The Living Room is a place to come on a walk-in basis if someone is experiencing life stress and needs immediate support. Staff at the Living Room are available to help people through screening and assessment of crisis and concerns in a natural, comfortable setting.

• Healthcare Alternative Systems (H.A.S.) Living Room
  Phone: (773) 235-5100, Location: 5001 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago 60639
• Thresholds Living Room
  Phone: (773) 537-3607, Location: 4423 N. Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, 60640

Community Triage Centers offer an alternative place to receive support in a mental health crisis. Crisis clinicians are available to conduct assessments and provide resources. Community Triage Centers often offer 24/7 walk-in services; however, hours may vary.

• Southside Community Triage Center
  Phone: (773) 291-2500, Location: 200 East 115th St., Chicago 60628

The Welcoming Center is a mental health clinic for adults (18+) that offers counseling, case management, and psychiatric appointments. The center is staffed by a team of nurses, social workers/counselors, peer specialists, and advanced practice nurses.Northside Welcoming Center at Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Phone: (773) 561-5809, Location: 5215 N. California Ave., Suite F101, Chicago 60625

Art of Recovery

https://www.aorservices.org

Mission is to provide a broad range of community mental health services including behavioral health services including Assertive Community Treatment, individual therapy, and other evidenced based community support. Organization provides comprehensive health support. 

The Josselyn Center

The Josselyn Center is a community mental health organization providing individual and group/peer support spaces to Northern IL. The center offers therapeutic, psychiatric and supportive employment services. They have a community space, ‘The Living Room’ to provide peer support. It is open to anyone who is experiencing an emotional or mental health crisis to receive compassionate support in a safe welcoming space. 

Living Room Information 

Hours: Monday – Sunday 7AM-12AM 

1779 Maple Street, Northfield IL 60093

Just one block from public transportation and from 1-94, at the Willow Road exit.

Sliding Scale

Art of Balance ($150 full rate, scale $60-$150, or $0-59 with clinical interns)

https://www.artofbalancechi.com

Art of Balance was created with the mission of providing accessible mental health care for those who are under-insured and uninsured, while also upholding paneling with a multitude of insurance companies to allow accessibility for those who are insured. Our clinic strives to demonstrate diversity in clinician background and specialty in order to best assist and provide understanding for community members with varying concerns.

Howard Brown Health

Howard Brown Health offers discounted medical care, psychiatry, dentistry, and mental health counseling to patients who are uninsured and have low income. We also provide discounted mental health counseling for patients with low income who have medical insurance that does not cover mental health counseling. The amount a patient pays is based on the federal income levels.

The Family Institute, Bette D. Harris Family & Child Clinic @ Northwestern

https://www.family-institute.org/sliding-scale-therapy

Behavioral Health Services & Programs 

• LGBTQIA+ affirming

Offering services for:

• Child and Adolescent 
• Individual Counseling 
• Couples and Marriage
• Family Counseling 

Depth Counseling ($80 min. without insurance)

Depth Counseling is a group psychotherapy practice, offering long-term, psychoanalytic psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families. We work in person and by telehealth, with locations in Chicago (the Loop and Ravenswood). Our primary goal is to help our clients get beneath their presenting symptoms to identify the blocks that hold them back from living their fullest and most rewarding lives. We believe in the transformative power of this work and in the potential for growth at any stage of life.

Sage Stone Counseling

https://www.sagestonecounseling.com

Hyde Park Center For Healing

Obsidian Counseling – In network for BCBS

https://www.obsidiancounseling.com

Offers sliding scale or free services with student interns under supervision via teletherapy. 

Areas of expertise: 

• Parent Counseling 
• LGBTQIA+ 
• EMDR 

Open Path Psychotherapy Collective (Must become a member. Lifetime membership fee is $65) 

https://openpathcollective.org

A non-profit nationwide network of mental health professionals dedicated to providing in-office and online mental healthcare to clients in need. Provides middle and lower-income clients with access to affordable healthcare.

All sessions will be between $40-$70 

Inclusive Therapists 

https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/illinois/chicago/sliding-scale-low-cost-options

Connecting with a therapist should not feel like a gamble. People with marginalized identities deserve equitable access to radically affirming, culturally responsive mental health care. We aim to make this process simpler and safer. We center the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and 2SLGBTQIA+ intersections (QTBIPOC). We amplify the voices and expressions of Neurodivergent and Disabled Communities of Color.

Therapy for Black Girls

Founded in 2021 by Dr. Joy Harden Bradford of Therapy for Black Girls, the Holding Space Foundation was established to address the mental health needs of Black women and girls amid the pandemic and racial violence. The Holding Space Foundation offers group healing spaces, professional training, and community education, all aimed at providing culturally responsive services that empower Black women and girls to tend to their mental well-being and combat sexism and misogynoir.

Access Living

https://www.accessliving.org/

Brave Space Alliance

https://bravespacealliance.org

Brave Space Alliance is the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ Center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing affirming, culturally competent, for-us by-us resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ+ individuals on the South and West sides of the city. We strive to empower, embolden, and educate each other through mutual aid, knowledge-sharing, and the creation of community-sourced resources as we build toward the liberation of all oppressed peoples.

Bad Encounters- YWEP

https://ywepchicago.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bad-encounter-line-report-2012.pdf

Chicago Torture Justice Center

https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org

 Chicago Torture Justice Center supports community members healing from police violence.

Collaborative for Community Wellness (CWW) Treatment not Trauma https://www.collaborativeforcommunitywellness.org/the-campaign

Join The Treatment Not Trauma Campaign and support us with bringing attention to the critical need to improve access to mental health care in Chicago, and the urgent need for a public, non police, citywide crisis response program.  We need the City of Chicago and CDPH to understand that we are neighbors, family and friends, and an important part of our community – and all of us regardless of where we live, what language we speak, or how much money we make deserve access to quality compassionate mental health care.

Healing To Action

https://www.healingtoaction.org

Healing to Action grew out of the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence, a cross movement collaboration uniting Chicago’s labor and anti-violence movements to address sexual violence against low-wage workers.  Founded in 2012, the Coalition trained hundreds of low-wage workers in the Midwest, and organized survivor agencies behind worker-led campaigns like the Illinois Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. 

Workers participating in Coalition activities voiced the need for a worker-led, multicultural, cross-industry response to prevent gender-based violence in their communities. 

Howard Brown: Broadway Youth Center

https://howardbrown.org/clinic_location/broadway-youth-center/

 The Broadway Youth Center (BYC) in Uptown is a welcoming space for LGBTQ youth and young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Anyone ages 12 to 24 can find community, as well as medical, social, and mental wellness services, regardless of ability to pay.

Kedzie Center

https://www.thekedziecenter.org

Latinx Poetry in Chicago: Indigenous Roots, the Immigrant, and Belonging: Series with interactive components and poetry/discussion prompts

https://express.adobe.com/page/As0DV5YJUGY6k

Lutheran Social Services of IL
 https://www.lssi.org/

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) is one of the largest statewide social service providers. LSSI is a nonprofit social service organization of the three Illinois synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

STOP: Southside Together Organizing for Power https://www.stopchicago.org/ 

We build the power of low-income and working Black residents — in Woodlawn, Greater Grand Crossing, and surrounding neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago — to impact the forces and decisions that affect our lives.

St. James Infirmary

https://www.stjamesinfirmary.org/  – Target pop. sex work clinic

TaskForce Chicago

TaskForce Prevention & Community Services is a grassroots organization committed to improving the sexual health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ youth of color in Chicago by providing a safe space for fellowship, HIV/STI screening and education, and on-site referrals to medical, housing, and other social services.  We are dedicated to making a difference by working towards solutions in partnership with our community in order to improve our overall quality of life.

Transformative Justice Law Project- https://chartreuse-roadrunner-rpsl.squarespace.com/

TJLP consists of a group of folks who believe in the power of communal care over systemic oppression. We are radical activists, legal workers, and organizers who provide support, advocacy, and free, holistic legal services to poor and street-based transgender people in Illinois. We use our legal access and our privilege as people on the outside to further the prison abolition movement. We work in three project areas: legal services, support community survival, and educational resources and trainings.

*Chicago House

https://www.chicagohouse.org

*TransLife Care

https://www.chicagohouse.org/translife-care

TransLife Care provides free healthcare and social services to individuals who identify themselves as trans, non-binary, or gender expansive. Programs offer support for housing, legal, medical, sexual health, and employment. Programming is inclusive of 3 resource drop-in centers on the North, South, and West sides of Chicago and provide access to on-site healthcare providers, sexual health screeners, case management, and more.

*Chicago Freedom School

https://www.chicagofreedomschool.org

Rooted in the long legacy of liberatory education, Chicago Freedom School (CFS) provides education and leadership development for young people and adult allies to create a just world.

*Trilogy: Mental Wellbeing

Trilogy provides a broad array of services to help people who are living with mental illness, as well as co-occurring barriers like addiction or homelessness, move to stability, recovery. Trilogy helps people who need help find a way in, a way back, and a way up.

The American Indian Center works to preserve Native American culture and help Indigenous people in Chicago and beyond. It has a year-round educational program for youth and provides services like free food to neighbors in need. 
https://aicchicago.org/