Althea Park House

Services

Athea Park House can provide the following services:

Visiting Professionals: N/A
Activities & Outings Programme: Yes
Alternative Therapies: N/A
Activities if Daily Living Training: No

The service offers intensive therapeutic input over the medium to long term (usually 6 months+).

There is also an on-site education service.

Therapy is based on an understanding of a person-centred approach to eating disorders treatment. Each individual is treated with dignity and afforded genuine positive regard in a climate of openness and honesty. Our aim is to help each client value herself in a way that insight becomes possible. Once an individual understands the motives that underlie their illness, they can begin to take both control over, and responsibility for, their behaviour and its consequences. An emphasis is placed on allowing individuals to make choices in a way that maximised their opportunities to make good choices.

We believe that genuine change can only be achieved from within the person themselves. Our eating disorders treatment is therefore aimed at helping each individual grow emotionally, in order that they can let themselves grow physically. Whilst we regard wellness and nutrition as central, recovery cannot be achieved by re-feeding alone. Only when a person experiences their own potential change will they begin to resolve their internal conflicts. This gives the opportunity for sustained recovery and a life not dominated by an eating disorder.