








About Mission Connection
Mission Connection fits outpatient care seamlessly into daily life, drawing on the power of connection and community to build tools for lasting healing. The model delivers results: 91% of clients would recommend the program, per the company's 2025 outcomes data. That standard shapes the San Juan Capistrano center, treating adults for anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders through intensive outpatient programs (IOP) and partial hospitalization programs (PHP).
Access Flexible Outpatient Programs
IOP and PHP meets several days a week in private therapy rooms and group spaces near Dana Point, Mission Viejo, and Laguna Niguel. Sessions combine individual counseling, group therapy, and family counseling, and telehealth extends the same licensed care to clients who need a virtual option. Ample parking and easy access to public transit keep the daily commute simple for clients balancing work, school, or family life.
Understand Conditions and Build Skills
Dialectical behavior therapy, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy to address the thought patterns behind anxiety, depression, and trauma. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) further supports clients working through post-traumatic stress, while transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers adults with treatment-resistant depression a non-invasive path forward. Yoga, guided meditation, and body-scan exercises round out the clinical work, and psychoeducation helps clients understand their diagnosis in practical terms.
Move Between Levels as Needed
Care typically starts at the partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient level and steps down as symptoms improve, with PHP and IOP programming usually running 4 to 12 weeks. Clinicians reassess progress regularly, moving clients into standard outpatient therapy once the intensive schedule is no longer needed. Individual sessions continue for as long as a client finds them useful, on the client's own timeline.
Highlights from the Center
Customized Treatment Plans
Pet Friendly
Mental Health Disorder Treatment
Tech Friendly
Trauma Treatment
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Insurance Accepted




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Meet Your Care Team

Ashley Pena
National Executive Director

Brynn Bailey
Physician Assistant

Jordan St. Pierre
Clinical Director

Lisa Neumann
Director of Virtual Group Therapy

Madelyn Lombardi
Clinical Care Manager

Gabe Brand
Primary Therapist

Jauron James
Primary Therapist

Jessica Garcia
Nurse

Erika Marquez
Primary Therapist

Marquisha Harden
Primary Therapist

Kayla Gard
Clinical Coordinator

James Johnson
Wellness Coordinator

Satera Washington
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Ike Kerhulas
Group Facilitator
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