Eating Disorder, OCD & Anxiety Treatment
in Houston, Texas.

Houston is where the Evidence-Based Treatment Institute was built. Our co-founders, Drs. Zach and Allie Appenzeller, built their academic and clinical careers in the Texas Medical Center: Zach as the Founding Director of the UTHealth Houston Center for Eating Disorders, where he built and led the full continuum of care (the outpatient eating disorders clinic, the IOP and PHP programs whose curriculum now informs our eating disorder intensives, and inpatient programming), and Allie at Baylor College of Medicine, where she founded the ARPA School Anxiety & School Refusal Program. The practice began here as CBT Texas, and the treatment models forged here are the ones we deliver everywhere we practice. Today Dr. Kaitlin Hill and Dr. Kimberly Osborn carry that standard in person in Houston. Dr. Hill was Clinical Supervisor of Rogers Behavioral Health's adult eating disorder centers, where she helped develop the manualized eating disorder protocol used across every level of care, trained in Rogers' adult OCD residential program, and went on to clinical work at the OCD Institute of Texas; her CBT-for-eating-disorders training began under Dr. Kelly Vitousek at the University of Hawai'i, and she has taught nationally on exposure therapy for eating disorders. Dr. Osborn is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Eating and Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab at the University of Louisville, trained at the Duke Center for Eating Disorders and on the adolescent inpatient unit of the Laureate Eating Disorders Program, and treats eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, and trauma across children, teens, and adults.

That would be reason enough to call. It is not the whole practice. The Evidence-Based Treatment Institute was founded by Drs. Zach and Allie Appenzeller to do one thing well: deliver the treatments the research supports, with fidelity, to families who have often already tried something that did not work. Every clinician on the team is a licensed psychologist with specialty training in eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, or the presentations that travel with them, and every one of them can see you in Texas by telehealth, the founders included.

For Houston families, that means the care you would travel to a major academic medical center for, without the institutional friction: one specialist who carries the whole case, the rest of the team behind them, intensives in your own home or over video when weekly sessions are not enough, and a clinician who answers within one business day. Parents don't cause eating disorders, and families are not the problem to be managed. They are the most powerful resource a recovery has.

If you or someone you love is in immediate danger, please call or text 988 (the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), go to your nearest emergency room, or dial 911.