Individual Therapy for Adolescent Eating Disorders In Pennsylvania

Individual therapy provides a safe, trusting, and confidential connection to help girls open-up about their disordered eating and other stressors impacting their daily lives.

Individual Therapy for Adolescent Eating Disorders In Pennsylvania

Individual therapy provides a safe, trusting, and confidential connection to help girls open-up about their disordered eating and other stressors impacting their daily lives. The initial sessions are designed to gather information, ask questions, and begin a collaborative treatment plan for your teens eating disorder recovery. Our patients meet Individually for 1.5 hours a week with their primary therapist.

In most cases, a combination of social, biological and environmental causes trigger the development of an eating disorder at a young age. Skilled therapists utilize the most effective and evidence-based methods to help their patients identify the underlying causes of their eating disorder. Therapists can help to assist patients in reflecting on their family background, personalities and other factors that may have influenced the shift to disordered eating patterns. At Blue Ridge, exploring and understanding these underlying factors is a key element of recovery.

One-on-One Therapy is a Safe Space

Once rapport and trust are established, patients become more open to share their fears, pain, trauma, and other underlying problems. The safe space promotes honesty while removing obstacles that are detrimental to the healing process. The open channel between therapist and patient helps to generate an authentic, trusting relationship that advances the eating disorder recovery process.

Benefits of Individual Therapy for Eating Disorders

Individual therapy at Blue Ridge is an integral part of the eating disorder recovery process, providing a range of benefits to help teens control and overcome their dysfunctional nutrition. Our individual eating disorder therapy program brings real hope for patients by teaching and improving critical skills such as:

• Self-awareness and understanding
• Improved communication
• Relationship building
• Relapse prevention
• Self-care
• Coping skills

What Causes Eating Disorders in Young Women?

The development of eating disorders is rarely linked to an isolated event or situation but instead thought to develop due to a number of different factors.

Eating Disorder Risk Factors:

• Genetics
• Environment
• Peer pressure
• Co-occurring mental health disorders
• Substance use
• Gender
• Family history
• Social media use that promotes unrealistic body standards or preoccupation with diet

We’re Here to Help

In our Pennsylvania residential program for adolescent girls, you’ll quickly discover the warm and nurturing inpatient environment we’ve created to help your teen heal and recover from her disordered eating problems. We understand the complexities and sensitivities surrounding teen eating disorders, and we take an integrated, evidence-based approach to getting your teen well again. Individual therapy is an integral component and allows trust to be established that encourages honesty. It also helps your teen to understand there is no judgement or shame, only hope and understanding. Our individual program in Saylorsburg is designed to discover, address, and nurture them to heal, grow & blossom!

Call us today at (570) 718-8800 to learn more about our eating disorder treatment program for teens.