Texas Mental Health Centers — Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Lakes Regional Community Center is a nonprofit community center in Paris, Texas, providing mental health, intellectual/developmental disability and substance use services across Northeast Texas. It offers outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use counseling and treatment for teens and adults, and accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

Bluebonnet Trails Community Services is the community mental health authority for a group of Central Texas counties, and this Marble Falls site on Innovation Loop provides outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use treatment. Its licensed substance use counselors work with adolescents as well as adults, alongside the organization's mental health, autism and early childhood intervention services and its crisis services. Bluebonnet Trails works with the Texas Veterans Commission on veteran services, and holds Federal Transit Administration grants — so getting to appointments across a rural catchment is something the organization actually addresses. The program takes Medicaid and Medicare alongside private and military insurance and state funding.

Metrocare Services is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving more than 55,000 people a year across Dallas County, and it has done so for over fifty years. Its substance use programs are person-centered and trauma-informed, and sit inside an unusually wide organization: mental health care for adults and children, intellectual and developmental disability services including autism, veterans and military family services, housing support, pharmacies and community social services. Metrocare is also the local IDD authority, which means its staff enroll eligible people into Medicaid programs and onto the state Medicaid waiver interest lists — a wait that can run over a decade, so getting on it early matters. Accepted coverage includes Medicaid, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Magellan, Scott & White, TRICARE through Humana and UnitedHealthcare, along with Medicare, military insurance and state funding.

Blue Heron Recovery is a drug rehab center in San Antonio, Texas offering 24/7 medically supervised detoxification, a partial hospitalization program, an intensive outpatient program, evening IOP, and outpatient therapy for substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns. It notes that residential treatment is coming soon, and currently supports clients through structured day and evening care while they live at home.

Oceans Behavioral Hospital in Amarillo provides partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient behavioral health care for adolescents, adults, older adults, service members and first responders, treating mental health conditions alongside co-occurring substance use. Oceans runs a dedicated STAR military program and a track for first responders built around service-related stress, trauma and professional identity, and offers a virtual outpatient program for people who cannot attend in person. Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA benefits, private insurance and self-pay are accepted.

MHMR of Tarrant County is the county's community mental health provider, and most of what distinguishes it is reachable before anyone becomes a client. Its ICARE Call Center takes calls and texts on 800-866-2465, and a Mobile Crisis Outreach Team provides face-to-face crisis response 24 hours a day to children, adolescents and adults anywhere in Tarrant County — the team comes to the person rather than the other way round. Families expecting a child or raising one under five can reach Help Me Grow North Texas on 844-689-5437 for early support.

This is Metrocare Services' Dallas East clinic on Samuell Boulevard, offering outpatient and intensive outpatient behavioral health care — counseling and mental health treatment alongside substance use programs that Metrocare describes as person-centered and trauma-informed. Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving more than 55,000 people a year across Dallas County for over fifty years, and a client at this clinic has the rest of that organization behind them: accessible pharmacies, veterans and military family services through the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic, housing and supportive social services, and intellectual and developmental disability services. Accepted coverage includes Medicaid, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Magellan, Scott & White, TRICARE through Humana and UnitedHealthcare, along with Medicare, military insurance and state funding.

Harmony Road Recovery is a full-service outpatient treatment program in El Paso, Texas, providing evidence-based, holistic care for substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions. Its programs include partial hospitalization, outpatient treatment, medication-assisted treatment, and a dedicated Native American substance abuse track, with sober living housing available. The program accepts major insurance plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay.