Individual therapy

What individual therapy looks like here

Every client at Empowered works with an individual therapist throughout their time in the program. Sessions are weekly, and your therapist is part of the same team that sees you in groups and at supported meals, so nothing about your care happens in isolation.

Our therapists are licensed clinicians who specialize in eating disorders and trauma rather than treating them as a sideline. They lead your individual work, help set the pace of deeper trauma processing, and coordinate directly with your dietitian and psychiatric provider.

Approaches we draw on

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): examining the thoughts and rules that keep eating disorder behavior in place.
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and relationships.
• EMDR: trauma-focused processing, paced to your medical, nutritional and emotional stability.
• IFS-informed and parts work: understanding eating disorder behaviors as protective parts that once served a purpose.
• Somatic approaches: reconnecting with a body that may not have felt safe for a long time.

No single approach fits every person, which is why our clinicians are trained across several. Read more about our outpatient program or the reasoning behind trauma-integrated care.