Hartgrove Behavioral Health System

12/19/2025

🗓️ Holiday schedules can get a little jumbled, and if you can't make your regularly scheduled therapy sessions, ✍ journaling might be a good way to help you stay on track.

Think of it like a mini mental health check-in you can do anywhere. Track your feelings, set intentions and keep your recovery plan moving forward.

But if you do need immediate care, remember Hartgrove is open throughout the holidays.

12/18/2025

PHP? What's that? 🤔

Think of our Partial Hospitalization Program as a bridge. It's extra support without a full hospital stay, helping people stabilize, learn coping skills and keep life moving forward.

More than outpatient care, less than inpatient care — that's the PHP sweet spot 🎯. Curious how it works and who it helps? We break it down for you here: https://bit.ly/49ftmnT.

Understanding the various treatment options available for mental health and substance abuse can be overwhelming. One of the most effective and flexible options is a Partial Hospitalization Program, commonly known as a PHP. This treatment option bridges the gap between inpatient care and outpatient t...

12/17/2025

It's Hartgrove Holiday Spirit Week 🎄⛄, where our Hearts of Hartgrove engagement team is spreading joy all week long with festive events, and guess who crashed the party 👉 Yep, even the Grinch joined in on the fun!

Each day brings a new theme and a chance for our hardworking staff to celebrate together, plus they get gift bags and tons of treats!

We're in for a great week! 👀 Stay tuned for more shots of the holiday action (we heard Santa 🎅 might even make an appearance!).

12/16/2025

Outpatient care meets people where they are. 🎯

For some patients, it’s a steady source of support, meaning regular sessions that help maintain balance and progress. For others, it’s a bridge between levels of care, like stepping down from inpatient treatment or returning for extra support when life gets tough again. And that’s exactly the point: outpatient care flexes with you.

Our outpatient programs at the Oak Park Counseling Center, Chatham Family Counseling Center and the Schoolhouse Counseling Center help kids, teens, adults, couples and families build skills, strengthen relationships and get the right level of care at the right time. With in-person sessions, telepsychiatry and flexible scheduling, patients can get high-quality care that fits their life.

We provided more than 44,000 outpatient services to the community in 2024, and we're proud to sustain that level of care in 2025! Healing isn’t always a straight line, and that’s okay. 💙

12/15/2025

Say hello to our final orientation class of 2025! 🎉

We wrapped up the year with an awesome group of new hires who brought the energy, the questions, the teamwork and the perfect attitudes that make orientation days impactful and genuinely fun. We're extremely proud of our orientation program at Hartgrove Behavioral Health System. And this crew? They crushed it. 👊

Lots of other places might sit you in a room and have you go through modules and watch videos on a computer for a few days, but not us. New employees tell us all the time: "This is the best orientation I have ever had." 😊

Our executive team (*especially* our CEO!) is there from day one, and we make sure everyone leaves feeling confident, prepared and ready to shine on the units. If you’re looking for a workplace that invests in you from the jump, come join us in 2026: bit.ly/HartgroveJobs.

12/12/2025

Giving a well-deserved shout-out to our partners at Collaborative Bridges! Their work is transforming behavioral health by ensuring patients receive community-based, comprehensive support immediately after hospital discharge, and the impact speaks for itself. 💪

Thanks to their dedication, our community has a stronger behavioral health foundation than ever before. They’ve already made incredible strides this year, and they’re just getting started!

Together 🤝 we’re building a future where behavioral healthcare is accessible, connected and sustainable.

Community Impact & Lessons Learned: The Collaborative Bridges model works because it's built on a tested framework of integration, engagement, and data-driven change. We're proud to provide a foundation for behavioral health transformation that can be replicated across high-need regions.

12/11/2025

👋 Meet one of the friendly faces behind our outpatient care team, Fajah Shamsid-Dee​n, MA!

She's a clinical therapist at Oak Park Counseling Center, and her journey there started as a practicum student at Roosevelt University. (We love seeing a student's career come full circle when they officially join our team! 😁) Her background spans mental health and substance use treatment, from working as a mental health technician to managing psychiatric intake at hospitals in Georgia and then supporting women’s treatment programs here in Chicago.

The most rewarding part of her job? 💬 "Encountering people from all walks of life with their stories and experiences. Providing direct care in an outpatient setting has not only been rewarding, but there is a feeling of community that I enjoy the most. Therapy is an act of self-care, an indication that anyone can embark on a journey of self-exploration and acceptance, regardless of content or context, but also a space for working through issues or discussing the joys of life."

Fajah has successfully led several therapy groups during her time at Oak Park Counseling Center, and she's kicking off a new virtual Adult Trauma Group using a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) approach (learn more about it in the comments 👇).

12/10/2025

We say it all the time, but mental healthcare really is a journey, and the path continues well after an inpatient stay. Stepping out of inpatient care is a big moment, and part-time programs and outpatient services help you keep that momentum going.

Think of our partial hospitalization program (PHP) and intensive outpatient program (IOP) as a "bridge time" with structure, support, therapy and skills that help you ease back into everyday life without losing the progress you just made. Then there's outpatient care, a practical option that flexes with your schedule.

These treatment options keep you connected to clinicians, routines and coping tools while you adjust to being back at home, school or work. It’s where all the efforts you made in inpatient start to take root in real life — the space between "I’m ready to go home" and "I’ve fully got this," and that space matters way more than people realize.

With Hartgrove Behavioral Health System's PHP and IOP, we also have the Schoolhouse Counseling Center, Oak Park Counseling Center and Chatham Family Counseling Center. It's everything you need to support your holistic journey, and you'll work with a team that already knows your goals and challenges. We're here when and where you need us. 💙

12/09/2025

You may think handwashing had its moment back in 2020, but it's still in style! 😎

The steps haven't changed:
💦 Wet
🧼 Lather
🙏 Scrub
🚰 Rinse
🤲 Dry

Good hand hygiene matters just as much in behavioral health as any other hospital setting. Patients and staff share group rooms, classrooms, dining spaces and plenty of high-touch areas, so clean hands help keep everyone feeling their best.

Here our team shows off their soap-and-scrub skills for National Handwashing Awareness Week. A few seconds at the sink supports a healthier community, so stay sudsy, friends.

12/08/2025

Every patient comes to Hartgrove Behavioral Health System with their own story, challenges and hopes for the future. Hearing that someone feels supported, less alone and able to see life in a new way thanks to the care we provide means everything to us.

Compassionate care, meaningful connection and a safe space to heal can truly change lives, and we’re honored to be part of the journey.

Comments like these from former patients make our day. Seriously, this is what it's all about. 💙

Programs At Hartgrove Behavioral Health System, we are committed to providing our patients with professional treatment programs that can help put them on a solid path to recovery. Whether addressing the needs of children, adolescents or adults, our treatment team brings decades of behavioral health....

12/05/2025

Life feels heavy sometimes 😟, and our team at the Oak Park Counseling Center gets that.

They offer flexible, personalized care for kids, teens and adults. Whether you’re navigating stress, anxiety, depression or just need a safe space to talk, they're here for you.

Hear more about it from the team's clinical director, Hildie Ericksen: 💬 "Oak Park Counseling Center maintains a strong collaborative learning environment. Our therapists continuously seek to build on their clinical skills and research evidence-based practices to best tailor their interventions and meet their patients' needs."

Outpatient therapy means you get expert support without putting life on pause. Patients can keep up with school, work and family while building skills to feel better. Whether it’s one-on-one therapy, family sessions or medication management, our team of pros is ready to support you.

Your mental health deserves a game plan that fits. Think it's right for you or your loved one? Learn more about our outpatient services here: https://hartgrovehospital.com/our-programs/outpatient-services/.

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