Garden City Outpatient Therapists

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At Compass Behavioral Health, our Crisis Team is dedicated to providing rapid, compassionate support when you need it most. We understand that mental health emergencies can be overwhelming, which is why our trained professionals are available 24/7 to respond with care and expertise.

What We Do:

• Immediate Response: Our Crisis Team quickly assesses and responds to individuals experiencing mental health emergencies, including severe anxiety, suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, or trauma.
   
• Safety and Stabilization: We work to ensure your safety and help stabilize the situation, providing support that eases distress and promotes calm.
   
• On-Site and Mobile Support: Whether you come to our office or need assistance at home, school, or in the community, our team is ready to help wherever you are.
   
• Connecting You to Care: After initial stabilization, we assist in linking you to ongoing services like therapy, medication management, or hospitalization if necessary.
   
• Experienced Multidisciplinary Team: Our team includes licensed mental health professionals, case managers, and support staff who collaborate to provide comprehensive crisis intervention.
   

How to Reach Us:

• Call your local Compass Behavioral Health office during business hours for immediate assistance.
   
• After hours, calling your local office connects you directly to an on-call mental health professional.
   

At Compass Behavioral Health, you are never alone during a crisis — we’re here to help guide you back to safety and stability.

Community Based Services (CBS) are supports designed to help children who have serious emotional or behavioral challenges. These challenges can make it hard for them to do well at school, get along with others, or manage their feelings.

What Does “Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED)” Mean?

When a child is diagnosed with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), it means they are facing mental health challenges that seriously affect how they feel, behave, or interact with others. This can make daily life very difficult, especially at school or with friends. 

How CBS Helps:

• Our team works closely with your child to understand their unique needs through a full evaluation.
   
• We then create a plan to provide the right kind of support to help your child succeed at home, in school, and in the community.
   
• Support is provided by caring professionals like case managers and assistants who guide and assist your child every step of the way.
   
• Services can happen where your child feels most comfortable—at home, school, or in community settings.

Medication Evaluation and Management is a service where qualified healthcare professionals (such as psychiatrists or psychiatric nurse practitioners) assess your mental health symptoms and determine whether medication might help. If so, they prescribe the appropriate medications and monitor how well they’re working over time.

This includes:

• Initial evaluation to understand your symptoms, history, and current needs
   
• Prescribing medication (if appropriate)
   
• Ongoing management, including follow-up visits to adjust dosages, address side effects, or explore alternatives
   
• Collaboration with your therapist or care team to ensure your treatment is working as a whole
   

At Compass Behavioral Health, this service is available for both children and adults. It’s about finding the right balance to help you feel and function better.

At Compass Behavioral Health, it’s a program designed to help individuals with serious mental illness find and maintain meaningful employment in the competitive job market. Here's a breakdown of what it typically includes:

• Personalized job search based on your interests, skills, hours, and location preferences
   
• Job development and outreach to employers on your behalf
   
• Help with applications, resumes, and interviews
   
• Advocacy and communication with employers, if desired
   
• Continued support after you get the job, including help with adjusting, problem-solving, and planning for long-term goals
   

It’s not just about getting a job—it’s about building a future that supports your recovery and overall well-being.

The goal of this program is to increase capacity and provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated, integrated, and evidence-based treatment services, peer support and other recovery support services for individuals with a serious mental illness, who are experiencing homelessness. The program should also provide linkages to health insurance, Medicaid, mainstream benefits and sustainable permanent housing.

• Assistance with identifying sustainable permanent housing.
• Provide evidence-based, integrated mental health and substance use interventions for COD treatment for enrolled individuals.
• Provide outreach case management or other strategies to address serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and co-occurring health conditions and link with and retain individuals in housing and other necessary services.
• Engage and enroll the population(s) of focus in health insurance, Medicaid, and other benefit programs (e.g. SSI/SSDI, TANF, SNAP).
• Provide or assure linkage to and support engagement with recovery support services to improve access to and retention in services and to continue treatment gains. This may include some or all of the following as appropriate for each enrolled individual:
  • Vocational, child care, educational, and transportation services;
  • Independent living skills (e.g., budgeting and financial education);
  • Employment readiness, training and placement;
  • Crisis care;
  • Medication management;
  • Peer-related supports and services (e.g., peer-led or peer-supported activities and hiring of peer staff);
  • Discharge planning; and psychosocial rehabilitation services.

Educating yourself on mental illness is one of the most powerful and important things you can do for yourself. Enrolling in one of our training courses will help you develop a solid foundation of understanding and compassion. It also provides the tools and resources you need to be able to identify if you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of mental illness. To learn more about our training and courses, get in touch with us. Call your local Compass office to inquire about the following training opportunities! We are also available to come into your business to provide training or presentations on the topic of your choice.

• Mental Health First Aid
• Yellow Ribbon Suicide Training
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

Therapeutic Services for Preschoolers (TSP) is available in our Garden City and Dodge City locations. This eight-week program consists of a psychosocial group curriculum designed to strengthen their mental and academic skills. They’ll learn to better handle their feelings, understand their anger, problem solve and develop social skills. TSP is located on site.

Compass Behavioral Health in Garden City and Dodge also works in conjunction with our respective school districts (Garden City USD 457 and Dodge City USD 443) to offer a Therapeutic Education Program.

Compass provides the program supervisor, a clerical position, and several case managers and mental health assistants. The school district provides the facility, the principal, the teachers and the paraprofessionals.

ART incorporates a combination of techniques used in many traditional psychotherapies. ART works directly to reprogram the way in which distressing memories and images are stored in the brain so that they no longer trigger strong physical and emotional reactions. ART can be utilized with other therapies and medical treatments. The client is always in control of what is happening. ART does not involve hypnotherapy. No medication is given; however, if clients are already taking medications, ART can still be used. Clients can choose whether or not to share their most distressing memories. There are no homework assignments. The client does not have to purposefully recall the traumatic scene(s) between sessions. 

Compass Behavioral Health is where you can turn to in your time of need. Developed by Marsha Linehan, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is the gold standard for psychological treatment. Originally created for suicidal individuals, it is now offered to clients who experience substance dependence, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and eating disorders. Through weekly therapy, skills training groups and coaching calls, clients will develop a healthy perspective on life. Treatment typically lasts for a minimum of six months and lasts until you are ready to see the beauty life has to offer. 

Our drug and alcohol evaluations and treatment are established to create a positive change in your life. Through our program, individuals will first be assessed by our professional therapists or Licensed Addiction Counselors to gather a complete understanding of the client’s drug and alcohol habits. Then, they’ll participate in addiction recovery that draws upon and strengthens skills needed to live a healthier life.