Intensive Outpatient Program for Eating Disorders

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:

• Family-Centered Treatment
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT)

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), Ohio, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston.

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

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.