Guidelight

Guidelight Health runs mental health day treatment in Woburn, offering a Partial Hospitalization Program and an Intensive Outpatient Program. While many providers focus mainly on inpatient services, Guidelight concentrates on these intermediate levels of care and aims to bring them to communities in need. Its stated promise is care that helps clients stabilize, recover faster and stay connected to their lives, their people and their purpose.

Programming is evidence-based, using CBT, DBT and ACT developed with best practices from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean, with an emphasis on skills-based training. Therapists receive additional training in specific populations and intermediate levels of care. Collaboration is built in, with regular progress reports to a client’s outside providers, collaborative discharge planning, and partnerships that offer step-up care to prevent unnecessary emergency department visits. Clients can attend in person or virtually when needed.

What to Know

• Admissions appointments can be scheduled within 24 hours, with groups starting as early as the next business day.
• Clients, loved ones or referring clinicians can all request an admissions appointment.
• In a third-party payer analysis, more than 90 percent of PHP clients were living in their communities 90 days after discharge.
• A leading university is studying the program’s outcomes.