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Yellowbrick

Helping children reach their full potential

HQ
Evanston, IL
FOUNDED
2005
TEAM SIZE
51-200 employees
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Yellowbrick provides Applied Behavior Analysis therapy services for children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. Based in Evanston, IL, the organization employs Board Certified Behavior Analysts and Registered Behavior Technicians to deliver center-based, home-based, and school-based ABA therapy.

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Yellowbrick is a psychiatric treatment and consultation center headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 2005, the organization specializes in serving adolescents and emerging adults between the ages of 16 and their 30s who face mental health challenges, trauma, and substance use disorders.

The clinical model integrates evidence-based approaches informed by neuroscience research, psychotherapy, strength-based life skills training, and wellness medicine. Treatment addresses a broad spectrum of psychiatric diagnoses and is delivered across multiple levels of care to meet individual needs.

Yellowbrick operates a continuum of care including residential treatment, partial hospitalization programs (PHP), intensive outpatient programs (IOP), outpatient services, and home health care. This range of service delivery allows the organization to provide developmentally specialized treatment tailored to the needs of emerging adults navigating the transition to adulthood.

The organization is accredited by the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating and maintains a LinkedIn presence with over 500 followers, reflecting its role as a recognized resource in the emerging adult mental health treatment landscape.

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  • Kimberly Guider
    3 months ago

    Yellowbrick does some great work with emerging adults that are struggling mentally and emotionally in life. The Yellowbrick Model is dynamic in the mental health field. I would 100% recommend treatment at Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Center.

  • Yechiel Mark Pinsky
    3 months ago

    Great people. The place to go for mental health. Very friendly and helpful. They have more resources than most mental health clinics.

  • Lisa Richardson
    last year

    Dr. Viner is an amazing human and talented Psychiatrist. It's rare to find a doctor/founder who is so invested in each and every case as well as the overall program. I trust his clinical expertise immensely! Please keep in mind when reading other comments that the population served at Yellowbrick is young adults who need comprehensive psychiatric care. They are meeting people and families in a very, very difficult place in their lives and helping them to heal and thrive. This type of work is not for the faint of heart, and they are experts at it. I absolutely trust Dr. Viner to take good care of young adults in need of intensive mental health care that may have not had successful results at other programs. He's the best at what he does!

  • K
    last year

    Warning to potential patients and their families: I strongly urge anyone considering this provider to exercise extreme caution. In my experience, this practice targets individuals who are already vulnerable—particularly those with a history of abuse—and then subjects them to manipulative and psychologically damaging methods under the guise of treatment. These tactics appear designed to foster dependency on the program rather than true healing. Patients may be isolated from their support systems and subjected to coercive “therapeutic” techniques that resemble reprogramming rather than care. Once insurance benefits or financial resources are depleted, patients are often abruptly dismissed—frequently in a much worse mental and emotional state than when they arrived. In some cases, this approach has reportedly led to long-term psychological harm and even contributed to tragic outcomes, including suicides. It is my sincere hope that others can avoid the pain and devastation that I and others have experienced. Please research thoroughly and seek second opinions. True healing does not require control, isolation, or financial exploitation.

  • grace woelfel
    3 years ago

    Yellowbrick seems to operate mostly in the interest of revenue as opposed to the well being of its patients, as it claims. I was at Yellowbrick for 8 months and in that time was heavily retraumatized by other patients with staff refusing to interfere, and also victim blamed by a member of administrative staff. A very close friend of mine who was another patient here passed away due to OD a few months after leaving. I felt very little empathy from the higher-ups here and felt i was treated as a nuisance whenever I had a complaint or worry. I warn any prospective patients to be careful and consider your options. I've had better experiences at not-for-profit hospitals and treatment centers.

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Yellowbrick is headquartered in Evanston, IL.