Aurora Program
Intensive, Integrated, In-Home
Mental & Metabolic Health Care
The Aurora Program is our most intensive, hands-on care model, designed for individuals with serious mental illness who need comprehensive support to regain independence and thrive in their daily lives. This program combines in-home care, community integration, and a team-based approach to meet you where you are and help you achieve your goals.
What the Program Includes:
- Comprehensive Assessment: Design and execute an individualized, multidisciplinary treatment plan for each patient based on a comprehensive psychiatric, metabolic, physical health, and psychosocial evaluation, which includes thorough labs, cognitive testing, DXA Scan, and other biomarkers.
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High-Touch, Intensive Support: Receive comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation services three to six days per week to help you stabilize, recover, and rebuild. This includes psychiatry, psychotherapy, metabolic health, dietary interventions, and coaching tailored to your needs.
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In-Home Visits: Our multi-disciplinary professionals will come to your home to provide care, helping you build confidence and independence in a familiar environment.
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Individualized Case Management: Collaborate with a dedicated case manager to design and execute a personalized plan that focuses on your unique needs and recovery goals.
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Community Integration: As individuals are ready, participate in activities that help you reconnect with the world, including personalized fitness training, skill-building, group activities, and outings designed to foster social engagement and growth.
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Rehabilitation Services: Focus on essential life skills like independent living, vocational training, educational opportunities, volunteering, or transitioning to paid employment.
“The Aurora team had a combination of intelligence, talent, integrity, humanity, and compassion that I have not witnessed before in a collection of medical professionals. The teamwork seemed seamless, selfless, and aimed at patient-first concerns.”
Parent of a Former Aurora Patient
“My son has been supported by leading mental health professionals and educators for decades, but it was when he began treatment with MH² that all the pieces came together for him. The trajectory of his behaviors and symptoms have improved faster than any of us thought possible. We are incredibly thankful for the level of collaboration and effectiveness of the in-home Aurora program professionals who partnered with his home and school teams, to deliver measurable results in just his first year. The Aurora Program specialists consistently go above and beyond in helping us navigate his complex mental health treatment needs with compassion, expertise and science.”
Parent of a Former Aurora Patient
Your Ongoing Treatment Experience
Aurora combines intensive clinical treatment with hands-on, real-world rehabilitation and support.
High-Touch Psychiatric Services
Patients receive intensive psychiatric care focused on stabilization, symptom reduction, medication optimization, and long-term recovery. Treatment may include diagnostic clarification, careful medication adjustment, de-prescribing when appropriate, metabolic and lifestyle interventions, psychotherapy integration, and coordination with outside providers, hospitals, and family supports. Advanced psychiatric and remission-oriented interventions such as TMS, ECT, substance use treatment, ketogenic therapy, sleep stabilization, exercise interventions, and treatment of contributing medical conditions may also be incorporated when clinically appropriate.
Psychotherapy
In our practice, psychotherapy is an individualized, evidence-based process designed to help clients better understand themselves, navigate challenges, and create meaningful change. Our clinicians bring decades of experience treating a wide range of mental health conditions and tailor treatment to each person’s unique needs, goals, and strengths. Drawing from modalities including CBT, DBT, ACT, MBT, CBT-I, and ERP, we provide compassionate, clinically informed care that supports emotional wellness, resilience, and long-term recovery.
Therapeutic & Skills Groups
A mix of evidence-based therapy groups, life-skills workshops, psychoeducation, recovery-focused sessions, and optional family groups designed to strengthen emotional regulation, executive functioning, communication, coping skills, confidence, and independence. Topics may include CBT/DBT skills, vocational readiness, digital literacy, relationship skills, mindfulness, relapse prevention, psychoeducation, and community integration work.
Family Coaching and Family Therapy
At MH², family involvement is a core part of every Aurora patient’s treatment. We provide family therapy and coaching to help families better understand mental health challenges, strengthen communication, reduce conflict, and build effective ways of supporting recovery at home. Our clinicians work collaboratively with families to provide education, guidance, and practical tools, empowering them to serve as informed and supportive partners throughout the treatment process.
Dietetics
At MH², nutrition is an essential part of our integrated, metabolic approach to mental health. Our dietitians provide individualized care that supports both psychiatric stability and overall wellness by addressing the connection between nutrition, brain function, inflammation, hormones, energy regulation, and metabolic health. Services may include root-cause evaluation, whole-food nutrition strategies, standard nutritional counseling, and more intensive dietary interventions, including ketogenic therapy when clinically appropriate. Dietitians work collaboratively with psychiatrists, therapists, and health coaches to provide cohesive, personalized care across all stages of treatment.
Health Coaching
At MH², our Certified Health Coaches help patients translate treatment plans into sustainable, real-world change. Drawing from expertise in lifestyle medicine, movement, nutrition, behavior change, and metabolic health, coaches provide individualized support to help patients build routines that promote stability, resilience, and overall wellness. Whether supporting sleep, movement, meal planning, daily structure, stress management, or healthy habit formation, our coaches offer practical guidance, accountability, and encouragement tailored to each patient’s goals and needs. Working collaboratively with the clinical team, they help bridge the gap between clinical recommendations and everyday life.
Life Skills
For patients in the Aurora Program, functional abilities within the home environment are assessed at the start of treatment by a licensed Occupational Therapist. Each patient’s designated case manager then works closely with each individual to help establish routine, structure, consistency, and foundational daily living skills that support stability and recovery within the home setting. As patients build confidence and readiness for greater engagement and independence, rehabilitation and life skills out of the home and in group settings are introduced gradually and at a pace tailored to each individual’s needs and treatment goals.
As treatment progresses and patients prepare for greater independence or discharge, services may also include Occupational Therapy–supported vocational skills training focused on strengthening organization, communication, executive functioning, stress tolerance, problem-solving, and workplace readiness through structured, real-world skill development paired with volunteer opportunities led by case management.
Case Management
In Aurora, every patient is assigned a dedicated case manager who provides individualized support tailored to the person’s unique goals, strengths, routines, and level of readiness for change. Case management begins in the home environment, helping patients establish structure, consistency, and practical daily routines that support recovery and long-term stability.
Our case managers provide both individual and group-based support across home, office, virtual, and community settings. Services may include assistance with scheduling, transportation, appointment coordination, healthcare navigation, communication with providers and families, independent living skills, discharge planning, housing support, recovery planning, and implementing therapeutic skills into everyday life.
Community outings, group participation, and increasing levels of independence are introduced gradually and collaboratively, based on each patient’s comfort, readiness, and treatment goals. The intensity and structure of support evolve over time as patients build greater confidence, functioning, stability, and autonomy.
“We wish to express our deep gratitude for what you have created at MH². Your program and team have helped our daughter to believe in herself again and to have a renewed hope in her future. When she first approached us with her pitch about why this program was essential for her treatment, we had some reservations. The cost, the distance from home, the living logistics, and trust in the seemingly non-traditional treatment were all obstacles initially. By the second week, she began to feel her footing as she was guided with genuine care and outstanding professionalism. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and congratulations on all that you are accomplishing. We will continue to spread the word to medical colleagues, family, friends, neighbors, and anyone who is interested.”
Parent of a Former Aurora Patient
Program Highlights
- Comprehensive psychiatric, medical, metabolic, and psychosocial evaluation
- Intensive psychiatry and medication optimization
- Evidence-based and innovative treatment approaches for serious mental illness
- Metabolic therapies and integrative interventions that support both brain and physical health
- Treatments focusing on remission, recovery, and improved quality of life
- Functional rehabilitation and practical life-skills development
- Community reintegration and meaningful daily structure
- Treatments striving for independence, purpose, and long-term stability
- Compassionate, dignified, patient-centered care
Core Values
Patient-Centered Care
Your goals shape your treatment. We partner with you, not just treat you.
Community & Connection
Recovery happens in relationship. We support social engagement and community re-entry.
Empowerment & Purpose
Structure, routines, and meaningful daily activities are central to recovery.
Excellence & Outcomes
We hold ourselves to high standards and adapt based on what works for you.
Integration & Innovation
Psychiatry, nutrition, fitness, coaching, and rehabilitation — all in one program.
Access & Continuity
We prioritize timely care and smooth transitions to outpatient support and long-term stability.
Accountability & Engagement
Healing requires participation. We commit to showing up with consistency and compassion, and ask the same from you.
Getting Started
Aurora begins with a highly structured first month that includes the Advanced Assessment and 20 hours per week of intensive support. This onboarding phase allows our team to gain a full understanding of each patient’s needs, establish routines, stabilize symptoms, and observe how the patient responds to consistent therapeutic contact. By the end of the first month, we have a clear clinical picture and a detailed treatment recommendation.
From there, patients continue in Aurora at the level of intensity that best fits their needs each month. The care team determines which tier is appropriate—Tier 1 (up to 10 hours/week), Tier 2 (10–20 hours/week), or Tier 3 (20–30 hours/week). These tiers simply represent the number of weekly hours a patient receives from our team, ensuring each person gets the right amount of structure, support, and accountability as they progress through the program.
Nicole Marie Olivier, MBA, CLC, OTR/L
Director of In-Home, Community, and Rehabilitation Services
Nicole is a Licensed and Registered Occupational Therapist with over twenty-five years of experience supporting adults and children with chronic physical and mental health conditions across community, home, and inpatient settings. She holds a License in Occupational Therapy and an MBA in Healthcare Management, and specializes in clinical assessment, goal setting, life skills training, and cognitive and behavioral strategies.