About us
A home built for the middle of the journey
The hardest part of recovery is often not the beginning or the end — it's the middle, when treatment ends and ordinary life begins again. The Ginger House exists for exactly that season.
Our mission
To hold a safe, warm middle ground
The Ginger House provides a structured, home-like residence where women and girls recovering from eating disorders can practice everyday life with support close at hand. We bridge the space between residential treatment and full independence — protecting the progress that treatment made possible, and turning it into durable, lived habit.
We are not a hospital and we don’t try to feel like one. We are a household: staffed by people who know this work deeply, organized around a rhythm that makes recovery easier, and committed to each resident’s own treatment team and goals.
The home itself
Warm, non-institutional, deliberately ordinary
Natural light in every room. A kitchen that belongs to everyone. Bedrooms that residents make their own, a garden that needs tending, a porch that invites long conversations. Nothing about the house looks or feels clinical — because the goal is a life that doesn’t, either.
Meals are shared at one table, as community rather than pressure — an ordinary act of being a household together, supported quietly and without surveillance. The house keeps a steady, predictable rhythm, and inside that rhythm there is real freedom.
Our values
What we hold to
Dignity
Residents are adults-in-progress and young women finding their footing — never patients to be managed. Every house practice starts from respect.
Honesty
We say what we know, what we don't, and what we recommend — to residents, families, and clinicians alike. Trust is built in plain language.
Patience
Recovery keeps its own calendar. We hold structure steadily and let growth happen at the pace it actually happens.
Community
Healing is easier witnessed and shared. Housemates, staff, and families form a circle that no one has to recover inside alone.
Our philosophy of transitional care
Independence is practiced, not prescribed
Residential treatment builds skills in a protected environment. Life asks those skills to work in unprotected ones — school hallways, grocery stores, first apartments. Transitional care is the deliberate practice in between: real responsibilities, taken on gradually, with support that steps back as confidence steps forward.
That’s why our program looks like a life rather than a schedule of appointments. Every week at The Ginger House is a rehearsal for the week after residents leave — until one day the rehearsal simply becomes the life.
When you're ready, we're here
One confidential conversation — no pressure, no obligation. We'll listen first, answer honestly, and help you find the right next step even if it isn't with us.
We respond to every inquiry within 1 business day.