Flagship Program · Houston & The Heights
Our most personalized and immersive level of care: the structure and depth of higher-level treatment, built on the bones of the ASAM Criteria and shaped entirely around you, with recovery mentoring and companioning woven into every phase. Private pay, with superbills for out-of-network reimbursement.
01Fully Individualized
02Three Structured Phases
03Clinician + Mentor Team
04Private Pay · Superbills
When You Need More Than a Standard Program
Individualized Intensive Programming, or IIP, is our flagship level of care and the clearest expression of how we practice: elevated by design, customized around the person. Alongside our traditional levels of care, IIP is built from the ground up around your clinical needs, your history, your privacy, and your life.
IIP is ideal for complex or co-occurring presentations, for executives and professionals who need real discretion, and for anyone who has found that one-size-fits-all treatment simply does not fit. It brings the structure, accountability, and clinical depth of a partial hospitalization program or intensive outpatient program into your own home and daily life, then goes further: recovery mentoring and companioning are woven into every phase, so support continues between sessions, not only during them. As clinical intensity steps down, mentoring steps up, creating a smooth, deliberate handoff back to everyday life rather than an abrupt discharge.
Every IIP is built by master’s-level clinicians using the ASAM Criteria as its clinical backbone, then individualized far beyond it: trauma therapy and EMDR, process addiction treatment, dual-diagnosis care, family work, neurofeedback, somatic therapy, and psychiatric coordination are combined in whatever configuration your assessment calls for, at each phase of the program. When it is clinically appropriate, IIP can also include extended, intensive sessions, including intensive trauma therapy, built into your week rather than offered as a separate program.
Who It Is For
Complex Needs
Mental health and substance use treated together in one coordinated plan: depression, anxiety, trauma and PTSD, bipolar and mood disorders, alongside alcohol or drug use.
Discretion Required
High-visibility and licensed professionals who need genuine privacy, flexible or evening scheduling, and treatment that works around a demanding career.
Continuing Momentum
Clients leaving residential or inpatient care who want intensive, personal support that protects progress through the highest-risk transition window.
A Different Path
People who have completed treatment before and relapsed, or who want a more personalized structure this time.
Whole-Family Care
Families navigating a loved one’s recovery who want education, communication coaching, and clear roles while the clinical team carries the treatment.
Specialty Focus
Deep trauma work with EMDR and CPT, and CSAT-led care for gambling, sex and love, and technology addictions, built directly into the program.
What Makes IIP Different
Three things set Individualized Intensive Programming apart from a traditional program schedule.
Built For You
No fixed track. We assemble your services, intensity, schedule, and setting entirely around your clinical needs and your life, then adjust the plan as you progress.
Every Tool
EMDR, CPT, CBT, DBT, somatic experiencing, neurofeedback, and CSAT-led care, plus experiential and family work, combined in whatever configuration your plan requires.
Between Sessions
Recovery mentoring and companioning are built into every phase, so accountability, structure, and real-world support continue in daily life, not only in the therapy room.
IIP Versus a Traditional Program
Both paths are led by the same master’s-level clinical team and grounded in the same evidence-based care. The difference is how the program is built: a traditional program follows a structured schedule at one level of care, while IIP is designed from scratch around one person and flexes as you progress.
| Feature | Individualized Intensive Program | Traditional PHP or IOP |
|---|---|---|
| How it is designed | Built from scratch around one person: your schedule, therapies, setting, and pacing. | A structured program schedule, personalized through your individual treatment plan. |
| Level of care | Flexes across PHP, IOP, and outpatient intensity without changing teams or restarting intake. | One level of care at a time, with a planned step-down as you progress. |
| Schedule | Arranged around your work, family, travel, and privacy. | PHP runs most of the day, typically five days a week. IOP is nine or more hours a week on day or evening schedules. |
| Therapies | The full modality palette, sequenced phase by phase around what drives your pattern. | Group and individual therapy at the core, with EMDR, CPT, DBT, and specialty work as your plan requires. |
| Between sessions | A dedicated recovery mentor and companioning through Heights Mentoring, coordinated with your clinicians. | Skills practiced at home between program days, with recovery mentoring available to add at any point. |
| Transition | Mentoring steps up as clinical care steps down, for a gradual, deliberate handoff to everyday life. | A planned step-down to the next level of care with the same team and the same plan. |
| Often best for | Complex or co-occurring needs, executives and professionals who need discretion, and people for whom standard programs have not worked. | People who benefit from the rhythm, structure, and peer connection of a small clinical group. |
Prefer a traditional program? Explore our partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program, Evening IOP, or standalone individual and group therapy packages.
The Three Phases
Every IIP moves through three structured phases. Clinical intensity is highest at the start and steps down as stability builds; mentoring and companioning grow in the opposite direction. By the final phase, support has already shifted into your real life, so the handoff back to everyday routines is smooth and deliberate, never abrupt.
Phase I
Clinical Focus
Clinical care leads: daily structure, intensive individual therapy, psychiatric and medication coordination, and a full assessment across the six ASAM dimensions. Trauma stabilization, EMDR readiness, and process addiction containment begin here.
Mentoring Role
Your mentor is introduced early, building trust, daily accountability, and safe routines at home while the clinical team carries the treatment.
Phase II
Clinical Focus
The core therapeutic phase: EMDR and CPT for trauma, CSAT-led work for sex, love, gambling, and technology addictions, DBT skills, family sessions, and experiential therapies, while work, school, and daily responsibilities are gradually reintroduced.
Mentoring Role
Mentoring expands into real-world practice: applying skills in daily life, navigating triggers, and rebuilding structure, health, and relationships between sessions.
Phase III
Clinical Focus
Clinical sessions taper on a planned schedule. Relapse prevention, continuing care planning, and coordination with outside providers prepare you for IOP or outpatient rhythms of care.
Mentoring Role
Mentoring and companioning lead. Your mentor anchors everyday life, accountability, and community connection, and stays in place after clinical care ends for a seamless transition.
The ASAM Criteria · Levels of Care
The ASAM Criteria is the national standard clinicians use to match a person to the right intensity of addiction and co-occurring treatment. Your assessment looks at six dimensions: withdrawal potential, medical conditions, emotional and behavioral health, readiness to change, relapse potential, and your living environment. IIP uses that framework as its clinical backbone, then individualizes everything inside it.
Level 1
Weekly therapy and support for maintenance, relapse prevention, and long-term growth.
Level 2.1
Nine or more hours of structured programming per week, on five-day, three-day, or evening schedules.
Level 2.5
Twenty or more clinical hours per week, our most structured standard level, while living at home.
Levels 3-4
When around-the-clock care is indicated, we refer and coordinate with trusted partners, then bring you back into IIP for step-down.
Where a traditional program is built around one level of care, IIP flexes across them. Your program may begin at PHP-level intensity, taper through IOP-level hours, and finish in an outpatient rhythm, without changing teams, restarting intake, or losing momentum. A licensed clinician reassesses your placement throughout and steps intensity up or down as the six dimensions change. That is what we mean by the bones of ASAM: the structure is evidence-based, and everything built on it, the schedule, the therapies, the mentoring, the setting, is yours.
What Every IIP Includes
Nothing on this list is an add-on or an upsell. Every modality is available to every IIP and is sequenced into the phase where it helps most, chosen for what is actually driving the pattern. See the complete toolkit on our clinical services page.
Reprocess traumatic memories and reduce their charge, built into Phase II when you are ready.
Resolve the stuck beliefs that follow trauma and PTSD.
Reframe the thoughts and patterns that drive behavior.
Distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills.
Release trauma held in the body and restore nervous system regulation.
Train the brain toward healthier regulation, focus, and calm.
Certified Sex Addiction Therapist care for compulsive sexual behavior and intimacy patterns.
Structured care for gambling, technology, and other behavioral addictions.
Family sessions, education, and communication coaching, woven in when it helps.
Experiential, relational work that builds awareness and trust.
Reach what words cannot and reconnect mind and body.
On-staff psychiatry, evaluations, and medication management.
Mentoring & companioning, woven into every phase
Mentoring & Companioning
Therapy happens in scheduled hours. Life happens in all the others. Through our sister practice, Heights Mentoring, every IIP includes a dedicated recovery mentor, and companioning when more presence is needed, coordinated directly with your clinical team.
This is the handoff most programs never build: by Phase III your mentor, not your therapist, is the anchor of daily life, so finishing treatment feels like a transition you have already practiced, not a cliff.
How IIP Feels
IIP brings the structure, intensity, and accountability of a higher level of care into your own home and daily life. Your parents, your partner, your loved ones get to be exactly that, a source of encouragement and presence, while our clinical team carries the treatment, the structure, and the coordination. You stay surrounded by the people and the life you are fighting for, and we handle the rest.
Guides and Resources
Plain-language articles from our clinical team on levels of care, what a typical day looks like, medication, assessments, and paying for treatment with superbills.
Why Environment Matters in Recovery: A Space Built to Heal Stepping Down from PHP to IOP: How and When It Happens A Day in the Life of PHP: A Typical Houston Schedule Ready When You Are
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Common Questions
If you do not see your question here, call our admissions team at (877) 549-5102 and we will walk you through it.
Because IIP is fully individualized, cost reflects the services and intensity in your plan. We are private pay and provide detailed superbills for out-of-network benefits, and we explain everything clearly before you commit to anything.
We are a private-pay practice. For clients with out-of-network benefits, we provide detailed superbills you can submit to your insurer for possible reimbursement, and we will help you verify your specific benefits before you begin.
People with complex or co-occurring mental health and substance use needs, executives and professionals who need privacy and flexibility, anyone stepping down from residential care, families who want structure and involvement, and people who have found standard programs do not fit them.
IIP is our flagship and most personalized level of care. Rather than a fixed schedule, we build an intensive outpatient program entirely around your needs, history, privacy, and life, using the ASAM Criteria as the clinical backbone and adjusting the plan as you progress.
Phase I is stabilization and immersion, with clinical care leading and your mentor establishing trust and daily structure. Phase II is the deep therapeutic work, including EMDR, CPT, CSAT-led care, and family sessions, while mentoring expands into real-world practice. Phase III is step-down and handoff: clinical sessions taper on a planned schedule while mentoring and companioning anchor everyday life for a smooth transition.
PHP and IOP follow more standardized structures at set intensities. IIP is fully customized in services, intensity, schedule, and setting, and can flex across PHP-level, IOP-level, and outpatient-level hours within one program, with the same team throughout.
A licensed clinician assesses you across the six ASAM dimensions: withdrawal potential, medical conditions, emotional and behavioral health, readiness to change, relapse potential, and living environment. That assessment sets your starting intensity, and we reassess throughout so your program steps up or down as your needs change.
Yes. Recovery mentoring through our sister practice, Heights Mentoring, is woven into every phase. Clinical intensity is highest early and mentoring grows as it steps down, so by the final phase your mentor anchors daily life and remains in place after clinical care ends.
Companioning is a higher-presence form of recovery support: a trained recovery professional alongside you for high-risk windows, travel, or transitions, coordinated with your clinical team. It can be built into any phase of an IIP when it helps.
Yes. EMDR, CPT, CBT, DBT, somatic experiencing, neurofeedback, CSAT-led sex and love addiction work, process addiction treatment, equine and art therapy, trauma-informed yoga, and family work can all be sequenced into your IIP as your plan requires.
IIP gives you the depth and structure of a higher level of care while you stay in your own home and life. It is not a residential or around-the-clock program. Your loved ones provide day-to-day presence, your mentor provides structured support, and our clinical team handles the treatment and coordination. When residential care is clinically indicated, we refer to trusted partners and coordinate your return to IIP for step-down.
There is no set length. Because it is fully customized, your program runs as long as it is helpful and steps down through its phases as you stabilize. We revisit the plan with you throughout.
Yes. Scheduling is part of what we customize, including evening and weekend options, so your program can fit around work, family, and privacy needs.
Yes, case by case. When it fits a person’s needs and the clinical team agrees it is appropriate, IIP can include extended, intensive individual sessions, including intensive trauma therapy. We do not run a separate multi-day retreat-style intensive program.
Intensive individual therapy means more clinical time in a shorter window, such as a longer EMDR, CPT, or Somatic Experiencing session, so focused work can be completed in one sitting. Within IIP it is surrounded by the structure, psychiatric coordination, and recovery mentoring that help the work hold.
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Clinical Review
Written by Joni Ogle, LCSW, CSAT, CEO of Heights Behavioral Health, and clinically reviewed by Deborah Darnell-Drake, LCSW-S, ACSW, LMFT, Chief Clinical Officer. Heights Behavioral Health provides licensed outpatient behavioral health care for adults in Houston, Texas, delivered by master’s-level clinicians and licensed professionals. This page is intended to explain HBH services and does not replace an individualized clinical assessment. Last reviewed October 2026.
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