Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Recovery Center in San Diego, California

    LA JOLLA, CA, February 24, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- New Realities of Southern California located in La Jolla, CA treats eating disorders and offers nonresidential intensive individual counseling, psychotherapy, marital and family counseling, psychotherapy groups and Muscle Activation Techniques.

At the Center we recognize that there are real and often unconscious reasons that people use food and body size to deal with emotions and difficult situations. Recovery from eating disorders requires healing and the development of new healthy living strategies.

The Center uses experiential therapies that include psychodrama, art therapy, dance and movement therapy, music therapy and guided imagery. These therapies access right brain function and then the left brain makes conscious sense out of the material that emerges. They allow eating disordered clients an understanding of their inner psychic world and enable them to express their emotions through a nonverbal medium. This type of treatment has been shown to effectively help with the recovery of eating disorders.

This approach uses Adlerian psychology that looks at the person as a whole including social functioning, work/school, familial functioning, self-esteem and spirituality. Adlerian treatment focuses on healing the underlying issues behind the eating disorder and the purpose it seems to serve. The theory is teleological or goal-directed because Adler believed that people are constantly striving to meet some real or fictional goal in life. With an eating disordered client, some of the perceptions can be mistaken and therefore, lead to self-destructive behaviors. Adlerian treatment techniques can redirect the client to a realization and reframing of these mistaken goals.

Kate Allgood President of New Realities of Southern California said: "I am extremely excited about the opening of the Center. Eating Disorders are a very serious issue and to be able to increase the available services to those who need them is something I am exceptionally thrilled about. There is a significant need for this type of place and given this issue is very close to the heart for me, it is a wonderful feeling to be able to help those seeking recovery."

About New Realities of Southern California

New Realities of Southern California is an outpatient treatment facility for eating disorders in La Jolla CA. For more information please contact us at 1 888 317 9002 or visit our website at www.newrealitiescalifornia.com.

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