EDRS offers a variety of programs tailored to meet your needs. We can help you put together a comprehensive recovery support program utilizing our core program components. Our program structure will look different depending if you are working with us alongside your IOP or PHP, or if you are working solely with your outpatient team. EDRS offers three levels of therapeutic recovery support based on your clinical needs and our clinical assessment.
Therapeutic Meal Support and Recovery Program
EDRS provides highly qualified, licensed professionals and recovery specialists for compassionate in-home or at-restaurant meal support and coaching. We help ease your transition through our nationwide Meal Support & Coaching programs.
We Support You By:
- Meeting you at your home, work, school or restaurant of your choice
- Helping you challenge mental barriers that keep you stuck through our therapeutic exposures and skills-based coaching sessions
- We can go to the grocery store with you, and prepare and eat a meal together
Benefits of Therapeutic Meal Support & Coaching:
- Practice normalized eating and challenge your food fears
- Practice being mindful of hunger and fullness cues
- Process thoughts and feelings with an EDRS specialist in a safe, structured environment
Through meal support and coaching, fear around meals and the recovery process will decrease. You will gain trust in yourself and strengthen your recovery voice, feeling empowered to make the best choices for your ongoing recovery.
Campus Companion for College Students
Our meal companions and recovery specialists can meet you on or near campus to meet your recovery needs!
Campus Companions provide the following supplemental services:
- Therapeutic Meal Support
- Therapeutic Support
- Life Skills Coaching
- Sober Coaching
A Campus Companion can be helpful if:
- You have recently returned to school following treatment
- You are struggling to complete meal plan at school
- You are having a difficult time maintaining your weight
- You need accountability and support outside of your therapy and nutrition sessions
- You get overwhelmed trying to manage school and recovery simultaneously
- You are struggling with restricting, bingeing, purging, emotional eating, or excessive exercising
- You are a contract at school to maintain your recovery
- You have both eating disorder and substance abuse issues
Recovery Reminders For Accountability
Based on our personal and professional experience, we know how overwhelming early recovery is. There are so many decisions to make throughout the day and at times it can be paralyzing.In early recovery we have “built-in forgetters”—in a moment we can get so trapped in tunnel vision, anxiety, fear, and ambivalence that we forget why it is necessary to follow the meal plan or let the urge to use behaviors pass.A single moment can make the difference.By receiving a simple, personalized reminder by text, email, or phone call from an EDRS clinician or recovery coach, we can help you stay in line with your daily goals and commitment to recovery.
Parent Programs to Support Your Child
Our College Meal Support and Campus Companion Program helps parents like you care for your child when you cannot always be there. At Eating Disorder Recovery Specialists (EDRS) we provide highly qualified, licensed professionals for in-home or at-college meal support and coaching.
We Support Them By:
- We provide face-to-face, phone, and text support to help your child through his/her most vulnerable times
- We come to their school on their lunch break or for evening meals, or we can also meet them at the restaurant of their choice off campus
- If they are at home or living independently, we come to your/their home and prepare meals together, or order in
We Teach Them To:
- Practice normalized eating and challenge food fears
- Practice being mindful of hunger and fullness cues
- Process thoughts and feelings with an EDRS specialist in a safe, structured environment
Through meal support and coaching, fear around meals and the recovery process will decrease. You will gain trust in yourself and strengthen your recovery voice, feeling empowered to make the best choices for your ongoing recovery.