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About Meier Clinics
Dr. Paul Meier and his sister, Nancy Brown, opened the first Meier Clinics in 1976 in Texas with the goal of reducing the stigma of mental health treatment by providing quality Christian care. When Nancy’s family relocated to the Chicago area in 1986, she started the first Meier Clinics in Wheaton with just one counselor. By the end of the first month, she needed to hire another. Meier Clinics has continued to grow and is currently a non-profit organization with thirteen clinics in seven states. The clinical staff at Meier Clinics Wheaton includes psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, psychologists, LCPC’s, LCSW’s, and LMFT’s. Meier Clinics Wheaton has a robust training program and trains students each year at every level of training. Meier Clinics Wheaton is the national headquarters for Meier Clinics and encompasses outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, psychiatric, and psychological assessment programs in order to meet multiple needs of care.
Meier Clinics strives to integrate biblically-based, Christian beliefs with psychological principles to treat the whole person – emotionally, physically, and spiritually. As a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, Meier Clinic’s goal is to provide excellent, professional, psychological care to as many people as possible.
An important component of the Meier Clinics philosophy of training is the belief in the need to integrate scholarly knowledge, research findings, and critical thinking into clinical practice and clinical decision making. Interns are encouraged to engage in contributing to the existing body of research literature by pursuing individual research study through their dissertation and participating in on-going program development of our intensive program curriculum. Interns are encouraged to present their dissertation findings through didactic presentation to the Meier Clinics staff, interns and practicum students. Another central aspect of Meier’s mission is to educate and de-stigmatize mental health treatment in faith-based communities, and Meier Clinics consistently reaches out to local churches and schools to provide consultation, psychoeducational presentations, and other services in order to accomplish this goal. Meier Clinics also sponsors trainings through Christian Counseling Professionals of Chicagoland (CCPC) that are well attended by area colleges, churches, and providers.
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Contact Meier Clinics
2100 Manchester Rd, Suite 1510, Wheaton, IL 60187
Phone: 630.653.1717
www.meierclinics.com