Embark Behavioral Health in Newport Beach, California
Embark Behavioral Health is proud to offer a new outpatient therapy clinic, in Newport Beach, California, with therapists dedicated to helping adolescents, teens, and young adults with mental health issues.

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Our Therapists and Team
Alyson Pena

Alyson Pena
Executive Director/Clinical Director
Alyson Pena, LPCC joined Embark in 2022 as Clinical Director...
Kathy Thirtle

Kathy Thirtle
Therapist
Kathaleena (Kathy) Thirtle, LMFT AT gained practical and administrative experience...
Michael Gapski

Michael Gapski
Enrollment Director
Michael is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who comes...
Lisa Chan

Lisa Chan
Physician Assistant
Lisa Mika Chan has been a Board-Certified Physician Assistant since...
Sophia C. Gomez

Sophia C. Gomez
Executive Assistant
Sophia received her Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration with...
Aleshea Jones

Aleshea Jones
Assistant Clinical Director
Aleshea Jones, LMFT and LPCC joined Embark Behavioral Health in...
Maggie Scotto, BS, RADT, RYT-500

Maggie Scotto, BS, RADT, RYT-500
Yoga Instructor
Maggie is a dedicated and compassionate trauma-informed yoga teacher who...
How Our Outpatient Program Can Help
We can help your teen child address and overcome mental health issues that may be affecting your family’s everyday life. We provide a healing, nurturing, and safe environment to help your adolescent, teen, or young adult address and overcome mental health challenges that may be affecting your family’s everyday life.
Our program, located in beautiful Southern Orange County, features an intensive outpatient program (IOP) and a therapeutic day treatment program (also known as a partial hospitalization program, or PHP) that can help those who are struggling with issues like anxiety and depression. Through a unique therapeutic framework, our behavioral health programs help young people in the Newport Beach area overcome difficult behavioral health issues.
Services We Provide Across the Embark Continuum of Care
Our therapists will help your family get the mental health treatment you need in your local California community. Our Newport Beach clinic offers individual, group, and family therapy as well as therapeutic/peer mentoring, home health care services, addiction treatment, and parent coaching.
Conditions Our Therapists Treat
Anxiety, depression, and suicide are on the rise, and children are at risk today more than ever before. Too many adolescents, teens, and young adults in and near Newport Beach go through life struggling with not only anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation but also eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addiction, and trauma. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Newport Beach Outpatient Program FAQ
During outpatient counseling at our Newport Beach clinic, your adolescent, teen, or young adult will meet with a local therapist while maintaining their daily schedule. For those who have moderate mental health symptoms and a daily routine that is not negatively impacting their mental health, outpatient therapy may be a good option.
Outpatient visits to our clinic can involve weekly individual counseling sessions with one of our Newport Beach therapists. We also offer group therapy through our intensive outpatient program and our therapeutic day treatment program.
There are many benefits to outpatient treatment at our Newport Beach program. Our outpatient programs allow adolescents, teens, and young adults to maintain work and school schedules and receive support from friends and family while receiving counseling — and at a more affordable cost on average than most inpatient treatment options.
The main difference between weekly individual counseling sessions, the intensive outpatient program, and the therapeutic day treatment program at our Newport Beach clinic is the amount of time your adolescent, teen, or young adult will spend in treatment. Weekly individual therapy sessions require the least amount of time and can be scheduled at a specific time of day. An intensive outpatient program takes place in the evening to accommodate school and work schedules and typically meets three hours a day, three to four days per week, for a total of nine to 12 hours per week. A therapeutic day treatment program typically meets 5.5 hours a day, five days a week.
The goal of outpatient therapy at our program is to help adolescents, teens, and young adults overcome difficult behavioral health and substance abuse issues like anxiety and depression through a series of visits to one of our Newport Beach therapists for weekly individual counseling sessions or an intensive outpatient or therapeutic day treatment program.
The main difference between inpatient hospitalization and outpatient treatment is the treatment setting. Our outpatient services, which include IOP and day treatment options, provide a good option for adolescents, teens, and young adults whose needs can be met by visiting a therapist in their local Newport Beach neighborhood while living at home and maintaining their daily routine. Inpatient hospitalization treatment is a good option for those who need to leave their home and receive dedicated 24-hour care in a hospital setting to overcome mental health and substance abuse issues.
The length of outpatient treatment depends on each child's particular needs and whether your child is attending weekly individual therapy sessions or participating in a therapeutic day treatment program or intensive outpatient program in Newport Beach. On average, outpatient treatment at our clinic can last from three months to one year. If a deeper level of treatment is needed, adolescents, teens, and young adults can step up a level in care to an inpatient hospitalization treatment program.
Nearby Programs and Therapists in Los Angeles
If our Newport Beach program is not close to your home, check out our nearby location in West Los Angeles! Located near the beautiful Santa Monica mountains, our West Los Angeles clinic, provides intensive outpatient treatment and therapeutic day treatment programs to adolescents, teens, and young adults struggling with mental health challenges like anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and/or substance use issues.

This location is part of our robust continuum of care that offers different levels of service, including a virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP), throughout the U.S.!

Embark Behavioral Health
5000 Birch St., Suite 1400
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Hours
- Monday 8:30 AM–7:00 PM
- Tuesday 8:30 AM–5:00 PM
- Wednesday 8:30 AM–7:00 PM
- Thursday 8:30 AM–7:00 PM
- Friday 8:30 AM–5:00 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed

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Areas Our Newport Beach Therapists Serve
Our therapists serve a variety of locations throughout California, including:
- Newport Beach
- Orange County
- Irvine
- Huntington Beach
- Santa Ana
- Orange
- Anaheim
- Lake Forest
- Laguna Woods
- Laguna Hills
- San Joaquin Hills
- Aliso Viejo
- Laguna Niguel
- San Juan Capistrano
- Garden Grove
- Long Beach
- San Clemente
- El Modena
- Fountain Valley
What Are IOPs and PHPs, and What Should You Expect?
Therapeutic day treatment programs, also known as partial hospitalization programs (PHPs), and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) provide healing mental health treatment that can help your adolescent, teen, or young adult overcome difficult behavioral health challenges. Here’s what you need to know about these outpatient therapy options and how they fit into Embark Behavioral Health’s continuum of care, offered across the United States.