IOP may be right for your teen if they:

• Are not improving with weekly therapy alone

• Have increasing anxiety, depression, or emotional outbursts

• Are missing school, withdrawing socially, or avoiding responsibilities

• Have experienced a recent crisis, trauma, or hospitalization

• Are struggling to cope in everyday life, even with support

• Feel overwhelmed or stuck despite current treatment

• You’re not in crisis, but you're worried things are heading that direction.

Your intake clinician can help make a detailed treatment recommendation, based on a thorough intake with your teen and family members, and with awareness of your unique situation and capacity. If you are already in treatment somewhere else, we will collaborate with your other providers to ensure that your care is consistent all the way around.

The majority of IOP is for your teen with other teens, alongside 1-2 trained facilitators. Research shows that change occurs most rapidly when family members are able to work on their part, so we offer a weekly parent drop in group, family therapy, and parent sessions to meet you where you are. Weekly emails are sent out reviewing the weeks’ content and going over new skills, so you can practice them at home with your teen. We recommend that you engage to the level that is right for you, and matches your capacity as a family, right now.

Typically, we are able to enroll teens in IOP in the week following parent outreach. If it’s better for your family to wait a week or two, we can work with your timeline. Reach out now.

Please reach out and let us know your situation. We can arrange payment plans, discuss what elements of the program can be covered by your insurance, and figure out exactly what the out of pocket cost will be.

That’s very normal—therapy is not always comfortable, and many teens who need an IOP level of care have been in therapy that wasn’t the right fit for them. Once you decide this is the right fit for your child and get them in our doors, our trained facilitators will be ready to help. 

Your teen will be assigned a Navigator who is alongside them for the journey, answering questions and assuaging fears. Our rolling cohort model also helps, as more experienced group members love to support newbies and help them feel accepted and encouraged to share. Before you know it, your teen will be the one feeling at ease, and supporting the other group members. Most clients report not wanting to leave IOP when they get to graduation!

We require 24 completed sessions to “graduate” from IOP. If your child misses a session, they just make it up at the end of their scheduled 8 weeks.