Pathlight - Texas Christian University
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Highly effective mental health treatment at TCU in Fort Worth, TX
Pathlight offers a three-day-per-week intensive outpatient program (IOP) for students enrolled at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX.
Conveniently located in Jarvis Hall at the Counseling and Mental Health Center, our program allows students to pursue recovery while maintaining their coursework and extracurricular activities.
Each week, participants receive ongoing individual and group counseling based on the latest evidence-based treatment approaches.
Lighting your way to recovery from mood & anxiety disorders
Here, you always belong
TCU places a great value on mental health, with multiple peer support communities on campus. Pathlight’s IOP fits in seamlessly with groups already on campus.
Find a safe and comforting space
Entering mental health treatment is a big step. Our program, conveniently located right on campus, helps to ease your worries, with support from professionals and your peers.
Connect with a recovery community
Participants have reported that this program feels like “home.” We work closely with TCU’s counseling center to ensure quality care for students.
Getting started with mental health treatment
Conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD and trauma-related disorders are serious illnesses that can take over you or your loved one’s life.
Reaching out for help is important and brave. If you are interested in learning more about IOP at TCU, we invite you to reach out to our team today.
- Admission into the program at TCU is ongoing.
- Individuals may join the program at any time.
- No referral is ever needed for you to access the care you need and deserve.
Insurance coverage at TCU
Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center is in-network with UnitedHealthcare, who administers the student health insurance plan at TCU. We’re also in-network with all major commercial insurance providers, including Aetna, Cigna, Optum/UnitedHealth Group and BlueCross BlueShield. If you have questions about whether treatment is covered by your insurance plan, please contact us. Our compassionate insurance verification experts are standing by to support you, answer your questions and check your benefits coverage.
Hear from our clinical director
College is such a transformational time in a person’s life. Making a commitment to care for your mental health will benefit you and equip you to be present in whatever it is you want to do with your life, positioning you to be able to accomplish your dreams.
With full support available to you both online and in person, a full recovery is possible.
Conditions We Treat
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Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders Anxiety disorders cause people to have feelings of worry or fear that negatively affect their school, work, relationships or home life. They are among the most common mental illnesses in the United States. Anxiety disorders can be debilitating and make life very challenging.
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Depression
People with depression regularly experience a strong sense of unhappiness most of the day, most days of the week, for several weeks or longer.
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Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are characterized by persistent mood swings. People with mood disorders experience severe low mood (depression) or elevated mood (mania) for an extended period of time — above and beyond what most would consider to be typical feelings of sadness or happiness.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
OCD requires the presentation of both uncontrollable, obsessive, recurrent thoughts (obsessions) and compulsive behaviors that must be repeated over and over again (compulsions).
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PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop following a traumatic experience.
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Trauma-Related Disorders
A traumatic event is an event that involves relational trauma, death, serious injury or sexual violence. These events can be threatened or actually experienced. By nature, these events are shocking or overwhelming. When an individual develops chronic, long-lasting symptoms following a trauma, they may be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Levels of Care Offered
Our Intensive Outpatient Program is a flexible mood and anxiety disorders treatment program that allows patients to work or go to school during the day and sleep at home at night.
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Residential
The Residential mood, anxiety and trauma-related treatment program offers medically stable patients a highly-structured and supportive 24-hour treatment environment.
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Partial Hospitalization
Our Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) offers some of the same intensity and structure of Residential mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorder treatment while providing additional opportunities to practice recovery outside of the controlled treatment environment during evenings at home or in peer-supported apartment communities.
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On-site Intensive Outpatient
Our Intensive Outpatient program is a flexible mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorder treatment program that allows patients to work, go to school, or care for children during the day and sleep at home at night.
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Virtual Intensive Outpatient - Pathlight At Home
Pathlight is removing the barriers that can keep patients with mood and anxiety disorders from receiving treatment. Through telebehavioral health programming, Pathlight At Home (our virtual Intensive Outpatient Program) offers the same proven care as our in-person treatment centers.
We will meet you where you are
The pressures of student life can cause college students to experience unwelcome or intrusive thoughts. About 38% of college students say they experience moderate depressive symptoms, with 19% experiencing severe anxiety symptoms. In addition, 34% of students say they experience moderate or severe anxiety symptoms.
Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center provides highly effective care for mood and anxiety disorders. The program at TCU is identical to our other intensive outpatient mood and anxiety treatment programs across the country, providing compassionate, individualized care.
What is mental health treatment like at TCU?
When you join the IOP program at TCU, you will work with our therapist Rachel Gilhooly, LPC, three times a week. Treatment includes individual counseling plus group therapy. Our programs are designed to provide whole-person, evidence-based treatment that leads you toward a lasting recovery.
- IOP programming occurs Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-6 p.m.
- Individual therapy once per week
- Optional family therapy sessions available
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