Compass Health Center

Compass Health Center was founded in 2011 by David Schreiber, MD, and Claudia Welke, MD, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrists who recognized the Chicago community's need for intensive, non-hospital-based psychiatric care. Drs. Schreiber and Welke realized that while working together in a hospital that provided PHP/IOP and inpatient hospitalization, there were not enough psychiatrists or hospital beds to treat the patients they saw in behavioral health crises. As a result, individuals were placed on long wait lists, which only made them sicker, resulting in ER visits that would lead to admission for inpatient care. With the proper resources in place, many of these ER and inpatient hospitalizations could have been avoided, replaced with a level of care that was timelier, more appropriate, and less costly and disruptive. This is why Compass Health Center was created. Compass Health Center provides expert treatment for patients as young as five years old through adolescence and adulthood seeking treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, chronic pain, and other co-occurring conditions - all the while maintaining life at home. Compass offers Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient mental health programs in a welcoming and non-hospital environment when traditional outpatient therapy isn't enough. Their psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, and master's level clinicians use evidence-based therapies, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Exposure Response Prevention Therapy, and others, proved to be the gold standard for treating mood, anxiety, OCD, and other co-occurring disorders. Compass treatment modalities are differentiated by age group and clinical focus. Their high-quality care approach is collaborative, team-based and includes psychiatric assessment, group therapy, family therapy, individual therapy, experiential therapy, educational supports, and additional wrap-around services.