Adult psychiatric care for San Antonio patients via secure Texas telehealth — including thoughtful work with military, veteran, and first-responder families.
San Antonio is one of the most distinctive cities in Texas to practice psychiatry in. Joint Base San Antonio is woven through the metro — Lackland, Fort Sam Houston, Randolph — and a meaningful share of the patients who reach out to us from San Antonio are active-duty service members, veterans, military spouses, or their adult children. Many have lived through deployments, transitions, and the cumulative weight of a military career.
San Antonio also has a large Hispanic and bicultural population whose family and community context matters in evaluation. None of these factors changes what good psychiatric care looks like, but a careful clinician asks about them rather than around them.
San Antonio has strong inpatient and acute-care infrastructure: Brooke Army Medical Center, the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, University Hospital, Methodist Hospital, and Baptist Health System are major anchors. The VA system carries a significant share of veteran behavioral health care.
Even with that infrastructure, accessing a psychiatrist for a careful first evaluation and steady follow-up can be hard, especially for working adults whose schedules do not match clinic hours. SLS Psychiatry, based in Southlake, treats adults across Texas via secure telehealth — a San Antonio patient can be seen from home, on a base where private space is available, or from a private office during the workday. We coordinate with primary care and other specialists in San Antonio when that strengthens the plan.
A San Antonio telehealth visit is a secure video call. You will receive a link in advance. You must be physically located in Texas at the time of the visit — that is true whether you are at home in Stone Oak, in a private office in the Pearl District, or in temporary housing during a PCS move. Initial evaluations are 60–75 minutes; follow-ups are typically 20–50.
We do not prescribe controlled substances by telehealth without a careful evaluation, and we are direct about when an in-person visit or a San Antonio-based referral is appropriate. Visits run in your browser.
Common reasons San Antonio patients reach out include adult depression, anxiety and panic, post-traumatic stress symptoms (in both military and civilian contexts), adult ADHD, insomnia, and postpartum mood symptoms. We provide thoughtful evaluation and medication management.
For trauma-focused therapy specifically — including evidence-based modalities such as CPT, PE, or EMDR — we generally refer to specialized San Antonio-based therapists or VA programs while continuing medication management on our side. No medication is prescribed without a clinical evaluation, treatment recommendations are made only after clinical evaluation, and no specific medication is guaranteed. Telehealth visits require that you be physically located in Texas at the time of the visit. SLS Psychiatry is not a VA provider; we are a separate private practice that complements existing VA or military care when patients want that.
Telehealth is the typical model for San Antonio patients. Driving to our Southlake office is roughly a 4-to-5-hour round trip, and there is no clinical reason to make that trip for routine psychiatric follow-up. Initial evaluations and follow-ups can both be completed by secure video, and we have served military families through PCS moves and deployments where stable in-person care was not possible.
A few benefits-related notes: we are not a TRICARE provider and we do not bill the VA; if you have TRICARE or VA benefits, those will not apply here, and you would either use commercial insurance, self-pay, or stay within the military or VA system for that portion of your care. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 7 PM. We try to be straightforward with San Antonio patients about what we can do well by telehealth and what is better served by an in-person provider in their own city — including specialty trauma programs and intensive substance-use care.
Stone Oak, Alamo Heights, Southtown, Pearl District, Helotes, Schertz, Cibolo, Boerne
No. SLS Psychiatry is a private practice and not part of the VA system. We can provide private-pay or commercial-insurance psychiatric care alongside VA care if a patient chooses, and we will be straightforward about when a VA-based pathway may be more appropriate.
Telehealth visits require a private space and a stable connection while you are physically located in Texas. Whether a particular workspace on a base is appropriate is up to you and your command — we cannot make that determination.
We evaluate trauma-related symptoms and provide medication management when clinically appropriate. For trauma-focused psychotherapy (such as CPT, PE, or EMDR), we generally refer to specialized therapists or VA programs.
We accept UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and Aetna. We are not a TRICARE provider; please see our insurance page for current details and self-pay options.