Launch To Wellness

Where Healing Becomes Forward Motion

Launch To Wellness

Mental Health, Substance Use & Co-Occurring Conditions We Treat

Whatever brought you here, there’s a real answer below, not a guess.

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Conditions We Treat

Treatment Tailored to Your Unique Needs.

At Launch To Wellness, we provide evidence-based treatment for individuals facing mental health challenges, substance use disorders, and co-occurring conditions. Our licensed clinical team creates personalized treatment plans designed to support lasting recovery and emotional wellness.

No two recovery journeys are the same. We work with individuals experiencing a wide range of mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and co-occurring challenges. Our programs are designed to provide support, structure, and clinical care at every stage of healing.

Category Before Program

Why We Organize It This Way

Many treatment centers describe themselves by program first and condition second, PHP, IOP, OP, followed by a general list of conditions treated. We organize this site the other way around, because the condition is what actually brought you here, and the appropriate level of care is determined afterward, during a clinical assessment, rather than something you need to work out before knowing whether we treat your condition at all.

This reflects how the assessment process itself works, not just how the website is structured. We begin with what’s clinically happening, then build the level of care around it. The same clinical team treats you across every level, PHP, IOP, or OP, so a transition between levels doesn’t require starting over with a team unfamiliar with your history. Physician-level oversight is part of that team from the outset as well, rather than a referral to an outside provider if your condition requires medication management later on.

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Our approach

What Makes Our Approach Different

If you are comparing outpatient treatment centers in Los Angeles, you have already seen the same three phrases on every site: compassionate staff, evidence-based care, individualized attention. All of it is usually true, and none of it helps you choose.

Here is what distinguishes Launch To Wellness, an outpatient mental health and substance use treatment center in Woodland Hills serving the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles, described specifically enough that you can ask us about any of it before you decide.

  • Co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions are addressed in one treatment plan by one team. You will not be told your depression is out of scope, or that you need to get sober first before anyone will treat your trauma. Both are worked on from day one.

  • Your therapist, psychiatric provider, and case manager work in the same Woodland Hills building and stay in the same conversation about your care. Clinical staff meet regularly to review each client’s progress, so your plan changes when your situation changes rather than six weeks later.

  • We do not run everyone through the same sequence of worksheets. Your treatment plan is built from your clinical assessment, your history, your goals, and what has already failed you. Two people in the same program on the same day are often working on very different things.

  • Outpatient treatment means you practice what you learn where it actually matters, which is at home, at work, and with your family. Skills are tested against real life every evening and reviewed the next day. For many adults that is not a compromise, it is the more durable path.

  • Recovery rarely happens in isolation, and families often need support of their own. Family education and involvement are offered as part of the treatment plan, with your consent and on your terms.

  • For adults whose depression has not responded to medication, transcranial magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive, FDA-cleared option for treatment-resistant depression. Having TMS therapy available in house means we can change course without sending you somewhere else.

  • Your progress is tracked with validated clinical assessments at regular intervals, not only by how you describe your week. When the measures stop moving, your treatment plan changes.

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Programs

Levels of Care

Momentum moves through four levels — PHP, IOP, Virtual IOP, then OP. Each hang is a step, not a guess.

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Partial hospitalization

The most structured outpatient week. Five days, evenings at home.

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Intensive outpatient

Real structure, fewer days, built around work, school, or family.

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Virtual intensive outpatient

The same IOP program and clinical team, delivered across California.

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Outpatient

The lightest level. Ongoing support at a lower weekly frequency.

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Get Started

You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone

One call is enough to get real answers, not a sales pitch. Whether you’re ready to schedule a clinical assessment or you just have questions, we’re here.

Start a Clinical Assessment Call (424) 327-4040

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    Joint Commission Accreditation, National Gold Seal of Approval, ID 700145

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Meet Our Leadership

The Team Behind the Care

Our leadership stays closely connected to the care clients receive, guiding clinical quality, day-to-day operations, and the experience of every person who walks through our doors.

  • Portrait of Larisa Krichevsky

    LMFT

    Larisa Krichevsky

    CEO and Founder

  • Portrait of Kyna Sternlight

    MSW

    Kyna Sternlight

    Director of Operations

  • Portrait of Desiree Golbahar

    LMFT

    Desiree Golbahar

    Clinical Director

  • Portrait of Annie-Claire Lowen

    LMFT

    Annie-Claire Lowen

    Co-Clinical Director

Meet the clinicians, case managers, and support professionals who carry this standard of care into every client experience.

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In-Network & Out-of-Network

We Work With Most Major Insurance Providers

Chances are, your plan is covered. Verify your benefits in minutes — confidentially and with no obligation.

Verify Your Benefits

Don’t see your provider? We likely still work with them out-of-network — and self-pay options are available if you prefer to keep care private. Let’s check.

You’re Not Separate From This

Support for the People Who Love You

Recovery doesn’t happen in isolation from the people someone goes home to.

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Family Support Program

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Family Support Program

Structured involvement for the people who love you, not just the person in treatment.

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Supporting a Loved One in Treatment

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Supporting a Loved One in Treatment

Practical guidance for family members navigating someone else’s treatment process.

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How Substance Use Disorders Affect Families

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How Substance Use Disorders Affect Families

How substance use affects the whole family system, not just the person using.

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CRAFT vs. Tough Love

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CRAFT vs. Tough Love

Two very different approaches to supporting someone, and why one holds up better than the other.

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Where to Go From Here

If your situation is less about a specific condition and more about who you are, or if you’re ready to talk to someone directly, here’s where to go next.

Mental Health

Depression, anxiety, trauma, and more.

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Substance Use

Alcohol, opioids, and other substance use disorders.

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Co-Occurring Disorders

When both show up together, we treat both.

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Eating Disorders

Treated directly, never as an afterthought.

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Who We Serve

Populations and circumstances we treat specifically.

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Clinical Assessment

Find out where your situation fits.

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