At Amrita, we help our clients to

Gain back the freedom of respecting, loving and being their true selves.

Our Program

Supplemental outpatient services

Outpatient Program

Our Outpatient Program provides compassionate, individualized and evidence-based treatment support for individuals seeking supplemental services in addition to their outpatient therapy. Collaborating with their current outpatient team, our a la carte program offers individual therapy, family therapy, nutrition counseling and meal support groups. Our meal support group incorporates food exposures that provide an important treatment component often missing in outpatient treatment.

Individual Psychotherapy

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Individual Psychotherapy

Through weekly individual therapy with experienced licensed therapists, Amrita’s individual therapists develop an individualized treatment plan for each client and oversee their treatment and progress. Our individual therapists cultivate a consistent relationship with their client and work to identify the psychological stressors that may be contributing to eating disordered behavior, developing strategies for new healthy coping skills and psychological resilience. Therapists work collaboratively with existing outpatient providers such as family therapists, nutritionists, primary care physicians, and psychiatrists.

Family Psychotherapy

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Family Psychotherapy

Our family therapists work with the family to create a supportive environment that enhances eating disorder recovery for the client. Family therapists work with parents and other family members to understand the causes and impacts of disordered eating, to provide meal oversight and support as needed, to integrate healthy coping skills for the family in response to the impact of the eating disorder on the client and family, and to address underlying family dynamics to support the client and family member’s resilience and recovery. Amrita’s family therapists work collaboratively with existing outpatient providers such as individual therapists, nutritionists, primary care physicians, and psychiatrists.

Nutritional Counseling

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Nutritional Counseling

Amrita’s nutritionists are experienced in nutrition  rehabilitation to stabilize weight, decrease and/or eliminate compensatory behaviors, and regulate and normalize eating patterns. Through nutrition rehabilitation, biological and psychological conditions created by malnutrition are addressed.  Through weekly individual sessions, our clients develop lasting mindful eating skills for long term recovery. Amrita’s nutritionists work collaboratively with existing outpatient providers such as individual therapists, family therapists, primary care physicians, and psychiatrists.

Meal Support

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Meal Support

Amrita’s outpatient meal support group offers on-site meal exposures that integrate education and skills that support disordered eating recovery. Weekly meal groups include an initial assessment with our dietitian, on-site dinner meal exposure, nutrition education, meal planning, post-meal processing and support, evidence based skills for successful meal completion, and collaboration with existing outpatient treatment teams.

 

Application Process

Are you or someone you know ready for recovery?

 

  • Please fill out our Outpatient Application Form and upon completion our outpatient intake staff will contact you within 24-48 hours to answer questions about our program and schedule an assessment.

  • Our outpatient staff will meet with you and family members as needed and assess your treatment needs and best treatment options. We may request permission to speak with current or past treatment providers if necessary to evaluate the best individualized course of treatment.

  • Our outpatient staff will support you in completing admission paperwork and schedule treatment sessions.

 

 FAQs

  • Our outpatient treatment program for eating disorders is for adolescents (13+)  and adults who are 1) seeking supplemental services in addition to their outpatient therapy, 2) stepping down from higher levels of eating disorder care, or 3) just starting to seek eating disorder treatment and are physically stable enough to be treated in an outpatient setting . Collaborating with a client’s current outpatient team, our a la carte program offers individual therapy, family therapy, nutrition counseling and meal support groups.

  • We understand that eating disorders are caused by a variety of psychological, physiological, interpersonal, and social factors, and that each individual is unique in their own history and etiology of their eating disorder symptoms.

    We adjust our treatment program to meet the diverse needs of each client so that they can best explore their behaviors, thoughts and feelings with a kind awareness that enables them to identify individual goals, stabilize disordered eating behaviors, develop new healthy behaviors, restore the mind/heart/body connection, and create emotional resiliency for long term recovery. 

  • Length of outpatient treatment at Amrita depends upon a number of factors, including previous treatment, severity of eating disorder behaviors, need for weight restoration, and rate of progress. 

  • Amrita’s team of clinicians are experienced with trauma and multiple diagnoses in addition to eating disorders and can address all of these in treatment. However, since Amrita’s primary focus is on eating disorder treatment  in individual and group work, referrals may be made to specialists outside of Amrita if deemed necessary. 

  • Currently Amrita has one track that combines clients with Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, and OSFED. Although each eating disorder has different symptoms and societal challenges, we believe clients can learn together and understand the common core issues underlying their different behaviors. 

  • Amrita is not in network with insurance companies for our outpatient treatment program (only our IOP program is in-network)  due to the challenges and cost of outpatient insurance billing. However, Amrita can provide a superbill that can be submitted to the insurance company to be reimbursed for out of network coverage. (Please check with your insurance coverage to understand your specific coverage.)  However in some cases, Amrita may be able to make a single case agreement with insurance providers. Please contact Amrita if you are interested in a cost estimate for treatment. Amrita offers scholarships for clients in financial need.