Psychiatric Evaluation: Psychiatric evaluations are used to determine if the person’s eating disorder is the primary difficulty or secondary to another psychiatric problem, to provide input into the treatment planning, and assess if medication is needed. Many people with eating disorders derive great benefit from the use of medication.

Nutritional Consultation: This session will focus on the evaluation of current food intake, eating schedules, and accuracy of nutrition knowledge. Recommendations are made on taking the first steps towards healthy eating behaviors.

Life Skills Group: Our Life Skills Group is structured to provide an intensive learning experience. This psycho educational group involves utilizing an educational format to teach people with eating disorders skills which will have a therapeutic effect on their psychological, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and inter-personal functioning. These skills are taught through the use of didactic presentation, group discussion modeling and role playing.

Nutritional Guidance Group: The Nutrition Group is to help people restructure their eating behaviors by learning to select a nutritionally sound diverse array of food conducive to the establishment and maintenance of health. The group process will involve topics such as

    meal planning,
    factors affecting the overall metabolism,
    food and mood,
    what is normal eating,
    vitamins and minerals,
    coping with stress response to food.

We use a bio-social model of nutritional counseling addressing the psycho-social, cultural and medical components.