Intensive Outpatient (IOP)

Real treatment, around the rest of your life.

Our Intensive Outpatient Program is built for people who cannot — or should not — step away from work, school, or parenting to enter residential care, but who need substantially more than weekly therapy. IOP gives you the clinical depth of treatment with the schedule of a real life.

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The best treatment is the one you can actually complete. For many people, that is IOP.

9–15

Weekly clinical hours

3–5

Days per week

AM/PM

Day & evening tracks

Yes

Telehealth statewide

Section 01

Day, evening and virtual tracks

Our morning track runs 9am–12pm three to five days per week — ideal for second-shift workers, professionals with flexible mornings, and patients stepping down from PHP. Our evening track runs 5:30pm–8:30pm so people in standard work or school hours never have to choose between recovery and responsibilities. Our telehealth track delivers the same clinical content across all of South Carolina for patients in rural areas or who cannot drive to a center.

Morning IOP: 9am–12pm
Evening IOP: 5:30pm–8:30pm
Telehealth IOP statewide
Mix-and-match for scheduling flexibility

Comfortable treatment facility environment

Section 02

Who IOP is for

IOP is the right level for patients with mild to moderate substance use disorders, patients stepping down from PHP or residential, patients with strong recovery networks at home, and many co-occurring mental health patients whose primary need is consistent therapy and medication management rather than 24/7 monitoring. We carefully screen at admission to make sure IOP is genuinely the right fit — over-treating and under-treating both fail patients.

Mild to moderate SUD
Step-down from PHP or residential
Stable, sober-supportive home
Co-occurring mental health needs

Section 03

Clinical content

IOP runs three groups per session — typically one process group (where members work through the week's events), one skills group (DBT, CBT, mindfulness, communication, or relapse prevention), and one psychoeducation or specialty group (trauma-informed care, grief, family dynamics, healthy sexuality, or 12-step facilitation). You also meet weekly with an individual therapist and a prescriber if medication management is part of your plan.

Weekly individual therapy
Weekly psychiatry / medication review
Process, skills & specialty groups
Random drug & alcohol testing

Section 04

Specialty IOP tracks

We run several IOP tracks tailored to the populations we serve most often: a professionals track (lawyers, physicians, executives) with discretion and scheduling built in; a young adults track for 18–28-year-olds; a veterans/first responders track with peer support; a women's-only and a men's-only track. Specialty tracks meet within the larger IOP program so members get both the affinity and the diversity of perspective.

Professionals & executives
Young adults (18–28)
Veterans & first responders
Women's & men's only

Section 05

Family programming

Family work runs alongside IOP through weekly family therapy sessions, a monthly multi-family group, and structured psychoeducation for loved ones. Many families enter our IOP family programming after years of confusion and exhaustion — and leave with shared language, real boundaries, and a path forward together.

Weekly family therapy
Monthly multi-family group
Loved-one education sessions
Codependency & boundary work

Section 06

Length & step-down

Most patients spend 8 to 12 weeks in IOP. From there we step you down to a weekly outpatient track and into our alumni community — the most enduring source of long-term recovery support our patients tell us about. Care never has to end; the level just changes as your life stabilizes.

8–12 week typical duration
Step-down to weekly outpatient
Alumni community access
Ongoing medication management

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