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Opal: Food+Body Wisdom's Approach to OSFED Treatment
The treatment of OSFED is individualized. We take a holistic approach to treatment that allows for healing to be done in community and in individual sessions. We believe eating disorders develop to serve a function for an individual. Opal’s staff come alongside our clients to better understand those “whys” and find new ways to cope and live life without an eating disorder. We offer three levels of care at our Seattle clinic. Overall, our treatment model includes:
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- Individual therapy, nutrition counseling, psychiatry, exercise experientials and family/relationship therapy available at the PHP and IOP levels of care.
- Health at Every Size, weight-neutral treatment approach
- Non-diet approach to food. Meals and snacks provided offer a wide variety of foods (highly processed, fresh, organic, non-organic, home-cooked, frozen, easy to prepare, etc.)
- Eating at meals and snacks are done with other clients and staff, as a community.
- A belief that adequate food intake is a foundational step in recovery.
- Exercise + Sport programming, which addresses exercise bulimia, exercise avoidance, and other exercise concerns
- Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy as a foundational treatment
- Group therapy including body wisdom group, movement group, self-inquiry, process groups, facing fears and more.
- Teaching/Didactic groups including Radically Open Dialectical Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Exercise + Sport Didactic, Health at Every Size Didactic, etc.
- Non-clinical lodging for PHP clients to use while in treatment, for a weekly fee, as space allows.
- Alumni Outpatient groups
What is Otherwise Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders (OSFED)?
A mental health condition that affects eating and feeding, but does not have all the signs and symptoms of any of the other eating disorders. Perhaps someone with OSFED could have some symptoms of Anorexia and Binge Eating, but not be able to fully meet the criteria of either of those two conditions.This used to be called Not Otherwise Specified Eating Disorder. There are five common sub-categories:
- Purging disorder
- Binge eating disorder (of low frequency and/or limited duration)
- Bulimia nervosa (of low frequency and/or limited duration)
- Night eating syndrome
- Atypical anorexia (which is another
What are the signs + symptoms of Otherwise Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders (OSFED)?
The signs and symptoms of OSFED are vast and the list is long. It could be any number of the signs and symptoms of other eating disorders but just not all the symptoms of one particular disorder.
Although the severity of the eating disorder might be less clear when one is struggling with OSFED this does not mean that the struggle is not an eating disorder or that one is not needing to seek care. The opposite is true– seeking specialized professional help will help to discern the approach to healing that will lead to recovery.