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Our Clinical Program in Austin

Laughter Filled Journey Through The Maze of Sobriety.

Let’s cut the bullshit right from the start: recovery is awkward. It’s like puberty hit you twice, only this time instead of acne and voice cracks, you’re dodging triggers and relearning how to socialize without a buzz.

// Our Approach

It's Gonna Be Awkward

We’re not your average, run-of-the-mill recovery program with cheesy slogans and forced smiles. Nah, we embrace the cringe, the discomfort, and the downright weirdness of getting your life back on track. Our curriculum is a straight-shooting, laughter-filled journey through the maze of sobriety, because if you can’t laugh at the chaos, you’re just crying into your non-alcoholic beer. So buckle up, buttercup – it’s time to get awkward and sober, all at the same time.

// The Curriculum — Where You Start

The Foundation of Your Recovery.

The first eight segments build the floor: stages of change and recovery education, navigating healthcare, parts work, DBT/CBT skills, shame and trauma, emotion regulation, communication, values and goals, and healthy relationships and attachment. Click any segment to see what it covers.

Stages of Change, Recovery Education & Navigating Healthcare

Your brain has some explaining to do.

Ever wonder why your brain keeps convincing you to do the very thing you're trying to stop doing? Yeah, there's actually some science behind that.

This segment breaks down the science and psychology of addiction, including the disease model, relapse cycles, cross-addiction, Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS), and the stages of change. Clients gain a better understanding of what's happening in their brains and bodies throughout active addiction, early recovery, and long-term healing. We also introduce practical coping skills to help navigate the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual ups and downs of recovery. Because understanding your patterns is one thing — learning how to change them is where the real work begins.

// The Curriculum — Where It Comes Together

Building the Life.

The last eight segments build the life on top of that floor: community, mindfulness, healing trauma and finding purpose, inner child work, grief, owning your story, and impulse control. Click any segment to see what it covers.

Interpersonal Skills & Active Listening

Isolation feels safer until your coping skills become "avoid everyone and spiral privately."

This segment focuses on social confidence, communication, active listening, feedback skills, and healthy peer interaction. Through experiential activities and community building, clients strengthen interpersonal effectiveness while learning how to exist around other humans without masking the entire time.

Experiential session: Yoga

// About the curriculum

Clinical Program FAQs.

The curriculum is built around DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and trauma-informed care. Modules also include experiential practices — yoga and meditation evenings led by Laurie Pettis, our Program Director.

The curriculum runs as 16 segments — starting with trauma and recovery education and finishing with impulse control and conflict resolution. Each segment builds on the one before it. Most clients move through the full rotation inside the standard 12-16 week IOP timeframe, though length is individualized to your specific goals.

Each segment builds on the previous one — the foundation work in Segment 1 (Trauma + Recovery Education) is what makes Segment 2's coping-skills work land. New clients enter at the next available module and rotate through the full curriculum across their treatment span.

Life happens. We work with you to make up missed content — either through individual catch-up sessions with your clinician or by rotating that material into your next cycle. Telehealth options are available for individual sessions when you can't make it in.

Both. Segments are taught primarily in group format — that's where the community piece does most of its work — but every client has a parallel individual track with a Master's-level clinician. Group teaches the skills; individual sessions are where you apply them to your specific story.

Segments 4 and 8 specifically focus on family and relationships — how to repair trust, set healthy boundaries, and build the support system that makes recovery sustainable. We also offer family programming where loved ones can engage directly with the clinical work alongside you.

The curriculum is the backbone, but it's not the whole picture. If you have specific clinical needs — psychiatric medication management, EMDR-intensive trauma work, dual diagnosis around a specific mental health condition — those happen in your individual sessions in parallel with the group curriculum, coordinated by your treatment team.

The full segmented curriculum lives inside our Intensive Outpatient Program. Talk to admissions about which level of care fits your situation.

// We take insurance

In-Network with Most Major Providers.

Out-of-Network Policies Accepted From All Major Providers

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// Let's chat

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Clinical Program | Austin Addiction & Mental Health | Awkward Recovery