As a Step Down
Many adults enter IOP after completing PHP, or after inpatient, residential or withdrawal management care elsewhere. Structure stays in place while everyday responsibilities gradually return.
Levels of Care
Substance Use Intensive Outpatient Program
Structured recovery treatment at a lower intensity than PHP, with room for work, study and family life to continue alongside it.
Structured Treatment, With Room for the Rest of Your Life
Our Intensive Outpatient Program provides structured, clinically led substance use treatment at a lower intensity than partial hospitalization.
Programming typically runs several days per week, and day or evening options may be available. That flexibility is the point: many adults are able to keep working, studying, parenting and meeting other commitments while they are in treatment, instead of stepping away from all of it at once.
How often you attend and how long you participate are based on individualized clinical assessment, and both are reviewed as your needs change.
Where IOP Fits
A Step Down, or a Step Up
IOP sits between partial hospitalization and traditional weekly outpatient care, and people arrive from either direction.
As a Step Up
Others come directly from weekly outpatient counseling that is no longer providing enough support, when use is escalating or when previous attempts to stop have not held.
Admission and level-of-care decisions are based on individualized clinical assessment. If PHP would be the safer starting point, we will say so.
If Withdrawal Management Is Needed First
TrueNorth does not provide detoxification, medically supervised withdrawal management, inpatient hospitalization or residential treatment. We are an outpatient provider.
Some adults need medical supervision while their body adjusts to stopping or reducing a substance, and outpatient programming is not a substitute for that. If your assessment suggests medically supervised withdrawal management may be needed, our admissions team will help you identify an appropriate level of care first. IOP can be revisited once that step is complete and outpatient treatment is clinically appropriate.
You do not need to work this out on your own before contacting us. Describing what has been happening is enough for the conversation to start.
Inside the Program
What IOP May Include
Your plan is built from your assessment. Not every element below applies to every person, and a plan may change as you progress.
Group Therapy
Structured clinical groups covering relapse prevention, coping and emotional regulation skills, communication, and the practical work of rebuilding a routine.
Individual Counseling
Individual sessions with a member of your treatment team for the work that does not belong in a group room.
Family Involvement
With your consent, and when clinically appropriate, family members may be invited into parts of treatment to learn how to support recovery.
Relapse Prevention
Naming triggers, high-risk situations and early warning signs, then rehearsing a plan for them while you still have regular clinical support.
Psychiatric Services
Psychiatric evaluation and medication management may be offered when clinically indicated, coordinated with the rest of your treatment plan.
Care Coordination and Planning
With appropriate authorization, coordination with your existing providers, and planning for the supports that continue after treatment ends.
Support That Outlasts Treatment
Building a Recovery Support System
Recovery is difficult to hold on willpower alone, and IOP is a practical place to build something sturdier to lean on.
That may mean people who know what you are working on, routines that hold up on a bad week, and community supports that continue long after your last session here.
With your consent, and when clinically appropriate, family members may be included so the people closest to you understand how to support recovery without taking it over.
Returning to Work and Family Life
For many adults the hardest part of recovery is not the program. It is everything around it.
The first difficult week back at work. A social event where drinking is expected. A conversation with a partner that has been postponed for years. Because you go home between sessions, those situations can be brought straight back into group and worked on while they are still fresh, rather than rehearsed in the abstract.
When clinically appropriate, TrueNorth works to balance treatment with occupational and family responsibilities. Treatment recommendations are always based first on clinical needs and patient safety.
Transitioning to Ongoing Outpatient Care
IOP is designed to end.
As you progress, planning shifts toward what comes next: ongoing individual therapy, psychiatric follow-up when appropriate, community recovery supports, and a relapse-prevention plan you have actually used rather than only written down.
Where you already have an outpatient therapist or prescriber, and with appropriate authorization, we can coordinate so that relationship continues rather than restarts. If more support becomes necessary, stepping back up to PHP may be recommended — level of care can move in both directions.
TrueNorth is designed to serve commercially insured and private-pay patients. Accepted insurance plans will be listed as payer contracts become effective.
Take the Next Step
You Don't Have to Do This Alone.
Our team is here to answer your questions, verify your insurance, and help you get started.
Our Location
Irving, TX
1333 Corporate Drive, Ste. 318, Irving, TX 75038Conveniently serving the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area.