Psychotherapy and Counseling Services
Overcome obstacles. Explore relationships to better understand symptoms. Learn skills to cope and thrive. Get support and guidance to help you recover. Choose from some of the highest credentialed and best trained therapists in Chicago. Let yourself heal in a comforting and private setting.
Psychiatric Medication Evaluation & Management
Psychiatrists and a licensed clinical nurse practitioner are on staff for patients in need of medication consultation and management.
Nutrition Assessment and Education
Registered dieticians evaluate and educate participants about food and nutrient intake and lifestyle. They will develop a meal plan that meets your individual needs. On-going support is available to problem-solve nutritional challenges.
Dietetic Services:
- Nutritional Assessment
- Individualized Meal Plans
- Mindfulness in Eating
- Interpreting Hunger Cues
- Intuitive Eating
- Binge Eating Reduction
- Goal Setting for Behavioral Change
- Supervised Therapeutic Meals
- Self Monitoring
- Motivation to Sustain Healthy Eating
- Where Diets Fall Short
- Hunger Cues and Satiety
Chemical Dependency Support & Assessment
Continue recovery from substance abuse or dual diagnoses. Emotional support, information and resources are provided in individual and group formats. Non 12-step groups available.
Experiential Therapies
These groups encourage non-verbal reflection and expression of feelings. In order to improve the mind-body connection, participants will engage in exercises in a supportive environment.
These groups are:
- Art Therapy
- Yoga Therapy
- Drama Therapy
- Tai Chi
- Relaxation and Meditation
Multi-Family Therapy Groups
Participants are invited to attend with family members, or significant others who are a support to you in your recovery. This group is designed to provide you and your loved ones with education about eating disorders, methods to improve the quality of familial relationships and communication, and enhance understanding of the interpersonal dynamics characterizing family systems.
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Specialized Skills Groups
Learn and practice techniques to increase coping strategies, build self-esteem, improve communication skills and enhance your ability to identify, regulate and express emotions. Themes include ways to heal from past trauma while working toward building healthy relationships.
Groups include:
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Grief & Loss Therapy
- Trauma Groups
- Survivors of Sexual Abuse
- Self-Injury
- Childhood Physical Abuse
- Sexuality
- Relationship Counseling
- Divorce
- Eating Disorders
- Obesity
Process Groups
In process groups, you will have the opportunity to explore relationships and other underlying issues that may have contributed to the onset or maintenance of your disorder and its symptoms. Emphasis is placed on understanding the meaning of eating and other psychological symptoms, making important connections between interpersonal experiences, emotions, and coping behaviors, and building a sense of identity apart from the eating or mood disorder.
Supported Meal Group
In meal groups, you will eat a well-balanced meal planned and supervised by an Insight dietitian. The nutritional philosophy of Insight emphasizes education about normal eating and the role of good nutrition in a healthy lifestyle. We believe that there are no "good" or "bad" food, our goal is to help you learn how to eat mindfully. Meal groups are intended to challenge individuals to partake in a well-balanced meal group and eat everything provided. All food is catered by the local enterprise Lettuce Entertain You. For more information click here.
Intervention Services
Professionally facilitated interventions for families with eating disorders, addiction, and other mental illnesses are available.
Exercise Groups
Fitness Assessment, Metabolic Rate Testing, Exercise Prescription/Compliance, Personal Training
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