What Is Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Addiction Treatment?

An intensive outpatient treatment for addiction enables the transition from treatment and back into daily living. It’s available as an outpatient drug rehab center program. These drug and alcohol outpatient rehab programs blend the stability of homeostasis with the need for a flexible treatment schedule to encourage productive and healthy living.

The IOP portion of our treatment services program provides our services to clients on a regular basis. That creates constant support and steady growth throughout everyday life while moving forward on the road to recovery.

At this point in drug or alcohol addiction treatment, our guests have reached homeostasis and may need different levels of care from more acute addiction cases. In other words, it’s possible that some may have already completed inpatient addiction treatment in our residential treatment center while others are only beginning their journey in IOP if they have been fully detoxed and meet criteria.

• They have returned to a sense of balance within themselves and are beginning to re-enter the world.
• They have reintegrated into work or volunteerism and are enjoying their newfound recovery.

Our IOP experience is meant to support relapse prevention and strengthen this reintegration into a new life of purpose and recovery — while providing continued opportunities for self-exploration and growth.

At the heart of our IOP experience is our first of its kind Active in Recovery (AIR) program—more of which is shown below.

Regardless of where you’re beginning your journey to recovery from substance abuse and addiction, our high-quality care team will help you to evaluate your needs and move seamlessly through our residential treatment center, IOP and into long-term continuing care.

What Our San Antonio IOP Program Offers

In addition to our Active in Recovery Program, participants in IOP will receive a complete plan of action for overcoming addiction. Our IOP drug addiction or alcohol abuse treatment program is designed to build long-term success in recovery through three cornerstone functions and benefits of outpatient treatment.

Active In Recovery Treatment

Our AIR program is based on vigorous physical activity in a community setting to stimulate improvements in cognitive function and self-confidence. Serving as a basis for our IOP program:

• Active in Recovery is a client-centered, strengths-based approach to treating substance use disorder and other mental health challenges.
• Active in Recovery utilizes the neuroscience of physical movement and intense physical exercise in a community setting as a means of triggering neuroregeneration and neuroplasticity within the brain of the participant.

Personal and Group Therapy Sessions

Personal and group therapy sessions are a hallmark of quality outpatient addiction treatment programs. At New Choices Treatment Centers, this includes two months or 24 sessions of intensive outpatient therapy as follows:

• Personal therapy once a week
• Group therapy three evenings a week
• (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 6-9pm)
• Weekly Alumni Support Group

Follow-Up Support and 1:1 Substance Abuse Recovery Coaching

Even with therapy, there will be times where one-on-one meetings are best for helping to support relapse prevention and overcome the struggle of addiction.