Hamm Memorial Psychiatric Clinic

About Hamm Clinic

Hamm Clinic’s mission is to promote mental health with culturally responsive, relational care to adults, especially to those facing financial barriers. Clients that come to Hamm Clinic can receive an array of mental health services in one place. We offer clients trauma informed, culturally responsive/anti-oppressive individual, couple/family, and group therapy, case management, nursing, and psychiatric care all within our Healing Together™ Model of Care. Learn more about Hamm Clinic. 

A Legacy of Innovation 

Our founder, Margaret Hamm Kelley, was ahead of her time. A social worker and granddaughter of renowned St. Paul leader Theodore Hamm, she recognized that mental illness was a serious problem … especially for those unable to afford care. In 1954, Margaret established Hamm Clinic. She gathered a team of clinical social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists to provide integrated mental health care to individuals who could not pay for treatment. She also fought against the stigma of mental illness. Her motto was: Comprehensive mental health care is a basic human right that should be accessible to everyone.

We have carried her vision forward to this day by continuing to offer forward-thinking programming that is responsive to the mental health needs of the community.

Teaching and Learning

Hamm Clinic believes in the human potential for growth for our clients, trainees, and staff. We see training as both community engagement and advocacy. All our staff members value learning and growth. We’re fully invested in educating current and future mental health clinicians, as well as our local community. Hamm Clinic’s training program helps students learn how to provide quality, culturally-responsive, outpatient psychotherapy for diverse populations.

Trainees use longer-term, relational therapy techniques and learn how to work effectively with multidisciplinary team members. Hamm Clinic trainees are expected to bring their whole selves to the process of developing their skills as a professional mental health provider. During every consult, the unique perspectives of trainees are highly valued by fellow trainees and staff members.  Trainees have opportunities for supervised experience with couples, family and/or group therapy. Psychology interns and post-doctoral fellows receive specialized training in psychological assessment. 

Hamm Clinic is committed to increasing the diversity of providers in the mental health field. As part of that commitment, we established the Hamm Horizons Fellowship

We hope you will consider supporting Hamm Clinic on Give to the Max Day so we can continue offering innovative mental health services to the community!