The Children's Home Association offers behavioral health treatment for children and adolescents, as well as services to the family. Any youth between the ages of 3-20 years old in Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford counties with emotional and behavioral challenges and who are Medicaid eligible can receive in-home therapy. Therapists work closely with the youth to reduce emotional stress and improve interpersonal relationships at home, school, and in the community. Goals are addressed and managed through assessment and diagnosis, individual, group, and family therapy, case management, and psychiatric services as appropriate.

The Healing Hearts Counseling team has been trained and has experience in a range of evidence-based treatment modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Sand Tray, Play Therapy, Theraplay, Art Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and short term brief solution focused therapy. Everyone at Healing Hearts has expertise in Perinatal Counseling, and they specialize in pregnancy and infant loss.

Heartland Health Services is a federally funded organization that provides medical services for everyone, including low-income adults and children, regardless of ability to pay. PLEASE NOTE that transportation assistance is available to get to appointments (just ask Heartland about this). For more information about Heartland Health Services, visit www.HHSIL.com or call 309.680.7600.

Summit Family Therapy offers couples therapy and marriage counseling, family therapy, children's counseling, individual counseling, and sex and love addiction recovery.

FamilyCore offers family counseling.

LifeStance Health offers neuropsychology, psychology, and counseling services through its Peoria and Pekin offices.

Children's Home is helping to keep families involved with DCFS through in-home counseling contracts. Family Based Intervention (FBI) provides individual and family therapy to children as young as two-years-old up through adults with trauma or mental health concerns who have an open case with Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and reside in Peoria, Tazewell, or Woodford counties. The counseling services address individual concerns and family dynamics, crisis intervention, parent education, advocacy, and community outreach. The goals of the program are to keep families together who are still intact and to reunify families whose children are youth in care. For more information, please contact Faye Kesselmayer, LCSW at [email protected] or call 309-687-7413.

Carle Health Methodist Hospital offers outpatient behavioral health services at its Methodist location for children, adolescents, adults, and families on Medicaid.

Maitri Path to Wellness provides mental health and addictions counseling to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Services offered include- Individual Counseling One-on-one confidential therapy for mental health and/or substance use disorder concerns. Helping to develop and improve coping skills for everyday challenges, life stressors, and personal growth using evidence-based tools and individualized treatment planning. Substance Use Disorder Treatment Groups Level 1 Outpatient and Level 2 Intensive Outpatient treatment groups are designed to help patients achieve changes in alcohol and/or drug use and addictive behaviors. Patients will learn new coping skills, recovery strategies, build interpersonal skills, and develop social support networks. Accelerated Resolution Therapy ART-Accelerated resolution therapy, is a type of therapy that combines principles from several traditional forms of psychotherapy to reduce the effect of trauma and other psychological stressors by using techniques such as rapid eye movement and image rescripting. ART is geared toward individuals with Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) Addictions, and more.

Balanced offers family counseling.

Children's Home can provide Tri-County students with therapy to help address social, emotional, and mental health needs. Children's Home collaborates with Peoria Public Schools and Central District 51 and provides full-time counselors in various schools to offer students therapy services. Individuals are referred to the program by staff members, teachers, parents/caregivers, or the school counselor. Once the client is identified and deemed appropriate for services, attempts are made to engage their parent or guardian for in-home family counseling services, case management, and community referrals