Intensive Outpatient Program in Boston, MA
Intensive Outpatient Program provides a greater level of care than standard weekly therapy while allowing you to maintain your typical daily routines, such as school and work.
What Does Our Program Entail?
Our Virtual Partial Hospitalization Program delivers daily, structured care for individuals who need a higher level of support while remaining at home. Your treatment includes a comprehensive set of services to guide your recovery.
Group therapy works with small groups of like-minded peers and focuses on education and skills development. Topics might include “How to manage depression” or “Building healthy habits to improve anxiety.” Our curriculum utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) interventions that are evidence-based.
Individual therapy is one-on-one time with your therapist to work jointly on your challenges and potential solutions.
Our psychiatric team prioritizes a holistic approach to mental health, incorporating medication when it would add meaningful value to your care. We work closely with you to prescribe and adjust medications in a personalized manner.
Sometimes it helps to incorporate family and friends in the recovery journey. Our team will work with you to identify your support system and how they can contribute to your healing.
An Overstory team member will work with you to identify areas in your personal life where you need hands-on support, whether that be hobbies, housing, food security, career and job planning, and more. Furthermore, Overstory Health will ensure continuity of care by making necessary referrals post discharge and collaborating with any current or new providers.
How To Get Started
Reach out at 617-202-3530 or fill out our intake form, and we’ll be in touch to walk you through how to get started.
During intake, we’ll check your insurance coverage, give you a cost estimate, and learn more about you to see how we can help.
Meet with a psychiatric provider within seventy-two (72) hours of starting with us.
We’ll start you in a program that best serves your needs and schedule so that you can begin your path to recovery.
What a typical day looks like
A virtual PHP is a serious time commitment, and that's the point. When weekly therapy isn't enough, more intensive structure is what creates change. Every day blends group therapy, individual check-ins, and psychiatric care, with breaks built in to keep the format sustainable. Most patients complete PHP in 2-4 weeks, then step down to virtual IOP for ongoing support. The structure is the medicine: consistent daily contact, real cohort relationships, and a rhythm you can plan your week around.
PHP runs Monday through Friday. The schedule below mirrors a typical Monday. Exact times may vary by cohort.
Why Choose Overstory?
Our Virtual PHP Program Can Help You With
Virtual PHP at Overstory is built to treat the conditions that benefit most from intensive, daily clinical care. Our multidisciplinary team delivers evidence-based modalities including CBT, DBT, and ACT.
Many people we treat are managing more than one condition at the same time. Our virtual PHP is designed for that reality, and your treatment plan is built around your whole experience, not a single diagnostic label.
If you don't see your specific condition listed, contact our intake team to learn whether our virtual PHP is a fit.
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Our Boston Facility
Our facility is modern, welcoming, and designed for your healing. Located conveniently in Boston, we provide a calm, supportive environment where you can focus on recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions
Overstory offers intensive mental health programs. There are two different options, depending on individual needs.
- Intensive Outpatient Program meets 3 days per week for 3 hours a day.
- Partial Hospitalization Program meets 5 days per week for 4 hours a day.
While both programs offer intensive support, partial hospitalization program brings an increased level of care with more frequent programming and targeted support. We will help you determine which program is the best fit for you based on your needs and schedule.
Our programming is best suited for those experiencing mood disorders (including major depressive and bipolar disorder), psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder), personality disorders (including borderline and narcissistic personality disorder), anxiety disorders (including generalized anxiety disorder or social anxiety), self-harm, or trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Feel free to contact us with any questions about the conditions we treat.
We take a multi-faceted approach to mental health care, consisting of evidence-based group therapy, individual therapy, and medication management. We also offer counseling for your family/support system so they can understand how to best help you. Moreover, Overstory works with you to identify areas in your life, like housing, food security, career help, or even trying a new hobby, where you can receive support and learn how to navigate available resources.
Group therapy and individual therapy. The types of therapeutic modalities used in individual therapy will vary depending on your unique needs, but may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Trauma-Informed Care, mindfulness-based therapies, harm reduction, and more.
No more than 10.
While we serve the needs of many clients, we aim to organize peer groups that are supportive and relevant to your needs.
Many people in our Intensive Outpatient Program are able to continue work or school, but the Partial Hospitalization Program requires more of a time commitment. Consult with our staff to learn whether you’ll be able to maintain your work or school schedule alongside PHP.
Fill out this patient intake form here or give us a call at (617) 202-3530. We are here to support you with any questions you might have about our program or how we can help.
Overstory’s admission process is designed to ensure that our programs are a good fit and reduce administrative burden. The admissions process begins with submission of a Referral form. Afterward, Overstory’s admissions team will contact the client within 72 hours. The admissions team will validate program eligibility, verify insurance, and schedule an intake appointment with the Overstory clinical team. Once these steps are completed, an individual can be admitted to Overstory’s program in as little as 72 hours.
Yes, we work with MassHealth (Medicaid) and commercial plans.
Yes, payment plans are available for those who wish to self-pay.
For those with MassHealth (Medicaid), you’ll pay $0 out-of-pocket. Private insurance benefits will vary by plan. Contact us for a cost estimate. We also offer flexible payment plans.
While we accept clients both by referral and independently, select insurance plans may require you to have a referral. Contact us to learn more about your insurance’s requirements.
Our team will provide comprehensive assistance from the start of your treatment to make sure you have a successful transition from our program, including aftercare planning and ongoing support.
Yes, your care team will help you transition between programs based on your progress and needs.
