For adults and mature adults
We offer specialized eating disorder care designed for adults, with flexible programming built to fit your real-world schedule. Adults often face unique challenges in recovery, including career demands, caregiving responsibilities, parenting, relationship stress, body image changes, and years of living with disordered eating patterns. Midlife transitions, including aging and hormonal changes, can also affect eating disorder symptoms and recovery experiences.
At Within, treatment is tailored specifically for adults through age-appropriate programming, flexible scheduling, and individualized support.
Why specialized adult care matters
Eating disorders are often misunderstood as conditions that primarily affect adolescents, but many adults struggle with eating disorders well into adulthood or may not receive a diagnosis until later in life.
Adults may face additional barriers to treatment, including:
- Work and scheduling demands
- Family and caregiving responsibilities
- Shame or stigma around seeking help later in life
- Difficulty accessing specialized providers
- Longstanding eating disorder behaviors that feel deeply ingrained
Our virtual/remote model helps reduce these barriers by making specialized care more accessible, flexible, and integrated into daily life. We also adapt to your needs, not the other way around, making our program more individualized than others.
Levels of care available
You’ll receive treatment through Within’s full continuum of care, depending on clinical needs and the severity of your symptoms.
Enhanced partial hospitalization program (PHP)
Designed for individuals needing more structured and intensive support.
Includes:
- 5+ hours per day
- 5–7 days per week
- 3 individual therapy sessions per week
- Ongoing psychiatric, nutrition, and medical support
Enhanced intensive outpatient program (IOP)
A more flexible level of care for those balancing treatment with work, school, parenting, or other responsibilities.
Includes:
- 3–4 hours per day
- 3–5 days per week
- 2 individual therapy sessions per week
- Continued multidisciplinary support
Treatment intensity may increase or decrease based on recovery progress and individual needs.
Treatment that works
After participating in treatment, on average, our patients experience:
Our approach
Our evidence-based treatments are thoughtfully tailored to the unique life experiences of adults and older adults.
Approaches may include:
These approaches help adults:
- Develop healthier coping strategies
- Improve emotional regulation
- Rebuild trust with their body and hunger cues
- Address perfectionism, anxiety, and shame
- Navigate life transitions and stressors without disordered behaviors
Treatment also includes specialized
adult-focused groups, including:
- Adult and mature adult process group
- Parents group
- Adult and mature adult portioning lab
- Adult and mature adult meals
- Adult and mature adult body image
- Adult and mature adult sexuality and identity
- Adult and mature adult relapse prevention
Care team
Adult patients work with a multidisciplinary and integrated team of eating disorder specialists who collaborate closely throughout treatment.
Your care team may include:
- Therapists
- Registered dietitians
- Psychiatrists
- Nurses
- Care coordinators
- Group facilitators
Our clinical team specializes in eating disorder treatment and co-occurring mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
What to expect
Your journey begins with a personal intake assessment and a conversation with your dedicated care team. Together, we will design a flexible, customized program that prioritizes your recovery and delivers the healing experiences you deserve.
Programming may include:
- 2–3 individual therapy sessions weekly
- Weekly nutrition sessions and meal support
- Group therapy and process groups
- Psychiatric sessions (especially within PHP+)
- Collaboration with outpatient providers
- Family or care partner sessions when appropriate
- Peer support groups
You’ll attend treatment from home using
the Within app, which allows you to:
- Attend secure telehealth sessions
- Message the care team
- Access self-guided recovery tools
- Schedule sessions
- Track your progress
- Access meal support and recovery resources
Meal delivery and support
Adults benefit from personalized meal planning and meal support integrated into real-life routines.
Support may include:
- Personalized meal plans
- Meal delivery options
- Cooking and meal preparation guidance
- Mindful eating support
- Restoring hunger and fullness cues
This real-world approach helps adults practice recovery skills in the environments where they live, work, and interact daily.
Who this program is for
This program is a good fit for adults who:
- Are struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating
- Need more support than outpatient therapy alone
- Want flexible virtual treatment options
- Are balancing work, parenting, caregiving, or other responsibilities
- Have experienced relapse or chronic eating disorder symptoms
- Want specialized care designed for adult life stages
- Want a recovery plan tailored to their specific situation
We treat adults with:
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia nervosa
- Binge eating disorder
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
- Comorbid mental illnesses
Benefits of our adult program
Our program is designed to:
- Reduced eating disorder symptoms
- Improve emotional regulation
- Improve quality of life
- Increase self-trust and body connection
- Build stronger coping and relapse prevention skills
- Provide more freedom and flexibility in everyday life
Help us understand your needs so we can support you
Call us today to learn more about our personalized treatment programs. A healthier life free from eating disorders is in reach.