Hybrid IOP Program for Adults—Chicago, Northbrook & Throughout Illinois.

Hybrid IOP—Intensive Outpatient Program at SpringSource: Eating, Weight, and Mood Disorders

Designed for adults who are navigating factors unique to early, mid, and later adulthood.

An IOP for Adults Treating Eating, Mood, and Anxiety Disorders, Including Relationship Issues and Life Transitions.

Do you need to improve the quality of your life? 

Our hybrid IOP Program for Adults aims to restore psychological health, improve mood, and reduce anxiety by utilizing a developmental, relational framework. Psychological research shows that the quality of our relationships with ourselves, others, and our environment greatly impacts mental health and is key to our well-being.

Age-appropriate small groups.

Our IOP groups are intentionally small and thoughtfully designed with age in mind. Adults in midlife and older participate in age-appropriate groups, so they can engage in therapy alongside peers in similar life stages.

Are you trying to create a meaningful life?

The SpringSource IOP for Adults helps individuals navigate the unique factors associated with early, mid, and later adulthood. Our transdiagnostic* approach provides support for managing developmental transitions specific to these life stages. We assist patients in gaining insight into their relationships with themselves, focusing on their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, self-talk, and perception of their bodies.

IOP groups will also focus on helping individuals improve their relationships with others and their environment. This will include:

• managing conflict
• improving interpersonal effectiveness
• increasing the ability to be appropriately vulnerable and build connections
• operating from a wise mind in decision-making
• anything else one can have a relationship with, such as food, habits, hobbies, and work.

* A transdiagnostic approach in mental health focuses on the underlying psychological processes that cut across multiple diagnoses, rather than treating each disorder separately. It aims to address common root causes such as emotion dysregulation, avoidance, or negative thinking patterns that contribute to a range of mental health conditions, making treatment more flexible and broadly applicable.

IOP Psychological Support for Clients Taking GLP-1s

SpringSource founders, Ph.D. psychologists Dr. Susan McClanahan and Dr. Angela Derrick, have been leaders in the eating disorder, mood, and anxiety space for decades, including extensive work with adults experiencing binge eating, compulsive overeating, body image issues, metabolic syndrome, and other eating-related concerns. With the surge in GLP-1 use, we’re seeing more adults, especially women in midlife, seeking emotional and psychological support alongside their medical treatment. We are a size-inclusive, evidence-informed practice with deep experience supporting patients across the weight spectrum.

We recognize that while these medications can be an important tool, they don’t address the underlying drivers that so often complicate care, such as stress, shame, disordered eating patterns, and body image struggles. That’s where we come in.

The Adult IOP or individual therapy, if indicated, is designed to help patients stabilize, strengthen coping skills, and build a healthier relationship with food, body, and self while on their medical journey.

CARF Accreditation for the SpringSource Hybrid Intensive Outpatient Program in Chicago and Northbrook

SpringSource: Eating, Weight, and Mood Disorders has been awarded a CARF (Three-Year) accreditation for Intensive Outpatient Treatment: Mental Health (Adults).

What does this mean?

CARF accreditation officially recognizes that SpringSource adheres to internationally recognized service standards and best practices. It also publicly affirms our dedication to delivering the highest quality of care to our clients through participating in ongoing consultation and in-depth on-site reviews to help us achieve excellence in our Adult IOP.

Our Boutique Services

Our customized approach, based on a positive psychology model, can support individuals dealing with eating disorders as well as mood and anxiety disorders. However, we want to emphasize that you are not defined by your illness, diagnosis, pathology, struggles, difficulties, or mental health challenges!

The developmental, relational framework incorporates empirically validated treatments, such as CBT, DBT, ACT, ERP, and EFFT, in all groups. Performance is measured using standardized assessments to track patients’ mood, anxiety levels, and other targeted symptoms. These assessments are administered by program personnel at the beginning of services, throughout the program, and upon completion of the program.

Schedule

We are mindful of keeping clients in their regular lives and have scheduled the sessions at convenient times:

• Monday Evening: 5:30-8:30 pm
• Wednesday Evening: 5:30-8:30 pm
• Saturday Morning: 10:00 am-1:00 pm⁠⁠

Psychological Services In-Person for Chicago & Northbrook or Virtually Throughout Illinois

This hybrid group can be attended in person at our Chicago & Northbrook locations or virtually throughout Illinois.

Chicago Location⁠
53 W. Jackson Boulevard, Suite 520⁠
Chicago, IL 60604
224-202-6260 ⁠
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Northbrook Location⁠
899 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 300⁠
Northbrook, IL 60062 ⁠
224-202-6260 ⁠
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What is an IOP? Learn more in our recent blog post.

Intensive Outpatient Program for Adults in Chicago & Northern Suburbs: Expert Care Rooted in the Legacy of Insight

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Therapy for Life Transitions

We designed this Intensive Outpatient Program to provide support for adults who are struggling with changing roles in mid-life, relationship issues, divorce, demands of parenthood, conflict resolution, caregiver stress, grief, loss, trauma, life transitions, loneliness, and work-life balance issues. ⁠

We provide insight and support while being flexible in providing specific help to meet each individual’s needs. This specialized support creates a productive and healing environment.⁠

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IOP Program for Adults

Our Adult IOP for Life Transitions, Depression, Mood, Anxiety, and Eating Disorders Includes:

• Programming three hours per day, three days per week
• Supervision by experienced registered mental health therapists specializing in mood, anxiety and eating disorders
• Recovery skill-building exercises
• Individualized support
• Helping individuals improve their intrapersonal relationships with themselves and interpersonal relationships with other people
• Evidence-based therapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and more
• Focusing on managing conflict
• Increasing ability to be appropriately vulnerable
• Building connections
• Operating from a wise mind in decision making
• Dealing with food issues, habits, hobbies, and work
• Monthly support group for friends and family
• Both in-person/on-site and virtual/at-home IOP options available

Program Philosophy

• SpringSource: Eating, Weight, and Mood Disorders is a private practice for individuals, couples, and families.
• We are led by two Ph.D. licensed clinical psychologists and a team of clinicians with a shared vision to create a collaborative, compassionate space where adults can heal and grow through every stage of life.
• Our work is rooted in decades of clinical leadership and innovation. Together, we have built and led nationally recognized eating disorder and mood disorder programs, developed new models of intensive outpatient care, and trained hundreds of clinicians across the country.
• At SpringSource, we have combined that expertise with a boutique, individually tailored, relational developmental approach. 
• Whether through individual therapy or our hybrid Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), our goal remains the same: to help individuals develop the insight, skills, and resilience to reach their potential and to know that recovery is always within reach.

Mission Statement

SpringSource’s multidisciplinary team strives to provide high-quality, intensive, and individualized psychological services to those in need of mental health support to enhance the quality of their lives.  We provide trauma-informed care to help clients improve their emotional and psychological functioning, reduce stigma and shame, and build meaningful relationships.

Ready to Take the Next Step Toward Lasting Support and Recovery?

At SpringSource, our hybrid Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program for Adults is designed to meet you where you are and help you build sustainable mental health skills and resilience.

Get started today in the way that feels right for you:
• Schedule a Free 15-Minute Consultation to explore the program and ask questions.
• Fill out our Contact Form, and we’ll follow up with personalized information.
• Call us at 224-202-6260 to speak directly with a member of our team.
• Email Our Director of IOP Services, Jamie Kelly, and we’ll get back to you promptly.

You deserve support that understands your experience and helps you thrive.

Providing In-Person Sessions in Northbrook and Chicago, with Telehealth Access Available Throughout Illinois.

Chicago Location⁠
53 W. Jackson Boulevard, Suite 520⁠
Chicago, IL 60604
224-202-6260 ⁠
in**@****************er.com

Northbrook Location⁠
899 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 300⁠
Northbrook, IL 60062 ⁠
224-202-6260 ⁠
in**@****************er.com⁠