Behavioral Health (therapy)

Click here for fee information

We provide individual therapy for children and adolescents. Our approach to therapy is guided by each individual's needs and preferences.

Our team will provide an assessment and treatment plan to help you get going quickly.

In-person and family tele-therapy can be accessed via a secure video link.

For Child/Adolescent Therapy forms, click here.

Insurance we accept:

• Medicare
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Aetna, Tricare
• United
• and a few others

You may or may not want to use your insurance, we can discuss the pros and cons with you.

Without insurance, initial sessions cost between $220-$260 and subsequent sessions cost between $165-$180.

If you are going to pay directly for service "out of pocket", your clinician will provide you with a written good faith estimate after your first meeting.

We offer a limited number of sliding scale spots, depending on therapist availability, and can discuss during the initial session.

We provide individual therapy for adults. Our approach to therapy is guided by each individual's needs and preferences. Our team will provide an assessment and treatment plan to help you get going quickly.

We also provide specialized group therapy to help people build skills for dealing with chronic pain, PTSD, ADD/ADHD, and other problems. Check our news feed for upcoming groups and to get on the mailing list for future groups.

In-person and group tele-therapy can be accessed via secure video link.

For adult therapy forms, click here.

Insurance we accept:

• Medicare
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Aetna
• Tricare
• United
• and a few others

You may or may not want to use your insurance, we can discuss the pros and cons with you.

Without insurance, initial sessions cost between $220-$260 and subsequent sessions cost between $165-$180.

If you are going to pay directly for service "out of pocket", your clinician will provide you with a written good faith estimate after your first meeting. 

We offer a limited number of sliding scale spots, depending on therapist availability, and can discuss during the initial session.

Behavioral Innovations offers personalized ABA services and autism diagnostic assessment services for children with autism.

Our centers offer evidence-based interventions and are staffed by experienced professionals committed to helping your child reach their fullest potential.

If you have been looking for a nearby school for autism, take the first step towards a brighter future for your child and contact us today.

Click here to learn more.

Click here to schedule an evaluation.

At Behavioral Innovations, we accept most major insurance plans. Our experienced insurance specialists can assist you through this complex insurance journey. Click here for the list of insurances we accept.