PHP stands for partial hospitalization, another name for this is day treatment. Our program offers adolescents the opportunity to focus on their mental health or substance abuse treatment before becoming adults. With a wide range of modalities we will be targeting the root cause of their mental health and providing tailored treatment in a structured and safe environment.

IOP stands for Intensive Outpatient. Many parents or guardians opt into trying the lowest level of care before deciding if a higher level is more appropriate. The level of care determined will be based on a comprehensive assessment and ASAM requirements. Some factors may include self-harm, suicidal ideation (SI), untreated trauma, oppositional defiance disorders, and suspected personality disorders.

• In person or Virtual options
• 3 hours per day 3 days a week
• Individual, Group & Family Therapy Sessions
• Same range of modalities offered in PHP!
• Comprehensive assessments
• Case Management
• Transportation for Medicaid clients can be
provided by MTM- let our admissions or clinical team know if you need assistance applying

Moonlight Mountain Recovery is proud to offer services for all military children. We accept Tricare policies for PHP & IOP services, including virtual. Our process is simple, as we believe services should be easily accessible for those in need. We work with children 13+ to give families peace of mind over adolescent substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and family conflict. Our clinical team can help identify any traumas, separation anxieties, suspected personality disorders, depression and more. Treating each child with specialized care using modalities under the psychotherapy umbrella. Our goal is to help our military families come together by strengthening your child’s mental, physical and emotional self.

Native Americans have been graduating Moonlight programs for over five years. We work with all tribes and can accept IHS. We are proud to extend these services for adolescent tribal members in our premiere PHP and IOP programs, including virtual. Our clinical team is dedicated to providing inclusive services for all tribes and their children, using numerous modalities to fit each adolescent’s needs. Including substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and family conflict. Our goal is to help strengthen the family bond by offering much needed resources for our tribal community with an easily accessible higher level of care.

Our treatment team creates an environment where adolescents support one another on their road to recovery, whether it’s for mental health or substance abuse. Each adolescent’s treatment is customized to meet their unique needs supporting them in their journey towards emotional and physical healing. The latest therapeutic modalities are utilized to provide an all-encompassing path to recovery.

When treating adolescents with alcohol or substance use disorders, it is necessary to address the underlying reasons that someone engages in addictive behaviors. This may include a secondary diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder which may have been left unchecked, unmanaged or even undiagnosed. Our professional team is open and receptive to the plight of adolescents struggling with addiction. Every adolescent is assessed to help us create a therapeutic direction for treatment by exploring the child’s personal history of mental health issues, including but not limited to, anxiety and depression. 

Adolescent alcohol or drug use accelerates rapidly when an undiagnosed and untreated mental health disorder is present. When teenagers are struggling with emotional problems, they often turn to alcohol or drug use to help them manage painful or difficult thoughts and feelings. Why are they different than adults? Because the adolescents’ brain is still developing, and the results of “self-medication” can become problematic. Substance abuse progression is more likely to happen in kids with mental health disorders than other kids. Typically about half of adolescents struggling with mental health have turned to the behavior of “medicating”. Substance use can impede the treatment of mental health disorders and worsens the long-term prognosis for a teenager struggling with one. It’s also common for children with mental health or learning disorders to develop self-esteem problems, with a high need for wanting to fit in and feel normal, turning to substances trying to feel better and/or accepted.

(About 1 in 5 adolescents report symptoms of anxiety or depression according to the new federal survey of teen health.)