The Child & Adolescent Eating Disorder Clinical Treatment Track at The WELL Clinic provides high quality, evidence-based treatment to children and adolescents with eating and weight concerns. Allow us to help your child reach health and recovery!

Eating and weight issues such as binge eating, purging, and restrictive eating often start during childhood and adolescence. Eating disorders can poorly impact a child or teen’s quality of life and may cause severe and life-threatening health complications. Early detection and effective treatment are necessary to prevent the problematic medical and psychological consequences of eating and weight disorders.

Eating disorders ARE NOT a choice and nobody is to blame. Parents, caregivers, and family members often express feeling confused, guilty, and terrified when their child or loved one is facing an eating disorder. We understand that eating disorders impact the whole family and therefore recommend that parents remain actively involved in their child’s treatment. We offer various treatment options to support both the person with an eating disorder as well as their family members.

Currently Available Treatments:

Individual Therapy

Recovery from an eating disorder is possible! This is particularly true when we are able to intervene early on. The treatment planning process at The WELL Clinic starts with reviewing the most up to date scientific evidence and ends with creating an individual treatment plan tailored to your needs. At your child’s initial evaluation appointment, your assigned clinician will provide an expert treatment recommendation regarding the frequency of appointments, type of recommended treatment (e.g. FBT, CBT, etc.), and any additional recommended support options.

Individual therapy involves meeting with one of our therapists for a 60-minute therapy session one or more times per week. At your first appointment, your therapist will fully assess your concerns and recommend treatment options that are best suited to meet your recovery goals.

Therapeutic Treatment Options for Children/Adolescents

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders

Learn skills to help adjust how you think and feel about eating, weight, and body image while moving towards recovery and the personal goals that you have for yourself and your future.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Eating Disorders

The strong combination of acceptance and mindfulness-based strategies along with behavior change strategies to make a commitment to recovery. Goals of this treatment format include increasing psychological flexibility, decreasing eating disordered behaviors, and improving your overall quality of life.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Build skills in remaining mindful and calm in difficult situations, tolerating emotional discomfort, improving communication with those around you, building assertiveness, and understanding the emotions that may at times surprise or overwhelm you.