Our Treatment Philosophy

Strengths-Based

Magnolia Creek's treatment program operates from a strengths-based approach. Themes of empowerment, acceptance, and validation are integral to all aspects of our program structure.

Collaborative

Treatment is active rather than passive, collaborative rather than imposed, and personal rather than detached. We strive to work with together with our residents throughout the process of healing, recognizing her relationship to her eating disorder and exploring together the factors that contributed to its development.

Recovery-Focused

We believe that individuals with eating disorders are capable of making a true and lasting recovery. We recognize that our residents are capable and exceptional women who should be active participants in their treatment process.

Experiential

Our program also takes an experiential approach, integrating experiential aspects into many of our treatment modalities. Activities and groups like art, yoga and movement, gardening, ceremonies, and recreational and adventure-based therapies are designed with an experiential focus.

Balanced between the Group and the Individual

Based on the most current and successful treatments in the field of eating disorders, our program structure balances shared core components with a curriculum tailored to each resident. Groups and individual therapy sessions are designed to meet each individual's educational, spiritual, emotional, and experiential needs, and promote active healing, restoration, and recovery.

There is a cohesive balance between group and individual therapy. Residents have approximately 5 to 7 weekly individual sessions with their primary therapist, dietitian, clinical director and psychiatrist, in addition to close to 20 hours of group therapy, plus expressive arts, yoga and movement, physical training, and therapeutic outings.