The Intensive Outpatient treatment program at H.S.A. Counseling, Inc. is normally consists of three one and one half hour groups and one individual therapy session for a total of five and one half hours of treatment weekly.  Family therapy is also added to the program as needed based on each client's particular situation.  Client's may enter this level of treatment as the initial phase of treatment following evaluation.  They may also be stepped down from detoxification, residential, or partial hospitalization treatment as part of a continuum of care.  Some clients may also be stepped up to this level of care following unsuccessful progress in out patient treatment.  Intensive out patient treatment is available in both our Lancaster and Ephrata offices.  

H.S.A. Counseling, Inc. offers 15 different groups weekly which allows for significant individualization of each client's IOP program.  Groups are offered in the morning, afternoons and evenings in Lancaster allowing client's to be scheduled around work, school or other life commitments.  The number and variety of groups also allows our clinicians to enter client's in topic specific groups targeted at each client's individual needs.  

Each client entering IOP will develop an individualized treatment plan with their counselor upon entering the program.  The areas to be addressed in the treatment plan will focus on the areas of the Pennsylvania Client Placement Criteria necessary to prepare the client to transition to out patient treatment.  After goals and action steps are agreed upon the plan is reduced to writing and signed by both the client and counselor and will act as the driving force in that client's treatment.  Treatment plan updates are completed every 30 days in IOP.

Client's whom are referred into H.S.A. Counseling's IOP program form other D&A treatment providers will be referred back to that agency when they have progressed to the point where the level of care offered by the referring agency is clinically appropriate for the client.  With proper confidentiality releases regular progress reports and case consultations will be conducted with the referring agency.  

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