What Is a Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program at Embark?
Our therapists and specialists are committed to providing your family with the most accessible online therapy to help your adolescent or teen age 12-18 throughout their healing journey. That's why we offer a virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP), providing you with premium online mental health treatment and support for overcoming issues like OCD through therapies like exposure and response prevention (ERP).
What Is a Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program at Embark?
Our insurance-reimbursed virtual intensive outpatient program connects you to select state-of-the-art outpatient clinics and therapists through our secure patient portal. This is a convenient way for your adolescent, teen, and family to receive our high-quality care when attending in person is not an option or a virtual setting is preferred. Our online IOP provides individual and group therapy for your son or daughter as well as family therapy sessions to help meet your family’s needs.
What Are the Benefits of a Virtual IOP?
Flexibility
A virtual IOP gives your adolescent or teen the flexibility to connect with a therapist from home to overcome behavioral health challenges like OCD, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance use.
Industry-Leading Therapists
Embark’s industry-leading online therapists offer virtual IOP treatment to adolescents and teens in select locations for issues like OCD.
Measurable Results
Our therapists provide measurable information that shows you how far your child has progressed in our virtual intensive outpatient program.
A Unique Approach to Creating a Therapeutic Relationship
Embark’s virtual IOP is guided by the CASA Developmental Framework, a unique developmental framework our therapists and specialists use to help adolescents and teens struggling with issues like OCD, bipolar disorder (BPD), and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). CASA stands for commitment, acceptance, security, and attunement (also known as empathy in action).
Convenience
Our secure patient portal lets your family easily access premium therapy from wherever you need us.
Accessibility
We aim to meet you where you’re at and that may be in a location that doesn’t have viable in-person treatment options. We can also serve as an option for those who prefer to be at home or are waiting to get into an in-person program. We’re here to help you navigate getting the quality care you need.
Attendance Reminders
Our patient portal will send you reminders so you and your child never miss a session. In addition, the convenience of accessing therapy from wherever you are has been shown to increase attendance rates, which helps drive better outcomes.
Simple Sign-Up Process
To sign up for our virtual IOP, click the Get Started button. An Embark team member will be ready to assist you.
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.
Types of Online Therapy at Our Virtual IOP
ERP
Virtual IOP Services
Group Therapy
Individual Therapy
Family Therapy
Online OCD Therapy
Experiential activities
Psychiatry
Medication Management
Online ERP Therapy
Experiential Activities in Our Virtual IOP
Virtual IOP Treatment Locations
At this time, Embark offers insurance-reimbursed virtual IOPs to residents in:
- Georgia.
- Maryland.
- Colorado.
- Texas.
- Virginia.
- Arizona.
- California.
- Pennsylvania.
- Missouri.
More locations coming soon!
Our Virtual Therapists and IOP Team
How a Virtual IOP Works
During online IOP treatment, your adolescent or teen will spend three hours per day, four days per week in a variety of interactive group therapy sessions. They’ll also have weekly individual sessions and online family therapy once every other week with our therapists and specialists to overcome issues like OCD.
We’ll make the experience as engaging as possible, with your child receiving supplies for experiential activities throughout the 12-week curriculum. At the end of the program, we’ll work closely with you on discharge planning and next steps.
Virtual IOP Enrollment
You’ll connect with an intake clinician and coordinator to get familiar with the program and complete your intake paperwork.
Your child will take a mental health assessment and psychiatric evaluation.
You’ll log into the patient portal to access program information and see the IOP schedule.
A therapist will reach out to discuss a treatment plan and goals for your child.
Virtual IOP FAQ
Reviews
This program has absolutely changed my life. Being a former client of the VIOP program I would recommend this treatment to anyone who is struggling. Embark is the most welcoming and helpful program I have ever been a part of. They make sure the client's voice is heard, along with the views of Parents/Guardians. I have learned countless DBT skills and have created long lasting relationships with my peers. I owe a huge thanks to the team at Embark for helping me create the life I deserve to live.
Our 15 year old daughter completed the VIOP in the Spring of 2023. We live in a rural area and do not have access to a IOP within driving distance. We can't say enough positive things about our experience with Embark. We found the program to be very well run with highly skilled professionals. The program has been developed especially for a virtual platform. The client participation requirements, individual therapy, medication management, and engagement with the entire family really set this program apart from other DBT options we explored in the past.
Our 15 year old daughter completed the VIOP in the Spring of 2023. We live in a rural area and do not have access to a IOP within driving distance. We can't say enough positive things about our experience with Embark. We found the program to be very well run with highly skilled professionals. The program has been developed especially for a virtual platform. The client participation requirements, individual therapy, medication management, and engagement with the entire family really set this program apart from other DBT options we explored in the past.
Interested In Our Virtual IOP? Get In Touch !
The best way to figure out if our online IOP program will help your teen, adolescent, and family overcome issues like OCD, substance use, anxiety, and depression is to talk with one of our mental health specialists. They’ll consider all symptoms and your family’s treatment history and then recommend next steps for your situation.