Turning Point Behavioral Health Center
Turning Point Behavioral Health Center in Skokie, Illinois, focuses on mental health and substance use disorders. It stands out for its outpatient services, serving 1,400 people annually. The center emphasizes diversity, inclusion, and eliminating care barriers, offering a compassionate approach to recovery.
Turning Point's mission is to provide solid support when and where it's needed most. Accredited by CARF with the highest rating, the center has received the Skokie Business of the Year Award and multiple other recognitions for excellence in behavioral health management and public health partnerships.
- Specializes in treating dual diagnosis, integrating care for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
- Provides individual, family, and group therapy, psychiatric evaluations, and medication management.
- Offers crisis response services, including a 24/7 mobile crisis response team and a Living Room walk-in program.
- Follows a recovery model that sets personalized goals, controls symptoms, and empowers individuals.
Treatment is available for individuals with co-occurring mental health conditions and substance use disorders. Services cater to adults, families, and children aged six and above from the Chicago metropolitan area.
- 13 Conditions Treated
- LGBTQ+ Allied
- Insurance Accepted
- 2 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 23 Therapies & Programs
Conditions and Issues Treated
Dual-Diagnosis
When someone in Illinois struggles with both addiction and mental or emotional illness, this is considered a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis treatment can include emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression. Getting treatment for these issues must occur at the same time to treat either of them effectively.Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Turning Point Behavioral Health Center 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 Turning Point Behavioral Health Center in recovering from addiction.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Turning Point Behavioral Health Center. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.
Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Turning Point Behavioral Health Center helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Turning Point Behavioral Health Center brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.
Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Turning Point Behavioral Health Center aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.
The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at Turning Point Behavioral Health Center in Skokie, IL believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Patient Experience
Creative Arts
It is believed that enhancing creativity and developing skills related to it can help people with addiction recover faster. Activities such as painting, writing, acting, and dancing are considered therapeutic and hosted and managed by Turning Point Behavioral Health Center in Skokie, Illinois. They become outlets for patients to blow off steam, channel their emotions, and express their thoughts.Experiential Therapy at Turning Point Behavioral Health Center
Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.
Fitness Therapy
Opting for fitness therapy allows someone to get through addiction recovery while effectively rebuilding their body. This is a great type of therapy to pair with nutritional therapy, as the combination of getting fit and eating right can help someone in recovery feel better and make healthier choices from the start. This therapy offered by Turning Point Behavioral Health Center in Skokie, IL establishes a firm connection between the body and mind, and teaches how to make healthy life habits that do not involve addiction.
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Location & Contact
8324 Skokie Blvd
Skokie, IL 60077
Phone Number
(847) 933-0051
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Location
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8324 Skokie Blvd
Skokie, IL 60077 -
(847) 933-0051
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Seniors (65+), Teenagers
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ModalityCouples, Family, Group, Individuals
Listed May 19, 2021
Updated July 25, 2024
Skokie, 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.
Located just northwest of Chicago, Skokie boasts a diverse and welcoming community. Fentanyl was involved in over 85% of opioid overdose deaths in Cook County in 2022, and the county experienced a staggering 97% increase in fentanyl-related overdose deaths from 2018 to 2019.
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