Adult Eating Disorders Program

The Adult Eating Disorders Program is a specialty program that provides time-limited, evidence-based, outpatient treatment to patients with disordered eating behaviors that impact their health and quality of life. The Program’s mission is to provide efficient, efficacious outpatient treatment for our patients while supporting clinician and trainee professional development and well-being. The Program, housed within Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry Psychosocial Treatment Clinic, serves adult patients ages 18-75.

We offer an initial consultation to evaluate eating disorder symptoms. The purpose of the evaluation is not to establish a therapeutic relationship or to initiate treatment. As part of this consultation, we will give you feedback about your diagnosis and will outline a treatment plan that will best support your goals. Treatment recommendations will, whenever possible, include providers within our program. Please note, however, one purpose of this visit is to determine if we can meet your needs within our program. If we determine that we are not able to meet your needs within our program, we will suggest alternative options to help you achieve the most appropriate level of care. In some cases, we may recommend outpatient treatment at another clinic or a higher level of care such as a residential or intensive program prior to initiating outpatient treatment.

Please note, we do not have residential or intensive care (e.g., inpatient, IOP, PHP) programs.

Areas of focus include: 

• Disordered eating
• Body image distress
• Post-bariatric surgery challenges
• Anorexia nervosa (weight inclusive)
• Bulimia nervosa
• Binge eating disorder
• Other specified feeding and eating disorders (OSFED)
• Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
• Rumination disorder
• Night eating syndrome

The Stanford Adult Eating Disorders Program recognizes eating disorders have serious medical and psychological consequences and can be life-threatening. To ensure your safety, we may require regular monitoring by your medical physician. The specific medical indicators and frequency will be determined after consultation with your primary medical physician. Therapy in our program is subject to termination for failure to attend recommended medical monitoring visits.

Our clinic is committed to delivering evidence-based treatments for EDs using a weight inclusive approach with individuals of all gender identities, sexual orientations, race/ethnicities, and religious practices.