Eating Recovery Center Dallas/Plano - Baylor Campus

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Who we treat
Adult
Child and Adolescent
Level of Care
Inpatient
Partial Hospitalization
Residential
Conditions We Treat
Eating Disorders
Orthorexia
Anorexia Nervosa
ARFID
Atypical Anorexia
Bulimia Nervosa
Compulsive Overeating
Diabulimia
OSFED

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Highly Effective Eating Disorder Treatment at Baylor

Nestled directly on the Baylor Medical Campus, ERC Baylor has quickly grown to be one of the most comprehensive, medically supervised treatment programs in the United States. Originally founded in 2014 in one of Dallas’s largest suburbs, the campus now offers an entire continuum of care to meet every patient – exactly where they are. With the right care at the right time, we help our patients progress toward recovery with the same clinical model, treatments and programming language.

  • 87% of former patients agreed that their experience at ERC was helpful
  • 91% of parents of former patients would recommend ERC to others in need of services
  • Trusted by over 20,000 patients and their families
  • Specialized treatment designed by a team of experienced clinicians
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Lighting Your Way to Recover from Eating Disorders

Develop a toolbox of new coping skills

Learn how to interrupt eating disorder thoughts, behaviors and coping mechanisms to create a life based on your values.

Explore various approaches to healing

Experience self-growth with individual and group therapy, nutritional education, art, music, yoga and pet therapy.

Be your authentic self — without judgement

Find acceptance in supportive, welcoming and affirming spaces that respect diversity, cultural differences and all belief systems.

State-of-the-Art Medical Care for Eating Disorders

At ERC Baylor, we are highly equipped to treat patients with complex eating disorders. Given our ideal location on the Baylor Medical Campus – a pavilion attached to the hospital – our team can immediately and effectively address urgent and complex medical complications on-site. Comprehensive support includes 24/7 nursing support, medical and psychiatric stabilization and treatment for co-occurring conditions. The treatment team at ERC Baylor includes:

  • Psychiatrists
  • Internal medicine physicians
  • EMDR-certified therapists
  • Registered dietitians
  • Family clinicians
  • Nursing support
  • Alumni support and other support staff
  • Teachers and educational specialists

Accredited by the Joint Commission, our medical and clinical leadership team includes the world’s leading eating disorders treatment experts, many of whom have actively led research supporting effective, evidence-based eating disorders treatment.

“Our leadership team has been together for many, many years…and we’re very invested in the culture that we have with our employees in our centers. That shines through in the care that we give to our patients. We’re also very passionate about working with families and caregivers, incorporating the entire support system and seeing them through this really difficult time.”

Leslee Marcom, PhD, CEDS

Who We Treat

Struggling with an eating disorder?

One conversation can make all the difference. Connect with us today.

Conditions We Treat

  • Eating Disorders

    An eating disorder is a treatable mental illness that includes a number of different symptoms, including extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues.

  • Anorexia

    Anorexia nervosa is characterized by an obsessive fear of weight gain and a refusal to maintain a healthy body weight.

  • Atypical Anorexia

    You can’t tell if someone has an eating disorder just by looking at them. See how atypical anorexia affects people in a variety of body shapes and sizes.

  • ARFID

    ARFID is a lesser known eating disorder that frequently begins as early as infancy or childhood, but adults can also suffer.

  • Binge Eating Disorder

    Binge eating disorder is characterized by frequent overeating – at least once a week for three months – combined with a lack of control, intense feelings of distress and several other characteristic behaviors.

  • Bulimia

    Bulimia is characterized by patterns of bingeing and purging.

  • Compulsive Overeating

    Compulsive overeating can involve binge eating and weight gain, but it can also involve other behaviors.

  • Diabulimia

    The term diabulimia is used to describe the diagnosis of an eating disorder in an individual with type 1 diabetes. These patients intentionally misuse insulin for weight control.

  • OSFED

    Some eating disorders do not meet all of the diagnostic criteria for specific diagnoses like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

  • Orthorexia

    Some people go to extremes to “eat clean” at all times. This may lead to a disordered eating pattern known as orthorexia.

Struggling with an eating disorder?

One conversation can make all the difference. Connect with us today.

Levels of Care Offered

  • Inpatient

    Our Inpatient programming is designed to support adults, children and adolescents of all genders who are acutely ill and are experiencing medical and mood instability as a result of their eating disorder.

  • Residential

    Within ERC Pathlight's step-down model of care, the Residential eating disorder treatment program as well as the Residential mood & anxiety treatment program offer medically stable patients a highly-structured and supportive 24-hour treatment environment.

  • Partial Hospitalization

    Our Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) offers some of the same intensity and structure of Residential mood, anxiety, and eating disorder treatment while providing additional opportunities to practice recovery outside of the controlled eating disorder treatment environment during evenings at home or in peer-supported apartment communities.

  • On-Site Intensive Outpatient Treatment

    Our Intensive Outpatient program is a flexible mood, anxiety, and eating disorder treatment program that allows patients to work, go to school, or care for children during the day and sleep at home at night.

  • Virtual Intensive Outpatient - Eating Recovery At Home

    ERC is removing the barriers that can keep patients with anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders from receiving treatment. Through telebehavioral health programming, Eating Recovery At Home (our virtual Intensive Outpatient Program) offers the same proven care as our in-person treatment centers. 

Struggling with an eating disorder?

One conversation can make all the difference. Connect with us today.

Your path to healing is as unique as you are

One of the foundations of treatment at ERC Baylor is that you or your loved one will work with the same treatment team throughout all levels of care — from inpatient to residential to PHP — all within the same campus. We use the same clinical team, treatment modalities and language, creating a congruent language across programming.

Find stabilization in inpatient

The inpatient level of care is for patients who have the most severe and acute symptoms, complications and health risks – and the highest level of support. Medical and nursing care is available around the clock, 24/7. Once these individuals are medically and psychiatrically stable, they have increased freedom to do the important work of recovery alongside registered dietitians, therapists and other team members.

Get support 24/7 in residential

Patients may enter our residential program directly, step down from inpatient or step up from PHP. This level of care also offers medical and nursing support around the clock, 24/7. In residential care, patients have more freedom than our inpatient program, taking part in activities and outings outside the treatment center. Supplemental tube feeding is available in both residential and inpatient levels of care when needed.

Recover in our 7-day PHP 

Since eating disorders don’t take the weekend off, we don’t either. Our partial hospitalization program, backed by research on best outcomes, takes place 7 days a week for 10 hours a day on weekdays and 8 hours a day on weekends. Patients often stay in apartment housing near the treatment center to practice skills learned during the day. Our PHP provides the maximum clinical standard of care, offering the best chance of lasting recovery.

Nutrition Services

View Our Nutrition Approach

At ERC Baylor, we help you find peace with food with supportive, structured meal planning that focuses on balance, variety and flexibility. We strongly focus on exposures to familiarize our patients with food:

  • We perform body image and exposure work with mirror tracings, sand tray experientials and butter sculptures
  • We help our patients with lunch exposures to prepare them for life outside treatment
  • We facilitate nutrition and grocery store exposures, in addition to weekly variety snacks often related to outside events (i.e., corn dogs during State Fair)
  • We will also perform more random exposures including birthday exposures with cupcakes and pizza to help push against the rigidity of the eating disorder

While we do “innings” where we bring food into the center (potlucks and picnic-style), patients in PHP can also go on “outings” to practice skills learned in treatment in daily life.

Questions about travel and housing?

Traveling from out of state? Many of our patients are faced with numerous travel and housing logistics, and we do our best to support you at each step of the way. ERC Baylor has nearby apartments that can be used for either adult or child/adolescent PHP patients. These are typically two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments that can accommodate 4 adults in PHP, or 2 parents and 2 children. We can also help you with any questions you might have about travel and loding. Let us know how we can help.

Eating disorder recovery for kids and teens

Learn new skills in family-based treatment

Our treatment approach heavily emphasizes the evidence-based Family-Based Treatment model for treating eating disorders, considered the medical gold standard for working with children and adolescents. By incorporating emotion-focused family therapy (EFFT) into our programming, caregivers move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling empowered. These two modalities are at the core of everything we do, with supplemental evidence-based psychotherapies integrated into the curriculum.

Find support as a caregiver

In addition to our national family education programming offered across the country, and virtual caregiver support groups, we do extensive supplementary programming at ERC Baylor to support caregivers.

  • Dr. Tyler Wooten leads a weekly education series for caregivers each Monday, along with registered dietitians.
  • Dr. Wooten also offers “Talk Back Boot Camp” every other week.
  • Dr. Stephanie Setliff and on-site leaders lecture each Wednesday on a range of educational topics.

Stay up to date with school

At ERC Baylor, we offer a certified, dedicated Education Specialist that works with Plano Independent School District to help support your loved one while in treatment. We offer ‘school’ for our patients 2-3 hours each day: half is led by our Education Specialist; the other half is self-directed to support homework and any academic-related items. Our goal is to ensure your loved one can keep up with school while maintaining the challenging work of recovery.

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Just One Phone Call to Get Started

Reaching out for help is a critical, challenging and brave first step. Our admissions team, comprised of Clinical Response Specialists, Clinical Assessment Specialists and Admissions Coordinators, will walk you through the entire intake process and thorough assessment. Give us a call to get started on the road to recovery.

No referral is ever needed for you to access the treatment you need and deserve.

Let us help you with insurance

When facing a life-threatening eating disorder, you shouldn’t have to worry about how to pay for treatment. Our experienced team of insurance verification experts will diligently work with your insurance company to ensure all financial resources are being used to your benefit. We will communicate with you at each step of the way so you understand exactly what your coverage includes and how you can access are.

Get matched with the exact support you need.

With one conversation, our mental health professionals will help you better understand what you’re going through and what you need.

We will meet you where you are, listen to your story in a therapeutic setting, and match you with the level of support that meets your struggle.

Covered by Most Commercial Insurance Plans

  • cofinity
  • compsych
  • magellan health
  • moda
  • multiplan
  • phcs
  • rocky mountain health plans
  • ascension seton
  • value options

Our patient access team is here to advocate for you. We can help you address financial challenges and work with you to get you the maximum coverage offered by your plan.

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Expert Care for Eating Disorders in Plano, Texas

Meet the leadership team at Eating Recovery Center Baylor.

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Find Virtual Eating Disorder Treatment in Texas

We also offer virtual eating disorder treatment for individuals in Texas through our Eating Recovery At Home program. Individuals in all cities and towns across Texas, including the cities listed below, are eligible to participate in Eating Recovery At Home. This program is the leading virtual IOP for eating disorders, and as effective as in-person treatment. If you are looking for an option to fit seamlessly into your everyday life, this online eating disorder therapy program is for you.

  • Richardson
  • Rowlett
  • Dallas
  • Allen
  • Carrollton
  • Lucas
  • Sachse
  • Frisco
  • Highland Park
  • Garland
  • The Colony
  • Rockwall
  • Addison
  • Farmers Branch
  • Little Elm
  • Wylie
  • University Park
  • Parker

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Eating Recovery Center is accredited through the Joint Commission. This organization seeks to enhance the lives of the persons served in healthcare settings through a consultative accreditation process emphasizing quality, value and optimal outcomes of services.

Organizations that earn the Gold Seal of Approval™ have met or exceeded The Joint Commission’s rigorous performance standards to obtain this distinctive and internationally recognized accreditation. Learn more about this accreditation here.

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