Imagine Recovery

Set in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District, Imagine Recovery gives adults 18 and older an intimate, stigma-free place to address addiction, co-occurring disorders, and primary mental health conditions. Because substance use exists on a spectrum, Imagine meets people at any stage, including before addiction takes hold. Partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient programs fit around work, school, and family, with master’s-level clinicians, some in recovery, leading every session.

Learn Skills for Recovery

A confidential assessment with the clinical team matches each person to the right program, and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills then anchor care, giving clients practical ways to manage emotions, tolerate distress, and strengthen relationships. Mind-body skills run through every group, alongside narrative therapy and creative work with clay and collage. Weekly individual therapy and psychiatry, with 90-minute evaluations and 30-minute follow-ups for medication management, tie the work together.

Settle into Home-Like Surroundings

Staff welcome every client with dignity in an office designed to feel safe and welcoming, so people can open up in treatment. Groups stay small, and Griff, the resident Emotional Support Specialist and office dog, greets clients most days. Imagine House sober living runs separate houses for men and women, with house managers, weekly family dinners, and alcohol and drug monitoring.

Stay Connected after Treatment

Care steps down from PHP to IOP, then a 12-week outpatient program and aftercare, for more than 6 months of support. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), SMART Recovery, and Recovery Dharma meetings take place at the office each week, including a women-only AA group on Thursdays. A biweekly Zoom support group is open to client and alumni families on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m., so loved ones can join from anywhere.