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• " Provider Search:" Find a Counselor Covered by your Insurance
  Search for Therapists affiliated with your Insurance The following are links to insurance provider directories and info about the insurers themselves.
  
  
• "Hot-off-the-Press:" Mental Health News and Features
  Mental Health News and Features This page includes "hot-off-the-press" counseling article titles and their short descriptions. It also includes a link to several of the latest mental health news headlines and links to the latest topics to have appeared in the Counselling Resource discussion forum. The feed is updated regularly, every 15 minutes.
  
  
• 21 Things to Expect when being Treated for Anxiety
  As a psychologist and counselor practicing in the Cary-Algonquin-Crystal Lake area of Illinois, I find that there are 21 essentials you can expect when you are treated for anxiety here. Here is the list.
  
  
• About Cigna Behavioral Health
  Cigna provides behavioral care management, EAPs and work / life programs through the health plans of large employers, HMOs and disability insurers.
  
  
• Accidents, Trauma and PTSD
  This is a must-read list of articles for those suffering from trauma, stress or ptsd caused by an accident or injury.
  
  
• Aetna Behavioral Health Products for Members
  Aetna Behavioral Health treats mental health conditions, such as depression, which impacts a person's everyday life and physical health.
  
  
• Aetna: Find an Aetna Counselor or Psychologist Now
  DocFind, the Aetna Behavioral Health online provider directory makes it easy to find a mental health professional covered by your Aetna policy.
  
  
• Alzheimers and Elderly Care
  This article is about Alzheimer's disease which is seen often in elderly care. It is a dementing disorder marked by certain brain changes, regardless of the age of onset. It is not a normal part of aging and it is seen often in nursing homes. Eventually these residents may wander, be unable to engage in conversation, seem inattentive and erratic in mood, appear uncooperative, lose bladder and bowel control, and, in extreme cases, become totally incapable of caring for themselves.
  
  
• Anger Management and ADHD
  Are you or a member of your family suffering from angry outbursts or symptoms of adhd? If so, these articles are a "must-read!'
  
  
• Articles about Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVAs), Work Injuries and Mental Health
  We read many articles about the psychology of work injuries, motor vehicle accidents and personal injury law and we like to share them with you.
  
  
• Articles: Mental Health and Counseling
  This is a valuable library of the latest articles about mental health counseling, psychiatry and marriage and relationship problems.
  
  
• Assessment of your Current Mental Health Provider
  Let's see how your current mental health provider is doing... Does your provider actively participate in at least 75 per cent of your Resident Review meetings, providing practical and useful suggestions, information etc?
  
  
• Beech Street
  A Beech Street preferred provider is a prescreened doctor, counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist that provides services at predetermined rates.
  
  
• Benefits of Talking to a Psychologist
  This piece points out that psychologists are doctors that are needed when one is facing overwhelming painful emotions or serious illness
  
  
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Provider Directory and Information
  The Blue Cross Participating Provider Option (PPO) offers a provider directory plus mental health, psychiatric and substance abuse coverage.
  
  
• Cigna Behavioral Health: FAQs
  If you need a therapist contact CIGNA Behavioral Health. They will refer you to a professional who will isolate the problem and begin counseling.
  
  
• CIGNA Behavioral Health: Types of Mental Health Professionals Included
  All mental health professionals contracted by CIGNA Behavioral Health are licensed and offer treatment through their independent practices.
  
  
• Cigna Behavioral Health: What Services are Covered?
  CIGNA Behavioral Health will compare your therapist’s recommendations to established Practice Guidelines to determine what benefits may be available.
  
  
• Cigna Behavioral: Authorization of Services and Provider Directory
  The Behavioral Health Directory lists mental health providers affiliated with Cigna. For outpatient visits with them, you don’t need pre-authorization.
  
  
• ComPsych: An Introduction
  The ComPsych employee assistance program (EAP) is a confidential service providing advice and counseling to employees and their families.
  
  
• Counseling for your Blended Family
  As a psychologist and counselor in the Woodstock-Cary-Algonquin-Crystal Lake and Lake in the Hills area of Illinois, I find that there are 21 essentials you can expect when receiving counseling for your blended family's problems. Take note!
  
  
• Counseling Services
  We treat depression and anxiety and provide marriage and adolescent counseling in Crystal Lake, Il. Telephone consultations are provided nationally.
  
  
• Counseling: Injury and Car Accident Trauma
  Auto accidents and work injuries cause overwhelming stress, depression and family strife. Psychotherapy returns quality of life to worn-down victims.
  
  
• Counselors-Psychologists in Northern Illinois
  This is a northern IL directory of counselors, psychologists and mental health professionals located in, or near Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Cary, Woodstock, Fox River Grove, Wauconda, Elgin, Arlington Heights and Algonquin, Illinois.
  
  
• Coventry-First Health: Answers Anytime
  “First Health” and Coventry take calls 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Its office can provide information about benefit coverage, claims or general health.
  
  
• Dependency
  There can be up to 22 warning signs that indicate you need counseling to become less dependent and more assertive. Upon completion of counseling you should be able to be self-sufficient, independent, say "No" when appropriate and be free from the need for approval. Read more now…!
  
  
• Depression and Anxiety Articles
  These articles deliver no-nonsense and proven approaches to eliminate your depression and anxiety
  
  
• Develop Resilience to Recover from Setbacks
  Although, loss and suffering are inevitable, finding an overriding life purpose can help people survive them and foster an all-important resilience.
  
  
• Discussion Forum: 10 Most Recently Active Topics
  Discussion Forum Topics Feed CounsellingResource.com discussion forum feed. Fascinating comments that look at life through the prism of psychology, philosophy, mental health and more. This feed provides links to the ten most recently active topics in the CounsellingResource.com discussion and support forum, updated regularly every 15 minutes.
  
  
• Divorce Counseling
  There are 11 signs that indicate you or your family members should get counseling while going through a divorce or separation. Discover them now-before its too late!
  
  
• Eliminate Depression in your Nursing Home Residents
  There is a need for a new model of mental health delivery in skilled nursing care. Strength-Embedded Psychotherapy is a drug-free mental health treatment that offers new hope in eliminating the depression in your residents and the anxiety of their families! These articles are packed with info about powerful psychological tools designed to encourage nursing home residents to become more aware, or "conscious," of their strengths and successes, rather than their losses. They are a "must read" for management in long term care facilities.
  
  
• Everything You Need to Know to Find a Family or Marriage Counselor
  If you live in northern or McHenry County Illinois, this article reveals all you'll ever need to know about how to find the right marriage counselor.
  
  
• Family Turmoil
  There can be 22 warning signs that indicate you need counseling to help eliminate turmoil, arguments and fighting in your household. Upon completion of counseling, family members should be more harmonious, cooperative and supportive of each other. Read this article now... before things become irreversible!
  
  
• FAQs: Using Psychology in Coping with Serious Illness
  Psychological stress management programs help those diagnosed with serious illnesses, including cancer, heart and transplant patients.
  
  
• From Cary, Illinois: The Sources of Depression in Later Life
  Depression is not a normal part of the aging process in Cary, Illinois or anywhere else in the U.S. However, this no-nonsense article explains why there is a strong likelihood of it occurring when other physical health conditions exist in the elderly.
  
  
• HFN: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ
  Call HFN's customer service group at 800-295-5444 to have one of our staff help you find the psychologist, counselor or psychiatrist you need.
  
  
• HFN: Provider Directory and Information
  HFN offers an online provider directory and health care and mental health services to meet the individual’s needs and those of the business community.
  
  
• How to Access Mental Health Services through your Insurance Plan
  With a managed health plan, accessing mental health services can be daunting. This article explains how to make the process quick and effortless.
  
  
• How to Find a Marriage Counselor in Cary and Algonquin, Illinois
  In Cary and Algonquin, Illinois there are almost too many types of marriage counselors from which to choose. In this comprehensive article you're guaranteed to learn the easiest, quickest way to find the marriage counselor that's perfect for you!
  
  
• How to Find a Marriage Counselor who Will Make your Marriage like New
  This article describes all you'll ever need to know about how to find an expert marriage counselor in northern Illinois who will make your marriage brand new again!
  
  
• How to Find Help through Psychotherapy
  Psychotherapy effectively decreases patients' depression and anxiety and related symptoms- such as pain, fatigue and nausea.
  
  
• How to Find the Right Counselor-the FIRST Time
  We provide expert counseling and go the EXTRA MILE for you: If we can’t help, we’ll direct you to a counselor that CAN- no charge!
  
  
• How to Get the Perfect Psychologist or Counselor for your Son or Daughter- All You Will Ever Need to Know
  Every parent wants the peace of mind in knowing which type of counselor is likely to eliminate his or her child's anxiety, depression or acting-out. This article contains all you will ever need to know about getting an expert counselor for your son or daughter!
  
  
• Humana: Provider Directory and Company Information
  Humana’s provider directory is here; Humana offers health insurance, including mental health services to employers, government plans and individuals.
  
  
• Humana: Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
  Humana values its mental health professionals and encourages consumers to view Humana’s Provider Directory when they need help.
  
  
• Magellan Health: Provider Directory and Types of Mental Health Providers
  Magellan's provider directory is accessible here and lists the names of social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists who are part of the network.
  
  
• Map to Cary Office
  Map to get to the ACRS mental health counseling office in Cary, IL . The address is 114 Cary St, Cary, IL. Encompasses northern Kane County and southern McHenry County, IL
  
  
• Marriage and Relationship Articles
  A fantastic library of articles providing solutions and explanations for all types of marriage and relationship problems.
  
  
• Marriage Counseling and Individual Psychotherapy
  Psychological counseling helps you to become aware of insidious emotions so you can eliminate their destructive influence and dramatically enhance your coping skills.
  
  
• Medicare Provider Directory
  The Medicare Provider Directory lists names and other information for participating physicians who accept assignment on Medicare claims.
  
  
• Mental Health and Psychosocial Treatments in the Nursing Home
  This article describes the psychosocial treatments that are crucial forms of mental health intervention in long term care facilities and nursing homes. These amazing treatments help residents keep their moods stable, stay out of the hospital, and eliminate depression.
  
  
• Mental Health: Latest Headlines
  Vew new, updated mental health headlines. They cover the latest mental health news, conditions, interventions, tests and medications.
  
  
• Metaphors for Life
  Mental health counseling embeds revised stories and metaphors that are compatible with a person's goals into the therapy session to foster change.
  
  
• Mind-Body Medicine
  The mind-body model stresses that physical health, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors impact each other, often leading to stress-related illnesses.
  
  
• Miscellaneous Mental Health and Counseling Articles
  Cutting-edge articles about personality disorders, sexuality and more are contained in this fascinating grab-bag of miscellaneous psychological information.
  
  
• Multiplan Provider Directory and PATIENT INTRODUCTION
  MultiPlan is one of America's largest healthcare networks, used by health plans to ensure patients have access a wide choice of doctors and hospitals.
  
  
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
  The narcissist perceives him/herself as "a cut above others" and is unable to empathize.
  
  
• New Patient Registration
  New Patients: Pease register by providing the billing information requested here. Our office is in Cary, near Crystal Lake, Illinois.
  
  
• Northern Illinois: Drug-Alcohol Treatment Locator
  This is a directory of professionals located in northern Illinois, in and around Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Cary, Woodstock, Fox River Grove, Wauconda, Elgin, Arlington Heights and Algonquin who treat alcohol and substance abuse problems.
  
  
• NURSING HOME MANAGERS: Drug-Free Ways to Eliminate Resident Depression
  The need for a new model of mental health delivery in skilled nursing care is seen in your demoralized residents and complaining families. Strength-Embedded Psychotherapy is a drug-free mental health treatment that offers new hope in eliminating the depression in your residents and the anxiety of their families! It is packed with powerful psychological tools designed to encourage your residents to become more aware, or "conscious," of their strengths and successes, rather than their losses. This dramatically reduces their anxiety and depression!
  
  
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• Past Childhood Abuse
  There can be up to 22 warning signs that indicate you need counseling or therapy to help heal the pain of childhood trauma. Upon completion of counseling you should be able to remember instances of childhood abuse without being overwhelmed by anxiety and start to function normally in everyday life.
  
  
• PHCS: Statement of Member Rights
  PHCS respects its members’ rights. This includes engaging in open discussions of treatment options and supplying regularly updated provider directories.
  
  
• PHCS: Provider Directory and Introduction
  Private Health Care Systems is a care management provider for medical and mental health services. Its provider directory is here.
  
  
• PPO Next: Provider Directory and Frequently Asked Questions
  PPONEXT is America's fastest growing PPO network. Its provider directory is here. It provides a network designed to reduce medical services’ costs.
  
  
• Psychological Assessments for Law Practices
  This describes how psychological tests, evaluations and assessments can be used by lawyers to determine their clients'sanity, insanity, fitness for duty, fitness to stand trial, harm suffered from psychological injuries and assessment of emotional damages.
  
  
• Restoring Trust after an Affair
  This article explains no-nonsense ways to create an atmosphere that helps a spouse to re-gain the trust she lost after her spouse has had an affair.
  
  
• Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality and Mental Health-FAQs
  This piece contains frequently answered questions about homosexuality, sexual orientation and mental health.
  
  
• Signs of Suicide
  The subject of suicide inspires immediate horror in people. It is so charged with universal dread and burning emotion that people almost always avoid talking about it. This life-saving article breaks this taboo and lists the warning signs of suicide everyone should know in order to save a life.
  
  
• Telephone Counseling
  Phone Counseling is extraordinarily convenient and private and provides the benefit of expert counseling without having to go into an office.
  
  
• The PI Law Miracle: StressScreen
  Lawyers ignore clients’ frustration and family problems. Psychiatric symptoms go undiagnosed; compensation is lost. Routine screening is the answer
  
  
• The Psychiatric Disability Office
  Are you unable to work because of a psychiatric disorder? We can get disability income for you; we get paid only if you do. Available nationwide;
  
  
• The Psychology of Success Tool Box
  Here are articles and tools of psychology to catapult you to success. They can jump-start your success and enable you to generate unstoppable motivation.
  
  
• The Role of Psychotherapy in Treating Anxiety in the Elderly
  Anxiety disorders cause severe distress and disrupt the lives of the elderly residing in long term care facilities. This article reveals their numerous symptoms, including recurring fears or worries and the persistent sense that something bad is about to happen, as well as treatment with therapy.
  
  
• To Nursing Home Administrators in Northern Illinois: How to Eliminate Depression, Anxiety and Behavior Problems in your Residents without Using More Drugs
  In northern Illinois and nationally, many nursing home residents have found relief from depression through psychotherapy. This revealing article demonstrates how an administrator can decrease a residents depression, anxiety and related symptoms -- such as pain, fatigue and nausea- without using more drugs.
  
  
• TRICARE: The Provider Directory and the Basics
  TRICARE is the Department of Defense's worldwide health care program for active duty and retired uniformed services members and their families.
  
  
• Unicare: Provider Directory and Overview
  Unicare provides an extensive array of qualified physicians, psychologists and other providers; all of whom are listed in the provider directory here.
  
  
• United Healthcare-How to Find a Counselor
  This is the easiest and quickest way to find a psychologist, psychiatrist or counselor who accepts UnitedHealthcare
  
  
• Up-to-the-Minute News
  Mental Health News and Features Headlines that cover the latest mental health news, interventions and medications. Updated every 15 minutes.
  
  
• VALUEOPTIONS: MEMBER RIGHTS
  Talk with your ValueOptions provider about the best options for your mental health treatment, regardless of the cost or benefit coverage
  
  
• Warning Signs of PTSD
  There can be up to 22 warning signs that indicate you need counseling or therapy when experiencing PTSD. After counseling you should be able to recall the traumatic event without being overwhelmed by painful emotions and start to function normally.
  
  
• Why Residents in Long Term Care Are So Depressed
  Forward-looking long term care administrators have long pondered how to eliminate the dejection and malaise that infests their nursing facilities. This article provides all the answers to eliminating the depression in your nursing home residents.
  
  
• Your First 8 Weeks
  Within that reserved block, you will be charged for each week as it arrives, even if you miss your appointment. However, if you cancel an appointment with at least 24 hrs notice, you are entitled to re-schedule another during the same week only, at no extra charge.
  
  
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