IOP serving Hollywood — clinical intensity that fits a real life.

For clients in Hollywood Beach, Emerald Hills, and Hollywood Lakes, the 50-minute drive up I-95 to RECO's Delray Beach campus is a clinical asset that separates treatment from the routines tied to active use. Our IOP is delivered by the same primary therapist who carried the case through PHP or residential, so there is no handoff and no restarting the story. Most Hollywood clients combine IOP with our on-site sober-living network rather than commute daily.

From Hollywood, the trip to RECO Intensive in Delray Beach is a straight 35-mile run up I-95, about 50 minutes outside of morning and afternoon rush. That distance matters clinically. Most Hollywood clients in our Intensive Outpatient Program do not commute daily from Emerald Hills or Hollywood Lakes; they pair IOP with our on-site sober-living network in Delray, putting real geographic separation between treatment and the people, places, and routines tied to active use. For families in Hollywood Hills, Oakwood, and the corridor along Hollywood Beach, that buffer is often what makes the early months of recovery hold.

RECO’s IOP runs roughly 15 clinical hours per week across three to five days. It is the level of care designed to fit alongside part-time work, school, parenting, and the texture of an ordinary week. When clients step down from PHP or residential into IOP, the same primary therapist who has been with them continues to follow the case. There is no handoff to a new clinician, no restarting the story, no rebuilding rapport. Continuity is one of the few variables in outpatient addiction treatment that is consistently associated with better outcomes, and it is a deliberate choice in how the program is built.

Where IOP fits in the continuum

IOP is the bridge. For clients stepping down from partial hospitalization or residential care, IOP is the structured middle ground between full-day clinical immersion and standalone outpatient therapy or aftercare. The hours decrease, the autonomy increases, and the work shifts from stabilization to applying recovery skills inside the actual conditions of daily life.

For other clients, typically those entering with lower severity along the ASAM Criteria dimensions (withdrawal risk, biomedical conditions, emotional and behavioral status, readiness, relapse potential, and recovery environment), IOP can be the appropriate starting point. A clinical assessment determines this, not a billing preference. If withdrawal management or a more contained environment is needed first, we say so. The honest version of placement is that the level of care should match what the assessment shows, and clients sometimes need to step up as readily as they step down.

What 15 hours per week actually covers

The fifteen-or-so hours are not interchangeable group time. The week is composed of distinct clinical elements:

• Group therapy – psychoeducation on the neurobiology of addiction; process groups for working through what is actually coming up; relapse prevention groups built around identifying triggers, high-risk situations, and the early warning signs that precede a return to use; and skills modules drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for distress tolerance and emotion regulation.
• Weekly individual therapy with your primary therapist, the same clinician who carried your case through higher levels of care. For clients whose use is downstream of trauma, this is often where Trauma-Focused CBT or EMDR is integrated; Motivational Interviewing (MI) threads through nearly all individual work.
• Psychiatry appointments as clinically indicated for medication management of co-occurring depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, or PTSD, and for medication-assisted treatment when appropriate. For alcohol use disorder, that may mean naltrexone or acamprosate. For opioid use disorder, buprenorphine or Vivitrol (extended-release injectable naltrexone), depending on the clinical picture and the client’s goals.
• Family sessions and experiential components on weeks where they are clinically indicated. Family work is often where IOP makes its most lasting difference, because the system the client returns to has to change with them.

None of this is delivered as a generic curriculum. The week is shaped around the treatment plan, and the treatment plan is updated as the clinical picture changes.

Compatible with work, school, and family life

IOP scheduling, typically a morning block or an evening block three to five days per week, is built around the reality that most clients at this stage need to be doing something other than treatment with the rest of their day. Many are back to part-time work. Some are finishing a semester at Broward College or a program nearby. Parents pick kids up from school. The point of IOP is not to replicate the containment of residential; it is to test recovery skills in the conditions where they actually have to work.

For Hollywood clients living in our sober-living network in Delray during IOP, the schedule is designed so the commute to a Hollywood Beach job, a family obligation in Hollywood Lakes, or a visit home to Oakwood is feasible without disrupting the clinical week. For clients commuting in from Hollywood directly, the morning track typically works best given I-95 traffic patterns.

The transition to aftercare and alumni programming

Stepping out of IOP is not a hard cut. The clinical contact tapers, group hours decrease, individual sessions may shift to every other week, and the focus moves from structured curriculum to maintenance and life-building. Some clients move into a standalone outpatient track. Others move directly into our aftercare and alumni programming, which is designed to keep the recovery community accessible long after the formal treatment episode closes.

RECO’s alumni program runs monthly events, peer connection groups, and an open door for alumni who need to re-engage with clinical staff, whether that is a check-in conversation or a more formal return to a higher level of care. Recovery is not a graduation; it is a long arc, and the months after IOP are the months where most relapses statistically cluster. Building structure into that period is part of how IOP is designed to end.

Insurance, assessment, and how Hollywood families typically start

RECO is in-network with most major commercial insurance plans common in South Florida: Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield (including Florida Blue), and a number of regional carriers. We verify benefits before the first clinical conversation so families in Hollywood are not navigating cost questions and admission questions at the same time. Insurance verification is confidential and does not commit anyone to admission.

The first step is typically a phone conversation with our admissions team at (866) 396-2008, usually with a family member from Hollywood Hills or Emerald Hills calling on behalf of someone they are worried about. From there, the path runs through a clinical assessment, a level-of-care recommendation based on ASAM Criteria, and a candid conversation about whether IOP is the right fit or whether a higher level of care should come first. The 50-minute drive from Hollywood to Delray is the easy part. The harder, more important part is the clinical decision underneath it.

Serving residents of: Hollywood Beach, Emerald Hills, Hollywood Lakes, Hollywood Hills, Oakwood.