Conditions
Alcohol use disorder.
From high-functioning daily drinking to a relationship with alcohol that’s clearly run your life into a wall — outpatient PHP and IOP for adults whose drinking stopped working a long time ago.
It doesn’t have to look like the worst version to count.
Most adults who land in outpatient treatment for alcohol aren’t the version you see in movies. They’re holding down jobs, relationships, parenting. The drinking just got steadily harder to stop, and steadily harder to hide from themselves.
We see all of it: high-functioning daily drinkers, weekend binge patterns, hidden-flask episodes, post-divorce spirals, post-loss spirals, post-promotion spirals. None of it requires hitting some imaginary “rock bottom” before treatment is appropriate.
When outpatient is the right starting point.
- You can stop drinking with medical support but you can’t stay stopped on your own.
- You’ve completed detox or residential and need a structured step-down.
- Your drinking is destabilizing daily life but you’re not in immediate medical danger from withdrawal.
- You have co-occurring depression, anxiety, or trauma that’s feeding the drinking.
If you’re drinking heavily every day or have a history of severe withdrawal, outpatient may not be safe to start with — withdrawal from heavy alcohol use can be life-threatening. We coordinate with detox providers to make sure you start safely.
How we treat it
Beyond just “don’t drink.”
Stopping is the first step, not the work. The actual work is figuring out what the drinking was doing for you — what feeling it was numbing, what role it was playing, what part of life felt unlivable without it — and building something durable enough to stay sober inside of.
Process groups go below the surface. Individual therapy goes underneath the behavior. We integrate co-occurring mental-health treatment as part of the same clinical picture, not as a separate referral.
Ready to stop pretending it’s fine?
One short message is enough. We’ll help you figure out the right level of care.