Compass Health Center accepts most major commercial insurance plans. Insurance benefits and coverage are verified individually, call us to understand how Compass works with you to make care as affordable as possible.
Adults 24+
When Life Gets Complicated, the Right Level of Care Matters
Support that helps you stay engaged with the life you’re building.
Adulthood rarely slows down when mental health becomes a challenge. Careers continue. Relationships require attention. Families depend on you. Bills still need to be paid. From the outside, many adults appear to be functioning, holding jobs, caring for others, and keeping routines moving forward. Things may feel very different.
Needing more support does not mean you are broken. It means the demands of life and the demands of your nervous system have collided. Our Adult Programs are designed for individuals who need more structure and support than weekly therapy alone but do not require hospitalization, as well as those stepping down from inpatient care. In our programs, no one stays overnight and can remain connected to their work, relationships, and responsibilities.
Care That Meets the Complexity of Adult Life
Adults are navigating symptoms and complex lives. Our psychiatrist-led Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programs are designed to provide structured, evidence-based treatment for OCD, trauma, depression, anxiety, mental health, chronic pain, and illness, and co-occurring substance use while allowing adults to remain engaged in their daily lives. Treatment focuses on helping adults:
Stay engaged in work, family, and daily responsibilities
Care is structured to integrate with professional schedules, caregiving responsibilities, and the realities of adult life.
Understand patterns that may have developed over time
Many adults have lived with symptoms for years. Treatment helps clarify triggers, habits, and emotional responses without judgment.
Build practical emotional regulation skills
Tools that support mood stability, anxiety management, and tolerance for uncertainty, which are skills that help sustain long-term well-being.
Strengthen communication and boundaries
Support for navigating relationships, workplace stress, family dynamics, and personal needs more effectively.
Enhance communication and interpersonal skills
Strong relationships support better mental health outcomes. Our program helps strengthen communication skills to improve connection with the people closest to you.
Reduce the risk of escalation or hospitalization
Early, multidisciplinary, coordinated care helps stabilize symptoms and supports a sustainable return to outpatient therapy or psychiatry.
When Weekly Therapy Isn’t Enough
What PHP and IOP Actually Mean
For many people, terms like Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programs can sound intimidating. In practice, they offer meaningful clinical depth, structure, and continuity of care. PHP is a full-day program that includes psychiatric care, daily group therapy, individual therapy, nursing support, and skills-based treatment. IOP is a more flexible option, offered during daytime or evening hours, allowing adults to continue working or managing family responsibilities while receiving comprehensive care.
AGES 23+
Mood & Anxiety Treatment
Learn MoreDepression and anxiety in adulthood often intersect with work stress, caregiving demands, financial pressure, burnout, and major life transitions. This program approaches symptoms within the context of the full life an adult is managing.
- Evidence-based therapies to address anxiety, depression, burnout, stress, and additional challenges
- Practical skill-building for emotional regulation, stress management, and mood stability
- Support in rebuilding routines, improving decision-making, and increasing day-to-day functioning
- Space to explore how work, caregiving, and life transitions are impacting mental health
- A combination of group therapy, individual sessions, and psychiatric support
- Optional involvement of partners or family members when it supports progres
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Virtual PHP and IOP for Adults
High-quality, specialized care—wherever you are. Our Virtual Adult PHP and IOP programs provide structured, evidence-based treatment in a format that fits the realities of adult life.
- Virtual care includes:
- Daytime and evening scheduling options
- Psychiatrist-led medication management within 24–48 hours
- Skills designed for real-world application
- Outcomes comparable to in-person care
Available in Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Why Adults Choose Compass
- Immediate access to care
Start adult mental health treatment without long delays, within 24 hours of your initial inquiry. Our admissions process is streamlined, so support can begin when it’s needed. - Specialized programs for adult life
Treatment is designed around the realities of adulthood, including work, caregiving responsibilities, and long-standing patterns of anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, and more. - Integrated, psychiatrist-led care
Psychiatry, therapy, and skills-based treatment work together within one program, creating a more cohesive and effective experience than fragmented care. - Flexible levels of care (PHP and IOP)
Choose the level of support that fits your needs, whether that’s a full-day Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) or a more flexible Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). - Respect for autonomy and lived experience
Care is collaborative and individualized, meeting adults where they are without assumptions or judgment. - Continuity that supports lasting change
Consistent care teams, structured programming, and coordination with existing outpatient supports help build stability and maintain progress over time.
Our Treatment Approach and Methodologies
Adulthood often brings sustained stress, responsibility, and long-standing mental health patterns. Many adults seek care after trying to manage symptoms on their own.
Compass Adult Programs provide structured, psychiatrist-led mental health treatment through Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programs. Care is coordinated across a multidisciplinary team.
Treatment focuses on stabilizing symptoms, building emotional flexibility, and improving daily functioning while adults remain connected to work, family, and responsibilities.
Individual therapy is a confidential, one-on-one session between a patient and a licensed therapist focused on supporting mental health treatment through evidence-based care. In these sessions, the therapist and patient work together to explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, identify unhelpful patterns, and develop personalized coping strategies and treatment goals.
Family therapy occurs between a therapist and all or some family members. It is often focused on exploring the dynamics within a family, improving communication, resolving conflict, and helping families live more harmoniously. Supporting families in family therapy to integrate evidence-based skills as a family and as individuals can be incredibly impactful. Skills can help family members feel more connected with one another and empower them to manage stressors in the family system. At times, the therapist might want to meet with individuals alone to prepare for sessions with the whole family system; however, most of the treatment is provided with families together. At Compass, family therapy is an essential part of our treatment model. Ensuring our patients and their loved ones feel informed, supported, and engaged in the treatment process and practicing evidence-based skills is a top priority. Our dedicated family therapists work closely with patients to identify who should participate in family therapy sessions and to create a focus for those sessions to best support their goals at Compass.
Group therapy includes one or two group facilitators and a cohort of participants (typically between 4 – 16 people in the space). The number and make-up of participants in each group may depend upon program census, type/content of group, and various other factors. The group therapy space is developed to be a confidential and supportive milieu in which participants can learn and practice coping skills and discuss topics to build insight and actively move towards identified treatment goals. Group members are encouraged to validate and relate to each other and engage with therapists to discuss and process skill integration, emotions, and thought processes that influence specific behaviors and share about current struggles and successes. Group therapy at Compass Health Center focuses on building awareness around behavioral goals, learning and practicing evidenced-based skills, and using a confidential space to process relevant and relatable topics with peers. Group facilitators guide understanding related to skills and topics linked to ACT, DBT, and CBT while connecting these topics to treatment objectives and skill application and integration in the home, school, and work settings. Groups may be didactic, psychoeducational, interpersonal/process, or experiential and often employ multiple techniques to increase engagement and impact.
The gold standard treatment for body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) that helps individuals understand triggers and replace habits like hair-pulling, skin-picking, and nail-biting with safer, more constructive ones.
ERP is one of the most effective treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and other complex anxiety diagnoses, including Illness Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and other anxiety disorders. Patients gradually confront their feared object or situation in a hierarchical, prolonged, and planned manner. By doing so, patients learn to gain mastery over their anxiety and fears.
DBT is an evidence-based model of treatment designed by Dr. Marsha Linehan to help patients build meaningful lives and improve their ability to regulate emotions. DBT guides patients through identifying patterns in thinking, behavior, emotions, and interpersonal interactions that contribute to problems in living. Once identified, the goal is to change these patterns using coping skills. The “D” in DBT refers to dialectics, the presence or co-occurrence of two seemingly contradictory or opposing concepts simultaneously. DBT centers on the dialectic of acceptance and change and encourages individuals to walk the middle path between the two, working to balance acceptance (“I’m doing the best I can,” “this is how things are right now”) and change (“I need to try different for things to be different”). DBT comprises four central tenets to help people accept and change: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation.
CBT is an evidence-based, present-focused, structured, and time-sensitive therapy proven effective by thousands of studies over decades for many physical and mental health concerns. CBT centers around the interconnectedness of a person’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physiological responses. CBT posits that the way one perceives and reacts to a situation causes them the most distress, rather than the situation itself. CBT offers skills to reduce distress by helping individuals identify distorted thinking patterns, evaluate their effectiveness, and reframe thinking to more realistic and helpful thoughts. CBT focuses on building awareness of what an individual experiences in the here and now and then problem-solve using this insight to create change in thinking patterns and behaviors using this increased insight and specific coping skills.
ACT is an evidence-based therapeutic model that combines behavior modification interventions with specific types of acceptance and mindfulness exercises. ACT aims to change a person’s relationship with their own troubling thoughts, whether it is ruminating on past mistakes, focusing on potential threats in the future, or feeling overwhelmed by traumatic memories. In changing how a person thinks about and responds to these troubling thoughts, that person frees themselves up to live a value-based, rich, full, and meaningful life. Since there is no manualized protocol for ACT, Compass adapts tools to meet patients and groups where they are at in their treatment journey. These tools assist patients in making room for their emotional experiences and to have space to focus on identifying and doing what is most important to them.
CPT addresses “stuck points” (trauma-centered cognitive distortions) via applying cognitive-behavioral techniques, such as Socratic dialogue, challenging questions, and collaborative identification of common thinking errors. These interventions aid patients’ trauma recovery processes, allowing for more flexible thinking and the development of new, balanced beliefs.
Executive functioning skills are mental skills that allow a person to organize, plan, and follow instructions, think flexibly, and demonstrate impulse control. These skills are utilized daily as individuals prioritize tasks, achieve goals, and learn. Executive function challenges can make it hard to focus, follow directions, and regulate emotions. Executive function skills are learned; patients benefit from modeling and explicit teaching.
Interpersonal effectiveness refers to constructive communication. The phrase “Interpersonal Effectiveness” is a DBT term that denotes a set of skills designed to help individuals manage challenging situations, validate the emotions and experience of self and others, improve and maintain current connections, and create new meaningful relationships. Interpersonal Effectiveness skills offer concrete guidance and support around balancing acceptance and change within relationships, asserting wants and needs in effective ways that maintain the relationship, and navigating complex situations in values-aligned ways.
Distress tolerance refers to sitting with experiences of distress (distressing thoughts, emotions, urges, and/or physiological responses). In DBT, distress tolerance refers to specific skills designed to help individuals navigate crisis moments as effectively as possible. These skills focus on guiding individuals through radically accepting the situation as it is and, at the same time, working to change what they can. DBT Distress Tolerance skills support individuals in skillfully moving through distressing realities without increasing their suffering.
Emotion regulation refers to adjusting or modulating one’s emotions. The phrase “Emotion Regulation” is a DBT term that denotes a set of skills designed to help individuals both increase resilience to intense emotions and decrease suffering related to emotions. These skills are not designed to “eliminate” or “avoid” emotions, but rather to help individuals identify and express emotions, alter their responses to their emotions, shift the emotions they are experiencing and/or the intensity of their emotions, and navigate difficult to sit with emotions safely and effectively.
Mindfulness is a term used in various ways based on setting and context. DBT defines Mindfulness as “the act of consciously focusing the mind in the present moment without judgment and attachment to the moment.” Mindfulness is active—it is something all people can engage in, actively choose to do, and can develop into practice with repeated effort. Most Mindfulness activities and tools, including the DBT Mindfulness skills, are adapted from cultural and spiritual traditions like meditation and breathwork. DBT Mindfulness skills help individuals practice being fully present in the moment, tuning in to what is happening inside and around them, and moving forward aligned with inner wisdom.
Recreation therapy at Compass Health Center is an evidence-based treatment modality that uses structured recreational and experiential activities to support mental health recovery and skill development. Led by trained recreation therapists, these sessions focus on improving emotional regulation, social skills, stress management, and overall well-being through activities such as movement, games, creative expression, and mindfulness-based exercises. Recreational therapy availability varies by program and location.
Art therapy is a specific type of experiential therapy that engages individuals in art-making and creative expression to explore internal experiences, build insight, and learn and apply skills related to treatment goals. Art therapy is a therapeutic intervention led by professionally trained art therapists with specific educational and practical experiences. At Compass, art therapy is integrated into programming in age-specific, values-aligned, and skills-focused ways.
Art therapy is a therapeutic modality that utilizes art materials and the artistic process alongside work with an art therapist within a therapeutic setting. Art materials aid clients in communicating and processing their emotions through non-verbal means. By observing the process, form, content, interests, and comments, an art therapist comprehensively assesses a client’s needs and determines treatment plans to restore, maintain or improve an individual’s mental health.
Motivational Interviewing is a therapeutic technique that helps individuals bridge the gap between their current behavioral choices and their identified goals. The four tenets of Motivational Interviewing (MI) are facilitating engagement, focusing on goals, evoking awareness and motivation, and planning for reasonable steps to move toward helpful goals. Open-ended questions, validation, reflective listening, and summarizing are helpful tools to guide these steps.
Animal-assisted therapy at Compass Health Center is a structured, goal-directed therapeutic intervention that incorporates interactions with trained therapy animals as part of a patient’s overall treatment plan. Guided by a licensed clinician, these sessions use animal interactions to help patients reduce anxiety, build emotional regulation skills, increase motivation, and improve social engagement. Animal therapy availability varies by program and location.
Parents often carry a quiet weight: uncertainty, self-doubt, and the sense that they should know how to fix what is happening. Parent groups provide space to learn skills, ask questions, and hear from others navigating similar challenges. These conversations often bring relief as much as information.
Practical Support, Without the Guesswork
Forward: The Compass Lookbook
A closer look at how Compass care works, including stories, insights, and resources for individuals and families considering treatment.
Insurance & Billing Support
A dedicated Patient Advocate helps clarify coverage, costs, and next steps so logistics do not become a barrier.
Adult & Family Guide
A straightforward guide to what to expect from intake through the first day of treatment.
Our Impact
We understand that success can look different for everyone depending on your hopes and needs. Here are a few ways we define success:
95%
of patients step down to a lower level of care after treatment
99%
would refer a family member or friend
97%
of patients choose to start a program the same day or next day
90%
of patients maintain progress, not requiring higher care levels for 12+ months post-treatment
They gave me hope again.
The right work, finally.
I trusted my entire team.
I feel capable again.
I learned how to slow my mind down.
I didn’t feel like a project.
A deeply meaningful experience.
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