Eating Disorder Treatment

The Women's Center for Healthy Living and their Eating Disorder Treatment Program

Eating disorder treatment is designed to help those who suffer from eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, or binge eating disorder. Eating disorder treatment centers are facilities such as residential centers or hospitals that offer medical and psychological treatment for eating disorders.

The First Step of Eating Disorder Treatment: Understanding Eating Disorders

Eating disorders, or EDs, are defined as psychological disorders that affect a person's relationship with body image and food. Those suffering from eating disorders have a loss of control over eating, or participate in purging or excessive exercising, and continue the behavior despite the consequences.

Eating Disorder Treatment Centers

An eating disorder treatment center consists of several different components to help each individual patient recover from his or her illness. The following are some typical types of treatments that The Women's Center eating disorder treatment program offers.

Psychological Counseling: Psychological counseling addresses not only the symptoms of eating disorders, but also the underlying causes of the illness. Psychological therapy helps patients learn how to change their attitudes and behaviors about food and their bodies.

Nutritional Therapy: This is an essential part of eating disorder treatment. Dieticians help ED patients keep a food journal and learn how to eat for health.

Weight Loss Programs: Weight loss programs may be a part of eating disorder treatment, especially for patients with binge eating disorder, which has a high risk for obesity. It is believed that weigh loss will promote a more positive body image and help the ED recovery progress.

Dual Diagnosis Treatment: Eating disorders sometime occur in conjunction with other problems, such as substance abuse or depression. Our eating disorder treatment center addresses co-occurring disorders during treatment.

The Women's Center for Healthy Living tailors eating disorder treatment to include psychological, nutritional and medical services to accommodate each patient as a whole.

The Women's Center for Healthy Living is a safe, effective eating disorder treatment center that can help you recover from this difficult illness. Call us toll-free at 1-800-237-3150. Staff is available 24/7, and all calls are confidential.