Launch To Wellness

Where Healing Becomes Forward Motion

For Families

You have been carrying this too.

When one person is in treatment, the people around them are already doing work of their own. Family therapy at Launch To Wellness makes that work part of the plan instead of something you manage alone.

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What Family Work Involves

Four Things Family Therapy Actually Works On

Not a lecture about what you did wrong. These are the four the work keeps coming back to.

Rebuilding Communication Getting back to conversations that are not about the last crisis, and that do not end the same way every time.
Setting Healthy Boundaries Working out what you can and cannot carry, and how to say it plainly, before the next hard moment forces the question.
Understanding Codependency Seeing the patterns that formed while everyone was coping, and which of them are quietly holding the problem in place.
A Home That Supports Recovery Treatment happens for a few hours. The rest of the week happens where you live. That environment is part of the work.

Why Families Are Part of This

Addiction and Mental Illness Do Not Stay in One Person

Family-systems therapy looks at how addiction and mental illness show up across a family’s relationships and daily life. We help families rebuild communication, set healthy boundaries, understand codependency, and build a home environment that supports recovery.

By the time someone reaches us, the people closest to them have usually spent a long stretch adjusting: covering, worrying, managing. Families are part of the plan too, with practical tools and honest guidance along the way.

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A family therapy session in progress at Launch To Wellness
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Who This Is For

Family Means Whoever Is Actually in It

The person in treatment decides who that is. Here is what tends to bring each of you in.

Parents

If you are a parent

Your child is an adult now, and the instinct to fix it did not switch off when they turned eighteen.

Much of the work here is about what changes when help stops being something you deliver and starts being something you support.

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Partners
Adult Children
Chosen Family

Support or Stepping In

The Difference Is Rarely Obvious in the Moment

Almost nobody sets out to enable. It usually looks like love, moving fast, under pressure. These are the moments where the two get confused.

Stepping In Looks Like

Calling the program to explain on their behalf.

Support Looks Like

Telling them you noticed, and leaving the call to them.

None of this is meant to be done from a table on a website. Working out where your line sits, in your family, is what the sessions are for.

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Questions Families Ask

Before You Call.

If your question is not here, it is probably one worth asking a person rather than a page. The conversation is confidential and free.

  • Family therapy is treatment — not a status update
  • Benefits verified before you start
  • Call even if your person will not go yet
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Do You Offer Family Therapy, or Just Updates About My Person?

Family therapy is one of eight clinical services at Launch To Wellness, delivered by licensed clinicians alongside individual therapy, group therapy and psychiatry. It is treatment in its own right, not a status call.

Is Family Work Covered by Insurance?

Most major PPO plans are accepted. We verify your specific benefits and explain them in plain language before you start, so you are not working it out afterwards.

Do We Have to Live Nearby?

We are in Woodland Hills and serve people across the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles. If getting here regularly is the obstacle, say so when you call and the team will tell you what is workable.

What if the Person We Are Worried About Will Not Go?

That call is still worth making. We cannot make someone enter treatment, and we will not pretend otherwise, but our team can talk through what you are seeing and what options exist.

Who Counts as Family Here?

Whoever the person in treatment says it is. Partners, parents, adult children, and the friend who actually shows up all sit in the same room.

Why Launch To Wellness — Levels of care | Launch To Wellness

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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Our Space

A Space Built Around You

Our Woodland Hills, California center is built for outpatient care: private space for individual sessions, room for group work, and natural light. You come in for treatment and go home at the end of each day, in a space designed to feel calm and clinical.

  1. Launch To Wellness lobby with an orange sofa, lounge chairs, artwork, interior windows, and warm wood flooring.
    Welcome Area 01 A comfortable central space for arriving, waiting, and transitioning between sessions.
  2. Open group area with a large round table, chairs, lounge seating, and the reception desk beyond.
    Group Space 02 Room for structured group work, conversation, and shared clinical programming.
  3. Wide view across the Launch To Wellness common area with lounge seating, reception, artwork, plants, and treatment-room doors.
    Common Area 03 Open sightlines connect the shared spaces while individual rooms remain clearly defined.
  4. Bright interior corridor lined with private office and session-room doors and large interior windows.
    Private Rooms 04 Dedicated rooms support private conversations and individual clinical sessions.
  5. Launch To Wellness reception desk with the center logo, indoor plants, framed artwork, and the lounge beyond.
    Front Desk 05 A clear point of arrival connects visitors with the team and the rest of the center.
  6. Exterior of the brick office building at 20350 Ventura Boulevard that houses the Launch To Wellness Woodland Hills center.
    Woodland Hills 06 The outpatient center is located in Woodland Hills, California.

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Welcome Area

A comfortable central space for arriving, waiting, and transitioning between sessions.

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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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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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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 — What Makes Our Approach Different | Launch To Wellness

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.

Why Launch To Wellness — Our Admissions Process | Launch To Wellness

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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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.

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

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