Trauma-Informed Care & EMDR Services are Available for Teens & Adults

In-office appointments: Arlington Heights or Crystal Lake + Telehealth with all Therapists

Community Impact

We believe wellness starts with a healthy community. Our programs are designed for professionals, teams, organizations, families, administrators and practitioners.

We have offered more than 300 + professional wellness programs for community organizations. Our programs are designed to be engaging, practical, and adaptable. 

Available programs include: on-site and virtual interactive trainings, interactive wellness and performance workshops for businesses, athletic teams and continuing education opportunities for schools, hospitals, and clinics.

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Elevate Employee and Family Wellness

Support your employees with practical, real-world tools that reduce stress, prevent burnout, and improve performance across your organization. We partner with companies to deliver interactive workshops and trainings that address the growing impact of stress and disconnection in today’s workplace, where the boundaries between work and home are increasingly blurred.

Employees gain simple, usable skills to manage stress, regulate emotions, communicate more effectively, and build resilience in both their professional and personal lives. The result is stronger teamwork, better engagement, improved relationships, and higher productivity. We also extend this support beyond the workplace by offering programs that help families build healthier routines and coping strategies at home. For leadership teams, we provide targeted guidance to strengthen culture, improve communication, and create systems that support a healthier, more connected, and higher-performing workforce.

Employee and Family Wellness Programs:
  • Recognizing and Supporting Mental Health Challenges
  • Trauma Informed Leadership Training
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership Development
  • Difficult Conversations
  • Engagement Strategy Workshops
  • Making an Impact: Creating Intimacy in the Workplace
  • Stress and Anxiety: A More Mindful Apporach
  • Supporting our Mental Health
  • Preventing Burnout and Self-Care
  • Creating a Coping Tool-kit
  • Helathier Communication, Boundaries and Relationships
  • Fostering Engagment and Resilient Teams
  • Maximizing you Potential and Performance
  • Screens: The Pros and Cons of our Technology World
  • Purposeful Parenting: Creating a Home Environment that fosters healthy behaviors and boundaries
  • Supporting Active School Engagement
  • Responding to Grief, Loss and Missed Opportunities
  • Understanding your Child’s Mental Health Needs
  • Eating Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know
  • Screens: Digital Use or Addiction-Technology at Home and at School
  • Better Conversations: Building Relationships & Supporting Resiliency with your Child
  • Parenting with a Growth Mindset

Parents play a key role in athlete development. These sessions help families support performance in a healthy, sustainable way.

  • Fostering the Resilient Athlete
  • Nutrition and Healthy Body Image
  • Teaching the Competitive Edge in Healthy Ways
  • Supporting the Anxious Child
Jacqueline Rhew – LCPC, CADC, Co-founder

Mental Health Continuing Education & School Based Supports

It is our professional responsibility to remain current with research and advancements in the mental health field so that we can confidently deliver evidence-based care. The Center for Emotional Wellness is deeply committed to continuing education, clinical supervision, and professional training.

We offer many training opportunities for educators, parents and practitioners, as well as professional trainings locally and nationally.

Continued Education or Support Training Options:
  • Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms & Interventions

  • Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children and Adolescents Struggling with School Refusal/School Anxiety

  • Trauma Sensitive Learning

  • Engaging Students in the Classroom

  • Raising Resiliency in Children

  • Creating the Space to talk about Race in Schools

  • Working with Students and Families of Diversity

  • Understanding Self-Injury, and responding to At-Risk Behaviors

  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Treatment techniques and applications

  • Mental Health Trends and Adolescents

  • Family Interventions: Tools Available for School and Clinical Settings

  • Successful Parenting: Supporting Parents and Caregivers

  • Whole Child Engagement

  • Self Care for Educators: Understanding Compassion Fatigue

  • Supporting LGBTQ students and families

  • Helping Transgender students thrive at home and at school

  • Eating Disorders and Athletes

  • Understanding and Motivating the Anxious Athlete

  • We also tailor presentations to fit the needs of the school and community

  • And Much More….

  • Understanding and Responding to Anxiety

  • Purposeful Parenting: Creating a Home Environment that fosters healthy behaviors and boundaries

  • Successful Parenting: Raising a Successful Young Adult

  • Raising Resilient Children

  • Supporting Active School Engagement

  • School Refusal: Signs, Symptoms & Interventions

  • Responding to Grief, Loss and Missed Opportunities

  • Understanding your Child’s Mental Health Needs

  • Eating Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know!

  • Creating a Healthy Body Image and Self-Confidence in your Child!

  • Screens: Digital Use or Addiction-Technology at Home and at School

  • Better Conversations: Building Relationships & Supporting Resiliency with your Child

  • Parenting with a Growth Mindset

  • Coping Strategies for Stress and Anxiety

  • Recognizing and Managing our Mental Health

  • High School and Beyond!!

  • Graduating Seniors: Next Steps!

We have been providing presentations, materials and trainings to over 200 schools, businesses and agencies for the past 20+ years.

Here are just a few of the associations we have partnered with:

  • The American Council for School Social Work

  • Amita Health

  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana

  • Dupage School Counselors Day

  • Illinois Alliance of Administrators of Special Education

  • Illinois Counseling Association

  • Illinois Association of School Social Workers

  • Illinois Board of Education

  • McHenry County Behavioral Healthcare Network Continuing Education Program

  • McHenry County Mental Health Board

  • Naperville Medical Board

  • National Center for School Engagement

  • National Dropout Prevention Center

  • Parents Matter Too

  • Rosecrance

  • And Many More…

Sports Performance (Sports Psychology) Seminars and Workshops for Teams

Our philosophy guides all of our seminars and workshops, helping athletes, coaches, and parents understand performance through a psychological and human-centered lens. We have provided numerous trainings to sports teams and athletes including the USA Soccer team and multiple high school and collegiate teams.

Sports Performance (Sports Psychology) Options:

Our team-based workshops are designed to strengthen both performance and well-being by building mental skills that translate directly into competition. These sessions help athletes stay present under pressure, respond effectively to stress, and develop long-term confidence.

  • Stress and Anxiety Management
  • Mindfulness and Focus Training
  • Improving Your Mental Game
  • The Art of a Growth Mindset

We support coaches in building environments that develop both performance and mental resilience.

  • Trauma-Informed Coaching
  • Promoting Healthy Mental Health Strategies
  • Peak Performance Training
  • Teaching Athletes to Get Out of Their Heads and Reach Their Potential
Samantha Cramin, LCSW – Center For Emotional Wellness Northwest
"We don't separate the athlete from the person. The same patterns that drive success on the field — the discipline, the self-criticism, the need to win — can quietly become the thing that breaks them. Our job is to help athletes use what's working and rework what isn't.
Samantha Cramin
LSW, Center For Emotional Wellness Northwest

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