Monte Nido’s eating disorder treatment center in the East Bay instills a treatment approach that focuses on the implementation of healthy eating and exercise routines, restoring physiological, emotional, and nutritional balance, the removal of self-destructive actions, and the development of motivation to attain a fully recovered lifestyle.

In each course of care for bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other eating disorders, our objective is to help each client achieve a clear understanding of their eating and/or exercise disorder the ways it has affected their life, and also a deeper personal understanding of how to achieve a full recovery.

Our clients benefit from the following core philosophies and methodologies:

• Practicing a healthy and appropriate expression of emotions
• Developing an understanding that numbers are not a measure of self-worth
• Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight
• Work with families and significant others to identify and modify patterns that may be complicating recovery
• Designing a well-developed aftercare plan which includes loved ones and friends to maintain a long-term recovery
• Practice appropriate expression of feelings
• Reducing and eventually eliminating eating disorder and exercise disorder behaviors with a focus on completely eliminating restrictive behaviors
• Heal their relationship with food while addressing weight, nutrition, exercise and disordered thoughts and behaviors
• Working toward medical, metabolic, and nutritional balance
• Develop insight into the ways disordered thinking, attitudes and behaviors cause destructive patterns in self-worth, self-care and relationships
• Identifying and addressing the underlying causes of the eating or exercise disorder
• Understand the connections between food- and body-related behaviors and emotions
• Improving body image and focusing on the acceptance of one’s natural body size and shape
• Teaching and putting into practice lifelong recovery and coping skills, such as meditation and self-monitoring