Our Philosophy and Goals

We have found the most effective person to reach someone with an eating disorder is another person who has been there too. Many of our staff have years of recovery themselves. Relating in this manner immediately removes the shame and guilt associated with anorexia bulimia. Our licensed professionals instill hope and model a productive life of recovery. We inspire our clients to a life beyond physical recovery, living up to their potential.

Our philosophy is to help our clients get in touch with Self and internalize their own controls by learning appropriate techniques and tools to use in place of the food. Our goal is to help clients get in touch with themselves, be true to themselves, and care for themselves in healthy ways. We measure the success of our eating disorder programs on how our clients:

• Become more self-aware of their body, feelings, and individual food triggers
• Deal with issues that are contributing to the disordered eating without using food
• Become more engaged in the outside world
• Identify emotional eating and substitute appropriate alternatives
• Focus on internal indicators of well-being rather than external ones
• Reduce obsessive thoughts of food, weight, finding diets that work, and body image
• Calm and center themselves and communicate their needs in an assertive, compassionate manner
• Use food for physical nourishment and understand the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger
• Eat when hungry and stop when full
• Determine healthy portion sizes, make healthy food choices, and learn the effects of different foods on their bodies and emotions