Counseling

OMNI Counseling

OMNI offers individual, family and group counseling for people encountering emotional and behavioral difficulties. We believe encouraging people to learn through their actions is the best way to make positive change in their lives. Our experiential therapy treatment approach offers hands-on challenges and connects learning experience with the development of skills for life.

OMNI counseling services are available both in-person and virtual and in English and Spanish.

Looking for client forms? Download our Consent for Counseling Form and our Release of Information form.

  • Diagnostic and Assessment Services

    OMNI licensed professional staff offer a comprehensive assessment and provide clinical diagnosis and individualized treatment planning for youth and their family.

  • Crisis Intervention Services

    Professional staff are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for crisis intervention responses to adolescent-related emergency situations. We provide immediate response to crisis calls from police, schools, clients or families seeking immediate assistance with adolescent or family-related problems. The focus of this service is family stabilization.

  • Critical Incidence Services

    OMNI provides professional staff for consultation and response to communities with community-wide crisis situations that have substantially impacted the community.

    If you are in need of immediate help call (847) 353-1500 ext. 0

  • A woman smiles in an office

    Magaly Loeza

    Program Lead
    About Magaly

  • A woman smiles in an office

    Jenna Pavlik

    Program Lead

  • OMNI Program Lead Mary Voight smiles outside our Wheeling office. She has light brown hair, square glasses, and wears a black blouse with green cardigan.

    Mary Voight

    Program Lead
    About Mary

  • A man smiling

    Alex Ayala Ortega

    Bilingual Client Engagement Coordinator – Counseling

  • A headshot of OMNI counselor Jessica Bette. She has long brown hair, a gray sweater, and smiles in an office.

    Jessica Bette

    Counselor

  • A man smiling

    Colin Boland

    Counselor
    About Colin

  • OMNI Counselor Nai Del Rocio Herrera stands outside the OMNI office. She is smiling. She has long dark brown hair, wears a black sweater, square glasses, and teal earrings.

    Nai Herrera

    Counselor

  • A man in an office smiles

    Mynor Herrera

    Counselor

  • A headshot of OMNI counselor Zachary Levin. He has brown hair, a beard, and wears a blue button up. He smiles outside the OMNI office.

    Zachary Levin

    Counselor

  • A woman smiles in front of a clock

    Karen Rodriguez

    Bilingual Client Engagement Coordinator – Counseling

  • A woman stands in front of a painting smiling

    Megan Santoro

    Counselor

  • A headshot of OMNI Intern Amy Aukes. She has medium length brown hair, red glasses, wears a striped cardigan, and smiles in an office.

    Amy Aukes

    Intern

  • OMNI intern Katherine Cappuccitti stands in the OMNI office with a smile. She has medium length black hair and wears a gray jacket with a dark brown blouse.

    Katherine Cappuccitti

    Intern

  • OMNI Intern Elizabeth Cummings stands in front of a colorful painting. She smiles and wears an orange blouse with a white cardigan.

    Elizabeth Cummings

    Intern

  • A headshot of OMNI intern Brook Grandy. She has long blond hair, teal and black glasses, and wears a blue sweater while smiling in an office.

    Brooke Gandy

    Intern

  • A headshot of OMNI intern Nerissa Hall. She has long black hair in a braid, black glasses, and wears a black blouse while smiling in an office.

    Nerissa Hall

    Intern

  • A woman with brown hair wearing a blue shirt with round glasses smiles in an office setting.

    Sydney Jacobsen

    Intern

  • A headshot of OMNI intern Rosy Kim. She has long black hair, wears a polka dot cardigan, and smiles in an office.

    Rosy Kim

    Intern

  • A headshot of OMNI intern Mirela Masinovic. She wears a pink head scarf with an emerald tunic while smiling in an office.

    Mirela Masinovic

    Intern

  • Intern Karson McEwen smiles in an office. She has mid-length dark hair and wears a brown blouse.

    Karson McEwen

    Intern

  • A headshot of OMNI intern Mayra Monterroso. She has medium length brown hair, wears a white blouse, and smiles in an office.

    Mayra Monterroso

    Intern

  • A woman in front of a brick exterior smiling

    Lauren Patt

    Intern

  • OMNI Logo that reads 'Photo Coming Soon'

    Lishan Rosen

    Intern

  • OMNI logo that reads 'Photo coming soon'

    Gabrielle Weaver

    Intern

New and returning clients can feel safe requesting to schedule an in-person or virtual appointment with OMNI’s experienced and caring counselors.

Call (847) 353-1500 ext. 1664 to speak with our Bilingual Intake Specialist or
click the button below to schedule an appointment online.

Counseling Groups

  • School Based Groups in cooperation with school personnel in the school setting have addressed both prevention and intervention in areas such as social skills, substance use, gang involvement, bullying, depression, suicide prevention, and more.

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery Program include drug and alcohol evaluations, drug testing services and basic outpatient services.

  • Seven Challenges® helps substance-abusing and substance-dependent adolescents become motivated to commit to change and address co-occurring life skill deficits, situational problems and psychological problems.

SPARCS

SPARCS Equips Youth With the Following Coping Skills: 

  • Mindfulness in cultivating awareness (Wise Mind)

  • Distress Tolerance in coping with emotions in the moment (Self-Soothe)

  • Conflict Resolution in slowing down techniques (SOS)

  • Communication in maintaining relationships (MAKE a LINK)

  • Foster Empowerment in minimizing mess you up (MUPs)

  • Problem-Solving in resisting urges (LET ‘M GO)

What is SPARCS?

SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress) is a group program for adolescents who may be facing challenges in different areas of their lives due to stress. With SPARCS, OMNI gives youth the opportunity to not only identify and control their current stressors, but also build skills for life. Interested in attending? Fill out our online form!

LGBTQIA+

The latin definition of OMNI is “all” and we carry that literal meaning with all of our services.

This is especially true with our LGBTQIA+ programs, which meet the needs of our communities by providing a safe, accepting, and supportive space that celebrates each of our unique qualities.

For more information about LGBTQ+ programming at OMNI, contact us at info@omni4all.org

Nurturing Parenting Group

A parent and a child can be seen standing in front of a sunset.

Parenting is wonderful.
Parenting is also challenging.

We’re here to make tackling those challenges easier.

OMNI’s Nurturing Parenting Group provides parents/guardians with research-based tools, tips, and skills to better understand their children and make the best decisions for them while building healthy life-long relationships.

Some topics covered in OMNI’s Nurturing Parenting Group include:

  • The philosophy and facts of nurturing parenting

  • Childhood brain development

  • Appropriate discipline

  • Building empathy and self-worth

  • Effective ways to handle stress and strong emotions

  • Setting your child up for success

This program is delivered virtually in English and Spanish on Thursdays at 6:30 PM. This program has no in-person components. To register call (847) 353-1500 ext. 1664 or fill out our online form.

School-Based Groups

In response to community needs, OMNI offers programs in cooperation with school personnel in the school setting.

Consultation and program development can be provided for individual school issues or needs.

Past programs have addressed both
prevention and intervention of areas such as:

  • Social skills

  • Bullying

  • Substance use/abuse

  • Gang involvement

  • Depression / Suicide Prevention

  • The transition to high school

  • Parenting adolescents

  • And Much More

For more info, please contact our
Customer Care Specialist at
(847) 353-1500 ext. 1664 or fill out our online form.

Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery Program

OMNI tailors individual, family and group services to specifically address the issues of youth who are striving to become drug-free. We understand the importance of family relationships and the adolescent’s home environment. Because these issues play a significant role in helping an adolescent recover from substance abuse, family counseling groups are an integral part of the youth’s recovery program.

Our substance abuse services include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Evaluations:

    OMNI licensed professional staff offer a comprehensive substance abuse assessment and provide clinical diagnosis and individualized treatment planning for the youth and their family.

  • Drug Testing Services:

    We use frequent and random alcohol and other drug screening tests. Staff conduct urinalysis tests to assess a service recipient’s current substance use, monitor progress and provide an objective method of accountability to reflect client progress to referral sources and/or parents.

  • Basic Outpatient Services (BOP):

    This program aims to increase responsibility, manage risk and reduce harm through systematic treatment approaches to address adolescent substance abuse.

Click HERE for Resources on Recovery from Start Your Recovery.ORG!

The Seven Challenges

1. We decided to open up and talk honestly about ourselves and about alcohol and other drugs.

2. We looked at what we liked about alcohol and other drugs, and why we were using them.

3. We looked at our use of alcohol or other drugs to see if it has caused harm or could cause harm.

4. We looked at our responsibility and the responsibility of others for our problems.

5. We thought about where we seemed to be headed, where we wanted to go, and what we wanted to accomplish.

6. We made thoughtful decisions about our lives and about our use of alcohol and other drugs.

7. We followed through on our decisions about our lives and drug use. If we saw problems, we went back to earlier challenges and mastered them.

© Copyright Robert Schwebel, Ph.D

The Seven Challenges® program is designed specifically for substance-abusing and substance-dependent adolescents. The program aims to motivate a decision and commitment to change. Once such decisions and commitments are made, the program guides young people toward success in implementing the desired changes. Seven Challenges simultaneously helps young people address their drug problems as well as their co-occurring life skill deficits, situational problems and psychological problems. Interested in attending? Fill out our online form!

The challenges provide a framework for helping youth think through their own decisions and their use of alcohol and other drugs. Counselors using the Seven Challenges program teach youth to identify and work on the issues most relevant to them. As youth discuss the issues that matter most, counselors seamlessly integrate the following challenges as part of the conversation: