Nationally Recognized Eating Disorder Treatment in Maryland and Washington DC
The Body Image Therapy Center is Maryland and Washington D.C.’s premier treatment center offering comprehensive and compassionate care for those with eating disorders, and co-occurring disorders like self-harm behaviors or other destructive habits. We’ll help you learn to accept your body and learn to love yourself from the inside out.
Personalized Treatment for all genders with a High Success Rate
The Body Image Therapy Center recently studied the outcomes for our eating disorder clients and measured an 80% success rate.
This is due in part because of the customized levels of care that include residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient programs, and traditional outpatient treatment programs. The Body Image Therapy Center provides client-centered treatment and help with eating disorders for all genders. This includes personalized treatment plans for the treatment of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, atypical anorexia, binge eating disorder, OSFED, ARFID, compulsive exercise, and muscle dysmorphia.
Outpatient Services
Residential Services
Full and Sustained Recovery Methods for Adolescents and Adults
Anorexia and Bulimia Treatment
Proven and personalized treatment approaches, including individual and group therapy, to help you or a loved one with anorexia and bulimia on the road to recovery.
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Our locations in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, MD, has the District’s only Day Treatment Program (aka. Partial Hospitalization Program) for the treatment of eating disorders.
Muscle Dysmorphia & Compulsive Exercise
If you or your loved one is fixated on muscle size and development or athletic training to a degree they’re losing out on life, we’re here to help them find some balance in their life again.
Body Image and Self Esteem Help Services
If you suffer from low self-esteem or a distorted body perception, you’re not alone. Learn to love your body at any size or shape and help improve your self-esteem.
Residential Treatment Program
Our Residential Treatment Program treats adults of all genders diagnosed with an eating disorder and features the nation’s only specialized men’s unit.
Binge Eating Help Services
Identify and address the emotional, physical and social stressors that cause binge eating, from trusted professionals who understand the disorder and its treatment.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for Eating Disorders
Our IOP services at all three locations including Washington, D.C., Columbia, MD, and Baltimore, MD. We’ll help you learn to accept love yourself from the inside out.
Transitional Living with Day Treatment
We have Transitional Living treatment options for clients who need full day eating disorder treatment in a safe, recovery-focused community setting.
Your Guide To Understanding Eating Disorders
Yale, VA Researchers Investigate Eating Disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan War-Era Veterans
Written by: Christopher Gardner Read the original article here. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, in a pair of complementary studies, investigated eating disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan war-era veterans, a group thought...
‘The Crown’ did a disservice to eating disorder survivors with Princess Diana’s bulimia storyline, according to experts
Read the original article here. Eating disorder experts told Insider that "The Crown" left out key details in its portrayal of Princess Diana's experience with bulimia. The fourth season of the historical drama shows Diana (Emma Corrin) binge and purge during...
TLC’s ‘Hot and Heavy’ show about ‘mixed-weight’ couples could hurt and stigmatize fat people, experts say
On December 10, TLC shared the trailer for its upcoming show "Hot and Heavy" that follows "mixed-weight couples," meaning one partner is heavier than the other. The release sparked criticism right away, in part because in each case, the woman is the heavier partner,...