Positive Sobriety Institute

About Positive Sobriety Institute

142 E Ontario St, Suite 1000, Chicago, Illinois 60611 , Chicago, Illinois
Positive Sobriety Institute (PSI) specializes in treating addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions for a wide range of professionals, including physicians, attorneys, and executives, in high-stress, high-accountability roles, as well as individuals looking for personalized treatment in a safe, discreet, and supportive environment. Unsurpassed Expertise and Caliber of Care Located in the heart of Chicago, and led by a multidisciplinary team of board-certified psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists with specialized training in treating addiction, PSI addresses the full spectrum... of each client’s recovery needs so they can return to their personal and professional lives feeling strong, productive, and inspired. PSI offers a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) that provides a full day of intensive, structured treatment five days a week, as well as both daytime and evening Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) to accommodate the needs of busy professionals. With a focus on personalized group therapy, PSI provides a supportive environment for clients to create a foundation for life in recovery. Evidence-Based and Holistic Therapies PSI utilizes multiple evidenced-based modalities as well as trauma informed approaches, including CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, experiential therapies, somatic therapy, yoga, and art therapy. Additionally, PSI offers wellness sessions, including nutrition, mindfulness meditation, sound therapy, and strength & conditioning. PSI’s comprehensive continuum of care focuses on assessing the role of trauma and addiction, supporting patients in understanding their lived experience, and beginning the work of recovery and resilience. Specialized Support for Professionals PSI is uniquely equipped to help professionals, including healthcare workers, legal professionals, and executives, navigate recovery while maintaining their careers. PSI works closely with professional health programs and other referring entities to facilitate a smooth transition back to the workplace. This comprehensive support system ensures that clients receive the necessary care and guidance for sustainable recovery, acknowledging that recovery is a lifelong process.

Insurances

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Aetna

Covers mental health, substance use treatment, and rehab services with broad nationwide access and t...
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Cigna

Provides access to therapy, inpatient rehab, outpatient care, and virtual mental health support acro...

Amenities

Business Center

Business Center

A business center may provide workspace, internet access, or communication tools for clients who need limited work or professional contact during treatment. Facility rules may vary.

Internet Access

Internet Access

Internet access may help clients communicate with family, manage work obligations, or use approved digital resources. Some programs limit internet use during treatment.

Pool

Pool

A pool may support recreation, light exercise, relaxation, or wellness activities during treatment. Users should confirm supervision, schedule, accessibility, and safety rules.

Fitness Center

Fitness Center

A fitness center may support exercise, routine, stress reduction, and overall wellness during treatment. Users should confirm available equipment, supervision, and any medical restrictions.

Hot Tub

Hot Tub

A hot tub may be offered as a comfort or relaxation amenity. Users should ask about access rules, safety policies, and whether use is restricted for medical reasons.

Recreation Room

Recreation Room

A recreation room may provide space for games, social activities, relaxation, or structured downtime. It can support routine and peer connection outside clinical sessions.

Basketball Court

Basketball Court

A basketball court may support physical activity, recreation, and healthy routine during treatment. Availability may depend on the facility setting, weather, and program schedule.

Library

Library

A library or reading area may offer quiet space for reflection, education, journaling, or downtime. It is a supportive amenity, not a substitute for clinical programming.

Jacuzzi

Jacuzzi

A Jacuzzi is similar to a hot tub and should usually be grouped with that amenity. Availability, access rules, and safety restrictions should be confirmed with the facility.

Accreditations

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Joint Commission

The Joint Commission Accreditation is a prestigiou...

Who We Treat

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Executives

Executive-focused programs may offer privacy, flex...
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LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+ affirming programs may offer culturally res...
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Professionals

Programs for professionals may offer privacy, flex...
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Men and Women

All-gender programs accept clients of more than on...
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Men

Men’s programs may address substance use, mental h...
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Women

Women’s programs may address substance use, trauma...

Treatments

1-on-1 Counseling

1-on-1 Counseling

One-on-one counseling gives clients private time with a counselor or therapist to discuss substance use, mental health symptoms, goals, triggers, and recovery planning. It is commonly used throughout treatment to create a more personalized care plan.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps clients notice difficult thoughts and emotions without being controlled by them. It may support people working on substance use, anxiety, depression, trauma, or major life changes by helping them act in line with personal values.

Art Therapy

Art Therapy

Art therapy uses creative activities to help clients express emotions, process experiences, and explore thoughts that may be difficult to discuss directly. It is often used as a supportive approach in mental health, trauma, and substance use treatment settings.

Attachment-Based Family Therapy

Attachment-Based Family Therapy

Attachment-based family therapy focuses on repairing trust, communication, and emotional connection within families. It may be used when family conflict, disconnection, or early attachment experiences are affecting mental health or recovery.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT helps people identify thought and behavior patterns that may contribute to substance use, anxiety, depression, or relapse risk. Programs may use it to build coping skills and practical recovery strategies.

Couples Counseling

Couples Counseling

Couples counseling helps partners address communication, trust, boundaries, conflict, and the effect of substance use or mental health symptoms on the relationship. It may be used when recovery involves relationship repair or partner support.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

DBT teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and communication. It may support people with intense emotions, trauma symptoms, self-destructive patterns, or co-occurring mental health concerns.

Experiential Therapy

Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapy uses structured activities, role-play, movement, art, or outdoor experiences to help clients process emotions and practice new skills. It may be useful when clients benefit from hands-on work beyond traditional talk therapy.

Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Family therapy helps clients and loved ones address communication, boundaries, conflict, support systems, and the impact of substance use or mental health concerns on the household. It is an important treatment option when recovery involves family relationships.

Group Therapy

Group Therapy

Group therapy brings clients together in a structured setting to discuss recovery, coping skills, accountability, relationships, and shared challenges. It is commonly used in addiction and mental health treatment at many levels of care.

Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy

IFS helps clients explore different parts of themselves, including protective patterns, emotional wounds, and inner conflict. It may be used for trauma, anxiety, depression, and recovery work when offered by trained clinicians.

Meditation & Mindfulness

Meditation & Mindfulness

Meditation and mindfulness practices help clients build present-moment awareness, manage stress, and respond to cravings or emotions with more intention. They are usually supportive practices used alongside clinical treatment.

Mindfulness Therapy

Mindfulness Therapy

Mindfulness therapy uses attention, breathing, and awareness practices to help clients notice thoughts, cravings, and emotions without reacting automatically. It may support anxiety, depression, stress, trauma symptoms, and relapse prevention.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

MBCT combines mindfulness practices with cognitive therapy skills. It may help clients recognize negative thought patterns, reduce emotional reactivity, and support recovery from depression, anxiety, or relapse risk.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing

MI helps clients explore ambivalence and strengthen their own reasons for change. It is commonly used when someone is uncertain, resistant, or still building readiness for treatment or recovery.

Music Therapy

Music Therapy

Music therapy uses music-based activities such as listening, songwriting, rhythm, or discussion to support emotional expression, coping, and connection. It may be helpful as a supportive service for trauma, mood symptoms, stress, or recovery engagement.

Psychodrama Therapy

Psychodrama Therapy

Psychodrama therapy uses role-play and guided dramatic exercises to help clients explore relationships, emotions, conflict, and past experiences. It may be used as an experiential method within broader mental health or addiction treatment.

Relapse Prevention Counseling

Relapse Prevention Counseling

Relapse prevention counseling helps clients identify triggers, warning signs, high-risk situations, and coping strategies. It is commonly used to support ongoing recovery after detox, residential treatment, PHP, IOP, or outpatient care.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing is a body-oriented approach that focuses on physical sensations and nervous system regulation. It may be used as supportive trauma-informed care when provided by trained professionals.

Trauma-Specific Therapy

Trauma-Specific Therapy

Trauma-specific therapy focuses directly on the effects of trauma, including triggers, avoidance, emotional distress, and safety. It may be important when trauma history is connected to substance use, anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns.

Yoga

Yoga

Yoga combines movement, breathing, and mindfulness practices that may support stress reduction, emotional regulation, sleep, and general wellness. It is best presented as a complementary recovery support rather than a standalone treatment.

Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation helps clients understand addiction, mental health symptoms, medications, coping skills, relapse warning signs, and treatment expectations. It is commonly used across many levels of care to support informed participation in treatment.

Twelve Step Facilitation

Twelve Step Facilitation

TSF helps clients understand and participate in Twelve Step recovery support. It may be used alongside counseling, medication, relapse prevention, and other treatment services.

Introduction to the 12 Step Program

Introduction to the 12 Step Program

An introduction to the Twelve Step model helps clients understand peer-support programs, meetings, sponsorship, accountability, and recovery principles. It may be offered as one part of a broader treatment plan, especially in addiction recovery programs.

Solution-Focused, Goal-Oriented Therapy

Solution-Focused, Goal-Oriented Therapy

Solution-focused therapy helps clients identify strengths, set practical goals, and build on what is already working. It may be useful for clients who need short-term, structured support around recovery, relationships, or life stability.

Stress Management

Stress Management

Stress management teaches clients practical tools to reduce emotional and physical stress, including breathing, planning, coping skills, sleep routines, and boundary-setting. It is often used to support relapse prevention and mental health stability.

Level Of Cares

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Detox

Detox, also called withdrawal management, helps pe...
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Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

IOP provides structured treatment several days per...
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Outpatient Treatment

Outpatient treatment allows clients to receive the...
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Sober Living

Sober living and recovery housing provide substanc...
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Virtual Treatment

Virtual treatment uses secure video, phone, or dig...
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Residential Treatment

Residential treatment provides structured care in ...
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Day Treatment / Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

PHP provides structured daytime treatment without ...
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Co-Occurring Mental Health Treatment

Co-occurring mental health treatment focuses on me...

Conditions

ADHD / ADD

ADHD / ADD

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition involving patterns of inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity, organization difficulties, or time-management challenges. It may affect school, work, relationships, daily routines, and emotional regulation. Related support may include counseling, behavioral strategies, skills-based support, medication management when appropriate, outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety involves excessive worry, fear, nervousness, or physical tension that can affect sleep, concentration, relationships, work, school, and daily responsibilities. Related support may include therapy, counseling, medication management when appropriate, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment depending on symptoms and needs.

Bipolar

Bipolar

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder involving episodes of elevated or irritable mood and increased energy, along with episodes of depression. It may affect sleep, judgment, activity level, relationships, work, school, and safety. Related support may include psychiatric care, medication management, therapy, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, day treatment, residential treatment, or inpatient stabilization when needed.

Chronic Pain Management

Chronic Pain Management

Chronic pain involves ongoing pain lasting for months or longer and may affect mobility, sleep, mood, work, relationships, and quality of life. Related support may include behavioral health counseling, pain-focused therapy, mindfulness-based support, medical coordination, outpatient care, or co-occurring substance use treatment when pain overlaps with medication, opioid, alcohol, or other substance concerns.

Codependency

Codependency

Codependency describes an unhealthy relationship pattern where a person may focus heavily on another person’s needs, emotions, or behavior while neglecting personal boundaries and wellbeing. It may affect self-esteem, relationships, decision-making, and emotional health. Related support may include counseling, family therapy, group therapy, boundary-focused support, outpatient care, or co-occurring treatment when substance use is involved in the relationship system.

Depression

Depression

Depression is a mood condition involving persistent sadness, loss of interest, low energy, hopelessness, or changes in sleep, appetite, and concentration. It may affect daily functioning, relationships, school, work, and safety. Related support may include therapy, counseling, medication management when appropriate, crisis support when needed, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment.

Grief and Loss

Grief and Loss

Grief and loss describe emotional, physical, social, and mental reactions after losing someone or something important. Grief may affect mood, sleep, appetite, concentration, relationships, and daily routines. Related support may include grief counseling, therapy, support groups, outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment when grief is prolonged, traumatic, or connected with depression, trauma, or substance use.

Stress

Stress

Stress is the body and mind’s response to pressure, demands, or life changes. Ongoing stress may affect sleep, mood, concentration, physical comfort, relationships, work, and daily responsibilities. Related support may include counseling, stress-management therapy, mindfulness-based support, outpatient care, virtual care, or higher levels of care when stress occurs with other mental health or substance use concerns.

Substances We Treat

Alcohol

Alcohol

Alcohol use disorder can affect health, relationships, work, safety, and mental health. Treatment may include counseling, behavioral therapies, recovery support, and FDA-approved medications when clinically appropriate.

Benzodiazepines

Benzodiazepines

Benzodiazepines are prescription sedatives sometimes used for anxiety, sleep, or seizure-related conditions. Treatment may involve careful assessment, medical supervision, and support for dependence or withdrawal risk, especially when other substances are involved.

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-occurring disorders involve both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder. Treatment may coordinate addiction care, mental health therapy, medication management, and recovery support so both concerns are addressed together.

Cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a stimulant that can affect the brain, heart, mood, sleep, and decision-making. Treatment commonly focuses on behavioral therapy, relapse prevention, coping skills, and support for cravings or co-occurring mental health symptoms.

Heroin

Heroin

Heroin is an opioid with a high risk of dependence, withdrawal, and overdose. Treatment often includes medications for opioid use disorder, counseling, harm-reduction education, relapse prevention, and ongoing recovery support.

Cannabis / Marijuana

Cannabis / Marijuana

Cannabis use can become problematic for some people, especially when it affects school, work, mood, motivation, relationships, or daily functioning. Treatment may include counseling, behavioral therapy, coping skills, and support for withdrawal symptoms or co-occurring mental health concerns.

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is a powerful stimulant that can affect sleep, mood, thinking, heart health, and behavior. Treatment commonly focuses on behavioral therapies, contingency management where available, relapse prevention, recovery support, and co-occurring mental health care.

Opioids

Opioids

Opioids include heroin, fentanyl, and prescription pain medications such as oxycodone or hydrocodone. Treatment for opioid use disorder may include FDA-approved medications such as buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone, along with counseling and recovery support.

Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drugs

Prescription drug misuse may involve opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants, or other medications used differently than prescribed. Treatment may include medical assessment, withdrawal support when needed, counseling, medication management, and relapse prevention planning.

Synthetic Drugs / New Psychoactive Substances

Synthetic Drugs / New Psychoactive Substances

Synthetic drugs can include lab-made cannabinoids, stimulants, opioids, or hallucinogens with unpredictable strength and effects. Treatment may focus on medical stabilization, substance use counseling, relapse prevention, and mental health support when symptoms are severe or persistent.

Chronic Relapse

Chronic Relapse

Chronic relapse refers to repeated returns to substance use after periods of recovery or treatment. Programs may focus on relapse prevention, triggers, co-occurring mental health needs, medication support, recovery planning, and long-term accountability.

Drug Addiction / Substance Use Disorder

Drug Addiction / Substance Use Disorder

Drug addiction, or substance use disorder, involves continued substance use despite harmful consequences. Treatment may include assessment, counseling, behavioral therapies, medications for some substance use disorders, relapse prevention, and recovery support.