TheraThrive's intensive outpatient program for neurodivergent teens provides comprehensive, individualized support for adolescents ages 12–17 whose needs extend beyond traditional weekly therapy.

Every neurodivergent adolescent deserves support that recognizes both their challenges and their strengths. If your teen is struggling with anxiety, OCD, PDA, burnout, emotional overwhelm, executive functioning difficulties, social challenges, school stress, depression related to chronic illness, or family conflict, TheraThrive IOP may provide the structure, support, and specialized care they need to move forward with greater confidence and resilience.

Contact us today to schedule a consultation and learn whether TheraThrive IOP is the right fit for your family.

IOP Group Sessions

At TheraThrive, we believe (and have experienced) that fun and laughter can be foundational to healing.

Therefore, while our groups and activities may feel fun, such as through game play, the underlying development and skill building are real, meaningful, and intentional.

Fun doesn't make the work less important; it can create the safety, connection, engagement, and openness that allow meaningful growth to happen. In other words, fun isn't separate from the work; often, it's part of how the work happens.

Social Skills and Relationship Development

Teens practice:

• Starting and maintaining conversations
• Reading social situations
• Understanding perspectives
• Friendship development
• Conflict resolution
• Healthy boundaries
• Collaborative problem-solving
• Navigating peer relationships
• Recognizing genuine connection

Emotional Regulation and Coping Skills

Participants learn to:

• Recognize emotional states, including PDA and burnout
• Understand nervous system responses
• Manage anxiety and overwhelm
• Reduce emotional reactivity
• Build resilience
• Develop effective coping strategies and manage symptoms
• Recover from setbacks and stress

Executive Functioning and Daily Life Skills

Groups focus on:

• Organization
• Planning
• Prioritization
• Time management
• Task initiation
• Follow-through
• Flexible thinking
• Problem-solving

Identity, Self-Esteem, and Self-Advocacy

Teens explore:

• Neurodivergent identity
• Personal strengths
• Self-understanding
• Confidence building
• Self-acceptance
• Communicating needs effectively
• Advocating for accommodations and support

Expressive Arts and Creative Therapies

Many adolescents communicate and process experiences more effectively through non-verbal expression than through conversation alone.

TheraThrive IOP incorporates expressive and art-based therapeutic activities that help participants:

• Communicate effectively without talking
• Explore emotions safely
• Increase self-awareness
• Reduce stress
• Improve emotional expression
• Build creativity and confidence
• Strengthen personal insight

Activities may include visual arts, creative projects, mindfulness-based expression, music, collaborative activities, and other experiential interventions.

Supervised Community Outings and Activities

Throughout the program, participants engage in supervised community-based experiences designed to help them practice skills in real-world settings.

These outings provide opportunities to work on:

• Social interaction
• Communication
• Flexibility
• Problem-solving
• Emotional regulation
• Community participation
• Independence and confidence

Our goal is to help adolescents successfully transfer skills learned in treatment into everyday life.

Weekly Individual Therapy

Throughout the program, participants engage in supervised community-based experiences designed to help them practice skills in real-world settings.

Each participant meets individually with a clinician to:

• Receive personalized individual therapy with an integrative approach and eclecitic range of modalities
• Review progress
• Identify goals
• Address personal challenges
• Strengthen insight
• Practice individualized strategies
• Integrate learning from group experiences

Weekly Family Therapy

Family sessions help strengthen communication, improve understanding, and support positive change at home.

Topics often include:

• Understanding your teen's particular neurodivergence
• Collaborative problem-solving
• Reducing family conflict
• Supporting emotional regulation
• Effective communication
• Encouraging independence
• School-related challenges
• Healthy boundaries
• Holding multiple perpsectives
• Strengthening connection and trust

Weekly Parent Education and Support Meetings

Parents and caregivers participate in a weekly support and education group led by experienced clinicians.

These meetings provide practical guidance, evidence-informed education, and opportunities for discussion with other families navigating similar challenges.

Topics may include:

• Understanding autism and ADHD
• Neurodiversity-affirming parenting
• Executive functioning and motivation
• PDA
• Anxiety and emotional regulation
• Depression and burnout
• Video games
• School advocacy and accommodations
• Stimming and sensory needs and supports
• Reducing family conflict
• Building independence
• Communication strategies
• Supporting healthy identity development
• Strength-based parenting approaches, including brain-first methods

Parents leave with concrete tools they can implement immediately while also benefiting from the support of a community that understands the unique realities of raising a neurodivergent adolescent.

Neurofeedback Training

A key differentiating factor of our program is the utilization of neurofeedback training as part of treatment.

Participants receive both clinic-based and home-based neurofeedback training throughout TheraThrive's IOP, which over the course of 8 weeks allows for 24 neurofeedback brain training sessions, a complete treatment protocol.

This integrated approach supports adolescents to practice self-regulation skills consistently while helping clinicians monitor progress and tailor interventions to individual needs.