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Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Austin
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Treatment Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
Primary Level of Care
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Some centers offer intensive outpatient program (IOP), which falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient service.
Treatment Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
Primary Level of Care
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Some centers offer intensive outpatient program (IOP), which falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient service.
Provider's Policy
We Are In-Network With Most Major Commercial Insurance Providers. To ensure you can pursue recovery, our dedicated team will work on your behalf by acting as a liaison with your insurance provider, answering your questions, and providing guidance and support every step of the way. If your insurance does not cover care at Pathlight, we will work with you and your family to establish self-pay rates. We will do our best to find a financial solution that allows you to get the care you need and deserve.
Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Austin
Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Austin
About Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Austin
Adults who need more support than weekly therapy can access structured outpatient mental health treatment at Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center Austin. Their on-site intensive outpatient program (IOP) supports clients with anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and trauma-related disorders while they continue living at home.
Practice Accepting and Responding Differently
Pathlight helps clients relate to difficult thoughts and emotions in new ways, rather than trying to avoid or control every symptom. Their approach combines acceptance-based, behavioral, mindfulness, and skills-focused therapies to help clients notice patterns, regulate responses, reduce avoidance, and take values-based steps forward.
Build Skills While Staying Engaged in Life
The intensive outpatient program (IOP) gives adults several days of weekly structure while they continue managing responsibilities outside treatment. Because clients remain connected to home, work, school, and relationships, they can practice coping skills in real time, notice what feels difficult, and bring those challenges back to treatment for problem-solving, support, and continued skill-building.
Plan for Continuing the Path
Pathlight Austin helps clients prepare for life after intensive outpatient treatment with discharge planning, coping strategies, and recommendations for continued care. After discharge, clients can receive follow-up outreach and access alumni, family, and community resources, including virtual support groups that extend connection beyond treatment.
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
Joint Commission Accredited
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.
Insurance Accepted
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Licensed by Texas
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Meet Your Care Team
Michael Clark
Clinical Manager
Leslee Marcom
Regional Clinical Director
PhD, CEDS-C
Stephanie Setliff
Regional Medical Director
MD, CEDS
Robert McFerren
Executive Director
LCSW-S
Elizabeth "Liz" Babb
Clinical Manager
LCSW
Your Care Options
Specializations
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Who We Treat
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Treatment Services
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Virtual
Virtual services deliver therapy, counseling, or recovery support remotely through secure online platforms and telehealth technology.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to accept challenging feelings and make the appropriate changes to reach personal goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for managing emotions, improving relationships, tolerating distress, and increasing mindfulness.
Exposure Therapy
Exposure therapy helps individuals gradually face feared situations or triggers to reduce anxiety and build confidence over time.
Expressive Arts
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
Group Therapy
Group therapy brings people together in a supportive setting to share experiences, develop skills, and work toward common goals.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
MBCT combines mindfulness practices—like meditation—with cognitive therapy techniques to help patients work through negative thought patterns.
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Conditions We Treat
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Aftercare
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