Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute Macklind

About Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute Macklind

The Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute on Macklind Avenue provides mental health treatment and co-occurring substance use treatment to adults and youth. This Missouri clinic also has an eating disorder program, which is helpful because eating disorders can also co occur with substance use.

Programs at the Institute are offered on an outpatient basis, from full day programs to intensive outpatient treatment to general care. They also have family therapy programs.

Targeted Addiction Treatment For Youth

One thing I think is really unique about the Institute is that they have so many services for adolescents, including addiction treatment. They can help with ADHD and autism as well as struggles young people have after a parent’s divorce or the loss of a loved one.

To treat youth they offer a wide range of approaches. They use behavioral training to help reduce or eliminate unwanted behaviors and Parent Child Interaction Therapy to address concerns in young children. They focus on having the family involved and may include family counseling.

For addiction treatment, they offer an intensive outpatient program focused on dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). There is a DBT program for adults and one for youth. These programs use evidence based therapy to solve pressing problems in a client’s life based on what’s most serious.

Eating Disorder Treatment in Saint Louis

Another program that caught my eye was the eating disorder program, which has separate tracks for youth and adults. This is an intensive outpatient program and also uses DBT approaches.

It’s common for people with an eating disorder to use substances as well as other methods to keep their weight artificially low. This program can treat multiple types of eating disorders including anorexia, bullimia, orthorexia and binge eating among others.

This program also has focus tracks for specific co-occurring disorders, such as OCD and anxiety. They also have a track for women struggling with mental health issues around reproduction, such as fear about pregnancy, postpartum issues, infertility, thinking about adoption and more.