Comprehensive Community Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic

La Maestra’s Comprehensive Community Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic (Wellness Clinic) offers outpatient behavioral health, substance use disorder and co-occurring support services to promote brain health, healing, and well-being. Our focus is to provide personalized, evidence-based care to La Maestra patients including children, adults, and families. The Wellness Clinic specializes in increasing access to comprehensive outpatient behavioral health and Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) services and works with the existing established county-wide network to provide crisis interventions.

What is Brain Health?

The brain, like other organs in the body, has specific functions like sleep, awake, concentration, and so forth.  

Thinking, feeling, and behavior are also part of your brain’s functions. Sometimes these functions can overwork or underperform, causing you to experience suffering and making it harder for you to reach your goals. When this happens for a while, and sometimes in cycles, we call it specific names (some examples below), to help identify which brain functions are off and to explore ways to help build your brain health back.

Some common problems include:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Mood Disorders
  • Mental Disorders
  • Alcohol Use Disorder
  • Drug Use and Addiction

The team is culturally competent, linguistically diverse, caring, reliable, and trained to assist you. Our team is comprised of psychiatric, behavioral health, substance use disorder, and primary care professionals.

Our team includes:

  • Psychiatrist
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
  • Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioners
  • Family Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
  • Registered Nurses
  • Licensed Clinical Psychologists
  • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Licensed Clinical Social Workers
  • Substance Use Disorder Counselors
  • Medical Assistants
  • Case Managers
  • Program Liaisons
  • Peer Support Specialists
  • Outreach Specialist

Background

The Substance Use Disorder program at La Maestra has been providing recovery, treatment, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) services since 2016. And the Behavioral Health program has been providing counseling services to patients experiencing stress or anxiety, depression, domestic violence, or survivors of crime since 2004. In the year of 2020, the Substance Use Disorder program and the Behavioral Health program integrated becoming one family and a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic known as the Comprehensive Community Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic.

Services Include:

  • General Psychiatry
  • Addiction Psychiatry
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Integrative Medicine Services
  • Individual Counseling
  • Psychotherapy
  • Case Management
  • Peer Support Services
  • Group Therapy
  • Drug Education
  • Medicated Assisted Treatment (MAT) for substance use disorders
  • Medication Management for Depression,
  • Anxiety, Trauma, & Co-Occurring Disorders
  • Crisis Interventions
  • Self-Help Resources
  • Recovery and After Care Services
  • Primary Care Services

Approaches to Care

Wellness Clinic follows a whole-person and patient centered approach to wellness including:

  • Understanding individuals’ unique and distinct needs
  • Encouraging continual growth, wellness, and positive change
  • Respecting the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse individuals
  • Follow each adults stage of life
  • Follow each adolescent development stage

“If we can dream it, we can do it. La Maestra Centers of HOPE.” – Dr. Mario Salguero

Call us Today!

Our multi-disciplinary team assesses your needs to determine how best we can assist. Please call to make an appointment today!

Behavioral and Mental Health Support for Children, Adults, and Families

Substance Use Support for Adults

Phone: (619) 285-7097

Check-in Site: 4175 Fairmount Avenue San Diego, CA 92105

Substance Use Support for Adolescents and Young Adults (ages 12-24)

Phone: (619) 510-4644