Eating Disorders Treatment Centers in 90070
OCD Center at PCH
Treatment Center, PhD
Verified Verified
Los Angeles, CA 90070
PCH Treatment Center stands out with its evidence-based approach to treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), featuring one of the few specialized residential programs in the country. Our dedicated OCD Treatment Program includes Cognitive Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and OCD-specific group therapies, supported by medication management, when appropriate. Our specialized staff of doctoral and master's level therapists are experts in OCD and anxiety-related issues, providing clients with a range of resources and treatments, including psychodynamic therapies, up to 100 weekly groups, and participation in the PCH Family Program. Recognizing OCD as a serious neuropsychiatric condition, our treatment is highly individualized, addressing each client's specific symptoms and their impact on daily life. Our core OCD program relies on ERP, the gold standard treatment, supplemented with Cognitive Therapy and pharmacological management as needed. We also address co-existing conditions like mood disorders, psychological trauma, and personality issues, which often accompany OCD. Family Involvement and Expert Guidance are central components of our programming.
PCH Treatment Center stands out with its evidence-based approach to treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), featuring one of the few specialized residential programs in the country. Our dedicated OCD Treatment Program includes Cognitive Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and OCD-specific group therapies, supported by medication management, when appropriate. Our specialized staff of doctoral and master's level therapists are experts in OCD and anxiety-related issues, providing clients with a range of resources and treatments, including psychodynamic therapies, up to 100 weekly groups, and participation in the PCH Family Program. Recognizing OCD as a serious neuropsychiatric condition, our treatment is highly individualized, addressing each client's specific symptoms and their impact on daily life. Our core OCD program relies on ERP, the gold standard treatment, supplemented with Cognitive Therapy and pharmacological management as needed. We also address co-existing conditions like mood disorders, psychological trauma, and personality issues, which often accompany OCD. Family Involvement and Expert Guidance are central components of our programming.
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Eating Disorders Treatment Centers
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviors, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behavior affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counseling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioral disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behavior, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognize they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behavior has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.