Child &Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program

An Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for ages 11 to 17 years of age, provides a structured, therapeutic environment for individuals who need a higher level of care than traditional outpatient therapy. The program focuses on helping participants build coping skills, improve emotional regulation, and strength family and peer relationships while maintaining daily routines such as school or work. Parent commitment and involvement is required.

IOP Schedule: Participant are requies to attend nine hours per week in person, divided as follows:

• Mondays, 4:00-7:00 PM: Parent and adolescent process group, multi-family group
• Tuesdays, 4:00-7:00 PM: Adolescent process groups
• Thursdays, 4:00-7:00 PM: Adolescent process group

Program Length: The program duration is 8-11 weeks, based on individual medical necessity.

The IOP offers specialized group sessions designed to address the uniques emotional and behavioral needs of each participant. Groups may focus on areas such as:

• Emotional regulation and distress tolerance
• Commuinication and interpersonal effectiveness
• Trauma processing and resilience
• Family and parent support
• Peer and social sill development

Topics are tailored to each participant's clinical needs and may include, but are not limited to:

• Family Conflict
• Trauma
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Mood Disorders
• Self-Harm
• Suicidal Ideation
• Grief and loss
• Body image
• Substance Education
• Experiential
• Behavioral modification
• Intrapersonal effectiveness and communication
• Relapse Prevention and safety planning

• Using an evidenced-based approach, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), we teach adolescents, young adults, and their family’s skills to address maladaptive, self-destructive behaviors. During the 10 to 12 week program, patients and their families will focus on the core DBT skills including: mindfulness, interpersonal-effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and the middle path approach. The program also incorporates other treatment modalities including: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cogntivie Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Trauma-Informed therapies, hands-on activities, specialty groups, and experiential therapies, including art and yoga.
• Ages 12 to 19
• Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is individually tailored to meet each patient’s specific needs.
• Upon admission, the patient will be assigned to a primary therapist that will help the patient and family through the entire treatment process.
• Parents also participate in various groups, which provide parent education and coaching, skill training, and parental support. Each parent works to gain an understanding and acceptance of their own family dynamicsand work with staff and their child to promote change.
• All clinical services are under direct supervision of a multi-disciplinary team.