IOP in Nashville, TN, At Epiphany Wellness

Depending on the facilitator’s schedule, you’ll switch modalities about halfway through the evening. DBT practice is common, where you rehearse distress tolerance and grounding skills in a small group therapy setting.[2] In an IOP in Nashville, TN, you’ll learn these skills during treatment and immediately be able to implement them or try them out in the real world, sometimes even on your way home that very evening.

At least once per week, family members of patients are welcome to participate, either online or in person. Our intensive outpatient program in Nashville, TN, also includes experiential treatments and therapies, like blocks of art therapy, music therapy, yoga, and mindfulness meditation.

Once a week, you’ll also have a thorough individual therapy session, customized to your treatment plan. This session will not only help you track your progress and celebrate your wins, but it will also ensure you’re setting measurable, achievable goals for your coping skills. A major goal of the IOP track is to function as a smooth, transitional program that bridges the gap between inpatient programs or partial hospitalization programs, which don’t provide sufficient practice and independence at this stage, and traditional weekly outpatient check-ins, which lack adequate support and accountability.

Initial Assessment
Your entire journey will start with a relatively simple assessment. This assessment will have your care team giving you a psychiatric evaluation, getting your substance use and addiction history, and screening you for mental health conditions, all in the same meeting. The results from this intake meeting will help your team create a truly customized treatment plan that addresses all your needs, outlines the blend of therapies you’ll receive, and outlines your attendance goals for the program.

Structured Daytime or Evening Format
You’ll attend at least three meetings each week, and each meeting should last between 2 and 3 hours, with options during the day and evening, depending on your needs. The typical visit will include:

• Intake vitals and medication touchpoint with a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
• CBT group discussing harmful thought patterns and how they impact cravings.
• At least one grounding break with guided breathing.
• DBT skills workshop and practice session to increase distress tolerance.
• Experiential therapy block for art therapy, music therapy, journaling, and PATH wellness.

Real-Time Medication Management
Each week, you’ll have a private consultation with your psychiatrist, and the nurses log vitals at each session, so rapid dose adjustments for things like buprenorphine and other MATs, SSRIs, or mood regulators are easy and effective.[3]

Family Involvement & Transition
Depending on the facilitator’s planning, family involvement may occur as often as once a week, providing clients and their families with the opportunity to build skills together while learning strategies for more effective boundary setting. As graduation approaches, clients work closely with their case manager to coordinate tasks such as ongoing therapy schedules, sober living arrangements, and other related matters.