Intensive Outpatient Treatment
Austin Lakes Hospital’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) offers comprehensive treatment for adults and seniors who do not require 24-hour care. Participants attend group therapy during the day or evening and return home after programming. Located in Austin, Texas, our outpatient programs are easily accessible to individuals living throughout Central Texas.
Intensive outpatient therapy provides a supportive environment while teaching life enrichment skills. Participants are encouraged to practice the skills they learn in group as they continue everyday activities in their home and/or work environments. The Intensive Outpatient Program empowers clients as a supportive transitional treatment following inpatient hospitalization, but it is also accessible directly from the community.
Who Can Benefit From Intensive Outpatient Care?
The Intensive Outpatient Program is designed to empower those who wish to strengthen positive coping skills to assist them in overcoming the challenges of a mental health diagnosis such as depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder. Participants in intensive outpatient care attend life enrichment sessions on topics such as:
- Enhancing decision-making skills
- Increasing self awareness and socialization
- Learning how diet and exercise contribute to our energy levels
- Exploring coping skills and learning healthy interpersonal boundaries
- Learning productive ways to manage triggers and symptoms of your diagnosis
Intensive Outpatient Programs:
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): Monday, Wednesday and Friday
- Trauma Focused IOP: Monday, Wednesday and Friday; one individual session per week TBD
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy IOP: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
- Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy IOP: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
- Dual-Diagnosis IOP: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
Therapy Program
Clients attend regularly scheduled groups based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. These groups focus on topics such as:
- Grief work
- Coping skills
- Anxiety and depression education
- Spiritual care
- Stress management and problem-solving
- Communication
- Relaxation skills
- Recreational therapy and music therapy
As clients leave the program, our team guides each person to acquire and utilize community resources. These resources may include sessions with family, connecting a client with an individual therapist or arranging community-based mental health services.
Call us for a no-cost assessment to learn whether this program is the right fit for you or a loved one.
We’re Here to Help
Talking with one of our mental health professionals could help answer your questions and identify how we may be able to help you or your loved one. We offer no-cost, confidential assessments 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 512-544-5253. If you are currently experiencing an emergency, please dial 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.