
Intensive Outpatient Program for Adults with 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.

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.
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

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.