Intensive Outpatient Program

Medically Reviewed by Bill Brown, LCMHC

An IOP Designed for the Young Adult Experience

Our IOP and counseling services offer therapy for young adults experiencing mental health challenges interrupting their ability to manage their lives effectively. Our care combines various therapeutic approaches to address mental health challenges. Our services are founded on a sense of community and connection, essential for healing. Going beyond traditional talk therapy, our program includes experiential activities engaging participants in a dynamic experiences promoting emotional wellness and psychological healing. We offer in person care at our Burlington, VT location.

Our IOP Program

Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a structured mental health treatment program designed for individuals who need more support than typical outpatient care can provide but do not require the 24-hour supervision of inpatient treatment. Our IOP involves several hours of therapy and support services multiple days per week, focusing on various therapeutic approaches, including individual therapy, group therapy and experiential interventions.

The Benefits of Our IOP

Our integrated care combines various therapeutic approaches to address mental health challenges. Our program provides a sense of community and connection, essential for healing. The program is designed to be flexible, accommodating individual needs and schedules. Going beyond traditional talk therapy, our program includes experiential activities engaging participants in a dynamic experiences promoting emotional wellness and psychological healing.

Comprehensive, Individualized Treatment

We collaborate with participants to develop personalized treatment plans, addressing the needs of each participant, combining various therapeutic approaches to create a holistic and effective recovery strategy.

Community and Peer Support

Our program includes group sessions where participants connect with others facing similar challenges, which fosters a sense of community, reduces isolation, and provides opportunities for shared learning, encouragement and friendship.

Structured Treatment Environment

The structured schedule of multiple therapy sessions per week helps individuals build routine, accountability, and consistency in their recovery process, which can be crucial for long-term success.

Helping Young Adults Navigate, Heal, and Grow

Individualized treatment plans, a strong focus on building sound relationships, an emotionally safe culture provide the therapeutic backdrop and the foundation for personal change and positive treatment outcomes.

Transformative Treatment Experiences

Our focus on effective care and treatment provides the foundations for long-term wellness helping young adults find new strategies for health and more successful futures.

Highest Quality Care With Exceptional Service

Our commitments to effectiveness and quality aim to exceed expectations. We do so by delivering treatment with the highest level of service for participants and their families.

Establishing Trust as the Baseline of Success

Our participant's success is built upon the trust and confidence we inspire and create with each participant, their family and our staff.

What’s Included in our IOP Program

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy in our IOP provides personalized attention and tailored therapeutic techniques, helping participants explore and address their specific mental health challenges, leading to deeper self-awareness and targeted strategies for recovery.

Group Therapy

Group therapy fosters a sense of community and shared understanding, allowing participants to gain support, learn from others’ experiences, and develop social skills in a collaborative environment. Social connections support long term recovery and build avenues towards wellness. Our program consists of 3 weekly groups, with the average length of stay being 12 weeks.

Experiential Activities

Experiential activities in offer participants opportunities for skill building and the time and space to develop competence and personal effectiveness in different areas of life. These activities promote emotional resilience and adaptability to new environments and people that may be challenging.

Duration of Care

Each participant engages with our IOP for differing amounts of time as is clinically indicated and until the reach treatment objectives they have outlined for themselves. Typical lengths of care is around 10-12 weeks.

Participants in the IOP program typically attend three group sessions per week of about three hours in length. Participants also engage with one session of individual therapy during each week.

We also facilitate work with families. Supporting participant support is crucial in mental health recovery as it provides encouragement, strengthens coping strategies, and creates an understanding environment reinforcing progress. We also collaborate with local professionals and providers such as psychiatrists and therapists.

Our IOP Details

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An Accredited IOP For Individualized Care

Our IOP program is accredited by The Joint Commission, the leading healthcare accreditation organization. Accreditation underscores Our commitment and dedication to exceptional quality, oversight and transparency, and continuous improvement in care. Achieving this accreditation requires evaluations, ensuring the program meets rigorous standards enhancing treatment effectiveness, safety and best practices. Accreditation is representative of our commitment to providing the highest quality of care.

Explore Your Health Insurance Benefits

Confluence admissions staff are available to help families navigate and better understand the insurance landscape as it relates to mental healthcare services. Our Residential and Outpatient programs work with insurances, however our coaching and transitional housing services do not accept insurance at this time. Confluence can bill insurance directly and private pay options are available as well.

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Confluence Behavioral Health center providing mental health and addiction treatment services.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our clinical care is informed by Third Wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. These therapies are behavioral approaches driven by process-based interventions. Third Wave CBTs emphasize the inherent challenges of life and help develop skills that shift one’s relationships to these challenges. Third Wave CBTs include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy.
Therapy at Confluence Beavioural Health is designed to help individuals develop lasting shifts in mind states that build wellness. These mind states become the tools used to overcome obstacles, sustain focus, and reduce disruptive symptoms. Therapy is organized around interventions that support a shift from doing to being, from thinking to sensing, from rumination to focus, from distraction to presence and from avoidance to engagement.
Arete Counseling Services IOP program is accredited by The Joint Commission, the leading healthcare accreditation organization. Accreditation underscores Arete’s commitment and dedication to exceptional quality, oversight and transparency, and continuous improvement in care. Achieving this accreditation requires Arete to undergo evaluations, ensuring the program meets rigorous standards enhancing treatment effectiveness, safety and best practices. Accrediation is representative of our commitment to providing the highest quality of care.

Confluence Behavioral Health's admission and intake process is simple and straightforward. Contact us today or complete and application and an admissions staff will be in touch with you.

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