Intensive Outpatient Program for Eating Disorders

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at Eating Recovery Center empowers patients to take ownership of their recovery and become active participants in their lives. Our Intensive Outpatient program is a flexible 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.

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In IOP, patients are in treatment for 3 hours per day, 3 days per week for up to 9 hours per week. Programming includes nutritional counseling, individual therapy, family therapy, supported meals and more.

Experienced professionals employ a number of therapeutic interventions in IOP, including:

The program also incorporates core recovery principles, values, mindfulness, and connectedness.

The IOP can serve as a step-down level of care, helping to foster a positive transition into activities of daily living for adults upon discharging from our Residential or Partial Hospitalization programs. IOP can also be leveraged as a direct-admit level of care for adult patients requiring a higher level of care from an outpatient setting — allowing them to remain engaged with their lives.

Our Adult Intensive Outpatient facilities are in Washington, California (in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area), Chicago, Maryland (offering IOP four nights per week), OhioDallasSan Antonio and Houston.

Learn more about treatment at Eating Recovery Center in our "What to Expect" Series for adult patients.

Child & Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program

Our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a flexible eating disorder treatment program that allows patients to go to school during the day and sleep at home at night, practicing recovery skills in a real-world context. The IOP can serve as a step-down level of care, helping to foster a positive transition into activities of daily living for young patients upon discharging from higher levels of care. IOP can also be leveraged as a direct-admit level of care for patients requiring a higher level of care in an outpatient setting that allows them to remain engaged with their lives

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Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Treatment

Intensive Outpatient eating disorder programming empowers patients to take ownership of their recovery and become active participants in their lives. Programming incorporates Family-Centered Treatment, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT) as well as core recovery principles of values, mindsight, and connectedness. Intensive Outpatient programs meet up to three days per week and up to 9 hours per week. Programming includes nutritional counseling, individual therapy, family therapy, supported meals and more.

Intensive Outpatient Program Locations

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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