Green Hill Recovery by Advaita Health

Intensive outpatient treatment works best when it is built around the person, not the diagnosis. At Green Hill Recovery, our Mental Health IOP treats depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, co-occurring disorders, and more — with an evidence-based curriculum that includes ACT, DBT, CBT, and EMDR. Psychiatry and therapy operate under the same roof, on the same team. In this video, Rachel Iroff, Clinical Therapist at Green Hill Recovery, speaks to what that looks like in practice and why the group experience is often the most powerful part of the treatment. Evening hours Monday through Thursday, 4:00 to 6:30 PM. No referral required. In-network with most major insurance plans. If you are a provider in the Triangle looking for a mental health IOP referral partner, we would love to connect. (984) 369-4177 | greenhillrecovery.com

Intensive outpatient mental health care fills a critical gap in the continuum of care — more structured support than weekly therapy, without the disruption of inpatient treatment. Green Hill Recovery's Mental Health IOP offers that level of care in Raleigh, NC, with evening hours designed to fit around work and daily life. The program uses evidence-based modalities including ACT, DBT, CBT, EMDR, somatic therapies, and TMS for depression, with psychiatrists and therapists collaborating on each patient's care throughout. The program supports a wide range of conditions — depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, BPD, grief, eating disorders, and co-occurring disorders — with no referral required to get started. In-network with most major insurance plans. If you are a provider in the Triangle looking for a mental health IOP referral partner, we would love to connect.

Substance use treatment that asks clients to simply stop using — without addressing the function that use was serving — produces limited results. Community Reinforcement Approach takes a different clinical angle. CRA identifies the environmental contingencies driving use, builds healthier behavioral alternatives, and makes sobriety feel intrinsically rewarding rather than purely restrictive. Combined with sobriety sampling, which reduces early treatment dropout by removing the pressure of a lifetime commitment, CRA produces significantly better retention and long-term outcomes. At Green Hill Recovery, CRA is not one tool among many. It is the clinical philosophy the entire PHP and IOP program is built around. This is the core framework. If you work in behavioral health and are looking for a substance use referral partner in the Raleigh area, we would love to connect.

The behavioral interventions we recommend for substance use recovery and those we recommend for mental health conditions like depression are, in many cases, the same. Exercise. Social connection. Pleasurable activity. Behavioral activation. These are evidence-based recommendations across both categories, which reflects the reality that substance use and mental health are rarely separate issues. Meaghan Brackin, LCMHC LCAS CRC, Manager of Substance Use Disorder Services at Green Hill Recovery, speaks directly to this in the clip above. When treatment addresses both simultaneously, outcomes improve on both fronts. That integrated approach is the foundation of the clinical model at Green Hill Recovery and Advaita Integrated Medicine.

Substance use treatment that focuses only on stopping use tends to produce short-term results at best. Community Reinforcement Approach takes a different angle. Rather than asking clients to simply remove a behavior, CRA helps them understand what that behavior has been doing for them and build healthier ways to meet those same needs. Add sobriety sampling, which lowers the barrier to engagement by asking for commitment to a program rather than commitment to forever, and you have a framework that dramatically increases treatment retention and long-term outcomes. At Green Hill Recovery, CRA is not one tool among many. It is the clinical philosophy the entire program is built around. Meaghan Brackin, LCMHC LCAS CRC, Manager of Substance Use Disorder Services, walks through the core principles in this carousel.

Environment is one of the most powerful and most overlooked variables in substance use recovery. Community Reinforcement Approach addresses that directly. Rather than focusing solely on stopping use, CRA targets the environmental conditions that make sobriety sustainable: relationships, community, vocational engagement, and social connection. At Green Hill Recovery, CRA is not a supplemental tool. It is the clinical framework we build treatment around.

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Faces of Integrated Care: Kristen Poppe, LCMHC, LCAS Meet Kristen. She manages our outpatient therapy team at AIM's Chapel Hill location, where she works with individuals of all backgrounds navigating mental health and substance use challenges. Dual-licensed (LCMHC, LCAS), with master's degrees from ECU and SNHU, Kristen brings both clinical depth and genuine compassion to every interaction. This is the kind of care we're building at Advaita Integrated Medicine.

Most relapses aren’t sudden. They’re the result of risk factors building over time. Sleep disruption. Mood instability. Gaps in medication adherence. Loss of structure. Our approach is to track those variables and intervene early using an integrated model—psychiatry, addiction medicine, family therapy, and evidence-based therapies like DBT. The result: 84% of our patients show improvement in key relapse risk factors. And when those risks come down, other outcomes follow: 65% of our patients entering treatment actively using reach zero use 85% maintain zero use after stepping down from higher levels of care Meaningful improvements in stability, structure, and overall functioning Outcomes don’t happen in isolation. They follow when the underlying risk is being addressed consistently. If you have questions about how this works in practice, feel free to drop a comment or message us.

"DBT works for substance use because it does two things at once — it targets the behavior while giving you something healthier to replace it with. Over time, you need the substance less and lean on your skills more." — Corey Kennedy, MSW, LCSW - Executive Director of Green Hill Recovery by Advaita Health   Recovery requires more than insight — it requires skills you can use when life gets hard. At Green Hill Recovery, DBT is a cornerstone of our PHP and IOP programming because it takes evidence-based care out of the office and puts it directly into the moments that matter most.