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Outpatient therapy can be a helpful step when emotional, behavioral, or life challenges begin affecting daily life.

For children, stress may show up through changes in behavior, school concerns, emotional outbursts, or difficulty with routines. For teens, it may look like anxiety, sadness, irritability, withdrawal, or trouble managing emotions. For adults, it may appear through stress, grief, depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, or major life transitions.

MCC Family Services offers outpatient therapy for children, adolescents, and adults who may benefit from professional support in a compassionate setting.

Individual support for different stages of life

Outpatient therapy gives clients the opportunity to meet with a therapist while continuing their regular routines at home, school, work, and in the community.

For children and adolescents ages 3 to 21, therapy can help with emotional, behavioral, and developmental concerns. Sessions may focus on helping children and teens better understand their emotions, build coping skills, improve communication, and work through challenges in a supportive space.

For adults, therapy may focus on concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma, anger, relationship challenges, or major life changes. MCC Family Services offers individualized treatment with an emphasis on evidence based interventions and trauma informed approaches.

Services available through outpatient care

Outpatient therapy can look different depending on each person’s needs. MCC Family Services offers services that may include:

• Individual therapy for children and adolescents
• Individual therapy for adults
• School based outpatient therapy
• Psychiatric evaluations
• Psychological testing
• Medication management

These services allow clients to receive support based on their age, concerns, goals, and clinical needs.

Telehealth outpatient therapy

For some clients, telehealth may make outpatient therapy more accessible.

MCC Family Services offers telehealth outpatient psychiatric and mental health therapy services through a secure platform. Referrals are accepted for children, adolescents, and adults seeking psychiatric or mental health therapy through telehealth.

This option can provide a convenient and confidential way to access care.

When to consider outpatient therapy

Therapy does not have to wait until things reach a crisis point. It may be helpful when emotional, behavioral, or mental health concerns begin interfering with school, work, relationships, routines, or overall well being.

Reaching out early can help clients begin building support and working toward greater stability.

Outpatient therapy at MCC Family Services

MCC Family Services provides outpatient therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.

To learn more about outpatient therapy, please call the Child, Family and Adult Outpatient Program at 267-525-7001.

Learn how MCC Family Services’ Intensive Family Based Program supports eligible children, adolescents, and families through in home, family focused behavioral health services.
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When a child or adolescent is struggling emotionally or behaviorally, the impact is often felt throughout the entire home.

Parents and caregivers may feel overwhelmed. Siblings may feel the tension. Daily routines may become harder to manage. Conversations may turn into arguments more often than they used to. Over time, the stress can begin to affect the whole family.

During these moments, families may need more than occasional guidance. They may need structured support that helps them work through challenges together, strengthen relationships, and keep the family safely connected at home.

MCC Family Services’ Intensive Family Based Program is designed to provide that level of support for eligible families.

Support that meets families where challenges happen

Family Based Services are intensive, in home, child centered, and family focused.

This matters because many of the hardest moments families face do not happen in an office. They happen during everyday routines, stressful conversations, transitions, school related concerns, or moments when emotions become difficult to manage.

By providing services in the family’s home, the treatment team can better understand the family’s daily environment, relationships, needs, and strengths. This allows support to be more connected to what the family is actually experiencing.

The goal is not to place blame on one person. The goal is to help the family move forward together.

Helping families stay together

One of the primary goals of Family Based Services is to help avert an out of home placement and keep families intact whenever possible.

For families facing serious emotional or behavioral health challenges, this type of support can be an important step. It gives children, adolescents, parents, and caregivers a team that can help them build stability while continuing to work within the home and family system.

Family Based Services focus on the relationships within the family. The work may involve strengthening communication, building healthier patterns, improving supports, and helping caregivers feel more prepared to respond during difficult moments.

A strengths based approach to care

Families going through a difficult season may feel like everything is focused on what is going wrong. A strengths based approach looks at the full picture.

MCC’s Family Based Program uses a strengths based model where specially trained clinicians partner with the family and empower caregivers. This means the team works with the family, not around them.

Caregivers are an important part of the process. The program helps families recognize the strengths they already have while building new supports for resilience and recovery.

Progress may look different for every family. For one family, it may mean improving communication. For another, it may mean creating safer routines. For another, it may mean helping caregivers feel more confident when responding to emotional or behavioral challenges.

Trauma informed support for children and families

Family challenges can be connected to many different experiences, including emotional trauma.

MCC’s Family Based Program uses a Trauma Informed Care approach to treatment. Clinicians are specially trained to work with children, adolescents, and families who have experienced emotional trauma.

A trauma informed approach recognizes that behavior is often connected to a person’s experiences, stress, relationships, and environment. This allows treatment to be more compassionate, more thoughtful, and more responsive to the needs of the family.

What Family Based Services can include

Family Based Services may include individual therapy, co-parenting support, family therapy, and intensive case management.

These services are designed to support both the child and the family system around them. The team works with the family to address emotional and behavioral health needs while also helping strengthen the relationships and supports that are important for long term stability.

Crisis planning and prevention are also key parts of the program. The treatment team and on call staff are available to families on a 24 hour, 7 day per week basis.

A focused period of intensive support

Family Based Services are provided in the family’s home for up to 32 weeks.

This gives families a focused period of intensive support while they work toward greater stability, stronger relationships, and improved coping. The work is meant to help families build tools and supports that can continue beyond the program.

For many families, this kind of care can provide structure during a time that may otherwise feel overwhelming.

Family Based Services at MCC Family Services

If you believe your family would benefit from our Intensive Family Based Program, we are here to help. You can reach out to our regional teams directly to discuss the referral process and check eligibility for your area:

Service Area	Contact Number
Bucks & Philadelphia Counties	267-525-7000
Montgomery County	267-655-4185
Chester, Berks, & Delaware Counties	484-318-7117
Lehigh Valley, Carbon, Monroe, & Pike	484-863-9330

Not sure which number to call? You can also visit our Contact Us page to send a secure message, and a member of our team will guide you to the right office.

Every child has a unique path. For families navigating the world of autism or behavioral development, finding the right support is about more than accessing therapy. It is about finding a partner who sees your child as an individual and is dedicated to helping them reach their full potential.

At MCC Family Services, our Applied Behavior Analysis department is built on the belief that meaningful growth happens when we meet children where they are. We provide them with the specific tools they need to flourish in their daily lives at home, at school, and in the community.

A Partner in Your Child’s Development

We view this therapy as a collaborative journey. Our approach moves beyond a clinical setting to focus on the environments where children spend their time. By working closely with parents and caregivers, we help bridge the gap between learning new skills and applying them to everyday moments.

Our clinicians focus on building a bridge of communication, social connection, and independence. We take the time to understand your child’s unique motivations. This allows us to turn learning into a positive, rewarding, and encouraging experience.

Building Resilience Through Strengths

We know that families often hear a lot about what a child cannot do. Our philosophy is the opposite. We focus on what they can do and we build from there.

By utilizing a strengths based model, we identify the sparks of interest and ability already present in your child. We then use those strengths as a foundation to develop new skills, such as:

• Helping children develop the skills they need to express wants, needs, feelings, and ideas more clearly.
• Supporting children as they learn to engage with peers, family members, and others in ways that feel meaningful and appropriate for them.
• Encouraging practical skills that support routines, participation, and greater independence throughout the day.

Commitment to Clinical Excellence

Progress requires more than just good intentions. It requires strategy. Our team of specially trained clinicians relies on evidence based practices to track growth, refine goals, and ensure that every step of the process is helping your child move forward.

We are not just a service provider. We are a dedicated support system. We provide the guidance, training, and resources that help families feel more equipped and confident in supporting their child’s development every single day.

Starting the Journey

Choosing to start this therapy is an act of advocacy for your child’s future. If you are looking for a program that prioritizes compassion, clinical expertise, and a true partnership with your family, we invite you to connect with our team.

Let us work together to help your child build the skills for a brighter, more independent tomorrow.