A 10-week intensive outpatient program for alcohol use disorder that fits into real life: structured group treatment, weekly individual counseling and clinician-managed medication support, so you can do the work while you keep showing up.
An Intensive Outpatient Program is real clinical treatment you attend from home, evenings and weekends. Here is what that looks like in practice.
You join a small, facilitated group of people working on the same thing, so you can say the hard part out loud without explaining yourself first.
Short standardized check-ins track cravings, mood and drinking week to week, so your clinician adjusts treatment on evidence instead of guesswork.
Sessions run in the evening and at weekends, after the working day. You keep the job, the school run and the life you are doing this for, and still get nine hours of care a week.
We are in network with major insurers for Texas members. Start the assessment and we will verify your benefits before anything begins, so you know what care costs before you commit to it.
Participation varies by plan; verification is required per patient.
… and more. We’ll check your benefits for you.
IOP is a step up from weekly therapy and a step down from residential treatment. You get the structure you need while continuing to live at home, work, and care for your family.
An hour a week with a therapist. Genuinely useful, but often not enough structure on its own once drinking has become a real problem.
Nine hours of small-group treatment a week, plus weekly 1:1 counseling and clinical care, in evening and weekend blocks, so work and family carry on.
Living on site with clinical support available around the clock. It suits people who need to step away from daily life for a while.
Your clinical assessment determines whether outpatient treatment is appropriate for you.
Understand your triggers and build practical tools for handling cravings before they turn into drinking.
Work on the thoughts, emotions, anxiety and patterns that keep pulling you back toward alcohol.
Rebuild sleep, stress management, physical health and the daily routines that hold recovery up.
Work on relationships, boundaries, communication, and rebuilding trust with the people who matter.
Build strategies for business dinners, travel, happy hours and every setting where drinking is simply expected.
Leave with a personalized relapse-prevention plan and a continuing-care plan built around your life.
Each week builds on the last, from understanding what is happening to leaving with a plan you can actually keep.
Understand what is happening in your brain and body, and why changing your relationship with alcohol is genuinely hard.
Learn practical skills and rehearse them: craving management, CBT, mindfulness, boundaries and relapse prevention.
Small facilitated groups give you somewhere to work through what is actually happening in your life, with people who get it.
Meet individually every week to personalize what you’re learning, work through the things that aren’t right for a group setting, and review your progress together.
Unlike programs that treat medication and behavioral support as separate paths, Choose Your Horizon integrates both.
Your care may include clinician-managed medication support such as naltrexone and, where clinically appropriate, adjunctive medication options, alongside counseling and behavioral treatment.
Medication is another tool.
You’re the most important one.
You’ll complete standardized assessments throughout the program, so we can track what’s working and adjust your care.
Results are reviewed throughout treatment and used to help inform your care.
Naltrexone is FDA-approved for alcohol use disorder. It is not a controlled substance and is not habit forming, so you are not trading one dependency for another. It blunts the reward drinking gives you, which turns the volume down on cravings and gives the behavioral work room to hold. Combining medication with behavioral treatment is associated with better outcomes than either one on its own.
Choose Your Horizon is a physician-led telehealth practice for alcohol use, caring for people in all 50 states. The IOP is our most structured level of care, built on the same clinical model and the same outcome data as everything else we do.
We publish what we measure. These are our own members, tracked with standardized assessments over the course of their care.
*Self-reported member outcomes collected with standardized assessments during participation in care. Individual experiences and results vary.
IOP may be appropriate if:
That’s okay. The assessment is designed to help determine the appropriate level of care. If IOP isn’t the right fit, we’ll talk through the other options.
An IOP is structured treatment that is more intensive than weekly therapy but does not require living at a facility. You attend scheduled group sessions several times a week and meet individually with a counselor, while continuing to live at home and keep up with work and family.
Around nine hours a week of small-group treatment, plus a weekly 1:1 counseling session. Sessions run in the evening and at weekends, so treatment costs you neither your job nor your mornings.
Yes. That is the entire point of an intensive outpatient program. Sessions run in the evening and at weekends so you can get real treatment without stepping away from work, family or daily life.
It can. Where clinically appropriate, your care may include clinician-managed medication support such as naltrexone alongside counseling and group treatment. Medication is never the whole plan, and it is always a decision your clinician makes with you.
Yes. You meet one-to-one every week to personalize what you are learning in group, work through anything that is not right for a group setting, and review your progress.
Yes. The program runs online from wherever you are, groups are small and facilitated, and your care is handled under the privacy standards expected of any healthcare provider.
Where you use insurance, we share the minimum information your plan requires to verify benefits and process claims, such as dates of service and diagnosis and procedure codes. We do not share what you say in group or in your individual sessions.
You finish with a personalized relapse-prevention plan and a continuing-care plan. Treatment doesn’t simply stop, it steps down, and your team helps you decide what the right ongoing support looks like.
You don’t have to put your life on hold to change it. Take the private assessment and find out whether the Choose Your Horizon Intensive Outpatient Program is the right level of support for you.
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