Online IOP for College Students and Emerging Adults in MA
Treatment
At the Austen Riggs Center, mental health treatment begins with understanding you as a person.
The Riggs Difference
You can feel it in the air of our voluntary, open, natural setting. You can hear it in the voices of our caring expert psychotherapists. And you can experience it each day in our flexible residential treatment program tailored to the needs of the individual. At Riggs, the whole person is the focus of treatment—because, while symptoms must be addressed, they also have meaning. We don’t treat just the diagnosis.
Voluntary, Open Setting
Here on our open campus in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, we offer choices that balance freedom and responsibility.
Finding Meaning in Behavior
Symptoms have meanings that can be understood—and that understanding can help lead you toward recovery.
Importance of Relationships
Relationships are central in human life, and they are central in treatment at Riggs.
Taking Charge of Treatment
Your voice matters and you have authority in your own life. At Riggs you actively shape your own residential treatment. Taking charge of your treatment is part of taking charge of your life.
Disorders We Treat
Our approach helps you better understand yourself and your relationships. In doing so, you can then find your own path to recovery from many types of mental health disorders.
People We Treat
At Riggs, we welcome adults (age 18 and up) from across the country and around the world who seek a self-directed behavioral treatment approach to help them return to a more satisfying life. Our intensive residential treatment is for people who are not in acute crisis, but for whom outpatient treatment just isn’t enough.
Your Treatment Experience
While your treatment will reflect your own choices, all of our residential treatment programs have intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy as the core, and include a range of complementary elements.
Admission Process
If other treatments haven’t worked, Riggs may be right for you. Our relational, patient-centered treatment approach addresses underlying issues, not just symptoms.
Speak With Admissions
From first contact to admission consultation, follow the steps in our admission process.
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Getting My Life Back: Liz Jezierski, Austen Riggs Former Patient, 2021
December 16, 2024
In the depths of the pandemic, things could not have been harder for someone struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Anxious, depressed, unable to leave the house, Liz Jezierski felt life was not worth living. But through hard work and perseverance during her seven months at Riggs, “I got my life back and I got it back better.”
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Lessons for Life: Ron Auerbacher, Austen Riggs Former Patient 1965-1967
December 12, 2024
The 1960s was a time of social upheaval for millions of people. One of them was Ron Auerbacher, who wrestled with deep anxiety and depression, while struggling to understand his emerging identity as a young, gay man. At a point of dire stress in his life, Riggs marked a key step at the beginning of a decades-long journey to successfully understand himself and his place in a community.
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