We treat a broad range of eating disorders
Empowered treats the full spectrum of eating disorders in adults, along with the trauma and co-occurring mental health concerns so often intertwined with them. Every condition below deserves specialized care, and every one of them can get better.
Find help for
Select a condition to learn its signs, health effects, and how we treat it. Not sure where you fit? That's normal, and it's exactly what a first phone call is for.
Anorexia Nervosa
Restriction, fear of weight gain, and a relationship with food built on rules instead of trust. Among the most medically serious mental health conditions, and treatable with the right support.
Anorexia treatment →Bulimia Nervosa
Cycles of bingeing and compensating through purging, laxatives, fasting, or exercise. Often invisible from the outside, exhausting on the inside.
Bulimia treatment →Binge Eating Disorder
Recurring episodes of eating that feel out of control, followed by shame. The most common eating disorder in the United States, and the least talked about.
BED treatment →OSFED
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder: serious symptoms that don't fit one textbook pattern. Just as real, just as deserving of care.
OSFED treatment →ARFID
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: extreme food avoidance driven by sensory distress, fear, or low interest in eating, not body image.
ARFID treatment →Trauma & Eating Disorders
When trauma is part of the story, recovery needs more than behavior change. Our trauma-integrated care treats both, together.
Trauma-integrated care →Eating disorders rarely travel alone
Research and clinical experience agree: eating disorders frequently co-occur with other mental health conditions. Anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD and complex trauma, attachment wounds, and neurodivergence all shape how an eating disorder develops and how it heals.
That's why our assessment looks at the whole person, and why your treatment plan addresses co-occurring concerns rather than referring them out. Treating the eating disorder while ignoring what feeds it is how relapse happens. For deep, research-cited looks at the most significant of these overlaps, read our clinical guides to eating disorders and trauma and eating disorders and anxiety, depression, and OCD, or start with what eating disorders are (and aren't).
When to reach out
You don't need a diagnosis to call. Consider reaching out, for yourself or someone you love, if any of these feel familiar:
- Food, weight, or body image occupy a growing share of your thoughts each day
- Rules around eating are multiplying: foods you can't touch, times you can't eat, numbers you must hit
- Eating in front of others feels difficult or impossible
- You feel out of control around food, or rigidly in control of everything you eat
- Exercise feels compulsory, even when sick, injured, or exhausted
- Weekly therapy is helping, but it isn't enough to change the behaviors
- People who love you have started to worry out loud
One pattern on this list is worth a conversation. Several are worth one today.
One program, personalized to your diagnosis
Whatever brings you to Empowered, treatment is built from the same foundation and tailored to your needs: group therapy, weekly individual therapy, dietitian-led nutrition counseling and food groups, supported meals, daily process groups, psychiatric and medical monitoring, family education, and yoga. A person with ARFID and a person with bulimia need very different meal plans, therapy targets, and pacing, and that's exactly what individualized care means.
Explore what we offer to see how the pieces fit together, or read about our interdisciplinary team.
What people ask us
How do I know which eating disorder I have?
You don't need to know before you call. Diagnoses overlap, symptoms shift over time, and many people don't fit neatly into one category. A comprehensive assessment with specialists is the reliable way to understand what's going on. If food, body image, or exercise are taking over more of your life than feels right, that is reason enough to reach out.
Do you treat co-occurring conditions like anxiety, depression, or OCD?
Yes. Eating disorders rarely travel alone. Our team treats the eating disorder alongside co-occurring concerns including anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD and complex trauma patterns, and attachment-related difficulties, because treating one while ignoring the other rarely holds.
What if my symptoms don't feel 'serious enough' for treatment?
Eating disorders don't have a minimum severity requirement for deserving help, and waiting usually makes them harder to treat. You don't need to look sick, hit a certain weight, or meet full diagnostic criteria to benefit from specialized support. If you're asking the question, it's worth a conversation.
Do you treat men?
Yes. We treat adults of all genders. Eating disorders in men are underdiagnosed and undertreated, in part because of stigma. Our program is built to be a safe place for everyone.
Not sure what you need? That's okay.
Call us and describe what's been happening. We'll help you understand it, name it, and figure out the right next step together.