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Aftercare and Transition Care

Personalized Mental Health Care that Gets to the Root

Mental health aftercare support after leaving the hospital or residential program can make a difference in maintaining progress. It’s not just about the initial treatment – it’s an ongoing system of help. Transition care is a step-down program that involves tapering down treatments while receiving ongoing support. Aftercare at Mind Therapy Clinic is Transition Care that usually starts after intense treatments. With continued support, crisis management, family involvement, and a focus on long-term stability, transition care can help you build a strong foundation for mental health and recovery.

Benefits of Aftercare and Transition Care

Readmission rates to mental health hospitals is lower in patients who attend aftercare programs. Aftercare can help you deal with mental health obstacles properly so you can avoid relapse once you are back in the “real world”. Similarly, Transition Care provides structure after discharge from intensive programming to help ease back into a work routine, family life and community.
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Develop independent living skills

cbt

Psychological testing

family therapy

Family work, parent consultation

Nutrition Counseling

Case management

psychotherapy

Individual psychotherapy

medications

Medication targeting symptoms

Choosing the right type of aftercare plan for you is an important decision. You may even want to try multiple programs until you find just the right one.

Flexible Program Options

Each client is assigned a team of clinicians who will create a plan throughout their wellness journey at Mind Therapy Clinic.  The multi-disciplinary team will create a plan at each phase of the recovery including transitional phases.  The programming may include supportive housing, extra case management, or additional therapies or somatic treatments such as TMS or a combination, e.g. Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.

Benefits of Aftercare and Transition Care

Readmission rates to mental health hospitals is lower in patients who attend aftercare programs. Aftercare can help you deal with mental health obstacles properly so you can avoid relapse once you are back in the “real world”. Similarly, Transition Care provides structure after discharge from intensive programming to help ease back into a work routine, family life and community.
prolonged exposure (2)

Develop independent living skills

cbt

Psychological testing

family therapy

Family work, parent consultation

Nutrition Counseling

Case management

psychotherapy

Individual psychotherapy

medications

Medication targeting symptoms

Choosing the right type of aftercare plan for you is an important decision. You may even want to try multiple programs until you find just the right one.

Group Therapy

Our therapy groups are as diverse as your needs because we believe a single solution does not fit all. Mind Therapy Groups are evidence-based psychotherapy to treat a broad range of issues. In this transitional period, you have an option to participate at an intensive program level or participate in those that are most helpful to you.

Therapy Groups

FAQs

Intensive Outpatient and Partial Hospital Programs are treatment programs designed to assist individuals in achieving their mental health and recovery goals by providing intensive interdisciplinary care and structure under one roof. These programs are designed to assist those in need of more than weekly therapy and psychiatry visits, but less than hospital or residential care. People can engage in these programs while living at home, in a sober living house, or in a supportive community living environment.

Eligibility for the IOP or PHP is determined by an initial clinical assessment, which is completed in the admissions process. This assessment informs the initial recommendation for the level of care and the types of groups and therapies our clinician believes will be most effective. Our programs vary in intensity so that we can support you more comprehensively when you are in need of stabilization and structure, then work with you to taper your care as you get back to the life you want to be living. Our programs are customizable and clinician-crafted with your evolving treatment needs in mind.

 

These programs help people struggling with

  • Psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety and extreme mood problem
  • Substance abuse
  • Behavioral issues such as social anxiety, peer difficulties, impulsivity and impaired academic performance
  • Difficulty moving forward into mature adulthood
  • Disordered eating including distorted body image
  • Low self-esteem, self-harm, suicidal thinking
  • Family distress
  • Interpersonal and childhood trauma

Here is a quick quiz to see if IOP or PHP would be right for you. Take IOP Quiz.

The average length of the IOP/PHP is three months; however, the length of the program is truly determined by your personal treatment goals. We often work with individuals as they step down from PHP to IOP to standard outpatient care over several months. Our clinic was founded on the principle that people should continue to be able to work with the groups and providers that are most helpful to them – that is why we offer a full spectrum of services from general outpatient care through PHP. The minimum length of the IOP/PHP is one month.

One of the things that makes the IOP at Mind Therapy Clinic unique is our ability to customize the program to truly fit your treatment goals and your schedule. We offer more than 20 groups per week and several different treatment approaches for individual, couples, and family therapy. Our pre-admissions assessment is designed to help our clinicians pick the treatment program and treatment team that is right for you.

Mind Therapy Clinic’s programs are out of network, so the cost of the program varies based on your insurance plan’s out-of-network behavioral health benefit package. Part of the pre-admissions assessment and ongoing IOP/PHP care includes assistance in navigating these benefits. After your first call to the clinic, our Finance Director will run a Verification of Benefits (VOB) to give you an estimate of the insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs. To learn more about the program costs, reach out to our finance department.

At Mind Therapy Clinic we have clinicians who practice many different types of therapy including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), psychodynamic therapy, relational therapy, among others. We also have clinicians with expertise in working with specific kinds of problems, like depression, anxiety, substance use, or trauma.

Part of the pre-admissions assessment involves understanding what has worked best for you in the past, as well as what has not been helpful for you. We will then do our best to pair you with a treatment team best suited to work with you on your goals for treatment.

After many months of trying to wait out the pandemic, we know that things will never go back to exactly the way they were. That said, we also know how important the community component of group care is and we are eager to get back to that in as safe a way as possible. You will be able to enroll in any live group as an outpatient, a fully live 3-day IOP program, or a hybrid 4- or 5-day IOP program with a mix of live and virtual groups. You can see our group schedule.

For general information, please contact Mind Therapy Clinic Reception:
Email: info@mindtherapyclinic.com or Phone: (415) 945-9870

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