Improving access to care in Austin.
Empowered was created to give the Austin community its only locally-owned, highly-specialized treatment option for eating disorders: an intimate, clinician-created program for adults, built to address not only behaviors around food but the underlying factors that drive them.
A big city with few options.
We offer personalized, comprehensive, and adaptable care, because we can.
While Austin grew, the resources available to adults struggling with eating disorders did not. People who needed more support than weekly outpatient therapy, but who did not need (or had already done) residential treatment, often faced a hard choice: travel out of the city or try to piece together care on their own.
Empowered was created to enhance Austin's treatment options. We are a small group of local eating disorder clinicians and dietitians who believe the people in our community deserve care that is individualized, clinically sophisticated, and sees beyond their behaviors around food.
Our ultimate goal is to help you understand why your eating disorder developed in the first place. Through comprehensive, individualized care, we help you uncover the function those behaviors have served, build new ways of coping, and restore trust with food, your body, and yourself.
You are more than your eating disorder, and your disorder is about more than food.
Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions. They are not choices, moral failings, or problems of willpower. And for most people, the behaviors that show up around food are connected to something deeper: emotional pain, trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, or a nervous system that has learned it is not safe.
That is why our care goes beyond symptom management. At Empowered, we work to heal not only behaviors around food, but also the underlying emotional, cognitive, relational, and nervous system patterns that establish and maintain those behaviors. When the cause is treated alongside the symptoms, people begin to recover.
This belief shapes everything: our program, our team, our trauma-integrated approach, and even the way our space feels when you walk in.
Small by design, sophisticated by nature.
- Locally-owned and operated. Decisions about your care are made by the team that knows you best. We adapt as you do.
- Clinically sophisticated. Our team is trained in evidence-based approaches for eating disorders and co-occurring concerns, including CBT, DBT, EMDR, weight-inclusive and HAES-aligned nutrition counseling, family work, and somatic and parts-informed therapies.
- Individualized care. Our small scale and high staff-to-client ratios mean personalized meal plans that fit your dietary restrictions and preferences, real relationships with your treatment team, and a treatment plan built around you, not a template.
- Trauma-integrated from day one. A trauma-integrated approach is at the core of what we do. Our entire program and curriculum was created to address the fact that some form of nervous system disruption is woven into the development of most adult eating disorders. Read more about how eating disorders and trauma interact.
- An intentionally designed space. Warm, calm, and nestled in the hills of North Austin. We recognize that this work is difficult enough without a cold and sterile environment.
What you can expect from us.
At Empowered, we promise the same things to every person who calls: honesty about our program and who we best serve, respect for your story, and guidance in finding the level of care that is right for you.
Recovery begins with a conversation. Whether you are seeking help for yourself or someone you love, we are here to answer your questions and help you take the next step.
Explore our program, or reach out today.
We are here to answer your questions and help you take the next step, for yourself or someone you love.