California Treatment Centers — Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Twin Town Treatment Centers provides intensive outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents with substance use disorders in Laguna Hills, California. Accredited by The Joint Commission for over 25 years, the program offers day and evening IOP tracks. Twin Town accepts most major insurance plans including network-model commercial coverage in California, Medicare, and military insurance.

Inland Valley Recovery Services has worked in San Bernardino County since 1962 and has grown into a full continuum rather than a single program: detoxification, residential and outpatient treatment, aftercare, education, and individual and group counseling, so someone can move between levels without leaving the organization. It is certified by California's Department of Health Care Services.

McAlister Institute, founded in 1977, is one of San Diego County's largest alcohol and drug treatment providers with 24 programs across the region. Its Escondido location on East Washington Avenue offers intensive outpatient and outpatient substance use treatment, with most programs accepting Medi-Cal (Medicaid). The nonprofit provider also accepts Medicare and military insurance.

TURN Behavioral Health Services, operated by Mental Health Systems, provides intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) in California. The program serves adults and adolescents with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions, offering cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and family therapy as part of a community-based approach. TURN accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, military insurance, and state-financed coverage.

West LA Recovery provides intensive outpatient substance use treatment in Venice, California. The program serves adults in the West Los Angeles area with evidence-based therapies including CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing, with day and evening track options. West LA Recovery accepts private insurance.

Options Recovery Services provides intensive outpatient and day treatment for substance use disorders in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1997, the nonprofit program serves adults regardless of ability to pay, offering evidence-based treatment including CBT, relapse prevention, and case management. Options Recovery accepts Medi-Cal and offers services on a sliding scale.

Penny Lane Centers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that cares for more than 3,500 abused and neglected children, young people and families every month across Southern California. Its substance use treatment sits inside that child-welfare mission rather than beside it, and the organization runs an Alternative Response Crisis Response Team in partnership with the City of Los Angeles — an alternative to a police response when a family is in crisis.

Diablo Valley Drug and Alcohol Services is a physician-led addiction treatment practice in San Ramon and Walnut Creek, California, directed by Daniel Smeester, MD, who is board-certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. The practice offers both inpatient and outpatient detoxification and substance use treatment with a medical approach to withdrawal management. In addition to addiction treatment for alcohol, opioids, and other substances, Diablo Valley treats co-occurring depression and anxiety through ketamine infusion therapy. The practice accepts most major insurance plans including Medicare and private insurance, and offers telehealth appointments.

Pax House provides intensive outpatient treatment in Pasadena, CA. The program offers structured outpatient treatment with licensed and certified clinicians, serving adults recovering from substance use disorders. Pax House accepts Medicare, military insurance.

New Creation IOP is an outpatient addiction treatment program in Ontario, California, serving San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties and the towns around Ontario — Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Colton, Chino, Pomona, Claremont and Montclair. It runs a stepped continuum: partial hospitalization at five days a week, intensive outpatient at either five or three days (roughly 10 to 12 hours), and outpatient care at one or two days a week, with evening hours and a sober-living option so clients can keep working. It is licensed and certified by California's Department of Health Care Services, and is part of His House New Creation Addiction Treatment, which has provided recovery services since 1994. Medicare is accepted here, as are private and military insurance and state funding.

Compassion Recovery Centers provides outpatient mental health and addiction treatment in Laguna Hills, California. The program offers partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and a specialized IOP track for work burnout, as well as virtual IOP for California residents. The center is a 100%-in-network provider and accepts Medicare, Aetna, Anthem, BCBS of California, Cigna, United Healthcare, and TRICARE. Treatment addresses depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD, anxiety, substance use, and co-occurring conditions. Court-mandated treatment is available.