Day Care Programmes

Our Day Care Programme is TRC’s highest level of care, designed to provide support for young people who are struggling with complex or persistent mental health challenges. It bridges the gap between outpatient therapy and inpatient treatment, offering an intensive, therapeutic alternative for clients who need more structure and input to manage emotional distress, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, or self-destructive behaviours.

Each Day Care plan is completely bespoke, developed around the client’s individual needs, goals, and circumstances. Treatment will be designed to evolve with you, adapting in response to your progress.

Getting Started

The first step is an Initial Consultation with one of our Directors, this consultation begins the process of understanding specific needs, challenges, and hopes for treatment.

A two-week assessment programme is then developed, allowing us to get to know you while giving you the opportunity to meet your team of consultants. During this time, we begin to build trust and form a shared understanding of your difficulties, exploring how we can best support your recovery.

At the end your assessment, you and your family will meet with one of our Directors and your Case Manager for a Review Meeting. Here, your team will share their recommendations for ongoing treatment. If appropriate, we will discuss involving external professionals (such as school staff) as part of a coordinated Care Programme Approach.

What Your Programme Might Include

At TRC, we work holistically and collaboratively. Your multidisciplinary team is carefully selected based on your needs and may include:

Psychiatry to support diagnosis, medication management, and ongoing clinical oversight.
Individual Psychotherapy to help you explore and process emotional experiences in a safe, supportive space.
Nutritional Therapy is particularly important in eating disorder recovery or where food and mood are linked.
Mindfulness & Anxiety Reduction (including practices like meditation, art therapy or yoga).
Mentoring & Life Coaching includes practical support and guidance through difficult transitions or recovery milestones.
Group Therapy to explore relational patterns and build emotional resilience in a safe peer setting.
Family Therapy & Psychoeducation – involving parents/guardians to strengthen communication, reduce conflict, and build a shared understanding of mental health

We also offer parental support sessions and sibling-focused work, where appropriate, to ensure the whole family is equipped and empowered.

We understand that recovery is not linear, regular reviews and check-ins are built into the structure of the programme to ensure we remain responsive to your evolving needs. Whether that means increasing support, changing the therapy focus, or scaling down as you become more stable and independent, we will be here to support you every step of the way.

Our Day Care clients attend TRC for a structured number of days per week, typically ranging from 2 to 5 days, depending on clinical need. The setting is therapeutic and warm, designed to feel safe and calm, with private therapy rooms, group spaces, and relaxation areas.

Who is our Day Care Programme For?

This programme may be right for you if:

You are struggling to the extent that weekly therapy is no longer enough.
You are managing an eating disorder, trauma, anxiety or depression that is impacting school, relationships or daily life.
You need wraparound support from a clinical team rather than a single therapist.
You are returning from an inpatient stay and need structured reintegration.

FAQs

What does a typical week in the programme look like?

Each client’s schedule is bespoke, but most attend between 2 and 5 days per week. A typical week might include a combination of individual therapy, group sessions, psychiatry, nutritional support, mindfulness-based activities, and family work – all delivered in a safe, structured, and therapeutic setting.

How is the programme different from inpatient treatment?

Unlike inpatient care, our Day Care Programme allows clients to return home each evening, while still receiving intensive therapeutic input during the day. It provides a high level of support within a flexible, community-based environment, ideal for those who need more than weekly therapy but don’t require 24-hour care.

How long does the programme last?

There is no fixed duration for the Day Care Programme, it is tailored to your progress and evolving needs. Some clients attend for several weeks, while others benefit from longer-term support. Regular reviews ensure the programme adapts over time, with the goal of building stability, independence, and resilience.

What Our Clients Say

I credit this amazing community of practitioners with helping to save my teenage son’s life. After casting around for help in a woefully overstretched CAMHS and then approaching individual private mental health practitioners one by one for our severely struggling 13-year-old, we thankfully landed at this wonderful one-stop shop of psychotherapists, dieticians and psychiatrists. Together they helped him and us join the dots of what was behind his mental health struggles. He then spent the best part of two years as part of the TRC family, lunching there, engaging in group therapy, art therapy and massage therapy and lots and lots of talking. And when he didn’t feel like talking, he just went for walks with the empathetic therapists. And TRC also helped us, as parents, navigate our way through a very difficult family time. I’m glad to say that our son has finally been able to return to education. His mental health struggles are not over but I’m relieved to say that TRC don’t give up on their clients/patients. Our son is now 17 and, while he is now functioning in the world in a way we never anticipated, he continues to see the therapists at TRC and we know that he will always be made to feel welcome and safe.

Parent

Our daughter has been helped enormously by the TRC team. The programme initially put in place was totally personalised to her individual needs and she was guided through her eating disorder struggles by a mixture of individual therapy, group therapy, nutritionist work, supervised meals and psychiatric input. The benefits of having all aspects of her treatment under one roof proved to be invaluable. TRC was, and I think will always be, a safe place for her to voice her true feelings and realise she is not alone. We are immensely proud of her and how far she has come – to battle an eating disorder is a huge challenge – and praise must go to the TRC approach and the patient, kind and nurturing environment that enables this.

Parent