Services
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy refers to one-on-one mental health treatment services via in-person or virtual through telehealth with a trained counselor. Individual therapy is personalized to meet one’s personal mental health needs. It involves a clinical assessment of presenting symptoms and setting measurable therapeutic goals. There is opportunity to processes one’s past trauma and life history or learn how to manage symptoms or triggers in order to a live a healthy life.
Family Therapy
Family therapy is like individual therapy but aims to address the psychological, behavioral, and emotional issues impacting the mental health of the family unit.
Couples therapy
Couples therapy focuses on improving relationship satisfaction and conflict resolution between intimate couples.
On-Site School-Based Counseling
The Encompassing Center partners with local public, private and charter schools within the service delivery area to provide onsite counseling services, psychoeducational groups, and behavioral health support to students and families.
Psychiatric and Medication Management Services
Partnered with Rush University Medical Center
Psychiatric evaluations and medication management is the process of working with a psychiatrist to ensure that your psychiatric needs are met through reducing barriers and increase access to medications that are safe and effective. Monthly appointments are available for clients and can include changing medication doses, switching medications, or adding new psychotropic medications to address psychiatric needs. All psychiatric appointments are virtual.
Narrative Exposure Therapy
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a short-term treatment for individuals with complex trauma. This 6-session treatment can be requested during the intake process. These sessions will involve narrating one’s entire life story through a
Lifeline- which highlights the behavioral patterns and make meaning of difficult life experiences. NET allows individuals to reprocess and integrate these experiences into a short-written biography at the end of treatment.
Case Management
Case management services provide coordination, support and advocacy in other areas that impact mental health whether it is vocational, educational, benefits, or other community resources.
Trauma-Informed Training and Education
Community partners may reach out to the Encompassing Center with any training requests. Trainings can be provided for psychoeducation purposes on various mental health topics.
Specialized Groups: Anger Management, Parent Coaching, Men’s and Women’s Group
Anger Management services are provided by the Encompassing Center’s clinicians who are Certified Anger Management Specialist-I through the National Anger Management Association. Anger management services can be 1-on-1 and requested at intake. Community organizations can request this as a service for a group of individuals if needed.
Community Partnership, Collaboration and Outreach
The Encompassing Center is open to partnership with local community organizations to alleviate barriers such as long waitlist for mental health counseling, tabling at community events, and working together to break stigma around mental health.
Peace Circle Keeper Facilitation
The Encompassing Center provides space for the community to build a healing relationship with one another. Peace Circles uses the circle as a restorative justice practice where community occurs through celebration, open discussion, consensus on issues impacting our communities, grief and loss, creative problem-solving, healing of trauma, and more.
3019 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60612
Intake Hours: Monday — Friday 8:30 to 4:30 pm
