Our IOP provides about three hours of structured treatment per day, three to five days each week based on your treatment plan. This provides 9 to 15 hours of treatment per week, with the number of days adjusted as your needs and progress change. Clients stepping down from PHP may begin with five days and gradually reduce their attendance.
You can begin directly in IOP or enter after PHP, detox, residential treatment, or another program. Your starting level is based on your clinical assessment and the amount of support you need to remain stable outside treatment hours.
Not everyone who needs outpatient treatment needs the same amount of structure. A licensed clinician uses the ASAM Criteria, with medical input from our nurse practitioner or medical director when needed, to evaluate your current needs and recommend the appropriate level of care.
Your assessment considers withdrawal risk, medical and psychiatric stability, relapse history, support at home, and responsibilities outside treatment. We also look at whether you have a safe place to live and enough support to manage the time between treatment sessions.
IOP may fit when you are medically and psychiatrically stable, are not at risk of significant withdrawal, and can maintain stability between sessions with regular clinical support. A recent return to use, unstable symptoms, or limited support outside treatment may indicate that the daily structure of PHP is more appropriate. If you are stable in recovery and need only weekly or biweekly support, OP may provide enough structure.
If moderate or severe withdrawal is likely, we may coordinate admission to a partner detox facility before outpatient treatment. Residential or inpatient care may be recommended when medical, psychiatric, or safety needs cannot be managed outside a 24-hour setting. Once you are stable enough for outpatient treatment, we can reassess the level of care you need.
A typical daytime IOP session runs from about 9:00 a.m. to noon, with an evening track offered based on demand. Each treatment day includes about three hours of structured programming, with group therapy providing the main structure. We incorporate individual therapy, medical appointments, psychiatric care, and MAT into your treatment plan based on your needs.
You begin by checking in with staff and completing a drug screen when scheduled. The opening group focuses on what has happened since your last session, including cravings, substance use, sleep, challenges, progress, and anything that may need attention that day.
The main group may focus on relapse prevention, processing experiences, or practical CBT and DBT skills. You may identify high-risk people, places, or situations; practice ways to manage cravings, examine thought and behavior patterns, or work on emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Process groups can address relationships, resentment, shame, honesty, accountability, and patterns connected to substance use. Other sessions may focus on communication and boundaries, anger management, trauma and substance use, early recovery skills, mindfulness, nutrition, fitness, or rebuilding a stable daily routine.
Life-skills work can also address employment, school, budgeting, and court obligations. This approach allows treatment to address practical issues that can affect your stability as you manage more responsibilities outside the program.
You meet individually with your therapist at least once a week, as required by your treatment plan. Psychiatric and nurse practitioner follow-ups are typically scheduled about every four weeks or sooner when medications change, while clients receiving MAT continue regular medication visits and monitoring.
Before you leave, you plan for the time until your next session. This may include recovery goals, homework, coping strategies, and scheduling individual therapy, psychiatry, or nurse practitioner appointments.
Insurance coverage for intensive outpatient treatment depends on your specific plan and benefits. Our admissions team can verify your benefits, explain what we learn about your coverage, and help coordinate any authorization required before treatment begins.
We can answer questions about the admissions process and explain what needs to happen before your first day of IOP.
Tell us what you need help with and what is happening now.
Our clinical team determines whether IOP is appropriate.
We complete the admission steps and schedule your start date.
Unlike PHP, which provides a full weekday of structured treatment, IOP typically involves about three hours of programming on each treatment day. You spend more of your week managing recovery alongside work, school, family, and other responsibilities. Our team supports you in applying what you learn outside treatment and can adjust your care when you need more structure.
IOP sessions last about three hours, making it more practical to continue working, attending school, or caring for family while receiving treatment. We offer a daytime track, with an evening track based on demand, and can provide employer or school documentation and FMLA or intermittent-leave paperwork with your authorization.
You continue to have access to our medical director, psychiatrist, and nurse practitioner during IOP. Psychiatric and nurse practitioner follow-ups are typically scheduled about every four weeks and sooner when medications change. When clinically appropriate, MAT can include buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone) or oral or injectable naltrexone (Vivitrol), with Vivitrol administered onsite.
If you return to substance use or your mental health symptoms worsen, we reassess what you need rather than automatically ending treatment. We may add treatment days or individual sessions, review medications, start or adjust MAT, increase drug screening, or involve family with your permission. If IOP no longer provides enough support, you may step up to our PHP or when withdrawal or safety requires it, we can coordinate detox, residential, or inpatient care and plan for your return afterward.
With your written consent, family sessions can address communication, boundaries, and ways to support recovery at home. Family members can also receive education about addiction and MAT and participate in continuing-care planning. Family sessions typically occur at least once during IOP and again before you step down to a lower level of care.
Schedule a confidential consultation to discuss your needs and explore the right treatment options for you.
IOP typically lasts about 12 weeks, but completing a certain number of weeks does not determine when your treatment changes. Your schedule can gradually decrease as you become more stable, meet treatment goals, and show that you can manage recovery with less structure.
We develop your treatment plan with you using information from your clinical assessment. Goals are tied to the problems affecting your recovery, giving you and your treatment team specific areas to work on and measure over time.
Our interdisciplinary treatment team reviews your progress each week. We review attendance, drug screen results, symptoms, your report of how you are doing, progress toward treatment goals, medication response, and safety and stability at home and work. We also update your formal treatment plan with you at least every 30 days or when a significant change occurs.
Attending treatment is only one part of progress. We also look at whether you are using skills between sessions, maintaining abstinence or stability on MAT, following your relapse-prevention plan, and building a stable routine and support system outside treatment. These factors help us determine whether you still need the current IOP schedule or are ready for less structure.
When you are ready for less structure, you can step down to our outpatient program for weekly or biweekly individual treatment and a weekly group. From there, care can continue through aftercare and case management, with MAT and psychiatric medication management available as needed. Whenever possible, you continue with the same therapist and clinical team as you move through these levels of care.
Yes. Private pay is available if you do not have insurance or prefer not to use your coverage. Our admissions team can review the payment options currently available to you, including whether you qualify for any available financial assistance.
We typically complete your clinical assessment within 48 hours of your first call. A licensed clinician uses the ASAM Criteria to evaluate withdrawal risk, medical and psychiatric stability, substance use, relapse risk, home support, and other factors before recommending IOP or another level of care.
We complete the clinical and medical steps needed to prepare you for treatment. Depending on your needs, this can include a medical intake, medication review, drug screening, MAT evaluation, or psychiatric evaluation before we finalize your treatment plan, select the appropriate IOP track, and schedule your first treatment day.
Yes, we provide telehealth IOP for clients who meet the clinical requirements. We determine whether you can safely participate remotely, with intake and consent forms completed in person and periodic drug screens requiring an in-person visit.
We treat alcohol, opioid, benzodiazepine, stimulant, cannabis, prescription medication, and polysubstance use disorders, including co-occurring depression, anxiety, trauma-related conditions, and stable bipolar disorder. Active psychosis, acute suicidal risk, or other needs requiring a higher level of psychiatric or medical care are referred to an appropriate setting rather than managed in IOP.
You may be looking for treatment for yourself, helping someone you care about find the right support, or planning the next step after PHP, detox, or residential care. Wherever you are starting, our team can help you understand what level of support makes sense now.
Start by telling our admissions team what has been happening and what you need help with. We will answer your questions and arrange a clinical assessment to determine whether IOP provides the right amount of structure or whether another level of care would be more appropriate.
If IOP is recommended, we will explain why, review what treatment would involve, verify insurance benefits, and help you prepare for the first day. If another level of care is recommended, we will explain that recommendation and help you understand the next step.
