Our Approach
Our Medical Model.
Addiction and mental health care under a psychiatrist, so medication, physical health, and therapy stay in one plan instead of three.
What It Means
Medicine and therapy, in the same plan.
Recovery from addiction, from a mental health condition, or from both at once is rarely a straight line. There are stretches where the work is obvious and stretches where it is not, and it is genuinely hard to predict how withdrawal, a medication, or an untreated physical problem will land on any one person.
The medical model is our answer to that. Instead of treating the symptoms and referring everything else out, we keep medical oversight inside the same program as your therapy, under a board-certified psychiatrist. SAMHSA calls this integrated treatment, addressing both conditions with the same team rather than in separate places, and names it best practice for co-occurring disorders.
It is an approach rather than a level of care, so it runs through everything we offer, from partial hospitalization down to weekly outpatient sessions, whether you are treated at one of our Colorado offices or in virtual IOP.
- Cravings, lingering withdrawal symptoms, or a medication that is not working
- Living with a mental health condition and a substance use disorder at once
- Carrying a physical health problem that recovery keeps running into
What It Includes
What the medical side actually does.
Not a separate appointment bolted onto treatment. These run inside the program.
Evaluation at intake
Medical and psychiatric evaluation overseen by our Medical Director, so planning starts from your whole health picture rather than the presenting problem alone.
Medication management
If medication is part of your plan, it is prescribed, monitored, and adjusted inside the program rather than by someone who never sees the rest of your treatment.
Medication-assisted treatment
Buprenorphine or naltrexone for opioid use disorder, naltrexone or acamprosate for alcohol use disorder, always running alongside therapy rather than instead of it.
Ongoing monitoring
Regular checks on how your physical and mental health are actually tracking, at every stage rather than only at the start.
Education and supervision
Understanding what a medication does, what withdrawal is doing to your body, and what to expect next, so the decisions stay yours to make.
Referral when it is needed
Dr. Hashem and the clinical team hold close ties to local specialists, so anything belonging outside an outpatient program is routed to someone who can treat it.
What It Treats
Where medical oversight changes the plan.
The conditions where medical oversight inside the program tends to matter most.
Medical Director
Meet Dr. Ryan Hashem.
Ryan Hashem, MD, is our Medical Director and a board-certified psychiatrist. He completed his psychiatry residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine.
Dr. Hashem brings experience in outpatient and emergency psychiatry, particularly with adults living with serious mental illness, complex medical needs, and co-occurring substance use disorders, and he has led hospital-wide clinical programs including suicide risk assessment protocols and integrated outpatient services.
Medical and psychiatric care here is overseen by him. That is what keeps the medical side of your treatment in the same conversation as the therapy instead of running on a separate track.
Check what your plan covers.
We work with Aetna, Anthem, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna, First Health Network, Kaiser Permanente, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Select Health, TRICARE, and United Healthcare, and we can accept some Colorado Medicaid policies. Verification takes a few minutes.
Accepted insurance
Employer and EAP partners
Don’t see your plan? Call us and we will check it, including out-of-network benefits.
Levels of Care
One approach, every level.
The medical model is not a program you enroll in. It runs through each of these, so the oversight does not change when your level of care does.
Common Questions
The medical model, answered.
Do you offer detox?
Do I have to take medication to be treated here?
What is medication-assisted treatment?
Is there really a doctor involved in my care?
Can you manage the psychiatric medications I already take?
Will my insurance cover this?
Start with an assessment.
Tell us what is going on and we will walk you through what the medical side would look like for you, what it would not, and which level of care fits.