Launch To Wellness

Where Healing Meets Forward Motion

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Co-Occurring Disorders

Mental Health and Substance Use,Treated Together

When both are present, treating only one side leaves the other untreated, and untreated conditions tend to resurface. At Launch To Wellness in Woodland Hills, dual diagnosis care runs through PHP, IOP, and OP with one clinical team, so you only have to tell your story once.

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Both, Not Just One

The Short Answer

Co-occurring disorders means a mental health condition and a substance use disorder happening at the same time, often feeding each other. We treat both together, through one treatment plan and one clinical team, rather than addressing one and hoping the other resolves on its own.

Co-Occurring Disorders — Specific overlaps | Launch To Wellness

The overlap, by name

Four Names for One Clinical Picture.

Each label points to mental health and substance use happening at the same time — treated as one plan, not two tracks.

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Where to Go From Here

Whether you’re looking for the clinical term for what you’re dealing with, or you want to see the full range of what we treat on either side, here’s where to go next.

Dual Diagnosis

The clinical term for what this page describes.

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Mental Health Hub

The full range of conditions we treat.

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Substance Use Hub

The full range of substances we treat.

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Clinical Assessment

The real starting point, not a guess.

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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 — 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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03

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.

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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.

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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

    Clinical Director

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

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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 — 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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