OakHeart, Center for Counseling, Mediation, and Consultation
We offer comprehensive in-person and telehealth (online) outpatient mental health care services by our team of counseling and medication management professionals. Counseling can be incredibly helpful in alleviating symptoms of mental health disorders and distress. Let us help you find a therapist and/or medication manager that matches your needs.
High-Quality Evidence-Based Counseling
Our Counselors, Clinical Social Workers, and Psychologists have a wide variety of specialties.
Telehealth/Online Counseling, In-Person Counseling, Individual Counseling, Couples Counseling in Sycamore and North Aurora Illinois
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Why Choose OakHeart?
We are... values-based therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychologists. Our values are: Integrity, Kindness, Courage, Genuineness, Respect, and Empathy. These values guide our decisions, our interaction with our clients, employees, and community, and our workplace culture. These values are our compass...our foundation. They are the guiding principles by which we function. Our values are what shape our growth as therapists and mental health providers and the glue that holds our OakHeart family together. Our values represent who we are.
We offer... High quality effective treatment. We take seriously our commitment to being the best therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychologists that we can be. We regularly participate in and value continuing education and identify as lifelong learners. We implement treatments that have been shown through rigorous research studies to be efficacious at reducing symptoms and increasing quality of life. We monitor client progress, adequately assess symptoms, and only claim to specialize in a presenting problem or treatment approach if we are truly competent and adequately trained. If we do not feel we can provide appropriate care, we will work with our clients to identify the best treatment provider or level of care for their needs to increase the chances of resolution of symptoms/problems. |
We are... committed to educating and serving our community. We are passionate about the dissemination of mental health education and disarming the stigma that is sometimes associated with mental health disorders. We are passionate about working with providers from diverse professions to ensure that professionals are working as a team to increase utilization of mental health assessment and treatment services. We are invested in our surrounding community and helping in any way that we are able.
We are... caring people who sincerely want to help. We believe that our client's feel heard, respected, and important. We believe the therapeutic relationship itself can be incredibly reparative and transformative.
We are... Professional. We respect boundaries, return phone calls, do what we say we will and say what we can do, maintain the highest confidentiality and ethical standards, and provide a clean and safe office space. We are honest, fair, and assertive, and treat our clients and employees with respect. We are grateful for the trust our client's have in us.
We are... caring people who sincerely want to help. We believe that our client's feel heard, respected, and important. We believe the therapeutic relationship itself can be incredibly reparative and transformative.
We are... Professional. We respect boundaries, return phone calls, do what we say we will and say what we can do, maintain the highest confidentiality and ethical standards, and provide a clean and safe office space. We are honest, fair, and assertive, and treat our clients and employees with respect. We are grateful for the trust our client's have in us.
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A person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
A person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
Our values are our compass. We are committed to allowing these values to guide us in our practice as humans and therapists.
Integrity: To be honest with ourselves and others; to earn the trust of our colleagues and clients; to abide by our moral and ethical code; and to be fair and sincere in all that we do
Genuineness: To be true and authentic to ourselves and towards others
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Kindness: To be understanding and open. To be considerate and helpful. We believe that all humans deserve to be treated with compassion and respect
Respect: To earn our colleague's, employee's, client's, and the community's respect in all that we do. To respect others and treat them with dignity
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Courage: To have the strength to take risks, be vulnerable, and face our fears. To do what's right even when it's hard
Empathy: To understand and have compassion for the feelings and experiences of others. To provide a safe place; to make room for emotions; and to acknowledge multiple truths
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If you are in crisis or you think you may have an emergency, call 911 immediately. If you're having suicidal thoughts, call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or 988 to talk to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area at any time (National Suicide Prevention Lifeline). If you are located outside the United States, call your local emergency line immediately.
The website and the content are provided on an "as is" basis without warranty, express or implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose.