There are many excellent treatment centers for eating disorders. How is Castlewood unique or different?

1. We are small. Only ten clients in house with 34 staff – allowing highly individualized intensive treatment.

2. We individualize care. If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, social anxiety disorder, major depression, multiple addictions, dissociative disorder, we will provide specific treatment for the eating disorder plus these concurrent issues.

3. We specialize in trauma-resolution therapies. For clients with a history of childhood or adult trauma, we offer state of the art therapies for resolution of experiences that were overwhelming. Whether a one time incident that led to Post Traumatic Stress symptoms, or developmentally prevalent issues.

4. We utilize Internal Family Systems Therapy. All of our therapy staff have had training in Internal Family Systems, which allows us to work as a team on understanding the function of the eating disorder symptoms and to help the client discover alternative survival strategies.

5. Our focus is more than simply refeeding or control of symptoms. Our goal is to help launch a person in their development of a full life. This includes support to transition to or re-enter college, job, marriage, so, that support systems, when you leave, can sustain your change.

6. We provide a full continuum of care. We have found that almost all clients slip following the support and safety of the in-house program. We therefore, opened a stepdown house to allow clients more freedom and independence to practice recovery rebound from the inevitable slips. It is a beautiful house on 4 acres, where 7 women live and support one another with the assistance of a professional. We can also further step a client to partial hospitalization or Intensive Outpatient Program to provide a spectrum of recovery experience.

7. We provide Specialized Psychiatric Care. We have a full-time psychiatrist who is both a neurologist and an addictionologist. He understands cravings and the brain systems that contribute to eating disorders. His medications are often crucial in facilitating getting under control and responding optimally to psychotherapy.

8. We encourage Family Involvement. We have family weekend every 6 weeks, which involves all interested family members in group and individualized treatment. We will also, when appropriate, provide family and marital therapies at no additional charge.