Cherry Hill Step-Down Therapy

Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry to Help You Step Down From Inpatient Services

Step-down therapy provides a bridge between intensive inpatient care and being fully independent. It strengthens skills and ensures healing continues. Lifebulb’s online or in-person outpatient therapy and psychiatry can be the next step in your step-down treatment.

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Our therapists and psychiatrists work together to provide cohesive mental health treatment. We accept most major insurance plans and have no waitlist.

What Is a Step Down Program for Mental Health?

You’ve been successfully discharged from Jefferson Health, The Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper, or Oasis Mental Health Centers. The time you spent in inpatient treatment was invaluable, but you’re finding the transition back to normal life difficult. Step-down therapy programs could be a good choice for you.

The “continuum of care” outlines treatment options from most intensive (inpatient) to least intensive (outpatient), with intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) being a good middle step. During outpatient care, you’ll still meet with a therapist and psychiatrist at least once a week. With an IOP, this can increase to 9-15 hours a week. Your team of therapists and psychiatrists will help you maintain your healing, reach your goals, and manage renewed triggers. Lifebulb offers traditional outpatient therapy and psychiatry for individuals who are stepping down from local IOPs or inpatient care.

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What Is a Step Down Program for Mental Health?

Why Step-Down Therapy Works

When someone hikes Mount Everest, they have to acclimate to the elevation. They spend weeks at camps getting used to the weather and oxygen level. Step-down therapy is like that acclimation period: a time for you to get used to your new coping skills and treatment plan outside of a heavily structured inpatient program. Step down programs like Lifebulb's Cherry Hill therapy and psychiatry do this by:

It’s hard to quit anything cold turkey. Quitting therapy and medication management can be outright harmful for you. Going from a structured inpatient setting to your normal life without any transitional services can result in a resurgence of symptoms, relapse, and increased risk of mental illness. By continuing therapy and medication management, you increase the chance that the improvements you saw during inpatient will stick. Lifebulb’s Cherry Hill therapists and psychiatrists can provide this off-ramp into your healthier, happier future.

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Mental health issues have triggers. For example, a long-term relationship ended, you lost your job, or you were reminded of a past trauma. These triggers could happen again, and a Cherry Hill therapist can help you handle those triggers as they come up naturally in your life. By working through active triggers, you build resilience and the skills you need to thrive in the long term.

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What healthy habits did you pick up when you were at Oasis Mental Health Center or Jefferson Health? How do you plan on keeping up with those habits? Transitions are hard no matter how positive a transition it was. Habits are often one of the first collaterals of a big transition, like moving out of inpatient care. Outpatient therapy and psychiatry help reinforce the routines, boundaries, and habits that you developed. Like a muscle, repeated practice of these skills will strengthen them and your mental health.

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Get Started with Outpatient Therapy and Psychiatry in Cherry Hill

Lifebulb offers outpatient therapy and psychiatry for people stepping down from Intensive Outpatient Programs or Inpatient Programs. You can meet with our Cherry Hill therapists and psychiatrists this week. We accept most major insurances and will work with your current provider to ensure a cohesive continuum of care.

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