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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.
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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.
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Couples therapy
Couples therapy focuses on improving relationship satisfaction and conflict resolution between intimate couples.
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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.
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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.
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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.
QPR Suicide Prevention Training
Virtual or in-person training options 90-minute sessions.
Why Attend?
– Recognize the warning signs of suicide
-How to Offer Hope
– How to Get Help and Save Lives
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Nationally Recognized Suicide Prevention Program from The Connect Program
The Connect program is recognized as a comprehensive model for planning and implementing suicide prevention and postvention practices, as described in the Action Alliance Paper: Key Elements for the Implementation of Comprehensive Community-Based Suicide Prevention
Comprehensive training curriculum including:
- Prevention and intervention
- Postvention (promoting healing and reducing risk after a suicide).
- Survivor Voices: Sharing the Story of Suicide Loss program trains survivors of suicide loss how to safely share their story privately and publicly.
- Train the Trainer and Strategic Planning options
A public health, socio-ecological approach that looks at the individual, family, community and society. While a suicide is the act of an individual, it occurs in the context of and impacts that person’s relationships, community, and the larger society and culture.
Cross-training includes lecture, interactive case scenarios, activities, facilitated discussion, printed materials, and best practice protocols.
More than “just training”, Connect helps you understand how systems work and how to collaborate across systems to create an integrated community response.
Training that can be customized to meet the needs of your community or organization. Connect goes beyond a “one size fits all” tool box, manual, or on-line seminar.
Consultative and collaborative approach. We work with you to ensure the training fits your culture. We consult up-front to maximize buy-in from potential participants, assess readiness, examine relationships within your community or organization, and advise on recruiting participants.
Developed and operated by NAMI New Hampshire.
Please allow 3-4 hours for this training at your site.
The Encompassing Center
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3019 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60612
Intake Hours: Monday — Friday 8:30 to 4:30 pm