Mental Health Intensive Outpatient Program

Origins’ Mental Health IOP provides you with tools to help you manage your symptoms while ensuring you receive supportive care in other areas of your life. Our modalities and interventions provide you with the guidance and support necessary to thrive.

Our therapists are kind and professional and select modalities appropriate to your care. Examples of interventions you may receive include:
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
• Psychoeducation
• “Seeking Safety” (A program by Lisa M. Najavits)
• Biofeedback
• Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Expressive Arts Therapy
• Brainspotting

While participating in our IOP, you’ll experience expertly delivered programming designed around an individualized plan of care. For many people with a mental health disorder, this individualized treatment plan often requires some psychiatric support. We can refer you to our prefered provider for psychiatric support while enrolled in our Mental Health IOP. Psychiatric support may include:
• Medication management 
• Crisis intervention
• Visits with a psychiatric professional, as needed

Without adequate support in our lives, many of us may feel discouraged or even hopeless about the prospect of living with a mental health disorder. Our group of masters-level professionals are trained to recognize the unique symptoms and triggers related to mental illness.

We can help you learn coping mechanisms to deploy when you feel overwhelmed by your symptoms. These practical strategies have been shown to dramatically improve your quality of life.

In a comfortable group setting, we will encourage you to practice these skills and take an active role by setting healthy boundaries. This structured group experience offers you a chance to gain emotional stability in a safe environment while carefully monitoring your progress and medication status. Likewise, our sacred space within these groups also helps you to create a fulfilling social support system that can extend beyond your time in treatment.

Types of groups included in our IOP may include:

• DBT skills
• “Seeking safety” and trauma-focused groups
• Grief and loss
• Healing from anger

Once per week, you’ll have an individual session with a licensed therapist or counselor. During these sessions, your therapist may guide you in specific interventions, such as EMDR and biofeedback, when appropriate. We can also support you as you unveil and learn to address challenges in your work, home, or family life.

For many, IOP is a good option if you are medically stable and do not have time to commit to residential psychiatric treatment but want the support and motivation provided by group therapy sessions. Patients who choose this option can expect to see significant changes in their symptoms after several weeks or months of participating in an IOP program.

At this level of care, we expect each patient to be medically and psychiatrically stable and in an action stage of change. If you or a loved one are struggling with thoughts of suicide, stabilization is essential before joining our intensive outpatient program.