Treatment Programs for Depression in California

Caring Support For Your Depression

Living with depression can feel soul-shattering. It’s an invisible disability that despite being common, can cause you to feel immense shame. When you have not received appropriate care, depression can encapsulate your entire being with feelings of sadness, hopelessness, emotional, mental, and physical fatigue, sleep changes, appetite changes, and even suicidal thoughts and actions. 

At Clear Behavioral Health, we’ve created depression programs that we customize for your specific clinical needs. Our specialized depression therapists take a collaborative approach by supporting you in decreasing your depressive symptoms, reigniting hope, and stabilizing your life.

Depression Treatments at Clear Behavioral Health

We treat your depression through our inpatient residential program, partial hospitalization program (PHP), and intensive outpatient program (IOP). All of our programs are in-network with most insurance providers, which enables medical coverage for your depression treatment to be streamlined and accessible. 

Our outpatient and residential depression treatment programs are offered throughout the Los Angeles, CA area. We also offer an online depression treatment IOP program, which we developed with your convenience and comfort in mind by offering an array of therapeutic schedules. Our virtual IOP program maintains our high quality clinical approach, and is comfortable and accessible from any electronic device in California.

Our specialized depression programs are clinically engineered to support both adults and teens, and we customize them to meet your unique needs. 

If you are seeking a less intensive modality of therapeutic treatment, we will work with you to determine if our individual therapy and psychiatric medication management options better suit your clinical needs through our partnership with Neuro Wellness Spa.

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Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) & Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

When you don’t require residential care, or are transitioning from it, or are looking for a more elevated level of care than a weekly therapy session, our PHP and IOP programs offer structured support while allowing you to maintain certain aspects of your daily routine.

Both programs include one-on-one and group therapy sessions with medication management where needed, case management sessions on an individual and group level, and our holistic therapy. Our outpatient treatment programs allow a more flexible schedule to live at home while attending the program during the day or evening and provides a community of mentors, relapse prevention education, personalized assessments, and holistic healing methods, and our PHP and IOP treatments ensure sustainable mind-body wellness.

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PHP Includes:

90 days of treatment | 5 days per week | 6 hours per day

Monday through Friday

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IOP Includes:

6-8 weeks of treatment | 3 days a week | 3 hours per day

This option works with your schedule, Monday through Friday

What to expect with our PHP and IOP programs

Depending on the level of care that best suits your needs, you may begin with our Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) and transition to the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), or begin directly at the IOP level.

Wherever your journey begins, after completing your treatment, you’ll become part of our supportive alumni community, offering encouragement and inspiration to others on their path to wellness. Our programs are carefully designed to include individual and group therapy, comprehensive case management, holistic treatments, and medication management. This integrated approach ensures a treatment plan that promotes healing at every stage. These programs include:

Individual therapy

Weekly sessions with a therapist to help you explore the underlying causes of your condition, identify your triggers, and develop coping strategies to last a lifetime.

Medication management

If necessary, our clinicians will prescribe and monitor medications to manage your condition symptoms and support wellbeing.

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Case management

Weekly case management meetings will help you to develop life skills, build healthy daily routines, and support reintegration into your daily life.

Group therapy

Daily group therapy sessions help you to build a supportive network of peers and explore therapeutic techniques like CBT, mindfulness and art therapy.

Holistic groups

Yoga, meditation, sound baths, and other holistic therapies are practiced daily to restore balance between your mind and body.

Virtual/Online IOP Depression Programs

Our online IOP program is a convenient option to receive depression treatment around your schedule. You can take it at your own pace, attending sessions from home while getting all the benefits of our in-person programs. Our virtual IOP is private and managed through secure software, which provides convenience to your life and schedule.

Our in-person locations are available for depression treatment in Los Angeles and Redondo Beach and our virtual programs are available to all residents of California.

Residential Inpatient Depression Treatment at Clear

Sometimes your depression can escalate to the point of interfering with your daily life. Responsibilities can seem overwhelming, and maintaining common duties feels impossible. When you lose interest in things that once brought you joy, or you can no longer maintain taking care of yourself, your work, or your relationships, residential treatment for depression could be the right treatment option for you.

In our residential treatment facilities for depression, you’ll have all the benefits of our outpatient programs, with additional advantages such as round-the-clock support from our staff and an interactive community. We provide semi-private accommodations, fresh local meals delivered daily, laundry access, and connection with nature during our group outings. Our enveloping care helps you reconnect to yourself and get back to enjoying your life.

What is Depression?

Depression can be neurobiological, a result of a distressing experience, medically induced, or from a combination of factors. Depression symptoms can include persistent sadness, hopelessness, and disinterest in activities you once enjoyed. Depression is not due to your lack of will but is a serious condition that benefits from therapy and in some cases, psychiatric medication.

We can support you in addressing your depression symptoms by providing an accurate depression diagnosis and treatment. If you are suffering from depression, we can help you find a solution towards your healing. An offramp from sadness and hopelessness is possible for you. You can achieve emotional balance and integration is possible, and we are here to support you.

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Depression Symptoms and Signs

When you have depression, you might experience symptoms such as:

  • Persistent sadness or feelings of hopelessness
  • Finding it difficult to engage in activities that you enjoy
  • Suicidal ideation or a suicidal attempt
  • Sleep disturbances such as insomnia or hypersomnia
  • Appetite changes, such as eating more or eating less
  • Weight changes, such as losing or gaining weight
  • Feeling irritable, angry, and frustrated

Types of Depression

Our experienced clinicians are skilled in treating depression and will diagnose you with the specific type of depression you are experiencing to ensure you can address your depressive symptoms effectively. Types of depression include:

  • Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) – The most common type of depression, MDD it is differentiated by feelings of persistent sadness and feelings of hopelessness. With MDD, you might experience weight changes, appetite changes, and a disrupted sleep schedule, and you may have suicidal ideation or thoughts of dying.
  • Persistent Depressive Disorder – With this form of depression, you experience similar symptoms such as MDD, and these symptoms will persist for more than two years.
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder — You experience depressive symptoms based on triggers such as transitions from day to night, seasonal changes, and weather changes (usually during winter).
  • Postpartum or Perinatal Depression (PPD) – New parents may experience depression before or after the birth of a child. The intense hormonal fluctuations can affect your mood, cause depression symptoms, and make it difficult to build a bond with your newborn baby.

You might also experience depression with other conditions, such as anxiety or PTSD.  Clear will support you in decreasing your depressive symptoms by implementing a therapeutic treatment program that addresses your needs. 

If your depression contributes to substance-related issues, Clear will clinically treat those issues as well. Our dual diagnosis treatment programs offer comprehensive treatment that is specialized to treat your co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. We have programs that provide dual diagnosis treatment in an outpatient or residential setting for both your depression and substance use.

How to Treat Depression

Our expert clinicians will provide insight into a wide spectrum of interventions to treat your depression symptoms. We tailor our programs with the understanding that one treatment program does not fit all. By combining individual therapy, group therapies, and holistic therapy, we provide you with a pathway to coping with your depression symptoms and getting back to enjoying your life.

If you find our outpatient and residential programs are not the right options, we can support you with alternative treatments as well. Our partner, Neuro Wellness Spa, provides individual therapy, psychiatry, and medication management, both in person and virtually. 

Experiencing depression can feel hopeless. Clear has the training, clinical experts, and empathy to treat depression. You will be guided through treatment to decrease your depression symptoms and increase the quality of your life. Do not hesitate, choose your healing now by giving Clear a call to learn about our specialized depression programs. You are worth it.

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Frequently asked questions

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