Mental Health & Substance Abuse

We provide a broad range of services for adults experiencing mental health disorders and substance use issues. Our clinics offer personalized treatment plans that include both medication management and therapy.

Around half of US adults have or will have a mental health condition at some point in their lives. It’s important to know you are not alone.

Through our Integrated Behavioral Health programming at the 13 Cook County Health Ambulatory Community Health Network (ACHN) centers, we offer outpatient mental health therapy and case management services.  Our Integrated Behavioral Health team is made up of highly trained and experienced clinical psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors and masters level case managers.  This team works collaboratively with your primary care team to create direct access to high quality mental health support and treatments such as comprehensive assessment and treatment planning, individual, family and group therapies as well as linkage to other care and supports within cook county health or other community providers as needed. Therapists work collaboratively with individuals to develop patient-centered treatment goals that are unique to each patient.

Talk to your primary care physician or call your local ACHN site to access outpatient mental health services at CCH.

We extend our services to young individuals, offering specialized care tailored to the unique needs of children and adolescents.

Psychiatric services at CCH are provided by Board certified psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners.  Services are patient-centered, recovery focused and are typically part of a collaborative care approach.  You may be referred to other outpatient supports such as individual psychotherapy, group therapy, and case management services as needed. These outpatient services are either offered within our psychiatry clinics or are embedded in your primary care clinic.  Psychiatric services include:

• Psychiatric Evaluation
• Medication Monitoring, including Long-Acting Injectables

CCG psychiatric services are available to all Cook County residents and are offered Monday through Friday between 8:00 am-4:00 pm at the following locations:

• Austin Health Center – 773-826-9961
  4800 W. Chicago Ave, 2^nd Floor
  Chicago, IL 60651

• Blue Island Health Center – 708-293-8400
  12757 Western Ave
  Chicago, IL. 60406

• John Sengstacke Health Center Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Provident Hospital – 312-572-1030
  500 E 51st St., 8^th floor
  Chicago, IL 60615

• Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic at Stroger Hospital– 312-864-6406
  1969 W Ogden Ave, 4th Floor Room 4395
  Chicago, IL 60612

Cook County Health’s team of licensed clinical psychologists are highly trained doctorate level mental health professionals with diverse backgrounds and extensive experience. Our mission is to provide comprehensive psychological services that support individuals and families in improving their mental and physical well-being and improving their overall quality of life.  Psychology services at Cook County Health include:

Individual, Family and Group Psychotherapy

• Clinical diagnostic Evaluations
• Neuropsychological Assessments
• Behavioral Pain Management
• Coping with Chronic Medical Conditions
• Mood and Anxiety Treatments
• Insomnia
• Pre-surgical Bariatric Psychosocial Evals
• Post-Traumatic Treatments
• Bio-feedback and Relaxation Training

These comprehensive outpatient psychological services are available to all residents of Cook County and are embedded in many of our locations, including:

• John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital
• Provident Hospital
• Community Health Centers
• Specialty Clinics
  • Bariatric Center
  • Pain Clinic
  • Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic
  • Oncology Clinic
  • Adult Neurology
  • CORE Center

To schedule an appointment for CCH Psychology services you may:

• Contact the CCH Patient Support Center at 312-864-0200 to request an appointment
• Speak with your CCH Primary Care Provider to request a referral to a CCH psychologist.

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Recovery Support programs.

At Cook County Health our Substance Use treatment and Recovery services are designed to support patients in achieving their individual recovery goals and provide whole-person, person-centered care to improve the physical, mental and social well-being. Taking a harm-reduction based approach, CCH prioritizes helping individuals improve their quality of life and reduce deaths related to opioid overdose.  Patients of our MAT program have access to a team to support their recovery journey.

The team consists of three primary team members:

• Primary Care provider—prescribes medication for addiction treatment and integrated primary care.
• Recovery Coach-a team member with direct or indirect lived experience with substance use recovery who can provide education, support the identification of individual recovery goals and creating a plan to help achieve them.
• Licensed clinical therapist- supports individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health including anxiety, depression, trauma, etc.

Our programming is integrated in all adult-serving Ambulatory Community Health Centers across Cook County.