Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic, located in Onarga, IL, primarily focuses on providing outpatient therapy for mental health and substance use disorders. This clinic serves adults, adolescents, and children, offering comprehensive and flexible treatment options since its foundation in 1971.
Recognized with the Excellence in Clinical Services Award, Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic is committed to delivering high-quality mental health and substance use disorder treatments.
- Offers outpatient therapy services for adults, adolescents, and children, adapting to various age groups.
- Provides substance use disorder outpatient therapy tailored for adults and teens.
- Collaborates with primary care physicians and community organizations for a holistic treatment approach.
- Features both standard and intensive outpatient programs, ensuring flexible treatment plans.
This clinic treats a variety of mental health issues and substance use disorders, serving adults, adolescents, and children, making it a versatile option for many seeking help.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 3 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 13 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Accreditations

CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction is one of Illinois‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.
Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Illinois IOP, like what’s offerd at Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.
After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic in recovering from addiction.
Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.
Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.
However, some facilities, like Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic in Onarga, Illinois, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic in Onarga, IL and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.
Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.
Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at Iroquois Mental Health Center - The Onarga Clinic in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.
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Location & Contact

N Chestnut St
Onarga, IL 60955
Phone Number
(815) 432-5241
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Onarga, Illinois Addiction and Treatment
In 2016, more than 2,350 Illinoisans died from drug overdoses. More than 5,500 deaths annually occur in Illinois due to the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. 7.17% of Illinois residents reported using illicit drugs in the past month (2018). Substance abuse costs the state approximately $3.5 billion every year.
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