Castlewood utilizes an evidence-based approach with 1-year follow-up for all clients. We have found that treatment effectiveness is highly dependent on:
Bringing the client from a pre-motivational to a motivational state.
Assessing psychiatric co-morbidity including OCD, Social Anxiety, Body Dysmorphia, Co-addiction, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and dissociation.
Working with pertinent family dynamics, burdens the family carries intergenerationally that manifest themselves in: over-control, over-indulgent enmeshment, engulfment or other addictive and secretive dynamics. Often, we need to have the entire family in for intensive work.
Couples work. A spouse, if not brought on board for what will be necessary to continue the recovery process, can unravel a great deal of even the most effective treatment.
Keeping a strong focus on food-related behavior and establishing control over out of control behavior, but not as part of a “good girl” over-compliancy dynamic but rather with a “real self,” honest and non-reactive dynamic.
Looking for the deeper function of the symptoms. There are good reasons each client develops an eating disorder. We don’t “get rid of” the eating disorder, but instead help integrate a stronger self that no longer requires the illusion of control that comes from engagement in the eating disorder.
Integration. Our therapists and Treatment Team will involve the referring therapist in the treatment and recovery process. Let us know how you would like to be kept updated on your client’s treatment and progress and we will provide you with the clinical information.
Addressing body image difficulties in both group therapy and in individual therapy through sensory exercises and experiential therapy. Clinicians help clients move toward connection with his/her body and help them learn how to tolerate feelings in the body.
Finally, a powerful relationship with the primary therapist and nutritionist, that allows for sufficient trust to incrementally let go of the eating disorder.
