Launch To Wellness

Where Healing Becomes Forward Motion

For Families

However Intensive Their Week Is, You Are Part of The Plan.

Family involvement runs alongside every level of outpatient care we offer, from full weekday clinical days through to ongoing outpatient support.

Group therapy space at Launch To Wellness
Treatment room interior
Therapy office at Launch To Wellness
Clinical meeting space

At a Glance

The Questions Families Ask First.

Answered as far as our confirmed materials go. The rest is marked, not guessed.

Who it is for

Whoever the client counts as family

Parents, partners, adult children and chosen family. The person in treatment decides.

By Level of Care

What Care Looks Like At Each Level.

The clinical intensity changes across the four programs. What stays constant is that the same team carries your care.

PHP

Full weekday clinical days, home at night.

The most structured level we offer. PHP provides full weekday clinical support while allowing you to return home each evening and practice care in real life.

About PHP

Getting Started

Four Steps, and the First One Is a Phone Call.

The same sequence whether you are calling about yourself or about someone else in the house.

  1. 01 · Reach Out

    One Confidential Conversation

    Free and with no obligation. You do not need the right vocabulary or a decision already made. Describing what has been happening is enough to begin.

  2. 02 · Assessment

    A Clinician Builds the Picture

    Mental health, substance use, medical history and current symptoms, alongside the relationships and daily routine around them.

  3. 03 · A Plan, Including You

    Family Involvement Is Written In

    The recommended level of care is explained, including days, hours and how it fits the household’s actual schedule.

  4. 04 · Ongoing

    It Adjusts as Things Change

    Moving between levels of care is a sign of progress, not an ending. The same clinical team carries the case through those changes.

Common Questions

Questions About Taking Part.

The unanswered ones below are unanswered on purpose. Our team will give you specifics.

  • Disagreement is workable in the room
  • Woodland Hills & Virtual IOP options
  • Assessment answers timing concretely
Do We Have to Be Enrolled for the Family to Get Support?

Not documented in confirmed material. Ask our team; they will tell you what is available in your situation.

What if Family Members Disagree About What Should Happen?

Common, and something family-systems work is built to handle. Disagreement in the room is usually more workable than disagreement managed separately at home.

Can We Take Part if We Live Outside Los Angeles?

We serve the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles from Woodland Hills, and Virtual IOP delivers the same clinical structure by secure telehealth. Whether family sessions specifically can be attended remotely is not documented — ask our team for what applies in your case.

How Soon Can We Start?

Timelines are not documented. The assessment is the point at which this gets answered concretely.

Related Reading

More for Families

The rest of this section, if you want to keep reading.

How Addiction Affects Families

What changes in a household, and why it outlasts the substance.

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Family Trauma

Why it still hurts once the crisis is over, and what trauma-informed care means.

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Family Therapy

Family-systems therapy at Launch To Wellness, and what a session actually involves.

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Supporting a Loved One in Treatment

What actually helps week to week while someone is in outpatient care.

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CRAFT and Tough Love

What the research says about which approach gets someone into treatment.

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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.

01

Partial hospitalization

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

Learn more

02

Intensive outpatient

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

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03

Virtual intensive outpatient

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

Learn more

04

Outpatient

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

Learn more
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.

The Team Behind the Care | Launch To Wellness

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.

Meet the Full Team
Four Categories, One Team | Launch To Wellness

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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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

    National Gold Seal of Approval

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