Eating Disorder Recovery Services for Adults and Adolescents
Intensive Outpatient Therapy (IOP)
IOP Program Components:
Our innovative eating disorder virtual IOP seamlessly melds the unique, individualized care in the EDRS model with traditional eating disorder treatment modalities, ensuring that we meet you or your loved one precisely where you are on your recovery journey.
Our flexible IOP model includes:
Weekly treatment planning session dedicated to crafting and upholding a personalized care plan aimed at achieving your recovery goals while in EDRS IOP Care.
Weekly nutrition counseling led by a registered dietitian, tailored to assist you in achieving your unique nutritional needs.
Weekly schedule of care incorporating meal and therapy groups, with added flexibility to accommodate your other life commitments while still focusing on recovery.
Individualized step-down plans integrating 1:1 coaching, outpatient therapy, and outpatient nutrition counseling to support you in maintaining your progress.
Dedicated team of providers to oversee your care.
Intensive case management and collaboration with your outside providers.
We are currently in-network with Anthem BCBS and Aetna for IOP. Private pay options available. Program open to adults (18+).
We are here to walk alongside you on your path to healing. We work with clients who struggle with eating disorders, disordered eating, and co-occurring anxiety, mood, and trauma-related disorders.
Every client is unique and there isn’t one approach that is right for all. We use an array of therapy modalities to help best support you. Our team of eating disorder specialists are trained in the following modalities:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EDRS provides individual nutrition therapy to help you develop a better relationship with food, and provide accountability and support in meeting your personal nutritional goals.
Following an initial assessment to review your food, exercise, lifestyle, and medical history, we offer weekly and biweekly sessions to support your goals. Our registered dietitian will develop a plan of support with you and will review the plan each week.
Sessions look different for each person depending on where they are in their recovery process. Here are examples of what sessions may include:
Decreases anxiety around eating “fear foods”
Creating a food plan that meets your needs and lifestyle
Challenging fear foods and food rules
Reducing eating disorder symptoms and behaviors
Identifying and listening to hunger and fullness cues
Meal support provides therapeutic and emotional support to help you stay on track with your meal plan. Eating Disorder Recovery Specialists provides personalized 1:1 meal support tailored to help you meet your unique recovery goals.
Delivered by highly qualified, licensed professionals, our recovery specialists will meet you virtually for supported meals.
Our EDRS Intake Team will assess your needs and create a personalized support plan tailored to your recovery goals. Please note, meal support and recovery coaching are not substitutes for higher levels of care. If you require more intensive treatment, explore our Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Program.
We Support Clients with Meal Support in the Following Ways:
Meals made at home
Ordering take-out
Restaurant meal support
Challenge meals and snacks
Assistance and accountability with portioning
Cooking together & eating a meal
EDRS Meal support is a structured, therapeutic session that has 3 parts:
Pre-Meal Check-in
Eating the Meal
Post-Meal Check-in
Benefits of meal support
Decreases anxiety around eating “fear foods” at home and at restaurants
Therapeutic exposures to challenge meals and eating at restaurants
Challenges eating disorder rules and rituals
Allows clients to practice ordering off of a menu
Allows your home and community to become a safe place for meals
Increases mindfulness around eating pace and hunger/fullness cues
Creates and ensures accountability for following meal plans
Assists with weight restoration
When is meal support helpful?
Additional support: For clients in outpatient therapy and nutrition who need help completing their meal plan goals and/or weight restoration.
Adjunctive support: For clients in an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) or Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) program and need 1:1 support outside of program.
At-Your-Pace support: Clients who need a higher level of care, but are not ready to tolerate the pace of a traditional group treatment program.
Transition support: Clients who are stepping down from inpatient or residential into a PHP or IOP program and need help during the transition in levels of care to maintain progress.
Preventative support: Clients who have never been in a treatment program and want to implement 1:1 support as an alternative to being in a formal program.
Alternative treatment support: Clients who have been in traditional treatment and need highly individualized support .
Early recovery from an eating disorder is a vulnerable time. Working with a recovery coach can help you stay on track and have additional support and accountability outside of therapy sessions or your treatment program.
Based on you unique goals, recovery coaching sessions may include:
Skills to work on body image and body anxiety
Identify relapse warning signs and action steps
Strengthening your “Recovery Self”
Creating recovery goals that are separate from food
Sessions to help build internal motivation
Accountability check-ins for using recovery skills
Identifying and practicing coping skills, such as CBT & DBT
Assisting you with managing life and recovery simultaneously
Creating a strategy for specific activities and events that create stress and social anxiety
Support around life skills, organization, educational, and occupational goals
Therapeutic exposures around tasks that cause anxiety & avoidance
We understand that eating disorders affect the entire family. The power of eating disorders leave family members feeling helpless, exhausted, and walking on eggshells, unsure as to how to help or what to say. We are here not only to help you support your loved one who has an eating disorder, but also to provide you with support for yourself.
We offer individualized 1:1 sessions to provide skills and support to help you navigate the recovery process of your loved ones.
