helping you find direction in meeting your goals and living your dreams

For our clients, we are a community of therapists treating a community of clients. We strive to bring HOPE and HEALING to all that we are privileged to serve. ​  ​For our colleagues, we will be a place for collaboration, consultation, and continuing education so that we may support our community of clients with our fullest potential. ​
WELCOME TO COMPASS POINT
We would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Compass Point Counseling Services. This practice was established to provide the highest quality of counseling and client care within our community, and to do so in a positive environment where input and teamwork are encouraged. We strive to provide quality mental health services with skill, dedication and compassion, while adhering to the highest ethical standards.
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We are first and foremost hired by our clients, to use our expertise on their behalf. Since each of our clients is unique, we do not take a cookie-cutter approach to counseling. Our clinicians will propose a care plan after an appropriate assessment. This care plan will be based on the client’s reasons for seeking help while incorporating their personal goals and strengths. If you would like to take the next step and schedule a first appointment with one of our clinicians please complete the form to the left to be contacted within the next business day or contact us directly using the methods provided below. 

PHONE    513.939.0300

FAX   513.939.0310

EMAIL INFO@COMPASSPOINTCOUNSELING.NET

FEATURED THERAPIST

Darlene Taylor , MSW, LSW

I believe that we all have the answers within us and that my job as a therapist is to walk with you and help you on your journey to uncovering those answers.  I want to collaborate with you, ask questions and provide support for you in dealing with the challenges life can bring. I believe in therapy that focuses on your strengths and builds upon those in an honest, non-judgmental and empathic environment. I enjoy working with diverse populations and understand and value the uniqueness of us all.  My goal is to create a safe space in which clients can take health risks that will result in personal growth, being your best self and living your best life.

Client Centered Teams

We are a multi-specialty group private practice which utilizes a team approach as an important tool in providing specialized care. Our diverse practitioners bring individual, family, couple and group counseling to the four corners of the Cincinnati area. We have adopted a collaborative approach with a strong emphasis on case consultation, team supervision and continuous clinician development. This allows us to focus on giving our clients the best therapy from the most qualified clinicians.
​ Care Connect is a service through Compass Point that matches clients to the mental health professionals and treatment that they need. Our network of over 60 mental health professionals offer services from general anxiety and depression to something as specialized and adherent as Compass Point’s own DBT program.
 CareConenct appointments can be scheduled within 48 hours of your call.

training Center

DBT I: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Methods and Principles

10.15.2018

This training will clarify some of the foundational concepts and therapeutic techniques central to the DBT® treatment modality. Understanding behaviorism and methods for implementation within therapy is a key component for any clinician to succeed using DBT® as a treatment modality.

Suicide Risk Assessment and Treatment

09.07.2018

Learning techniques to assess suicide risk, early intervention treatment options, and managing a clinician’s own fear. There is a high probability that any clinician will encounter a self-harming or suicidal client over their professional career. This training is geared toward any therapist who treats clients, as we cannot predict when a client will present with suicidal behaviors.

DBT II Rhymes and Reasons for the Individual Session

10.16.2018

During this training, we seek to teach the basic strategies used during individual therapy within the framework of the DBT® treatment modality. Clinicians attending this training will learn about the treatment hierarchy and secondary dialectics to target. Furthermore the attendee will learn specific DBT treatment strategies to work toward acceptance, change, and helping the client find the middle path dialectically. We would like therapist’s leaving this training to feel confident in being the individual therapist for a client who is learning the DBT® skills in a skills class.

DBT III Skills

10.17.2018

This training is geared toward clinicians who are looking to run a DBT® Skills Class and/or teach clients the skills individually. Attendees will evaluate the logistics for implementing a skills class in their setting. Clinicians will learn the basic DBT® Skills and how to teach them to clients within a group setting. We also seek to present methods for managing a group of high risk clients to be able to run a successful skills class.

DBT IV Programmatic Logistics and Supervisory Techniques

10.18.2018

In this training, you can learn to create and run a successful DBT® team.  Having a team is an essential component of DBT® practice and is necessary for an adherent program. Also learn and discuss common programmatic concerns and how-to problem solve them.  Attendees will be able to present team dilemmas and learn strategies for finding a dialectical synthesis.

DBT V (half day) Suicide Risk Assessment

5.11.2018  or  10.19.2018

There is a high probability that any clinician will encounter a self-harming or suicidal client over their professional career; the likelihood of a DBT® therapist treating a high acuity client is dramatically higher than their peers. It is crucial that DBT® therapists have an understanding of suicidal risk factors as well as a plan for assessing and treating.

DBT VI (half day) Mindfulness

5.11.2018  or  10.19.2018

The purpose of this training is to help clinicians understand the relevance of mindfulness as both a tool for their clients as well as a tool for themselves. Mindfulness is a centuries old, holistic treatment option that yields consistently research-validate benefits for all mental health complaints. This training will help attendees learn methods to teach mindfulness as well as learn to employ it as a strategy for their own stressors. We will also look at mindfulness as it can be used with children and adolescents!

Advanced DBT for Stage Two: Prolonged Exposure and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

6.15.2018

The purpose of this training is to teach clinicians what to do once their clients have achieved behavioral control and are no longer actively trying to harm or kill themselves; yet still need to work on their trauma history or non-life threatening mental health conditions.  Stage two DBT® treatment uses rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) and Prolonged exposure to target any unresolved thinking patterns or anxieties.  This is an advanced training geared at clinicians who already understand and practice DBT as a treatment modality.

Non “DBT” therapists are welcome to attend as well and will be well served as this training provides relevant information to any clinician working with clients that have survived trauma and/or have persistent thinking errors

Advanced DBT for Diagnoses of Undercontrol (Substance abuse, Binge Eating and Bulimia)

7.13.2018

DBT® is generally known for use on clients with poor behavioral control and in this training, we will delve deeper into the specific (and new!) skills to target addictions, binge eating and bulimia.  We will review and utilize chain analyses for the client who has difficulty with controlling their actions and how DBT® will differ for these clients.

Non-DBT® therapists would also benefit from attending and learning new ways to tackle this population!

Childhood Trauma

08.03.2018
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The provide education to the attendee on the types and results of childhood trauma as the two are not always connected. The training will provide the attendee with an understanding of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACES Study, 1998) and the dramatic and direct link to physical health problems. The attendee will also leave this training with understanding of trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) as well as concrete tools to use with their clients who may have experienced childhood trauma in an effort to improve their sense of safety and security, thus reducing their symptoms of mental disorders.

Early Childhood Diagnosis

08.03.2018

The purpose of this training is to teach attendees how to differentiate between symptoms as they present in adult, adolescent and early childhood clients. We will explore healthy and abnormal development and the effect on childhood mental health. This training is especially geared toward any clinician who treats clients under the age of 12.

Advanced DBT using Radically Open DBT for Overcontrol (Anorexia and OCD)

7.13.2018

DBT® is generally known for use on clients with poor behavioral control; however, this training targets the strategies for clients in the unique situation of having too much control over their emotions, behaviors and thoughts. We will teach new skills and format the training to especially answer your questions related to anorexia, chronic depression and OCD type behaviors. This is an advanced training geared at clinicians who already understand and practice DBT as a treatment modality.

Serving The Greater Cincinnati Area

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