The Renfrew Center White Plains

The Renfrew Center White Plains is an outpatient practice on Westchester Avenue in White Plains, New York, and it has been accredited by the Joint Commission since 1985. The center serves adolescent girls and women, including transgender women and non-binary people, along with their families. Its care focuses on eating disorders, and the clinical team also screens for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and co-occurring conditions such as substance use.

Three outpatient tracks are offered at the center, and every one can be delivered virtually. Day treatment is the most structured, meeting five days a week and including two meals and snacks. The intensive outpatient program meets three times weekly with one meal. Standard outpatient suits people who want weekly individual, family or group therapy. All three rely on a shared set of evidence-based and gender-specific approaches, and each client's plan is personalized.

This guide and this page do not provide treatment, and nothing on them diagnoses a person. Trained advisors staff the helpline tied to this guide; they can discuss options and link callers to licensed providers, with no cost and no commitment. They can also help callers find out whether The Renfrew Center White Plains has an opening that fits.

Care levels and therapies at Renfrew

Among the options in White Plains, day treatment carries the highest level of intensity. It fits a person leaving residential care, or someone who wants a structured schedule without staying overnight. Day treatment at The Renfrew Center White Plains meets five days a week with meals included, bringing together group and individual therapy, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, nutrition therapy and expressive work.

Someone who needs more support than a weekly appointment but does not require a full day of programming may find the middle ground in the intensive outpatient track. This White Plains intensive outpatient program meets three times a week with one meal per day, and also includes group therapy, psychiatric services, nutrition consultation and psychoeducation. Weekly individual, family or group therapy is what the standard outpatient track provides. What the three levels offer overall spans family therapy, group counseling, art and dance therapy, nutrition counseling and trauma-specific work, along with dialectical behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.

1. Trauma-Specific Therapy
2. Dialectical Behavior Therapy
3. Dance Therapy
4. Nutrition Counseling
5. Family Therapy
6. Art Therapy
7. 1-on-1 Counseling
8. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
9. Personalized Treatment
10. Gender-Specific

Who this White Plains program is built

1. Adolescent girls who need structured eating disorder care while living at home
2. Women, among them transgender women and non-binary people
3. People stepping down from residential eating disorder treatment
4. Clients who need more support than weekly outpatient therapy
5. People with co-occurring trauma, PTSD or substance use concerns

Days in care, group size, and languages

Programs at this White Plains center usually run 30 or more days, and length is adjusted to the individual and the track selected. Sessions are held in English, and the practice offers virtual participation across all three outpatient programs so clients in New York and Connecticut can attend remotely. The center holds Joint Commission accreditation, which is worth confirming when you call about a specific level of care.

Paying for care at Renfrew White Plains

This center lists its cash pay rates, and what a program costs depends on the track a person enters and the length of their stay. Questions about insurance must be directed to the center itself, so plan on calling to ask which plans it takes and what your portion would come to. The helpline can help you get that conversation about coverage and availability going.

What to ask before starting at this

1. Which of the outpatient tracks suits my symptoms and my schedule, and how often each week does it meet?
2. Will my insurance plan pay for day treatment or the intensive outpatient program at this location?
3. What are the cash pay rates for each level of care?
4. How are trauma and co-occurring substance use addressed alongside an eating disorder?
5. Can I attend virtually, and which sessions require being on site?