Mental Health Intensive
Outpatient Assessment & Treatment Program
Build the foundation for lasting change
There are many reasons you might feel “stuck” in life. Maybe your relationships or career aren’t going as you hoped. Maybe you feel like no matter what you try, you can’t move forward. Something’s not working.
The Mental Health Intensive program is designed to help you understand why. Together, we’ll uncover the thoughts, feelings, patterns and dynamics underlying the challenges you’re facing. With this insight, we'll work together to create a plan that allows you to take charge of your own recovery.
Program Options
Daytime programThis program focuses on supporting tangible behavioral change through goal and skill based assessment. It is designed for clients who can benefit from extra support as they work toward their goals. The program includes group work and individual therapy, plus med management and family sessions as needed.
8 Week Program
Mon, Tue, Thu 12 – 3PM
with ongoing treatment options
Evening programThis program focuses on understanding your model of your self — your identity — as well as your understanding and relationship to others. The initial assessment period helps us orient together to the challenges that bring you to treatment and the patterns and dynamics underlying or driving those challenges, allowing us to clarify our treatment focus and understand what "better" might look like. Includes group work, individual therapy and meetings with family members, plus med management as needed.
8-12 Week Program
Mon, Tue, Thu 5:30-7:00PM
with ongoing treatment options
Is this program right for me?
Our program is designed to treat a broad range of mental health issues. You may already have one or more diagnoses, such as anxiety or depression. Or this may be your first time in treatment.
Regardless of history or labels, we meet you where you are, and build a plan forward. If the phrases below sound like you, the mental health intensive may be a good fit.
“I feel stuck”
“I don’t know who I am”
“I feel empty inside”
“My emotions are all over the place”
“I can go from fine to falling apart in minutes.”
“I either cling too much or push people away.”
“I’ve tried to get help before, and nothing has worked”
Common issues include:
Depression & Mood Difficulties
Anxiety & Panic
Personality Difficulties & Disorders
Relationship Challenges
Identity Challenges
Multiple or Co-Occurring Mental Health Issues
Substance Use (In Some Cases)
To learn more, schedule an intro call with our team.
Key Concepts: Personality
In the mental health field, personality refers to individual differences in patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Many mental health challenges can be caused by personality difficulties and disorders.
What is personality?
What to expect
Customized Plan
At the end of your first month, we'll share our preliminary understanding of the challenges that brought you into treatment, and craft a treatment plan and focus to address these challenges moving forward. You’ll meet with your treatment team on a regular basis to revise your formulation and plan accordingly.
In-Depth Assessment
In the first month of the program, you’ll work with your treatment team to complete an in-depth assessment. The goal of this assessment is to identify key challenges that bring you to treatment, and develop a sunderstanding of the dynamics and patterns that drive these challenges.
Intensive Treatment
In groups and individual sessions, you'll learn core frameworks for understanding mental health challenges, practice clarifying and challenging your model of yourself and others, and work to build an integrated narrative of where you've come from and where you're going.
The Discovery Phase
A journey of self-discovery
Our unique phased approach is designed to give you more agency in your recovery journey. We’ll collaborate with you to build a deep understanding of your challenges and strengths. Then we’ll develop a treatment plan together, choosing goals and measurements that meet your needs. You’ll work side by side with our team every step of the way.
Getting to know you
The first step is a series of individual assessments with our expert psychiatrists and clinicians. We’ll get to know your history and your challenges, and develop a shared understanding of your goals.
Individual Assessment
A deep dive of insight and education
The Discovery Phase is all about developing deep insight. We’ll provide an overview of important psychological terms and concepts that will help you better understand mental health. Then we’ll work together to apply these concepts, building insights about your triggers and vulnerabilities, which will focus our efforts in the next phase of treatment.
Discovery Phase
Laying the foundation for change
You’ll participate in 8-12 weeks of structured treatment with your clinical team and other clients. This includes group work 3 times a week, plus individual therapy. (If you already have an external therapist, we’ll work with them to coordinate your treatment.)
Intensive Treatment
Continuing the journey
Ongoing treatment can include individual therapy, outpatient groups, medication management, support services, or a combination of the above.
If you already have an outside provider like a therapist or psychiatrist, we’ll work with them to coordinate your treatment.
Ongoing Treatment
Working on ourselves, together
MBT Group
Creating a better understanding of yourself and others
Mentalization is the ability to understand your own thoughts and feelings, as well as the thoughts and feelings of others. This group is an introduction to Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) and can help create a shared language for talking about thoughts, feelings, and interactions.
DBT Group
Learning to manage difficult situations and emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help you manage emotions and get a better handle on life’s ups and downs. This treatment provides clients with mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills, all tools to help you cope with difficult situations and improve relationships.
Key Concepts: Mentalization
Mentalization is the ability to understand your own thoughts and feelings, as well as the thoughts and feelings of others. Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) can give you a clearer picture of your own mental state, and help better manage stressful interactions.
Dr. Peter Fonagy, founder of Mentalization Based Therapy, explains the core concepts of mentalization.
Measuring your recovery
In the past, mental health professionals only had access to a tiny sliver of information about their clients. This made it difficult to get a comprehensive assessment, or measure progress.
We take a different approach. We seek to understand each patient through multiple quantitative and qualitative lenses. This helps us better understand your struggles, determine whether treatment is working, and refine our strategy in real time.
How We MeasureSession Recordings
With your permission, we video record all sessions for assessment and supervision purposes.
In-App Responses
We will ask you to complete daily mood tracking, surveys and journaling to fill in the gaps in our understanding of how things are going outside of sessions.
Phone & Wearables
We provide all clients with an Apple Watch that allows us to capture key measures like sleep, activity, location, and heart rate, so we can understand how these physiological aspects impact your mental health, and vice versa.
