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Our Intensive Outpatient Program helps you and your loved ones recover from substance abuse.

Our intensive outpatient program (IOP) offers more support than our outpatient program, combining group therapy, physical activity and mindfulness, individual therapy, urine screening, psychiatry services and more. It’s also a natural step-down from a residential level of treatment.

We offer two separate IOP tracks: one for adolescents and one for adults, to make sure group dynamics work. To determine if our program is a good fit, you will first complete our assessment and evaluation process. 

We focus on eight domains in our IOP evaluation that help determine your treatment needs. These domains include family interactions and dynamics, impaired control, age of initiation, a risk and protective factors profile, development, motivation and stage of change, your family history of substance use, and your patterns of substance use. By being thorough, we meet you where you are at in your journey.

  • Groups: Our intensive outpatient program offers between nine and fifteen hours of group therapy each week and has two separate tracks: one for adolescents and another for adults. We have several groups that benefit individuals with substance use disorders. A typical IOP week schedule can be found below.
  • Individual Therapy: Our IOP guarantees that you’ll receive a minimum of one hour of individual therapy each week. In individual therapy, you’ll work with a therapist one-on-one to identify your strengths and triggers, learn new coping skills, and learn new ways of interacting and communicating with others.
  • Family: In our family group, we discuss how your family dynamics shaped your development and communication patterns. We also help you learn how to use different communication techniques to help you resolve conflict.
  • Life Skills: We use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you learn that emotional and psychological pain is as much a part of life as physical pain. We also help you learn techniques to manage distress.
  • Twelve Step Facilitation: In this group, we give you the opportunity to learn about and discuss the first three steps in the 12-step program. We provide a nonjudgmental environment where you can identify and discuss potential obstacles, such as powerlessness, surrendering, and a Higher Power. We also orient you to 12-step programs, including holding mock meetings.
  • Meditation: You learn to observe your thoughts and to identify themes and patterns in your thoughts, feelings, and experiences in these group sessions. You will also learn how your body and mind react to distress.
  • Soul Pancake: You are provided with an opportunity to re-establish the developmental trajectory that was disrupted by substance use as you explore challenging topics, such as relationships, death, spirituality, and identity.

Reach out to our team for more information!

Project Courage offers personalized care due to its high number of credentialed clinicians. Clients receive a more hands-on treatment as clinicians caseloads are smaller. To learn more, please complete our online contact form here. Or, call our Admissions Department at 860.388.9656 to conduct a qualifying phone screen and insurance verification. 

  • Exploring Substance Abuse: If you don’t feel that your substance use is problematic, this group will help you explore your use and determine whether or not it deserves a second look.
  • Changing Substance Use: Based on change theory, this group helps you address substance use if you think it’s a problem but are anxious and confused about changing it.  
  • Mind & Body: Fitness. In our Mind and Body Fitness Group, we couple a personal trainer with a therapist and help our clients learn how their physical body and their brains are highly interdependent.
  • Mind & Body: Yoga. By focusing on posture, breath, balance and how these interface with thoughts and mood, we help clients learn how their physical body and their brains are highly interdependent.
  • Adventure Therapy: Our Adventure Therapy Group is designed to get our clients out of their chairs and active. Through a variety of games and low ropes course elements, we provide our clients with an opportunity to experience and reinforce the messages of treatment and recovery such as taking risks, acceptance, and asking for help.
  • Significant Other Psychoeducation Group: We offer a six-session psychoeducation group for significant others. The group is content-driven and instructional in nature and we cover topics such as setting limits and consequences for loved ones, learning about how loved ones are rewired by addiction, and taking care of themselves.
  • Significant Other Support Group: This group is more open-ended. It provides an ongoing opportunity for significant others to get the support and help they need so that significant others can care for themselves and overcome codependency.
  • Urine Screenings: We help you stay on track by providing multiple urine screenings each week in our intensive outpatient program.
  • Medication Evaluation and Management: Our doctor can help you manage your medication. We provide Suboxone to help you on your road to recovery, if appropriate. We can also help you find the right medication to treat co-occurring conditions, such as anxiety and depression.

If it sounds like our intensive outpatient program might meet your current needs, please contact us to get the process started. We look forward to helping you achieve the recovery you desire.

Intensive Outpatient Schedule

Monday

Meditation

Family

Life Skills
*Significant Other Support Group

Tuesday

Twelve Step Facilitation

Exploring/Changing Substance Use

Soul Pancake
*Significant Other Psychoeducation Group

Wednesday

Adventure Therapy

Mind & Body Fitness

Mind & Body Yoga

Thursday

Soul Pancake

Meditation

Life Skills

Friday

Adventure Therapy

Mind & Body Fitness

Mind & Body Yoga

Project Courage IOP

Reach out to our team for more information!

Project Courage offers personalized care due to its high number of credentialed clinicians. Clients receive a more hands-on treatment as clinicians caseloads are smaller. To learn more, please complete our online contact form here. Or please call our Admissions Department at 860.388.9656 to conduct a qualifying phone screen and insurance verification. 

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