Eating Disorder, OCD & Anxiety Treatment
in Austin, Texas.
The Evidence-Based Treatment Institute treats Austin families by telehealth with our entire specialist team, every one of them available to Texas patients: eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, trauma, perinatal mental health, defiant behavior, and the complex cases where they overlap. Children, teens, and adults. Weekly sessions, and virtual intensives at each clinician's standard session rate. In person in Austin, Nina Jolly, a parent who guided her own child through Family-Based Treatment to recovery, mentors the parents doing that work at home.
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If you are in Austin and looking for specialty care, the whole practice is open to you. Drs. Zach and Allie Appenzeller, our founders, hold Texas licenses, and every specialist on the team sees Texas patients by telehealth. In Austin itself, Nina Jolly meets parents in person for caregiver peer mentorship. A clinician, not a scheduler, answers every inquiry within one business day and matches you with the right person.
Call or text: (954) 247-1114
What we offer in Austin
- In-person caregiver peer mentorship in Austin with Nina Jolly, trained in Family-Based Treatment for caregivers and shaped by guiding her own child through FBT to recovery, for parents and partners of a loved one in eating disorder recovery, plus workshops for parent groups and community organizations
- Telehealth with our entire clinical team across Texas and 40+ PSYPACT states: Drs. Zach and Allie Appenzeller, Dr. Renée D. Rienecke, Dr. Kimberly Osborn, Dr. Kaitlin Hill, Dr. Eliza Lanzillo, and Dr. Natalia Levy
- Eating disorders: FBT for adolescents, CBT-E and CBT-AR for adults, for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and atypical anorexia
- OCD: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), including treatment-resistant cases and co-occurring OCD and eating disorders
- Anxiety: exposure-based CBT for children, teens, and adults, with SPACE for the parents of anxious children
- PTSD and trauma: Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Women's and perinatal mental health, including anxiety, OCD, and depression in pregnancy and after birth
- Oppositional and defiant behavior: Parent Management Training and parent coaching
- Longstanding patterns: DBT and RO-DBT for the overcontrolled and undercontrolled patterns that keep other treatment from sticking
- Virtual intensives for eating disorders and for OCD and anxiety: several sessions across a week, or an extended session in a single day, billed at each clinician's standard session rate, the same as weekly therapy
- Extended assessment sessions with clinical work beginning in the first appointment
- Coordinated care with pediatricians, dietitians, physicians, adolescent psychiatry, and schools across Greater Austin
- Rapid access: a clinician, not a scheduler, responds within one business day, and most patients begin treatment within five to seven days
- Private pay, with superbills for out-of-network reimbursement; session fees are listed on our fees page
Nina Jolly in person. Every clinician a video call away.
Nina Jolly meets parents and caregivers in person in Austin. Every licensed psychologist on our team sees Texas patients by telehealth. Not sure who is right for you? Tell us what is going on and we will match you.
In-Person
Nina Jolly
Virtual
Kaitlin Hill, PhD
Virtual
Kimberly Osborn, PhD
Virtual
Zach Appenzeller, PsyD
Virtual
Allie Appenzeller, PsyD
Virtual
Renée D. Rienecke, PhD, FAED
Virtual
Eliza Lanzillo, PhD
Virtual
Natalia Levy, PhD
Specialty care for what we treat best.
Every condition we treat is available to Austin patients by telehealth with the specialist who fits, and for families in Family-Based Treatment, Nina Jolly is here in person for the parents doing the work at the table.
How care reaches Austin families.
In Person in Austin: Caregiver Peer Mentorship
Individual coaching with Nina Jolly for parents and partners doing the hardest work of eating disorder recovery: FBT-anchored, lived-experience-informed, and coordinated hand in hand with your clinical team. She has sat where you are sitting, and her mentorship is designed for parents actively in FBT with our clinicians.
Telehealth Across Texas
Secure video sessions with any member of our team: eating disorders, OCD and anxiety, trauma, perinatal mental health, and defiant behavior, matched to the specialist who fits. Texas is a PSYPACT state, so every licensed psychologist on the roster can see you, and the treatments do not change with the format. The research supports telehealth for the conditions we treat: outcomes are comparable to in-person care for most patients.
Virtual Intensives, Anywhere in Texas
Concentrated eating disorder intensives and OCD and anxiety intensives by telehealth: several sessions across a week, or an extended session in a single day, billed at each clinician's standard session rate, the same as weekly therapy. Your clinician stays live on video through the meal, or while you take the phone into the situation OCD has been avoiding. This is the intensive format for Austin families.
In Person in Houston, by Arrangement
Drs. Kaitlin Hill and Kimberly Osborn, both licensed in Texas, see patients in person in Houston. Austin families can pair telehealth with in-person visits there, or travel for a concentrated block of in-person work when weekly sessions are not enough.
Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents
For adolescent eating disorders, parents are positioned as the primary agents of recovery. Our FBT-trained psychologists, among them Dr. Renée D. Rienecke, a study therapist on the NIMH-funded trials that established FBT, deliver it by telehealth across Texas, and Nina Jolly's mentorship runs alongside, in person in Austin, for the day-to-day work at the table.
Parents, Caregivers, and Young Children
SPACE for the parents of anxious children, Parent Management Training for oppositional and defiant behavior, and parent coaching throughout. Your child does not have to be willing for treatment to begin. With children and teens, treatment runs through the family, and we teach the family what to do at home.
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.
A parent who has been there, and a team that covers the rest.
Eating disorder recovery doesn't happen primarily in a therapy room. It happens at the kitchen table, at the restaurant, at the family meal. The people sitting at that table with the patient often need support of their own, and that is what Nina Jolly provides in person in Austin. She helped her own child recover from anorexia through Family-Based Treatment, trained formally in FBT for caregivers, and completed advanced mentorship with JD Ouellette, one of the most respected lived-experience experts in the eating disorder field. Nina is not a licensed therapist, and she doesn't diagnose or give medical advice. What she offers is something clinical settings often lack: someone who has been in the chair beside yours, who knows what the work actually requires, and who is profoundly complementary to the treatment itself.
The treatment itself comes from 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. Their careers began in Houston, where Dr. Zach Appenzeller was Founding Director of the UTHealth Houston Center for Eating Disorders and Dr. Allie Appenzeller was Founding Director of the ARPA School Anxiety & School Refusal Program at Baylor College of Medicine, and both still hold Texas licenses. 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 sees Texas patients by telehealth.
For Austin families, that means the approach academic medical centers point to, without the institutional friction: one specialist who carries the whole case, the rest of the team behind them, virtual intensives when weekly sessions are not enough, caregiver mentorship in Austin for the parents at the table, 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.
Across Greater Austin, from Round Rock to Dripping Springs.
Every clinician on our team reaches these communities by telehealth, virtual intensives at each clinician's standard session rate included, and parents come from across the metro to meet Nina Jolly in person.
Questions families in Austin ask.
Begin treatment this week.
Reach out to schedule a screening conversation. We respond to every inquiry within one business day, and most patients begin treatment within five to seven days.
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