Remedy TherapyTampa Eating Disorder Treatment

We want to start with ensuring each of our clients is safe physically, and that means getting the right nutrition and hydration. With an initial assessment, we can create customized eating plans and nutritional education. We want to encourage our clients to better understand the nutrition that they need through things like one-on-one meal planning and nutritional education. This all starts with medical monitoring and, where necessary, medical interventions.

By checking vital signs, our team can regularly administer any necessary medical interventions and ensure that nutrition plans provide appropriate nutrition and hydration. During their stay, clients will enjoy a structured environment that includes participation in daily activities such as individual and group therapy sessions, regular meal times, and other therapeutic activities like mindfulness. Our goal is to help each client establish a healthy routine while also building strategies and coping skills to manage eating disorder behaviors in a healthier way.

• For some clients, this means a deeper understanding through intensive therapy of the emotional causes behind eating behaviors
• For some clients, this means understanding the way that media has distorted their perceptions of body image and self, relating to eating behaviors
• For some clients, this means working through mindfulness to sit with discomfort and emotions instead of turning to impulsive eating behaviors 

During residential treatment, we give clients access to evidence-based interventions that are tailored to every client’s needs and that can include things like dialectical behavioral therapy, experiential therapy, nutritional counseling, and family therapy. The goal is to understand what factors are contributing on a personal level to each eating disorder and, from there, to help ensure long-term recovery with healthy coping skills.

Achieving sustained recovery means getting support not just from staff but from other peers who understand the challenges of having an eating disorder. To facilitate this level of peer support, we encourage recreational activities that promote support from the community, have group meal times, and group therapy sessions. This makes it easier for clients to learn from one another. 

A big part of our program is offering one-on-one sessions with a trained psychologist. Our eating disorder psychologists in Tampa can help each client better understand things that might have contributed to their eating behaviors, like family dynamics, unresolved trauma, media portrayals, incorrect ideas about body image, or a co-occurring mental health disorder.

Family therapy is another key aspect of our treatment program, providing some clients with the opportunity to work with their family members on rebuilding communication in a healthier fashion or changing family dynamics in a way that better facilitates healthy eating habits. 

Group therapy sessions can be applied to all types of treatment at our center, including nutritional education sessions, meals, and therapy sessions. In each of these forms, the treatment received is facilitated by a trained psychologist or other qualified professional and is designed to encourage collaboration. We want each of our clients to share their experiences, to learn from one another, and to recognize that they don’t have to live in isolation or fear because other people have gone through and are going through the same struggles.

We also focus on experiential therapy, providing access to things like:

• Mindfulness
• Body Image Therapy
• Nutrition Education

Experiential therapy can provide coping skills and boost self-esteem in a way that contributes to long-term success and diminishes the risk of a relapse. When individuals have a better understanding of how the media might negatively or incorrectly portray body image combined with mindfulness and nutrition education, they can sit with initial discomfort triggered by seeing something on social media, mindfully accept what they are feeling without judgment but also recognize that those feelings are incorrect, and turn to healthier eating habits instead of impulsive and maladaptive eating habits.

At Remedy Therapy Center, we understand that many clients need continued care after a residential program, and that is why we work collaboratively with our clients and their families to develop an aftercare program that can include a transition to lower levels of care, such as flexible outpatient programs and attendance at support groups.

While residential treatment provides a chance to step away from one’s environment and the triggers or stresses within that environment, continued outpatient support can help individuals practice the skills they gained and use the insights gleaned during residential care while slowly returning to regular life.