








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 say they would recommend the program, per the company's 2025 outcomes data. That standard shapes the Arlington center, treating adults for anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders through intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programming.
Access Flexible Outpatient Care Options
Intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization tracks meet several days a week in private therapy rooms and group spaces near Clarendon, Rosslyn, and Crystal City. 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 caregiving duties.
Understand Conditions and Build Skills
Clinicians draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy to address the thought patterns behind anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) further supports clients working through trauma, 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
Treatment typically begins at the partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient level, then steps down as symptoms improve, with PHP and IOP programs usually running 4 to 12 weeks. Clinicians reassess progress at regular intervals, moving clients into standard outpatient therapy once that intensive schedule is no longer necessary. Individual sessions continue for as long as they remain useful, on each client's own timeline.
Highlights from the Center
Wellness Emphasis
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

Lisa Neumann
Director of Virtual Group Programing

Madelyn Lombardi
Clinical Coordinator, Teens

Jessica Garcia
Nurse

Taylor Spruce
Primary Therapist l

Blessing Dawson
Clinical Program Director
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