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Our Day Program Gives Your Daughter Flexible Support.
Our Day Treatment Program (PHP) provides intensive therapeutic and academic support for adolescent girls Monday through Friday. With the same clinical team, evidence-based therapies, and individualized care as our residential program. Your daughter gets the focused treatment she needs while coming home to your family each evening.
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What Your Daughter's Week Looks Like
Is the Day Program Right for Your Daughter?
She's Struggling, but She's Not in Crisis
Your daughter is dealing with anxiety, depression, school avoidance, self-harm, or other emotional challenges — and outpatient therapy isn't enough anymore. She needs more structure and more intensive support, but she doesn't need around-the-clock residential care. The day program gives her access to daily therapy, a clinical team, peer support, and academic structure while allowing her to stay connected to her family and home routine each evening.
She's Stepping Down from Residential Treatment.
Your daughter has completed a residential program — at Imperial or another facility — and she's made real progress. But she's not quite ready to jump straight back into regular life without a safety net. The day program provides a supported bridge, helping her practice the skills she's learned in an environment that's less structured than residential but more supported than outpatient.
Your Family Needs a More Affordable Option.
You know your daughter needs intensive help, and you've explored residential treatment — but the cost is a barrier. We understand. Our day program provides the same clinical quality, the same therapists, and the same evidence-based treatment as our residential program — at a significantly lower cost. We also work with insurance to maximize your coverage. Choosing the day program isn't settling. It's getting your daughter real help within your family's means.
The Same Expert Care — Every Day
One of the things that makes Imperial's Day Program different is that it's not a separate, scaled-back version of our residential program.
Your daughter works with the same licensed therapists, participates in the same evidence-based treatment modalities, and receives the same individualized attention as our residential students. Her treatment plan includes:
Regular one-on-one sessions with a licensed therapist who knows her story and adjusts her plan as she grows.
Daily process groups and DBT skills groups where she builds connections with peers and practices relational skills in real time.
Weekly family sessions are a core part of the day program. Because your daughter is living at home, family therapy takes on even greater importance — you're practicing new skills together every single evening.
Equine therapy, jiu-jitsu, yoga, art, and music aren't extras. They're essential parts of healing that help your daughter process emotions, build confidence, and develop coping skills she'll carry for life.
Our team coordinates with your daughter's prescriber to ensure her medication plan is working and adjusted as needed throughout treatment.
School Doesn't Stop
Academic support is built into every day of the program. Your daughter attends our Cognia-accredited academic program alongside residential students, which means her credits transfer directly to her home school.
Family Healing Happens in Real Time
Here's something unique about the day program: because your daughter comes home each evening, your family becomes the practice ground for everything she's learning in therapy.
That DBT skill she worked on this morning? She's using it at the dinner table tonight. The boundary she set in group therapy? She's testing it with her siblings this weekend.
The communication tool you learned in family therapy? You're using it in real time, not in a hypothetical.
Weekly Family Therapy
You and your daughter will work with a therapist together every week. These sessions focus on rebuilding communication, processing pain, and learning how to support each other through the healing process.
Parent DBT Classes
These classes give you the tools to hold space for your daughter's growth — even on the hard days.
You're not just a visitor in your daughter's healing journey. You're an active participant — every single day.
How We Approach Healing
Your daughter isn't a diagnosis. She's a complex, capable young woman who is struggling — and she needs more than just talk therapy to heal. Our approach integrates clinical therapy, physical wellness, creative expression, and family work because lasting change doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens when every part of her life is supported.
Many of the girls who come to Imperial have experienced trauma — whether that's a single event, ongoing stress, or relational wounds that built up over time. Our entire team is trained to understand how trauma affects the brain and behavior. That means your daughter won't be punished for trauma responses. She'll be met with understanding, taught new skills, and empowered to build a different relationship with her emotions.
We use a model grounded in the stages of change — which simply means we meet your daughter wherever she is in her readiness. Some girls arrive angry and resistant. That's okay. Our team knows how to build trust with girls who don't want to be here yet. We don't force breakthroughs. We create the conditions for them.
Ready to learn more?
Reach out to our admissions team today.
Our Therapies for Individualized Care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Helps your daughter manage intense emotions, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and build healthier ways to cope with distress. She'll learn skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Family Systems Therapy
Strengthens the relationships your daughter comes home to. Family Systems therapy looks at the patterns, roles, and communication habits inside your family and helps each person, parents included, build healthier ways to connect. Because lasting change rarely happens to one person alone.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Helps your daughter work through painful or frightening experiences so the past stops shaping every day. She'll learn to understand what happened, quiet the body's stress response, and build a sense of safety she can carry forward, all at a pace that never pushes faster than she's ready for.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Helps your daughter see the link between her thoughts, feelings, and actions, and change the patterns that keep her stuck. She'll learn to catch unhelpful thinking, question it, and replace it with practical tools she can use long after she leaves us.
Experiential Therapy
Helps your daughter manage intense emotions, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and build healthier ways to cope with distress. She'll learn skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Expressive Arts Therapy
Not every feeling has words, especially at first. Through art, music, writing, and movement, your daughter can express what she's carrying and process it in a way that feels safe and natural. No talent required, just a willingness to try.
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