When Your Child Won't Eat,
We Bring Intensive, Expert Support Into Your Home.

Built First for Anorexia and Bulimia.

At its core, this intensive treats anorexia and bulimia: the restriction, the bingeing and purging, the fear of weight gain, and the medical and nutritional realities of renourishment. Everything else is built around getting nutrition restored and eating-disorder behaviors interrupted, because nothing else in treatment can take hold until that work is underway.

For teens, we anchor treatment in FBT.

For adolescents, Family-Based Treatment is the anchor. FBT empowers parents to take charge of renourishment at home, with our clinician coaching them through meals, limit-setting, and the eating disorder's resistance in real time. It does not wait for the teen to be motivated; it restores the physical conditions under which recovery becomes possible in the first place. This is the foundation, and it stays the priority.

Alongside FBT, we treat the patient individually.

Renourishment alone is rarely the whole story. So alongside FBT (and, for adults, as the primary treatment itself), we engage the patient in individual work that addresses the maintaining mechanisms specific to their eating disorder: the overvaluation of shape and weight, the rules and rituals, the body checking, the cognitive patterns that keep the disorder running (the work of CBT-E). The balance is clinical and deliberate: as long as FBT is going well and nutrition is on track, we expand the individual work; if the eating disorder reasserts itself, FBT comes back to the front. The two move together, with weight and behavior change always setting the pace.

And we treat what comes with it, because that is the norm, not the exception.

Eating disorders almost never arrive alone. OCD and anxiety disorders co-occur with anorexia and bulimia at strikingly high rates: contamination fears, "just right" rituals, intrusive harm thoughts, social anxiety, and a deep intolerance of uncertainty that sits underneath the eating disorder and feeds the restriction and rigidity. Treating the eating disorder while ignoring these is how recovery stalls. So the same individual work that targets the eating disorder's mechanisms also weaves in ERP for the co-occurring OCD and anxiety. And for adolescents, we can run the FAM Model (FBT-Anchored Modular Model), an approach Dr. Zach Appenzeller developed to treat the whole person without ever loosening the anchor. FBT is non-negotiable: for adolescents, nourishment comes first and parents are empowered to deliver it. But the modules run alongside FBT, not after it: for as long as the teen has willingness to engage, CBT-E runs concurrently to work on the eating disorder directly; when OCD is part of the picture, ERP principles are woven in from the start, helping the teen sit with uncertainty at exactly the moments refeeding provokes it, while parents keep refeeding; and when severe dysregulation threatens the work, DBT or RO-DBT skills are added, not a detour from FBT but an enhancement of it; and when oppositional or explosive behavior disrupts the family's ability to run treatment, PMT is added to restore it; and when trauma is part of what maintains the picture, PE or CPT joins the work. And whenever treatments compete for a family's adherence, FBT anchors all, and always wins.

We also attend to the emotional engine beneath the behavior. For some patients the eating disorder manages overwhelming emotion, and DBT skills offer other ways to tolerate distress. For others it runs on the opposite: rigid emotional overcontrol, perfectionism, and inhibition. That is where RO-DBT does the work. Identifying which is driving the eating disorder is part of what makes an intensive precise rather than generic.

ARFID is the exception to all of this: a fundamentally different presentation with no body-image driver, treated on its own track with CBT-AR, FBT-ARFID, and graduated food exposure. You'll find it described in its own card below.