EXHIBIT 99.4
 
                                 FOR TENDER OF
              9 3/4% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2008, SERIES A
                                IN EXCHANGE FOR
              9 3/4% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2008, SERIES B
                                      OF
 
                    EVEREST HEALTHCARE SERVICES CORPORATION
 
 THE EXCHANGE OFFER AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW
 YORK CITY TIME, ON               , 1998 UNLESS EXTENDED (THE "EXPIRATION
 DATE").
 
 
To Our Clients:
 
  We are enclosing a Prospectus dated                , 1998 (the "Prospectus")
of Everest Healthcare Services Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), and a related Letter of Transmittal (which together constitute the
"Exchange Offer") relating to the offer by the Company to exchange its 9 3/4%
Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2008, Series B (the "Exchange Notes"), which
have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), for a like principal amount of its issued and outstanding 9
3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2008, Series A (the "Private Notes"), upon
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer.
 
  The Exchange Offer is not conditioned upon any minimum number of the Private
Notes being tendered.
 
  We are the holder of record of the Private Notes held by us for your
account. A tender of the Private Notes can be made only by us as the record
holder and pursuant to your instructions. The Letter of Transmittal is
furnished to you for your information only and cannot be used by you to tender
the Private Notes held by us for your account.
 
  We request instructions as to whether you wish to tender any or all of the
Private Notes held by us for your account pursuant to the terms and conditions
of the Exchange Offer. We also request that you confirm that we may on your
behalf make the representations contained in the Letter of Transmittal.
 
  Pursuant to the Letter of Transmittal, each holder of the Private Notes will
represent to the Company that (i) the Exchange Notes to be acquired by the
undersigned and any beneficial owner(s) of the tendered Private Notes in
connection with the Exchange Offer are being acquired by the undersigned and
any beneficial owner(s) in the ordinary course of business of the undersigned
and any beneficial owner(s), (ii) the undersigned and each beneficial owner
are not participating, do not intend to participate, and have no arrangement
or understanding with any person to participate, in the distribution of the
Exchange Notes, (iii) except as otherwise disclosed in writing herewith,
neither the undersigned nor any beneficial owner is an "affiliate," as defined
in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, of the Company or any Subsidiary
Guarantor, and (iv) the undersigned and each beneficial owner acknowledge and
agree that any person participating in the Exchange Offer with the intention
or for the purpose of distributing the Exchange Notes must comply with the
registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in
connection with a secondary resale of the Exchange Notes acquired by such
person and cannot rely on the position of the staff of the Securities and
Exchange Commission set forth in the no-action letters that are discussed in
the section of the Prospectus entitled "The Exchange Offer." In addition, by
accepting the Exchange Offer, the undersigned will (i) represent and warrant
that, if the undersigned or any beneficial owner of the tendered Private Notes
is a Participating Broker-Dealer (as defined in the Prospectus), such
Participating Broker-Dealer acquired the Private Notes for its own account as
a result of market-making activities or other trading activities and has not
entered into any arrangement or understanding

 
with the Company or any "affiliate" of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor
(within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) to distribute the
Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer, and (ii) acknowledges
that, by receiving the Exchange Notes for its own account in exchange for the
Private Notes, where the Private Notes were acquired as a result of market-
making activities or other trading activities, the Participating Broker-Dealer
will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in
connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes. By acknowledging that it
will deliver and by delivering a prospectus meeting the requirements of the
Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Notes, the
undersigned is not deemed to admit that it is an "underwriter" within the
meaning of the Securities Act.
 
                                          Very truly yours,
 
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