Programs & Services
Group Therapy Services
The group therapies at EDCSD are designed to engage you experientially, as restorative experiences bring fulfillment and healing. Generally, groups aim at building strategies for reducing symptoms and creating a renewed self-connection that offers confidence and comfort in place of eating disordered living.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT is a leading therapeutic approach that combines mindfulness practices and assertiveness training with time-tested coping skills. You will learn real solutions for tolerating distress, managing impulses, regulating emotions and building healthier, more authentic relationships.
Bodywise
Through supportive, experiential activities, you will learn to reconnect to the inner wisdom of your body, exploring and creating a new definition of body image, confidence, value, and femininity. Psychodrama as well as art and movement therapies are employed to create embodied experiences that contribute to lasting healing.
Creative Path
Creativity is the antidote to depression! We recognize that a trademark of eating disorders includes feeling lost, empty and alone, feelings that surface once destructive behaviors are directly addressed. Based on The Artist Way by Julia Cameron, this group invites clients to consider rules, roles, and expectations that keep their eating disorder intact. We aim to spark your creative spirit and intuition, ultimately discovering and re-creating a more authentic identity for fulfilled living.
Sacred Circle Process Group
Here, we cultivate a safe environment in which we stop talking about therapy and actually do it. Clients are invited to share struggles, ask questions, and express feelings that foster connection, support and healing. Clients find themselves building self-acceptance and self-confidence to take out into the world.
Soul Time Meditation
This group involves breathing techniques, gentle yoga and guided imagery aimed at assisting clients in going within and cultivating inner peace. Clients often access their ‘quiet place’ in the midst of difficult events or feelings that accompany recovery. Additionally, clients are encouraged to invite loved ones to this group in order to share their healing journey.
Eating Disorder and Chemical Dependency Recovery Group
Participants will explore and create practices in main areas of recovery: Interpersonal, Cognitive, Behavioral and daily strategies for recovery. Group members will be encouraged to attend a 12 step fellowship, obtain sponsorship, and work through steps 1-3 with the collective support of the group.
ANAD Free Support Group
A support group for women moving toward recovery with a relaxed and intimate feel. This group focuses on encouraging creative tools and practices for women to maintain recovery, receive support, and discover their own uniqueness as they define it.