You may still be keeping up with your career and home life while finding it harder to manage what happens between therapy appointments. Cravings, triggers, emotional distress, or repeated behaviors may keep returning despite your efforts to change them. IOP provides more frequent clinical support without removing you from the responsibilities and routines you can safely maintain.
Our intensive outpatient program provides structured treatment 3 to 4 days each week at our addiction treatment center in Decatur. Morning and evening sessions can make treatment more manageable around work, school, and family responsibilities. Your treatment plan can address substance use, behavioral addictions, and co-occurring mental health conditions together.
A clinical assessment helps us determine whether IOP provides enough structure for your current needs. You may begin treatment in IOP or enter after a higher level of care when greater independence becomes appropriate.
IOP may fit when weekly therapy does not provide enough support, but you can safely manage without full-day treatment. We look at how often symptoms occur, how well you manage triggers, and whether you can function between treatment sessions. Your treatment history, withdrawal risk, mental health, and home environment also help guide placement.
Some people begin treatment in IOP because they need more frequent therapy, accountability, and relapse-prevention support. Others enter after a partial hospitalization program (PHP), detox, or residential care when they can safely manage more independence. Your ability to maintain work, family, and daily routines is considered alongside your clinical needs.
If your symptoms require more intensive daily structure, PHP may be more appropriate. If withdrawal requires medical supervision, detox may need to come first. We recommend IOP when several treatment sessions each week provide the level of structure and clinical support you currently need.
Our IOP meets 3 to 4 days each week, with morning and evening sessions available. This flexibility can help you continue managing a career, attending school, parenting, or handling family responsibilities during treatment.
Because you spend much of the week in your usual environment, you can practice treatment skills as real situations arise. Triggers, stress at work, relationship challenges, or difficult routines can then become specific issues to address in upcoming sessions.
IOP still requires consistent participation across the week. We consider your work and family responsibilities when planning your schedule while keeping the frequency of treatment matched to your clinical needs.
Your IOP schedule is built around your treatment plan, with group therapy serving as a central part of care. Individual counseling gives you space to work on personal treatment goals and challenges. CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing may help address thought patterns, emotional regulation, behaviors, and readiness for change.
Relapse-prevention work helps you identify triggers, manage cravings, and prepare for high-risk situations outside treatment. Your plan may also include trauma-informed care, medication management, or medication-assisted treatment (MAT) when clinically appropriate.
The focus of your sessions depends on what is affecting your stability and progress. You may need more work on relapse prevention, emotional regulation, coping skills, or co-occurring mental health symptoms. Your care team can adjust these priorities as your needs change.
2450 Lawrenceville Hwy Ste 102, Decatur, GA 30033
Mon: 8am – 5pm
Tues: 8 am – 5 pm
Wed: 8 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 8am – 5pm
Fri: 8am – 5pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: Closed
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The problems bringing you to IOP may not fit into a single diagnosis or behavior. Substance use, compulsive behaviors, and mental health symptoms can affect one another throughout your work, relationships, and daily routines. Our IOP can address these concerns within an individualized treatment plan.
We treat substance use involving alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, opioids, fentanyl, methamphetamine, and kratom. Behavioral addiction treatment may address gambling, sex, or video game addiction. Co-occurring concerns may include anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, or other mental health conditions.
Your care team looks at how these symptoms and behaviors interact when setting treatment priorities. This may include addressing triggers, emotional symptoms, or behavioral patterns that contribute to continued substance use or compulsive behavior. Treatment goals can then change as your clinical needs and functioning change.
Much of your week in IOP is spent at home, at work, and managing relationships outside treatment. Spouses, partners, or other loved ones may see how triggers, stress, and changing routines affect you between sessions. Family therapy can bring those real situations into treatment when family involvement is appropriate.
Sessions may address communication, trust, boundaries, and unhealthy patterns that affect recovery. Loved ones can also learn how to respond to challenges and support the coping or behavioral changes you are practicing outside IOP.
Family involvement depends on your treatment needs, consent, and appropriate privacy boundaries. When clinically appropriate, we incorporate family therapy to support your individual goals and healthier family relationships.
You may enter IOP from different points in your treatment. After PHP or residential care, IOP can provide continued support as you return more fully to work, family, and daily routines. You may also step up from outpatient care when you need more frequent treatment during the week.
Your level of care can change as your symptoms, safety, functioning, and progress change. If you become more stable and need less structure, our outpatient program may become appropriate. If your needs increase, we can reassess whether more intensive care, such as PHP, is appropriate.
After structured treatment, aftercare programs can provide continued relapse-prevention support, skill-building, and peer connection. This support can help you maintain treatment gains while managing your work, relationships, and daily responsibilities.
RestAura Behavioral Health is about 12 minutes from Downtown Decatur via US-29 and Lawrenceville Highway. The entrance and parking are wheelchair accessible.
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Our location is also convenient for adults traveling from North Decatur, North Druid Hills, and other DeKalb County communities.
IOP provides several hours of treatment 3 to 4 days weekly, while PHP provides 4 to 6 hours each weekday. We recommend one over the other based on your symptoms, safety, functioning, and need for daily clinical structure.
Your time in IOP depends on your clinical needs and progress rather than a fixed program length. We review your symptoms, functioning, treatment goals, and stability to decide whether you should continue IOP or move to another level of care.
Often, yes. Morning and evening IOP sessions can allow you to maintain a career while attending treatment 3 to 4 days weekly. Your clinical needs and required treatment schedule determine whether continuing full-time work is appropriate for you.
You may continue your current medications during IOP when our providers determine they remain appropriate for your needs. We review effectiveness, safety, medication interactions, and your treatment plan before recommending whether any changes are needed.
IOP treatment is confidential, and we do not share your treatment information with your employer without your written consent. Your information is protected by applicable privacy requirements, except when disclosure is required by law.
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