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- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Meal Exposure Therapy
- Trauma Resolution
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Exposure and Response Therapy (ERP)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Equine Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Music & Movement
- Group Recreation
- Yoga
- Creative Writing
- Challenge Course
- Hands-on Culinary Approach
- State-of-the-art Brain Center
- Survivors Week
- The Meadows Model
- Cutting-edge Metabolic Cart
- On-site Schooling
- Meadows Senior Fellows
- Family Week
Confronting “The Enemy”
One of the major tasks of eating disorder treatment is helping patients realize that food is not the enemy. We look at the thoughts, events, and emotions tied to their association with food, and we slowly start to unwind those. At the same time, we are incorporating positive experiences with food. We don’t treat eating disorders as an addiction because you can’t stop eating. The reality is that they do have to eat every day for the rest of their lives to survive, so we need to teach them to be around food on a regular basis.