Launch To Wellness

Where Healing Becomes Forward Motion

Therapies & Services

Family Therapy Is Treatment, Not A Progress Update

Family-systems therapy is one of eight connected clinical services at Launch To Wellness, delivered by licensed clinicians alongside individual therapy, group therapy and psychiatry.

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

The Approach

We Treat The System, Not Just The Person In The Chair.

A family therapy session in progress at Launch To Wellness

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.

That last point carries more weight than it first appears to. Outpatient treatment occupies a set number of hours. The rest of the week happens where you live, among the people you live with. Which makes the home environment part of the clinical picture rather than context around it.

How Admissions Works

What the Work Covers

Four Things Family Therapy Actually Works On

Not a lecture about what anyone did wrong. These are the four the work returns 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.

Practical Details

What We Can Tell You, and What We Will Not Guess At.

Where a detail is not confirmed in our materials, it is left for the team to answer rather than filled in here.

Delivered by

Licensed clinicians

Family therapy sits alongside individual therapy, group therapy, psychiatry and medication management under one treatment plan.

Insurance

Most major PPO plans accepted

We verify your specific benefits and explain them in plain language before you start.

Location

Woodland Hills, California

Serving the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles.

Scheduling and format

Set by the clinical team

How often you meet, for how long, and in what format is decided by the clinical team, based on what they judge is appropriate for this household.

How Families Take Part

Common Questions

Questions About Family Trauma.

These answers are general information. Only an assessment can speak to your family.

  • Feeling worse after stability is common
  • Pace of the work is yours to set
  • Adaptation is not the same as damage
Can a Family Member Get Help if They Are Not the One With the Addiction?

Whether Launch To Wellness can see a family member independently of an enrolled client is not documented in confirmed material. Ask our team directly and they will tell you what is possible.

Is It Normal to Feel Worse Once They Are Stable?

It is common. While a crisis is active, most people run on management. When the pressure drops, what was postponed tends to surface. Being unprepared for it is not a sign that something has gone wrong.

Do We Have to Talk About the Worst Parts?

Not to begin, and not to prove anything. Pace is something you set with your clinician.

Does This Mean Our Family Is Damaged?

No. It means a household under sustained strain adapted the way households do. Adaptations that are no longer needed can be changed, which is most of what the work consists of.

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 Therapy

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

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Family Support Program

How families take part alongside PHP, IOP, OP and Virtual IOP.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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.

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