Mood & Anxiety Treatment: Life, in focus. Days, defined again.
When anxiety takes over a child’s world, when a teen can’t get back to school, when a young adult can’t keep up, when an adult is fraying beneath the surface—weekly therapy can start to feel like a single thread, trying to hold together something that needs more support.
Compass offers psychiatrist-led Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programs designed to help individuals stabilize, build coping skills they can actually use, and regain confidence in their daily lives.
About the Program
Northbrook, IL
Oak Brook, IL
Silver Spring, MD,
Golden Valley, MN,
Brookfield, WI,
Virtual
Adolescents (12–18)
Young Adults (18–23)
Adults (24+)
IOP
When daily life feels harder to manage
Compass Health Center’s Mood & Anxiety Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programs support individuals whose symptoms have grown beyond what weekly therapy alone can address. Our psychiatrist-led, multidisciplinary care provides structured, evidence-based treatment to build practical coping skills necessary to re-engage with daily life—at school, at work, and at home. With age-specific programs, flexible scheduling, and both in-person and virtual options, we meet patients where they are emotionally, developmentally, and logistically.
What Do Mood & Anxiety Disorders Feel Like?
Anxiety and mood disorders, like depression or bipolar, often feel persistent and overwhelming. For some, symptoms build gradually. For others, they escalate after stress, loss, burnout, or significant life changes. When functioning starts to decline, more structured support can make a meaningful difference.
These disorders may look like:
- Constant worry or panic
- Low mood, numbness, or hopelessness
- Trouble sleeping or concentrating
- Avoidance of school, work, or social situations
- A sense that daily life is getting harder to manage
- Irritability, intense energy, trouble sleeping, racing thoughts, and risky behavior
Compass programs provide an intermediate level of care—when symptoms begin to interfere with everyday life—but a trip to the ER or inpatient hospitalization isn’t the right next step.
Why Choose Compass for Mood & Anxiety Treatment?
We bring together psychiatric care, evidence-based therapies, and everyday skill-building to help children, teens, young adults, and adults better understand what they’re experiencing, while giving individuals and families practical tools that fit real life and support steadier days over time.
What Your Care Plan May Include
Every care plan is built around the individual—because no two people experience symptoms in the same way. Depending on needs, treatment may include:
- Psychiatric Care & Medication Support: Timely evaluations, thoughtful medication management, and ongoing clinical oversight.
- Evidence-Based Skills Groups (ACT, CBT, DBT): Practical tools to manage anxiety, regulate emotions, and build tolerance for distress.
- A Multidisciplinary Treatment Team: Psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, group, individual, and family therapists, education specialists, and discharge planners who specialize in mood, anxiety, and co-occurring conditions.
- Individual Therapy: One-on-one sessions with a primary therapist focused on personalized goals and real-life challenges.
- Family Therapy & Education: Support and guidance to help families understand what’s happening and reinforce progress at home.
- Experiential & Body-Based Therapies (varies by location): Options such as art, yoga, mindfulness, and movement-based practices.
- Flexible Scheduling: In-person and virtual care available during the day, after school, and in the evening.
- Integrated Support for Co-Occurring Concerns: Coordinated treatment for substance use, OCD, trauma, and related conditions.
- Immediate Access to Care: Same- or next-day assessments and admissions.
- Academic Support (Children & Teens, PHP Only): Dedicated schoolwork time, education specialists, and coordination with schools during the academic year.
- Ongoing Reassessment: Care plans that evolve as needs change and progress unfolds.
Child Mood & Anxiety Program
A calmer day starts with structure, safety, and understanding.
Big feelings often show up in small bodies as shutdowns, sadness, outbursts, avoidance, sleep disruption, stomachaches, school refusal, or constant reassurance-seeking. When a child struggles, the whole family feels it. This developmentally grounded, family-centered program helps children build emotional regulation skills while supporting caregivers with practical tools, shared language, and guidance that carries into daily life.
Care is structured, predictable, and relational, with a focus on strengthening family communication and supporting progress at home, at school, and in treatment.
What children and families can expect:
- Psychiatric evaluation and ongoing medication consultation when appropriate
- Structured, predictable days focused on emotion regulation, coping skills, and age-appropriate communication
- Creative, experiential therapies such as art, movement, and mindfulness to support expression and engagement
- Weekly family therapy focused on relationships, communication patterns, and reducing cycles of stress or avoidance
- Active caregiver coaching with practical strategies for boundaries, reassurance, and emotional support at home
- School coordination and return-to-classroom planning that considers both the child and family system
- Resource therapy to support executive functioning, routines, and daily follow-through
Adolescent Mood & Anxiety Program
A steadier path through school stress, identity, and everything in between.
Teens are carrying a lot: academic pressure, shifting friendships, identity development, family tension, sleep disruption, and constant comparison. When anxiety or depression begins to narrow their world, they need a treatment setting that supports healthy independence while providing the structure and skills to manage growing demands.
What adolescents can expect:
- Daily group therapy grounded in DBT, CBT, and ACT with same-age peers
- Skills for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and social effectiveness
- Individual therapy sessions
- Psychiatric evaluation and ongoing support
- Weekly family sessions to bring parents and caregivers into the work
- School coordination, academic planning, and return-to-school support
- Experiential therapies such as art, mindfulness, and movement
Young Adult Mood & Anxiety Program
Support for the years when the shift to independence is real, and so is the pressure.
Young adulthood brings new expectations, academic or early career pressure, and changing relationships with family and peers. This program focuses on stabilization, executive functioning, and skill-building, while helping patients stay grounded in their values and connected to the life they are working toward.
What young adults can expect:
- Evidence-based group therapy grounded in CBT, DBT, and ACT
- Support for real-life stressors: academics, work, relationships, transitions, independence
- Individual therapy, psychiatry support, and medication management
- Optional family involvement, tailored to developmental stage and preference
- Academic, vocational, and executive-functioning support
- Experiential therapies such as art therapy, yoga, and mindfulness
Adult Mood & Anxiety Program
Care that accounts for work, caregiving, and the parts of life no one sees.
Adults often “keep it moving” until they cannot—panic, burnout, insomnia, rumination, irritability, shutdown, withdrawal, hopelessness. This program combines structure and skill-building with space to restore capacity, clarify priorities, and create a way of functioning that can actually be maintained.
What adults can expect:
- Daily evidence-based group therapy focused on stabilization and skill-building
- Individual therapy, psychiatry support, and medication management
- Support-person involvement and family therapy when helpful
- Vocational and executive-functioning support as needed
- Experiential therapies that deepen coping and regulation skills
Take The First Step
When thoughts and feelings don’t settle, our Mood & Anxiety Treatment Programs provide structured, psychiatrist-led care for symptoms that are interfering with daily life.
Contact us today to schedule an assessment or learn more about how our specialized mood and anxiety programs can help.
Our Success Stories
Compass saved my life! I came into Compass with suicidal ideations and no hope. After a couple of weeks of being in the program, I did not have those thoughts anymore. Compass helped me change my mindset, from a negative pattern of thoughts to a more positive and optimistic frame of mind.
Patient
My child is leaving Compass more equipped to handle her emotions, her anxiety, her depression, and the things that all trigger these. She is willing to use the skills, which is a huge change, and this is all due to how well Compass worked for her.
Parent of Child Patient
I liked how in Compass, everyone was respectful of my opinions, pronouns, and preferred name. There was no judging, and you can open up to people. I also like how I can relate to other kids. I also really appreciate learning new skills.
Patient
Compass is a godsend. An amazing program for children who are struggling and families who are seeking help and guidance. I could not imagine that she would be so much better in less than 2 months. I wish we could have found Compass without going to the ER. Thanks for all you do!
The evening IOP program challenged me in a supportive and respectful way to help change my way of thinking. Compass provided me with the tools to help deal with life situations in a healthy way.
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