
Harwood Heights is a "Small town with big opportunities".
The Village of Harwood Heights is conveniently located in the near northwest suburbs of Chicago. Moments away from I-90 (Kennedy Expressway), it is only a twenty-minute trip to downtown Chicago and a quick 10 minutes to O'Hare International Airport.
Many believe that the word Harwood came from a combination of "Har" for Harlem Avenue and the "wood" came from Norwood Park Township in which the Village is located.
Harwood Heights was incorporated March 4, 1948 an area of four blocks square as a village, with approximately 500 residents. The Village of Harwood Heights has grown from a prairie village to a modern Midwestern suburb. As of the 2000 census, Harwood Heights had a population of 8,297.
The Village of Harwood Heights has come full circle from expanses of prairie grass to a prosperous modern community that supplies its residents and visitors the best that modern day can afford.
But what if you need help with depression, anxiety, relationship problems, addictions, or eating disorders?
If you're in Harwood Heights, arrange to meet a therapist at Gersten Center for Behavioral Health. They specialize in psychotherapy for:
A Licensed Clinical Psychologist Gersten Center for Behavioral Health, a psychology group has highly skilled psychologists that work with the full spectrum of populations and clinical disorders. The Psychologists provide therapy for children, teens, couples, families, and older adults. will help you when you are feeling overwhelmed or stressed, having relationship struggles, problems at work or school.
A Psychlogist can guide you to overcome problems with low self-esteem, anger and loss of control, marital or family problems.
Even if you experience loss of interest in usual activities, feelings of hopelessness or increased negative thinking they can help.
Find out if individual, couple, family or group therapy is right for you.
Their
Melrose Park office is conveniently
less than a fifteen minute
drive from Harwood Heights:
675 W. North
Avenue,
Suite 306,
Melrose Park, Illinois
60160
In the Gottlieb Professional Building (across from Kiddie Land and the Race Track)
Phone: (847) 329-9210


