PHP Mental Health Program in Texas
Alta Health provides a comprehensive partial hospitalization mental health program for adults struggling with low to moderate acuity mental health conditions in Texas. Our mission is to provide evidence-based and wellness-focused care to help you or your loved one find healing.
How Our PHP Program Supports Your Mental Health
Our partial hospitalization program (PHP) is designed to help adults with low-to-moderate acuity mental health conditions, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Mental illness, stressors, and other challenges can be difficult to cope with and cause struggles in daily life. PHP addresses this by bridging the gap between inpatient and outpatient care, offering personalized, compassionate care.
Our structured PHP is delivered by licensed mental health professionals and tailored to each client’s specific needs. This, along with our whole-person focus on care, improves coping skills, daily functioning, and overall well-being in a supportive environment.
Experience a Safe and Supportive Outpatient Environment
Our goal is to elevate lives through expert care. We accomplish this by providing a peaceful, welcoming, and structured environment that facilitates improved mental health and wellness. Our outpatient programs, including our partial hospitalization program, are no different.
Each individual seeking care at Alta Health can expect quality in-person group therapy and private individual therapy sessions. Treatment plans are highly personalized while highlighting the clinical expertise of our treatment team, which includes therapists, psychiatrists, and behavioral health providers. Alta Health doesn’t just offer a safe place to heal but also a place to improve your life with support from expert professionals.
The Alta Health Difference
Alta Health was created to fill a gap in behavioral healthcare — offering accessible, outpatient-only mental health treatment that is compassionate, structured, and insurance-focused.
Outpatient-Only Focus
Alta Health exclusively provides outpatient levels of care, including a partial hospitalization program (PHP), intensive outpatient program (IOP), and outpatient therapy. We do not offer inpatient, residential, or detox services.
Insurance-Based Care
Our programs are designed to work within insurance-based models, helping individuals access care without luxury or resort-style framing.
Wellness-Oriented Environment
We cultivate a calm, supportive space focused on emotional health, coping skills, and sustainable well-being.
Evidence-Based Modalities
Treatment is grounded in proven clinical practices such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and structured group therapy.
Patient-Centered Support
Each individual receives a personalized treatment plan designed around their unique mental health needs and goals.
Care Designed for Real Life
Alta Health’s outpatient programs are built to support individuals as they continue working, attending school, and managing daily responsibilities. Our structured schedules and practical skill-building help clients apply what they learn in treatment to real-world situations — promoting lasting well-being beyond sessions.
Getting Started is Easy
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Reach to Us
Call us to speak with an admissions coordinator
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Verify Insurance
We’ll verify your benefits and help you determine costs.
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Schedule an Assessment
Discuss pre-assessment and confirm admission.
Mental Health Conditions We Treat
We are equipped to assist those struggling with mild to moderate mental health conditions, illnesses, and challenges. Some of these conditions are unfortunately common, thus necessitating the need for accessible and comprehensive outpatient mental health care.
Anxiety
Depression
Bipolar Disorder
PTSD
Anxiety Disorders
Where anxiety is a normal emotion to feel in some situations, anxiety disorders can significantly disrupt daily life. Symptoms such as constant fear, panic, physical tension, and racing thoughts can cause avoidance behaviors that limit independence.
Anxiety conditions we treat include generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder and panic attacks, social anxiety, and anxiety related to trauma or stress.
Depression and Mood Disorders
Mood disorders, including depression, can interfere with work, relationships, sleep, and overall quality of life. These conditions impact how a person experiences emotions and motivation, which can make daily functioning difficult. Common symptoms can include persistent sadness, hopelessness, numbness, guilt, and a disconnection from others.
We treat a range of mood-related conditions, including major depressive disorder (MDD), persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), mood instability related to life stress or trauma, and depression with suicidal ideation.
Bipolar Disorder
The primary characterization of bipolar disorder is shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels that can affect judgment, relationships, and daily functioning. These shifts may include periods of depression, mania, or hypomania, which can increase feelings of sadness, impulsivity, or agitation.
We provide care for bipolar I and bipolar II disorders, as well as mood dysregulation requiring psychiatric stabilization.
PTSD
Trauma and trauma disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), occur after someone experiences a frightening, shocking, or dangerous event. Common examples of such events include witnessing violence, assault/abuse, accidents, and natural disasters.
This can leave lingering effects on a person’s self-perception, nervous system functioning, and ability to regulate emotions. Symptoms of intrusive thoughts, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, or difficulty trusting others are all common signs of trauma.
We treat trauma-related conditions such as PTSD, acute stress reactions, and trauma-related anxiety and depression.
Core PHP Program Features
Our partial hospitalization program provides comprehensive, professional care for whole-person support and healing. Though individual treatment plans are highly personalized, there are universal features that make our program effective.
Group and Individual Therapy
We utilize evidence-based and trauma-sensitive therapies, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and more. Group and private individual therapy sessions include skill-building, coping skills training, and more to promote continuous personal growth and healing.
Medication Management
In cases where medication is required to help manage a mental health condition, we utilize medication management. Clients are monitored by experienced psychiatrists and mental health providers through frequent check-ins for safety and medication effectiveness.
Partial Hospitalization Program
Our PHP offers structured, intensive outpatient care with multiple daily sessions throughout the week. The amount of time spent in our PHP program each day can vary, but we ensure that it’s flexible enough to suit your schedule.
Peer Support & Family Involvement
Healing doesn’t occur in a vacuum – we help our clients build a support network to enhance recovery. Family therapy is an option, along with access to specialized support groups.
Wellness-Focused Daily Life
Our whole-person and wellness-focused treatment doesn’t just help our clients overcome mental health challenges; it also improves daily functioning and overall health. We guide our clients in participating in activities and establishing routines that strengthen coping skills, daily functioning, and emotional balance.
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Treatment Options
We are proud to use a wide range of evidence-based therapies to create personalized treatment plans for each client. This range of care ensures that each individual’s needs are addressed, which results in optimal recovery outcomes.
Behavioral Health & Daily Functioning
Our PHP mental health program focuses on improving coping skills, daily routines, and overall well-being. This creates a stable foundation that helps clients step down into less intensive levels of care as their functioning improves
Evidence-Based Therapies
Clients engage in a combination of individual and group therapies, including:
Specialized & Technology-Assisted Treatments
We offer non-invasive therapies that support brain regulation and mental health recovery, such as neurofeedback and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). These therapies are especially effective in treatment-resistant depression and other mental health challenges.
Signs You May Benefit From PHP
Our partial hospitalization program offers a comprehensive middle ground between inpatient and outpatient care. This benefits those who need more intensive care than what an intensive outpatient program (IOP) can offer, but don’t need the 24/7 medical supervision of an inpatient program.
Our structured PHP is delivered by licensed mental health professionals and tailored to each client’s specific needs. This, along with our whole-person focus on care, improves coping skills, daily functioning, and overall well-being in a supportive environment.
Early intervention leads to more effective outcomes in PHP mental health programs. If you or a loved one is experiencing any of the signs above, a PHP may be the key to successful recovery.
Signs that you may benefit from a PHP include:
Testimonials
“Alta Health in Dallas provides an exceptional experience from start to finish. The staff is welcoming and professional, making you feel comfortable from the time you walk in. If you are looking for help, this is the place to go. Dallas is lucky to have this place.”
Alta Health is an outstanding intensive outpatient program in Dallas. Their team provides compassionate, high-quality care and creates a supportive environment where real healing happens.
With the growing need for mental health services in the Dallas metro area, Alta Health is a trusted and valuable resource for individuals and families.
Highly recommend.
“The staff at Alta are incredible. If you are looking for mental health treatment, you are in the right place.”
Frequently Asked Questions
PHP provides more intensive support compared to IOP, which can mimic inpatient care without an overnight stay. People often step down into a PHP after a stay in an inpatient program. PHPs typically have 5-6 hours of treatment per day, 5 days a week. In contrast, an IOP is less intensive, with an average of 3 hours of treatment a day, 3-5 days a week.
Inpatient treatment offers 24/7 medical supervision and is designed to help those in crisis who need constant monitoring. People with severe needs that require medical supervision stabilize first in inpatient treatment, before they step down into other levels of care.
A PHP can help bridge the gap between inpatient residential treatment and intensive outpatient treatment for those in addiction recovery. It offers more intensive care compared to other outpatient programs while still allowing the individual to go home. This helps people in recovery utilize the coping skills they learned in treatment while having access to continued intensive support.
Alta Health does not provide treatment for active substance use disorders, drug addictions, or dual diagnosis. If substance use or co-occurring conditions are identified, our team can assist with a referral and coordination of care with specialized treatment providers.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is commonly used to help our clients manage intense emotions and improve emotional regulation. It’s most often used to help clients manage conditions such as bipolar disorder.
Clients can expect a flexible approach to outpatient treatment that respects their schedules and responsibilities. Outpatient programs provide critical therapies that help clients integrate into normal life while providing professional support. Group therapy, individual therapy, medication management, psychoeducation, skills training, and more are all important parts of an outpatient treatment plan. This allows professionals to provide daily structure, address mental health symptoms, and offer further referrals to care as needed.
Yes, a PHP can assist someone recovering from PTSD and other trauma-based conditions. PHP offers intensive care to clients who need more support than an IOP can provide, but still allows them to go home at the end of the day.
Alta Health offers fully outpatient care. You do not have to begin with inpatient care before stepping down to outpatient care. Many mental health conditions are mild or moderate enough to be addressed solely with outpatient treatment.
Alta Health offers a wide range of evidence-based mental health services and therapies, such as:
- Art therapy
- Psychotherapies, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Group, family, and individual therapy
- Trauma-specific therapy, such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- Neurofeedback
- Relaxation techniques, such as meditation and mindfulness
- Psychoeducation and stress management
No, a PHP is not considered a short-term program. This is because each PHP is highly personalized to each individual. As such, the length of time a person will need care can vary, with some needing long-term support. This is normal, and we encourage those seeking treatment to focus on healing without viewing it like a race. We offer flexible scheduling to help you or your loved one engage in daily responsibilities while receiving care.
Schedules vary by individual, but PHPs typically have 5 to 6 hours of treatment per day, 5 days a week. Clients arrive in the morning and mentally prepare for the day, which can include mindfulness or light movement. Afterward, there is a block of treatment, such as group therapy or individual therapy. There is a break for lunch, and then there is another block of treatment. Each day of PHP ends with a period of reflection or debrief, and afterward, clients go home for the day.
After a PHP is completed, there is an option to step down into a less intensive level of care, such as an IOP or outpatient program. This option is suggested to help individuals gradually return to normal activities while still having access to professional care.
The Journey to Recovery Begins Today
Our compassionate team is ready to guide you through every step of the admissions process. Contact us today to begin your journey to lasting recovery.