Routes from 9 Texas citiesAdults 18+In person in Austin
An eating disorder PHP in Texas for adults who need real structure, every treatment day.
Empowered Treatment runs an adult eating disorder PHP in Austin, Texas, where partial hospitalization means 30 hours a week of supported meals, groups, therapy, dietitian care, and medical and psychiatric monitoring at our center. If you are a Texan weighing residential treatment against something less disruptive, PHP is our most structured level of care, and our Hyde Park house makes it reachable from every part of the state.
9cities, one center
Approximate miles by car, closest first
- Round Rockabout 17 mi
- Killeen-Templeabout 70 mi
- San Antonioabout 80 mi
- Wacoabout 100 mi
- College Stationabout 110 mi
- Houstonabout 165 mi
- Dallas-Fort Worthabout 195 mi
- Corpus Christiabout 220 mi
- McAllenabout 320 mi
- 30 hrsa week in partial hospitalization: supported meals, groups, therapy, dietitian, medical and psychiatric care
- 9 hrsa week of group programming in IOP, plus weekly individual and dietitian sessions
- 1 housein Hyde Park, alongside PHP or IOP, with shared meals and a room of your own
- 18+adults only, with every hour of care in person at our Austin center
Full treatment days, built around the moments that matter most.
A partial hospitalization program, often called day treatment, gives you full treatment days at the center, then evenings and nights in your own bed, at home or in our Hyde Park house. At Empowered, PHP happens in person in Northwest Austin: several supported meals and snacks, skills and process groups, individual therapy, dietitian sessions, and oversight from medical and psychiatric providers, all inside the same program.
Texans looking for help often find two options that seem far apart: an hour of therapy each week, or a residential program that means leaving home entirely. PHP sits between them. It brings much of the clinical intensity of residential care into the daytime, then lets you spend evenings in our Hyde Park house or your own home, depending on how far you live from Austin.
Our partial hospitalization program at our Austin center has the full detail. If you are unsure whether you need this much support, eating disorder IOP in Texas describes the step below, and our guide to levels of care compares all of them side by side.
Where PHP fits, and when a higher level of care comes first.
The right level of care depends on your body, your behaviors, and how much support your days need. These signs point toward PHP, and the last one points past it:
- Meals on your own keep going wrong.Left to yourself, meal after meal ends in skipping, bingeing, or purging, and weekly sessions have not shifted the pattern.
- Your health needs watching more often.Labs, vitals, or medication changes need closer follow-up than an outpatient doctor can give.
- You are leaving residential care.A residential program got you medically stable, and dropping straight to weekly therapy feels like stepping off a ledge.
- IOP has not been enough.You tried intensive outpatient care or regular therapy, and the behaviors held their ground.
- Safety comes before PHP.If your heart, electrolytes, or weight are in a dangerous range, or you need supervision overnight, a higher level of care is the safer start. We do not offer residential or inpatient care, and we will help you find it.
You do not have to decide this alone. The first call and the assessment are where we work it out with you, and we will tell you honestly if PHP is not the right level.
What a PHP week holds, and why each part is there.
PHP at Empowered is not simply more of the same therapy. The extra time buys repetition around meals, where eating disorders do much of their damage, and a team present right after a meal, when the urge to restrict or compensate is often strongest.
Meals and snacks with clinical support
You eat with dietitians and clinicians in the room several times across the treatment day, then talk through what came up while it is still fresh.
Groups for skills and for company
Skills groups teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Process groups give you people who understand, which makes the rest easier to bear.
Individual therapy and dietitian care
Your individual therapist knows eating disorders and trauma well and chooses among CBT, DBT, EMDR, somatic work, and approaches informed by IFS to suit you. Your dietitian revises the meal plan as your body changes.
Medical and psychiatric oversight
Our medical and psychiatric providers manage medication and follow labs and vitals, which matters most while nutrition and weight are being restored.
When nutrition has fallen far, PHP is usually the starting point; the pages on anorexia treatment in Texas and ARFID treatment in Texas show how the day is shaped for each.
PHP in Austin works from every Texas city once you know where you will sleep.
Because PHP fills most of the day, the drive matters more here than at any other level of care. From Round Rock, about 17 miles out, commuting home each night is realistic. From Killeen-Temple, about 70 miles, San Antonio, about 80 miles, or Waco, about 100 miles, the round trip on top of a full treatment day is hard to sustain, so PHP usually pairs with a room in our transitional housing in Hyde Park.
From Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, College Station, Corpus Christi, or McAllen, the house is how PHP works at all. It is a real home, not a facility: shared meals, a bedroom of your own, and a short drive across Austin to the center.
- A call about what is happening nowWe ask about behaviors, health, and past treatment, and tell you plainly whether PHP, IOP, or a residential referral looks right.
- Coverage for PHP, checked firstWe can check your benefits before you decide, including any authorization your plan requires for partial hospitalization.
- An assessment in personYou meet the team in Austin. Bring recent labs if a doctor at home has run them.
- Arrival, and a room if you need oneIf you are staying in the house, we coordinate the move-in with your start. Ask us directly about cost and availability.
The transitional house in Hyde Park. See transitional housing in Hyde Park
PHP is a stage, and the next one is planned before you start.
From the first week, your team is already thinking about what follows PHP: a step down to IOP in Austin, then care with providers in your own Texas city. With your written permission, we keep your therapist, dietitian, or physician at home informed along the way, so the eventual handoff feels like a continuation rather than a restart.
If you are stepping down to us from a residential program elsewhere in Texas, we coordinate with that team as well. Families can join our family education, and these statewide resources can stay with you after discharge:
- Texas Department of InsuranceFree help if a plan delays or denies authorization for partial hospitalization and you want to appeal.
- 988 Suicide and Crisis LifelineCall or text 988 at any hour once you are home, if a hard stretch becomes a crisis.
- Eating disorder PHP in TexasThirty hours a week of structured care at our Austin center.This page
- Eating disorder treatment in TexasThe full picture: levels of care, the team, and how adults decide what fits.→
- Eating disorder IOP in TexasNine hours a week of groups, plus weekly individual and dietitian sessions.→
- Anorexia treatment in TexasRestriction, weight restoration, and the fear underneath both.→
- ARFID treatment in TexasAdult care for food avoidance driven by fear, texture, or low appetite.→
What Texans ask about PHP before they call.
Straight answers to the questions we hear most. If yours is not here, call and ask it.
What happens in the first week of PHP, before the routine feels familiar?
The first week of PHP is mostly about getting your bearings. You meet your therapist, dietitian, and medical and psychiatric providers, begin a meal plan, and join groups with adults who have been where you are. Meals may feel hard at first, and clinicians sit with you through them. If you are new to the Hyde Park house too, the first evenings there are part of settling in.
How many hours a week is PHP?
PHP at Empowered is 30 hours a week, all in person at our center in Northwest Austin. Those hours hold supported meals and snacks, groups, individual therapy, dietitian care, and medical and psychiatric monitoring. PHP fills so much of the week that, from outside the Austin area, it usually pairs with our transitional housing in Hyde Park.
How do I know whether I need PHP or IOP?
The difference is how much of your day the eating disorder controls. PHP fits when most meals need support or your health needs close watching; IOP fits when you can manage a good share of meals on your own but need more than weekly therapy. You do not have to decide alone: the first call and the assessment in Austin settle it, and the levels of care guide lays out the full comparison.
What medical and psychiatric care is included in PHP?
Medical and psychiatric monitoring is built into PHP rather than added on. Our providers follow labs and vitals, manage medication, and watch for complications such as electrolyte shifts or problems during weight restoration. If something needs a hospital or a specialist, we will tell you and help arrange it. With your permission, we also keep your doctor at home updated.
If weekly care is not holding, let us talk about full treatment days.
Call our team about what is happening, whether PHP or a residential referral fits, and how you would get to Austin from where you live.