Toward Healing

Toward Healing provides free, culturally competent mental health, spiritual care, and support services for people living with HIV in Chicago.

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About Toward Healing

In partnership with Project VIDA, Toward Healing connects people living with HIV to culturally-responsive care designed to support the whole person. Living with HIV can affect far more than your physical health: stress, stigma, relationships, identity, faith, and navigating healthcare can all impact your emotional well-being.

At Toward Pride, we believe care should be treated as a right, not a privilege, and that no one’s humanity should be conditional. Toward Healing puts that belief into practice by creating a space where people can receive support without judgment. Through mental health counseling, spiritual care, and care navigation, we center each person’s full humanity and help ensure no one has to navigate their path toward healing alone.

Toward Healing Services

Individual Therapy

Meet one-on-one with a clinician in a confidential and supportive environment. Free individual therapy gives you space to talk through challenges, strengthen coping skills, process your experiences, and work toward your personal mental health goals.

Group Therapy

Healing can also happen in community. Free group therapy offers an opportunity to connect with others, share experiences, develop new tools for managing stress, and build supportive relationships in a facilitated setting.

Spiritual Counseling

For people who want spirituality or faith to be part of their healing process, Toward Healing offers individual counseling with our chaplain. These conversations provide space to explore faith, identity, purpose, grief, relationships, and other spiritual concerns without judgment or pressure.

Care Navigation & Referrals

Sometimes the support you need extends beyond therapy. Through Toward Pride and Project VIDA’s network of community partners, we can help connect you with additional healthcare, social services, wellness resources, and other forms of support.

All of Toward Healing’s services are completely free and designed with your lived experience in mind. In addition, Project VIDA provides behavioral health, case management, HIV-related services, housing navigation, wellness programming, and other community-based resources throughout Chicago.

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FAQs

  • Toward Healing provides free services to eligible program participants. Our team will help you understand eligibility and complete the enrollment process.

  • Toward Healing serves people living in Chicago with HIV who are seeking mental health, spiritual care, or additional support.

  • No. Spiritual counseling is completely optional. You can participate in Toward Healing whether or not you identify with a particular religion or faith tradition.

  • Toward Healing offers individual therapy and group therapy, along with individual spiritual counseling with our chaplain.

  • Yes. If you need support beyond what Toward Healing directly provides, our team can help connect you to trusted community partners and other resources.

  •  You should still attend your scheduled intake appointment. Our team can help determine what is missing and assist you with obtaining necessary documentation or connecting to an organization that can help.

  • Intake appointments are held at New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side (754 E 77th St, Chicago, IL 60619).

Toward Healing Interest Form

If you are living with HIV and looking for free mental health services, therapy, spiritual counseling, or care navigation in Chicago, we invite you to connect with Toward Healing. Getting started is simple:

  • Tell us a little about yourself and how we can reach you. After submitting the form, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to schedule your intake appointment.

  • Choose a time to meet with the Toward Healing team at New Covenant MB Church (754 E 77th St, Chicago, IL 60619)  and begin the enrollment process.

  • Within two business days of scheduling, a Toward Healing team member will email you with information about the documentation to bring to your intake. We’ll also call you approximately two business days before your appointment to remind you and answer any questions about what you need.

    Missing paperwork? Please still come to your appointment. Bring whatever documentation you have available. During your intake, our team can help you identify and gather any outstanding paperwork needed to complete enrollment.

  • Once your intake and enrollment are complete, we’ll connect you with the mental health services and care navigation support that best meet your needs. You’ll also have the option to meet individually with our chaplain for spiritual care.