All members work together to help you achieve the best and healthiest results for you. Following is a description of the services offered according to specialty area. While individual counseling is optional, the team requires each person to participate in a weekly group. Educational material will be presented in approximately half the group sessions and subsequent sessions will be used to discuss these issues as they relate to each member. Group counseling is scheduled for 8 weeks and members are asked to attend each session for the 8 week duration.
Some clients also benefit from individual counseling.
They may be assigned a counselor with whom they can meet on a regular basis to process issues both related and unrelated to their eating disorder. Nutrition Individualized nutrition education is a vital component in the treatment of eating disorders. Because many people with disordered eating follow rigid diet rules and have chaotic eating patterns, one of the primary goals of nutrition intervention is to assist the client in changing food behaviors in an incremental fashion until food intake patterns are normalized. The nutrition contribution of the team approach deals with correcting malnourishment problems, assisting the individual to maintain a weight that is healthful for that individual without using abnormal food- weight related behaviors, and helping one learn to be comfortable in social eating situations. Information will be gathered about each client's current lifestyle, stress and activity levels, postural habits, feelings about exercise and any current injuries.