Joint Commission Accredited
Serving the North Loop, Heights, & Oak Forest
The inner-north Loop is one of the most distinctive parts of Houston. Oak Forest is one of the largest deed-restricted neighborhoods in the city, with a civic association keeping watch since 1955. Garden Oaks just to the east. The Heights immediately south. Mid-century ranch houses being renovated by young families, restored bungalows in the Heights, and a neighborhood character that feels nothing like the suburbs further out.
All of that change brings real pressure. The young professional couple stretching to buy a starter home and stress-drinking through the renovation. The Heights creative working a hospitality job until 2am. The Oak Forest parent on long-term anti-anxiety medication. The longtime resident watching the neighborhood gentrify around them. Substance use here looks like normal inner-Loop life until it does not.
Our office on the North Loop is built for that. Confidential intake, day and evening IOP, and we are minutes from our Garden Oaks residential campus, so stepping up to inpatient, or back down from it, is a five-minute drive.
Your Outpatient Manager
Lucia is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor with more than 15 years of experience in substance abuse treatment. Her clinical interests include love addiction, adult children of alcoholics, and the co-occurring factors that often live next to substance use, including domestic violence and trauma.
From 2014 to 2022, Lucia served as Senior Program Director at Santa Maria Hostel, one of Houston's foundational women's recovery organizations, where she worked closely with women navigating domestic violence, trafficking, trauma, and addiction simultaneously. That depth of experience shapes the way she leads our North Loop team today.
Lucia De Paoli, LCDC, Outpatient Manager
Who We Serve
Heights and Oak Forest attract young professionals buying and renovating homes.
The neighborhood's strong civic culture and good schools draw families with children.
The Heights, Timbergrove, and Lazybrook are all within easy reach.
Located minutes from our Garden Oaks inpatient facility, so the full continuum of care stays close.
Our Programs in North Loop
Recovery is not one program, it is a sequence. Our care moves from Foundational Care through a Bridge of Care to Transformational Care, with the right level of structure at each step. Step into the program that meets you where you are.
Build the foundation to create lasting transformation.Sobriety is the start. Flourishing is the goal.
PHP is the most intensive form of outpatient treatment at our North Loop office. Clients attend 5 days per week for several hours per day in a structured environment. PHP includes individual counseling, group therapy led by master's-level clinicians, psychiatric care and medication management, skill-building workshops, and the Positive Recovery curriculum developed by Dr. Jason Powers.
Our IOP in North Loop is designed for clients ready to return to work, school, or family while continuing intensive treatment. We offer both day and evening sessions. IOP meets 3-5 times per week and includes group therapy, weekly one-on-one counseling, family therapy, psychiatric check-ins, and the Positive Recovery curriculum that focuses on building strengths.
SOP steps the intensity down without cutting the cord: weekly group and individual counseling at the North Loop office, often for clients who came through Garden Oaks and want the same faces around a while longer.
North Loop aftercare benefits from proximity: alumni events often mix outpatient graduates with Garden Oaks alumni, and check-ins plus counseling access continue for as long as they are useful.
Online IOP replicates the in-person groups over secure video. Inner-Loop clients tend to attend in person, but travel weeks and sick days no longer have to mean missed sessions.
Family programs and counseling are open to spouses, parents, and siblings, governed by your consent. Heights-area partners and parents leave with a working understanding of addiction and a defined role in the recovery plan.
What We Treat
The Heights and the North Loop corridor hand us craft-beer culture, patio brunches, and the quiet wine habit that grows during a renovation or a hard career stretch. We also see cocaine from the inner-Loop nightlife, plus the same fentanyl-contaminated pills that have hurt families all over Harris County.
Detox is simple here in one specific way: Garden Oaks, our residential and detox campus, is about five minutes away, and clients move between the two constantly. Substance-specific pages:
Life in Recovery
Recovery is more than walking away from substances. It is about flourishing, reconnecting with what matters most, and creating a life filled with meaning. Here are just a few ways to embrace a healthy, purposeful lifestyle inside the North Loop:
Common Questions
No. Federal substance use confidentiality law, 42 CFR Part 2, protects your records beyond what HIPAA requires, and we do not contact employers. If you need leave documentation for a job downtown or in the Loop, our admissions team prepares it with you and sends only what you have authorized.
Yes. Our IOP runs both day and evening programs, Monday through Thursday until 9pm. Many of our North Loop clients work in the inner-Loop professional, hospitality, or creative economy and attend evening IOP three to five nights per week. PHP requires more hours and is typically not workable alongside full-time employment without leave.
Minutes away. Many of our North Loop clients step down from our Garden Oaks inpatient campus into outpatient care here, or step up the other direction when they need more support. The short drive between the two is by design.
Yes. Our North Loop office serves the Heights, Oak Forest, Timbergrove, Lazybrook, Shepherd Forest, Garden Oaks, and the inner-north Loop. From most of those addresses, we are a 5 to 15 minute drive.
Lucia De Paoli, LCDC, leads our North Loop team. She has 15+ years of experience and specializes in love addiction, adult children of alcoholics, and the co-occurring factors that often live alongside substance use, including domestic violence and trauma. Before Positive Recovery, she was Senior Program Director at Santa Maria Hostel.
Yes. We take most major insurance, including BlueCross BlueShield, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, and the employer-sponsored plans common across inner-Loop Houston. Benefits are verified free of charge; call 713-904-4699.
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