Cleveland Health and Wellness Center

Cleveland Health and Wellness Center Compassionate mental health care for individuals, couples, and families. We provide treatments that recognize the whole person, mind and body.

Cleveland Health and Wellness Center provides compassionate mental health care for adults, adolescents, and children in Beachwood, Rocky River, and through Telehealth. We specialize in the treatment of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, grief, stress, addiction, and relationship issues. We provide individual psychotherapy, couples therapy, family therapy, wellness groups, expressive th

erapies, and mindful meditation. Clients can gain insight into their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors through a supportive and non-judgmental process. In therapy, clients can develop tools to cultivate greater joy, peace, acceptance, compassion, love, and stability in their lives. Children and adolescents are given the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings verbally and non-verbally through play, drawing, writing, painting, and sculpture. Families are welcome to participate in sessions with their children to address emotional and behavioral issues, and to strengthen family relationships. Call to learn more or schedule an appointment:
(216) 777-8834

Ten years ago, Cleveland Health and Wellness Center started with three offices and a waiting room in Rocky River — chair...
08/11/2026

Ten years ago, Cleveland Health and Wellness Center started with three offices and a waiting room in Rocky River — chairs pulled into a circle, shared snacks, and a simple goal: build a place where great mental health care doesn't depend on your zip code or your paycheck, and where the clinicians providing it can do the work they love without running themselves into the ground.
A decade later, our practice has grown into a second office in Beachwood, care for clients from early childhood through older adulthood, 30 licensed therapists, two board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists, six administrative professionals, and more than 8,000 individuals supported across over 160,000 sessions.
We added expanded benefits for our team — 401(k), PTO, continuing education, health insurance — because taking care of the people who take care of others has always been part of the plan. None of this happened alone: it belongs to our therapists who hold space for people on their hardest days, to our doctors who built the psychiatry department, to our administrative team who quietly make everything else possible, to the referring providers who've trusted us with their patients, and to the families and partners who've absorbed the late calls and hard days right along with us.
We're not perfect, and we're still learning — but we've built something genuinely good: a place where people arrive struggling and leave with more hope than they came in with.
This is what ten years looks like. We can't wait to see what the next ten bring.

Join our team! Are you a dedicated Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Therapist who is looking to join a growing holisti...
08/05/2026

Join our team! Are you a dedicated Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Therapist who is looking to join a growing holistic mental health private practice in Cleveland, Ohio? We would love to speak with you. Flexibility to choose either the Beachwood or Rocky River office. Full-time with benefits.

Learn more and apply: https://www.chawc.org/child-therapist-career

We are grateful and honored to share that our Medical Director, Dr. Bonder has been named one of Cleveland Magazine’s Be...
08/04/2026

We are grateful and honored to share that our Medical Director, Dr. Bonder has been named one of Cleveland Magazine’s Best Doctors of 2026!

For Dr. Bonder, caring for children, adolescents, and their families is more than a profession — it is work she feels deeply passionate about and grateful to be able to do every day.

Thank you to our Cleveland community for this recognition and, most importantly, for the trust you place in Dr. Bonder and our practice.

Fear shrinks. Courage expands. You were built to find out what you're capable of — and you don't get that answer without...
07/30/2026

Fear shrinks. Courage expands. You were built to find out what you're capable of — and you don't get that answer without leaving the dock.

Enjoy this featured story from the interactive Mental Map — a community-based creative project amplifying voices of resi...
07/26/2026

Enjoy this featured story from the interactive Mental Map — a community-based creative project amplifying voices of resilience, healing, and hope. Contributions come from writers and artists who live in or have a connection to Northeast Ohio: https://www.chawc.org/mental-map

East 105th and Somerset Street
By Shannise Jackson-Ndiaye

We lived in the second house from the corner of East 105th and Somerset Street. From birth to adolescence, it is where I began the arduous game of learning and unlearning.

It is a place where I learned to skate on asphalt and concrete, creeping up and down the stairs that led to our 2nd floor makeshift apartment. I thought I was Tootie from Facts of Life; she never took her skates off. I wanted to forever be gliding through life, with the sun’s silken smooth rays always glistening, too fast for the dark overcast clouds to catch me.

It is a place where I learned to ride a bike, with no hands, and my eyes closed, playing chicken with my little sister on the handlebars. I learned to ride the wave of fear right into the big old maple tree that was in our front yard.

It is a place where I learned how to start a side hustle, selling lemonade and hotdogs to the cars passing by.

It is a place where I learned that sharp wit and street sense were a little Black girl’s best friend and savior.

It is a place where I learned that shadows require light and darkness to be present at the same time, that shadows can be protective and destructive.

On 105th and Somerset Street I learned to predict the weather, which in Cleveland is known to be moody just like me.

I learned how to tell when there was going to be a sunny day or a stormy night. Sunny days always started with cartoons and cereal but could change in a moment’s notice. The thud of feet coming up the steps, quick or heavy, could mean terror or joy. Or like how a smile can mean happy and a smirk can be coy or sinister.

On 105th and Somerset Street I learned how to cloak myself in bubble wrap, how to detach from my senses, and find shelter from life’s storms.

Join us in welcoming the newest member of our Administrative Team, Seth Andrews. Seth supports daily operations of the P...
07/20/2026

Join us in welcoming the newest member of our Administrative Team, Seth Andrews.

Seth supports daily operations of the Psychiatry Department to ensure high-quality patient care. He brings over nine years of professional experience in customer service and administrative support, and strives to ensure both patients and colleagues have positive experiences. In his free time, Seth enjoys creative pursuits, playing video games, and exercising. Most of all, he loves spending time with his family.

We are grateful to The Geek Peek for generously sponsoring this therapeutic group for teens! StoryQuest Social Group inv...
07/02/2026

We are grateful to The Geek Peek for generously sponsoring this therapeutic group for teens!

StoryQuest Social Group invites teens ages 14-17 to use role-playing and drama-based activities to build social skills, improve communication, and practice conflict resolution.

Where: Our office in Rocky River
When: Saturdays from 1:30-3:00pm
Cost: Free

Space is limited—we expect this group to fill quickly.

Learn more about The Geek Peek, voted Cleveland's best Collectible Store and Local Game Store: https://www.thegeekpeek.com

Register for StoryQuest: https://www.chawc.org/groups

Happy Pride, Cleveland! 🌈Today we celebrate authenticity, belonging, and the freedom to be yourself.Everyone deserves me...
06/06/2026

Happy Pride, Cleveland! 🌈

Today we celebrate authenticity, belonging, and the freedom to be yourself.

Everyone deserves mental health care that is affirming, welcoming, and supportive.

Be proud. Be yourself. Mental health is for everyone.

Some experiences change the landscape of a life in ways that are difficult to explain. They rearrange our sense of time,...
05/29/2026

Some experiences change the landscape of a life in ways that are difficult to explain. They rearrange our sense of time, of the body, of what matters, of what it means to be here at all. You are invited to spend some time with this piece and with the person who entrusted it to us as a landmark on the Interactive Mental Map.

THE DISCOVERY AT LAKE OF HOPE
By Don Iannone

I didn't know this place existed.

My wife Mary and I were driving through Geauga County one late afternoon, no particular destination, just the two of us and the October light coming through the windshield, when we spotted a sign: Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine. We looked at each other. Why not?

The lake opened up in front of us, and we both went quiet.

Not empty-quiet. The kind that arrives when something outside you matches something you've been carrying inside without knowing it. The light moved across the water the way late afternoon light does when it gets low and patient, making everything look more fully like itself. Mary reached over and took my hand.

I had come through cancer surgery not long before. The doctor said cured. I walked out into ordinary daylight feeling something I still couldn't name. Survival turns out to be a beginning, not an ending. It hands your life back and asks what you plan to do with it. What I was learning: life is not ordinary. It never was. I had just been too busy to notice.

We walked the path circling the lake, following the rosary, each bead a small glowing globe along the ground. We stopped often. At one spot we watched the sky's reflection in the water, orange and copper burning in both directions at once, and neither of us spoke because there was nothing to add. Further along, Mary said she felt like she could breathe differently here. I knew exactly what she meant. The place had a quality of permission.

That is what shrines do. They hold space that ordinary life crowds out. They make a place where human longing and something larger can actually meet. You arrive carrying whatever you carry, and the place receives it. Not with answers, but with attention.

Our Lady of Guadalupe rises fifty feet into the softening sky, assembled from hundreds of thousands of mosaic tiles. From across the water she is whole and still. Up close she is fragments. I understood that completely.

At the Holy Innocents Chapel we stopped the longest. Inside is a book of names, children who did not get to stay. Standing at that threshold, I felt the full weight of being alive. Not guilt. Gratitude with teeth in it.

We drove home in the quiet of people who had been somewhere real together.

On Route 322, we stopped at a gas station. The attendant was a young guy, maybe twenty, earbuds in, wiping down a pump handle. I watched him and felt something unexpected: tenderness. Not pity. Tenderness. Here was a person doing a small, unremarkable thing in the fading light, and I could see that his life was as improbable and as precious as mine. I didn't say anything to Mary. I just pumped the gas and got back in the car. But I noticed. And noticing, I was beginning to understand, was the whole point.

Continue exploring on the interactive Mental Map:
https://www.chawc.org/mental-map

We’re honored to feature a visually striking submission to Mental Map: Invitation to Recovery, a collage that reflects t...
05/21/2026

We’re honored to feature a visually striking submission to Mental Map: Invitation to Recovery, a collage that reflects the personal and creative ways healing can take shape.

Title of Work: Invitation to Recovery
Created by Amy Nolan

Artist's Statement: The materials are found paper images, glue, pastels, scissors, and imagination. My writing and my art are intertwined, and both have helped me to work through the rough waters of healing.

Mental Map is a community storytelling project created to amplify voices of resilience and lived experience across Northeast Ohio.

Explore the Mental Map:
https://www.chawc.org/mental-map

Submissions accepted through June 1:
https://www.chawc.org/mental-map-submissions

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20525 Detroit Road #8
Rocky River, OH
44116

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Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
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