General Free/Low-Cost Therapist Referrals

If you need a free or low cost therapist with a lower sliding scale, these are all great resources in the great Saint Louis Area. Be aware many of these resources rely upon graduate students, provisionally licensed, or newly licensed counselors as well as some more experienced counselors.

As I explain to my own clients, less experienced counselors are more likely to know more of the most recent research, theories and techniques as they were just trained in many of them in school. Whereas more experienced counselors may have worked with a lot of clients and gained confidence they may also be more impacted by biases or not know some of the newer approaches. 

I always recommend that you find a counselor with experience working with whatever your issue may be. Many of the community health centers listed below have a lot of experience working with more chronic or complex mental health and comorbidities as well as more commonplace therapeutic issues. In the therapy world paying more for therapy doesn't always mean that you get better care. Interview your therapist, ask them what they've done before, who they've worked with, why they got into counseling. Be involved in the process and you'll get so much more out of it.

• Affinia Healthcare Address: 3930 S. Broadway, St. Louis, MO Phone: 314-814-8700 Website: https://affiniahealthcare.org/

• Amanda Luckett Murphy Hopewell Center Phone: 314-531-1770 Website: https://www.hopewellcenter.com/

• Avenues Counseling Address: 1612 S. Big Bend Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63117 Phone: 314-529-1391 https://avenuescounselingcenter.org/about/fees-and-payment/

• Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Centers Phone: 314-531-1770 Website: https://www.phcenters.org

• BHR Phone: 988  Website: https://www.bhrstl.org

• BJC Phone: 314-747-7491 or 877-729-4004 Website: https://www.bjcbehavioralhealth.org/

• Care and Counseling (A Division of Provident Behavioral Health) Address: 2650 Olive St., St. Louis, MO 63103 Phone: 314-371-6500 (First appointments: 314-533-8200) Website: https://www.providentstl.org/counseling/care-and-counseling/

• Casa de Salud Mental Health Collaborative Address: 3200 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103 Phone: 314-977-1250 Website: https://www.casadesaludstl.org/

• Catholic Charities/St. Louis Counseling Address: 4445 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108 Phone: 314-367-5500 Website: https://www.ccstl.org/

• Center for Life Solutions Address: 637 Dunn Rd., Hazelwood, MO 63042 Phone: 314-731-0100 Website: https://www.centerforlifesolutions.org/

• Centerstone Website: https://centerstone.org/.../free-counseling-is-available.../

• Covenant Seminary Counseling Center Address: 478 Covenant Lane, St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 392-4241 Website: https://www.covenantseminary.edu/counseling-center

• Creve Coeur Counseling Associates Phone: 314-991-0100 Website: http://www.cccastl.com/

• Diversified Health and Wellness Center Website: https://www.Diversifiedhwc.com

• Independence Center Phone: 314-533-4163 Website: https://www.independencecenter.org

• Lutheran Family and Children's Services Phone: 314-787-5100 Website: https://lfcsmo.org/counseling/

• Megan Meier Foundation Website: https://www.meganmeierfoundation.org/counseling

• Mercy Professional Services Phone: (314) 993-8818

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Phone: 314-962-4670 Website: https://www.namistl.org

• Places for People Phone: 314-535-5600 Website: https://www.placesforpeople.org

• Provident Behavioral Health Phone: 314-533-8200 Website: https://www.providentstl.org

• The Schiele Clinic Website: https://www.stlpi.org/about-the-clinic/

• The SPOT Phone: 314-535-0413 Website: http://thespot.wustl.edu/

• Safe Connections 24/7 Crisis Helpline: 314-531-2003 Office Phone: 314-646-7500 Website: https://safeconnections.org/

• Salam's Clinic Website: https://salamclinicstl.com/

• St. Louis Empowerment Center Phone: 314-652-6100 Website: https://www.dbsaempowerment.org

• St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Phone: (314) 361-7075 Website: www.stlpi.org

• St. Louis University Center for Counseling Phone: 314-977-2505 Website: https://www.slu.edu/.../center-counseling.../index.php

• University of Missouri St. Louis Center for Behavioral Health Phone: 314-516-HELP (4357) Website: http://www.umsl.edu/cbh/

• Youth in Need Phone: 636-946-5600 Website: https://www.youthinneed.org/

If you are a organization or individual offering free or low cost therapy and would like to be added to this list please email me with your information.