Haven Youth and Family Services

Haven promotes mental health and community wellness to support people leading their best lives.

Individual, Group, Family, & Crisis

Individual Counseling

Individual therapy at Haven is about self exploration through empathy, compassion, acceptance, and accountability. Our counselors work with you to decide how to help you find relief from your biggest feelings.

We can help you:

  • Find relief from depression, anxiety, and panic  

  • Develop healthier relationships (yes, even with your parents)

  • Manage process and substance addiction

  • Navigate life transitions

  • Process, cope with and heal from traumatic experiences

Group Counseling

Groups are where things get messy, and fun, and connections are formed! 

Family Counseling

Family/Relationship Counseling at Haven is about strengthening connection, and improving communication.  Our counselors will work with you to foster a sense of acceptance, understanding, and respect so you can find ways to enjoy each other again. 

We can help you: 

  • Work through family conflict and crisis

  • Navigate divorce or loss within the family

  • Support a family member struggling with self-harm, disordered eating, substance overuse

  • Navigate intimate partnership challenges

  • Manage life-stage transitions

Crisis Counseling
Haven provides same day crisis assessments for individuals experiencing stronger symptoms and bigger feelings. We can help you get started in counseling or link you to a higher level of care. Crisis appointments are available M-F 9:00am-5:00pm. If you have a need after hours, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

Haven Youth and Family Services

FALL PADDLE PARTY

PLEASE JOIN HAVEN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICE’S FALL PADDLE PARTY AND ENJOY A NIGHT OF PADDLE AND CHILI!

We had a great turnout and some great racing to make a wonderful 5k fundraiser!
Thank you to all community members who came out, and thank you especially to our sponsors

Executive Director Charley Smith, Steven Anderson, the Township's Community Partnership Coordinator, and Gail Schitzer-Eisenberg, the Township Supervisor, attended the annual New Trier Township providers luncheon

Executive Director Charley Smith, Steven Anderson, the Township’s Community Partnership Coordinator, and Gail Schitzer-Eisenberg, the Township Supervisor, attended the annual New Trier Township providers luncheon

In wake of pandemic challenges, Warming House and Haven unite to continue service to local youth

With diminished participation during the pandemic, and a difficulty to replicate a youth center online, The Warming House seemed destined to be an abandoned building next to Howard Park in Wilmette.

The doors closed in 2020, and with the some funding sources in jeopardy, the Warming House joined forces with Haven Youth and Family Services in the youth center. The doors reopened as Haven’s Warming House in July of 2023.

In wake of pandemic challenges, Warming House and Haven unite to continue service to local youth

With diminished participation during the pandemic, and a difficulty to replicate a youth center online, The Warming House seemed destined to be an abandoned building next to Howard Park in Wilmette.

The doors closed in 2020, and with the some funding sources in jeopardy, the Warming House joined forces with Haven Youth and Family Services in the youth center. The doors reopened as Haven’s Warming House in July of 2023.

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