Our comprehensive treatment programs provide our clients with the tools they need to lead healthy and happy lives. We believe in individualized treatment planning with the focus on long term recovery. We accomplish this through the most up-to-date treatment modalities available. Giving support, educational materials and new coping skills allows our clients to feel healthy and positive as they move through their recovery process. Our program is also helpful for clients stepping down from inpatient care who would like to have continued treatment and support to assist them in their recovery process.
La Ventana work with our clients to achieve specific treatment objectives
- To work towards achieving an “ideal body weight” within a range established by our treatment team and current national standards
- To eliminate starving, bingeing, purging and compulsive overeating behaviors
- To establish nutritious, healthy eating patterns
- To develop a balanced weight maintenance plan involving food and exercise
- To gain insight into destructive attitudes and behaviors
- To learn appropriate expression of anxiety regarding food and weight issues
- To gain insight into the underlying causes for the eating disorder and work on these therapeutically
- To discover and incorporate outside support systems to aid in continued recovery
- To develop improved understanding and means of communication between self and significant others
- To alleviate depression and anxiety and improve self esteem
- To deal with family and relationship issues that cause or contribute to the eating disorder
- To use journal writing and self-monitoring aids in the recovery process
- To improve body awareness and body image
- To design a program with independent experiences and therapeutic processes in order to create and practice a lifestyle of recovery that can be continued upon discharge
- To be medically stable, nutritionally healthy and biochemically balanced
- To improve self esteem and self confidence in every
Now Offering Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback has been shown to be effective in assisting with the treatment of eating disorders.
The process of Neurofeedback allows clients to be more open and present in group and individual therapy setting, as well as lowering one's resistance to treatment. It has most notably been shown to be quite effective in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, a precursor to many addictive disorders. Neurofeedback is offered at La Ventana as an adjunct service to our clients' individualized treatment plans.
Skilled clinicians welcome the LGBT Community
La Ventana welcomes members of the LGBT community to our treatment programs. In particular, our San Francisco treatment team includes skilled clinicians who provide culturally competent care for LGBT adults and teens. As members of this community, we realize the need for special emphasis on issues of sexuality, coming out, gender identity and expression, societal/familial oppression, trauma, teasing and bullying, isolation, and shame. Please give us a call and specify that you saw this information on our website.
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