Launch To Wellness

Where Healing Becomes Forward Motion

The Decision Point

Why Choose Launch To Wellness?

You have options for outpatient care in the San Fernando Valley. Here’s what makes this one different, in specific terms, not marketing language.

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Straight to the Point

The Short Answer

Comparing treatment centers is hard when every website says roughly the same thing about itself. The table below strips that away. It’s the same case made throughout this page, accreditation, team continuity, individualized planning, flexibility, insurance transparency, condensed into a format you can actually check against any facility you’re considering, not just the one you’re reading about right now.

What Actually Sets Us Apart

  1. Joint Commission accreditation isn’t a badge we put on the website and forget about. It’s an active standard we’re held to on how we document care, how we handle safety, and how we run the facility day to day. It’s also independently verifiable, not just a claim we’re asking you to trust.

  2. Consistency matters in outpatient care. When a client works with clinicians who know their history and progress, treatment moves faster and trust builds sooner. That continuity, paired with physician-level medication oversight through our clinical team, is a structural priority at Launch To Wellness, not an accident of scheduling.

  3. Levels of care at Launch To Wellness aren’t a one-way staircase. If PHP is too much or too little, or if IOP needs to step up or down, the plan adjusts. This reflects our Philosophy & Approach: process over rigid protocol.

  4. Launch To Wellness is WBENC-certified as a women-owned business, and we’re based in Woodland Hills, serving the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles directly, not as one interchangeable location in a national chain.

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Featuring our CEO Larisa Krichevky, Director of Operations Kyna Sternlight, and Clinical Directors Desire Goldbhar and Annie Claire-Lowen.

Why Launch To Wellness

Care That Starts With Understanding You

Launch To Wellness is an outpatient behavioral health treatment center in Woodland Hills, California, serving adults across the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles. We provide mental health, substance use disorder, and dual diagnosis care through partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient (OP) programs. From your first call, our licensed clinicians take the time to understand your unique experience and personal goals. Most major insurance plans are accepted, and your care continuously adapts as you progress. Recovery is personal. Your treatment should be too.

Our Story and Mission

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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.

How We Measure Up

What to Look For, and How We Measure Up

If you’re evaluating more than one outpatient option, here’s the same case above, condensed into what’s actually worth checking for at any facility.

What to look for when comparing outpatient behavioral health facilities, why each item matters, and how Launch To Wellness meets it.
What to Look ForWhy It Matters At Launch To Wellness
Independent Accreditation and State Licensing Confirms a facility meets outside safety and quality standards, not just its own description of itself. Joint Commission accredited, DHCS licensed, independently verifiable.
Consistent Clinical Team Re-explaining your history to a new clinician every visit slows progress and erodes trust. Clinicians stay with you across treatment, with physician-level oversight for medication management.
Individualized Treatment Planning A plan built from a real assessment fits your actual situation; a fixed template doesn’t. Every plan starts with your clinical assessment, not a default program.
Flexibility Across Levels of Care Needs change; a facility that only offers one level of care can’t adjust with you. Full continuum: PHP, IOP, OP and Virtual IOP, all under one clinical team.
Upfront Insurance Verification You should know what’s covered before you commit to anything, not after. We verify your specific benefits and explain them in plain language before you start.

Every item above is something you can ask any facility to show you, and something you can check on us.

Talk With Our Team

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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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What We Treat, By Category

Four Categories, One Team.

Every plan starts with a category, then gets built around the specific condition inside it.

Mental Health

Depression, anxiety, trauma, and the broader range of conditions we treat clinically, not just the most commonly searched ones. Every plan is built around the specific condition, not a generic mental health track everyone moves through the same way.

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Why Launch To Wellness — How Treatment Actually Comes Together | Launch To Wellness

A Small Sample of the Full Approach

How Treatment Actually Comes Together

Five examples of what a plan can draw from, not the complete list. Not a menu you choose from, a plan that gets built.

Evidence Based Care, 1 of 5

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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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    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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    How admissions works at Launch To Wellness

    Our Admissions Process

    Admissions here doesn’t start with paperwork or a decision you have to commit to on the spot. It starts with a real conversation, and everything after that unfolds one confirmed step at a time.

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    Why Launch To Wellness — Insurance | Launch To Wellness

    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.

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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

    • Joint Commission National Quality Approval gold seal

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

      National Gold Seal of Approval

      ID: #700145 Effective: 10/27/2023 Expires: 10/27/2026

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    Where to Go From Here

    Explore the story behind why Launch To Wellness exists, meet the clinical team who will actually be in the room with you, or see what accreditation and licensing mean in practice at our Woodland Hills facility.

    Accreditation & Licensing

    Verify our credentials yourself, don’t just take our word for it.

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    Is Outpatient Treatment Right for Me?

    A direct, honest answer before you commit to anything.

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    Meet the Clinical Team

    The people whose names and licenses back up everything on this page.

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    One Last Thing

    Let’s Figure Out What’s Next.

    The assessment is confidential. The plan is built around you.

    A real conversation, not a commitment

    The assessment is confidential and free, with no obligation attached.

    One team, start to finish

    The same clinicians treat you across every level of care.

    A plan built around you

    Not a template everyone moves through the same way.

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