Services
Our Program
The Align Residential Treatment program for eating disorders is comprised of intensive family based, group-based and individual skill building components with 24-hour monitoring and 12+ active hours of treatment daily, including family therapy, caregiver skills and support groups, group therapy, individual therapy, nutrition counseling, regularly occurring supervised meals and snacks, emotional and behavioral skill development, medical, nursing, and psychiatric care, and recovery management.
Eating Disorders We Treat
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge Eating Disorder
Avoidant/restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Who We Treat
Female Adolescents ages 10-17
Patients enrolled in Align’s Residential Treatment Program will receive:
24-hour care, including on-site nursing
Comprehensive psychiatric and dietary assessments that determine their individualized treatment plan.
Group Sessions focused on evidence based modalities such as DBT and CBT to more effectively manage thoughts and emotions
Individual sessions with therapist focused on building motivation, skill acquisition and application
Volunteer opportunities to build self efficacy, confidence and a life outside their eating disorder
1 hour daily dedicated to school via Home Hospital instruction with additional time throughout day to manage educational goals
Staff supported meals, snacks, and post-meal processing
Five to six group sessions per day
One psychiatry session per week
Supervised mindful movement once medically cleared
Specialty groups such as Athlete and Return to Sport Curriculum as well as Anxiety Based Groups for those who meet criteria.
Use of CounSEL DBT Animated Video Series
Parents of Patients enrolled in Align’s Residential Treatment Program will receive:
Weekly groups providing support, psychoeducation and skill building using FBT, DBT, PMT models.
Use of CounSEL DBT video series and Parent Manual
Weekly dietary sessions focused on dietary education and tips/skills on cooking, supervising and effectively challenging and managing their child from a dietary perspective when the child returns home.
Weekly FBT Based Family sessions
Family Meals with support and coaching from staff
Weekly updates on your child’s progress via our Parent Portal
Discharge plan and contract to be fully prepared once your child returns home and to lower levels of care
Peer support from parents whose children are currently in recovery
The unique opportunity of being in a Reflecting Team where you are given perspectives and feedback from multiple staff to make sure all family members (parents, siblings, etc.) feel heard, validated
Use of CounSEL DBT Animated Video Series
Services that will be provided include:
High levels of medical and psychiatric care, with 24-hour nursing care
Nutritional programming and support from registered dieticians that meets differing nutritional needs of clients.
Skills development through evidence-based treatments such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill training
Exposure and Response Prevention groups
Expressive and movement therapies as warranted
Intensive Family Programming that includes psychoeducation, skill building, meal coaching and both staff and peer support
Daytime psychiatric support and medication management as needed
High staff-to-client ratio and comprehensive discharge planning
Our Treatment Model
We utilize the evidence-based treatment model. However, what truly sets us apart is that we actively include families in the treatment process and employ FBT, PMT and DBT treatment models for the PARENTS. Historically, most residential treatment programs isolate the patient and do little to include parents in the treatment process. For adolescents with eating disorders, family involvement is essential to successful outcomes. Without parental inclusion, the transition from residential to the home setting, and subsequent step-down to PHP is extremely challenging.
By disrupting the current residential treatment model and implementing family-based therapy (FBT), our goal is to improve the treatment success rates by reducing the length of step-down treatment (PHP/IOP) stays and relapse rates.