Reflections Eating Disorder Treatment Center

Reflections offers hope to adolescents and adults with eating disorders.  For those in need of 24-hour care, the inpatient unit is home to eight dedicated beds.  Partial hospitalization, available 12 hours per day, 7 days per week, provides care for those able to spend the night in their own home, but in need of a more structured program during the day. 

Reflections  utilizes a multimodal treatment approach for eating disorders, with a major focus on group and family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, expressive therapy and individual therapies.  Reflections features a unit dining room, art therapy room, group therapy rooms, and a kitchen, which allows the treatment team to work with patients as they prepare meals.  The multidisciplinary treatment team includes board certified psychiatrists, psychologists, internal medicine physicians, licensed therapists, expressive therapists, registered dietitians, case managers, and nursing support.

Reflections is currently accepting partial hospitalization patients. View the center's admissions criteria here.

About Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a relentless pursuit of thinness and an unwillingness to maintain a healthy body weight.  Those with the disorder have a distortion of body image, often seeing themselves as overweight, even if starved.  The main features of the disease are the inability to maintain a normal body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, obsession with food, and a distorted view of one's own body.  These attitudes and behaviors can be seen with or without purging behaviors (self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretic abuse or over-exercising).   With both physical and psychological consequences, it is important that anorexia nervosa be treated by a multidisciplinary medical team.

People with anorexia often have low self-esteem, anxiety and depression, and use an obsessive control of their own diet and weight as a method of controlling their surroundings and their emotions. 

Signs and Symptoms

• Body weight less than 85% of ideal or BMI of less than 17.5
• Absent  or irregular menstrual periods
• Intense fear of weight gain
• Distorted body image
• Unusual eating behaviors such as pace, or substitutive behaviors to replace eating (gum chewing, etc)
• Compulsive or excessive exercise
• Lanugo-a fine growth of hair on the face/chest
• Brittle hair or nails or hair loss
• Yellow skin color 
• Bradycardia-slow heart rate (less than 60 beats per minute
• Dizziness or fainting after standing 
• Depression and/or social isolation

About Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food and feeling a lack of control over eating, followed by behaviors that compensate for the binge, such as purging, fasting or excessive exercise.  Like Anorexia, those with Bulimia may have a distortion of body image or fear of weight gain.  With both physical and psychological consequences, it is important that bulimia nervosa be treated by a multidisciplinary medical team.

People with bulimia often have low self-esteem, anxiety and depression, and use binging and purging behaviors as a way to cope with these issues. 

Signs and Symptoms