About 110 miles from College StationAdults 18+In person in Austin
Co-occurring eating disorder treatment for College Station adults, with care that can be coordinated with your campus counselor.
Empowered Treatment treats adults whose eating disorder comes with anxiety, depression, OCD, or trauma, in person at our Austin center, about 110 miles from College Station. If you already see a counselor or psychiatrist in Bryan-College Station, your care in Austin can be coordinated with them once you give consent, so the eating disorder and everything wound around it are treated as one picture.
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About 2 hours each way by car. TX-21 west to US-290, or TX-21 to Bastrop then TX-71.
Other Texas cities we serve, by distance
- 30 hrsa week in partial hospitalization: supported meals, groups, therapy, dietitian, medical and psychiatric care
- 9 hrsa week of group programming in IOP, plus weekly individual and dietitian sessions
- 1 housein Hyde Park, alongside PHP or IOP, with shared meals and a room of your own
- 18+adults only, with every hour of care in person at our Austin center
The eating disorder is rarely the only thing on the list.
Co-occurring conditions are the other concerns living alongside an eating disorder. Anxiety can make eating feel unsafe, while restriction makes anxiety louder. Depression can flatten appetite, while isolation and poor nutrition deepen the low. OCD can turn food rules into rituals. Trauma can make control over eating feel like the one thing that is safe. Each makes the other harder to treat alone.
In College Station this often shows up as a stack of separate appointments. A counselor at the university works on anxiety, a psychiatrist in Bryan adjusts an antidepressant, and nobody quite owns the eating. Our co-occurring disorders care at our Austin center puts it in one plan, with the eating disorder kept central and the rest treated alongside it.
If you are still working out what the eating disorder itself is, eating disorder treatment for College Station adults is a good place to start.
When treating one thing at a time keeps not working.
These patterns suggest the eating disorder and what comes with it need treating together:
- Anxiety decides when you eat.Crowded lecture halls, presentations, or social plans leave you too wound up to eat, sometimes for the whole day.
- The low mood and the eating move together.When depression deepens, restriction or bingeing follows, and when eating gets worse, so does your mood.
- Rituals have grown around food.Checking, counting, or strict orders of eating that you feel you must complete, and distress when you cannot.
- Old experiences keep surfacing.Memories, nightmares, or feeling on edge are tied up with how you eat, and talking about one stirs up the other.
- Your providers are not talking to each other.Your counselor, psychiatrist, and doctor each see a piece, and you are the one carrying the whole picture between them.
- Perfectionism is running the show.Grades, training, and food all follow the same rule: anything less than flawless is failure.
One team holding the whole picture, with the eating disorder at the center.
Treatment happens in person at our center on Spicewood Springs Road, in PHP or IOP. The same therapists, dietitians, and medical and psychiatric providers work from one plan, so anxiety, mood, and eating are planned together rather than in separate offices.
Anxiety and OCD work alongside meals
CBT and exposure-based work for the fear and rituals, practiced at supported meals where they show up, not only discussed in a session.
Mood and medication in the same plan
Psychiatric care looks at depression, anxiety, and medication with full knowledge of your eating and nutrition, which affect both.
Trauma at a careful pace
Our trauma-integrated eating disorder treatment in Austin takes on trauma when you are ready, including EMDR where appropriate, without losing focus on nourishment.
Nutrition that steadies the rest
A dietitian restores regular eating, because concentration, sleep, and mood all depend on it, and a fed brain responds better to therapy.
The eating disorder PHP for College Station adults offers full days when several conditions are acute at once, and the eating disorder IOP for College Station adults follows when things are steadier.
One place for all of it, two hours from campus.
The center is about 110 miles from College Station, roughly 2 hours by TX-21 and US-290, or TX-21 through Bastrop and TX-71, which rules out a daily commute for PHP or IOP. Treatment pairs with a room in our transitional housing in Hyde Park. For someone whose anxiety or depression is worst in the evening, a house with shared meals and people around can matter as much as the treatment day itself.
- A first callTell us about the eating disorder and everything alongside it. We will ask who you already see in College Station.
- A benefits checkWe can check your benefits before you decide, including how your plan treats PHP and IOP.
- Your consent, your choiceYou decide which of your current providers we may talk with, and you can change that at any time.
- An assessment in AustinA full clinical and psychiatric evaluation that looks at how each concern affects the others.
- Moving into the houseYour own room and shared meals. Cost and availability depend on your situation, so ask us directly.
Inside our center on Spicewood Springs Road, Northwest Austin.
Your College Station providers pick up where Austin leaves off.
Coordination works in both directions. With your written consent, we can ask your campus counselor or Bryan psychiatrist what they have seen before you arrive, and send them your aftercare plan before you leave. That way medication changes, new skills, and warning signs travel with you, and you are not the one explaining months of treatment in a first appointment.
This is coordination between your providers, arranged through your consent, not a partnership with any school or clinic. If you are not yet seeing anyone at home, we can help you think through who to look for before you go back.
If a crisis comes before your next appointment:
- 988 Suicide and Crisis LifelineCall or text 988 at any hour for a mental health crisis, including panic, despair, or thoughts of self-harm.
- Texas Health and Human Services: Mental Health and Substance UseState mental health and crisis services, plus a lookup for the public mental health authority that serves Brazos County.
Other programs for College Station adults, all in one place.
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- Co-occurring eating disorder treatment for College Station adultsAnxiety, depression, OCD, or trauma treated alongside the eating disorder.This page
- Eating disorder treatment for College Station adultsThe full picture: levels of care, the team, and how adults decide what fits.→
- Eating disorder PHP for College Station adultsThirty hours a week of structured care at our Austin center.→
- Eating disorder IOP for College Station adultsNine hours a week of groups, plus weekly individual and dietitian sessions.→
- Binge eating disorder treatment for College Station adultsBinge eating treated as an eating disorder, not a failure of willpower.→
What College Station adults ask before they call.
Straight answers to the questions we hear most. If yours is not here, call and ask it.
Social anxiety in packed Aggie lecture halls keeps me from eating all day. Is that treated here too?
Yes. When anxiety about being around people stops you from eating, both parts belong in the same plan. In Austin, your therapist works on the social anxiety directly, and supported meals give you practice eating with others present. Before you return to College Station, you plan for the hardest settings, like a crowded class before lunch, so eating does not wait until you are alone that evening.
What if panic attacks started around the same time as restricting?
If the first attack came in a packed lecture hall or halfway through an exam, and skipping meals before class started soon after, the two are worth treating as one problem. An empty stomach can leave the body more prone to panic, and panic makes eating before a big day on campus feel like a risk. Your assessment in Austin looks at how they connect for you. Treatment works on both at once: steady nutrition, skills for riding out panic, and psychiatric care if medication would help.
My perfectionism drives the restricting. Can that be worked on directly?
Yes, and for a student measured by GPR at Texas A&M, it is often the core of the work. In therapy, you look at the rules perfectionism sets, where they came from, and what they protect you from, then test what happens when you loosen one. Food is one place you practice. Grades, training, and work are others. The aim is to hold high standards without treating every miss as a verdict on you.
Will OCD and depression get attention here too, not just the food?
They will, and they no longer have to be split the way they may be now, with a university counselor seeing the rituals and a psychiatrist in Bryan seeing the low mood. In Austin, one team treats OCD and depression alongside the eating disorder, because each affects how the others respond. Food rituals are addressed with exposure-based work, and depression with therapy and, when helpful, medication. Once you give consent, your counselor and psychiatrist at home hear the plan before you are back in their offices.
You should not have to coordinate your own care. Let one team do it.
Call to talk through the eating disorder and what comes with it, who you already see in College Station, and whether PHP or IOP fits.