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Eating-related struggles in teens and young adults often reflect deeper emotional challenges — such as anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, identity stress, or difficulties with emotional regulation — rather than a primary medical eating disorder.
At Kiwi Recovery, we provide structured, evidence-based mental health treatment for teens and young adults whose eating-related behaviors are secondary to underlying emotional or behavioral concerns. Treatment focuses on addressing the emotional drivers behind disordered eating patterns while building healthier coping skills, routines, and self-awareness in a supportive environment.
Important Note: Kiwi Recovery does not provide medical or primary eating disorder treatment. Teens or young adults with medically acute eating disorders or those requiring medical oversight should be referred to specialized eating disorder treatment programs. If you are unsure where to start, our team can help guide you toward appropriate care.
Eating disorder–related concerns involve unhealthy patterns around food, body image, or control that occur alongside mental health challenges. These behaviors may serve as coping mechanisms for emotional distress rather than reflecting a primary eating disorder diagnosis.
When eating-related behaviors are not medically acute and do not require specialized medical monitoring, mental health treatment can be effective in addressing the emotional and behavioral factors that sustain them.
Kiwi Recovery offers a safe, structured mental health treatment environment for teens and young adults whose eating-related behaviors are linked to emotional or behavioral challenges — not primary eating disorders requiring medical care.
Our multidisciplinary team uses brochure-confirmed, evidence-based approaches including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), mindfulness, grounding, experiential therapies, and family involvement to support emotional stabilization and skill development.
Our philosophy emphasizes connection, insight, and regulation, helping clients rebuild trust in themselves and develop healthier ways to cope with stress and emotional overwhelm.
Treatment focuses on addressing the emotional and behavioral patterns underlying eating-related struggles — rather than treating eating behaviors in isolation.
Using DBT, CBT, MI, and supportive counseling, clinicians help clients explore:
Clients participate in Kiwi's core therapeutic groups, including:
For teens, weekly family sessions strengthen communication, clarify expectations, and support healthier routines at home. For young adults, family involvement is incorporated when clinically appropriate and aligned with client goals.
Evaluation and medication management for co-occurring anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, or mood symptoms when clinically indicated.
Mindfulness, grounding, art, movement, and animal-assisted therapy help clients reconnect with their bodies in safe, nonjudgmental ways.
Structured academic support helps reduce school-related stress that can exacerbate emotional or eating-related challenges.
Participants learn how to:
Kiwi Recovery offers multiple levels of mental health care for teens and young adults with eating-related concerns tied to emotional challenges:
The highest level of outpatient support, offering structured daily programming with clinical and academic components.
A flexible step-down option with multiple weekly sessions focused on skill-building and gradual reintegration.
Level of care is determined through a clinical assessment and adjusted as progress is made.
Consider reaching out if you notice:
If medical instability or a primary eating disorder is present, a specialized eating disorder treatment program may be more appropriate. Our team can help guide next steps.
Answers to common questions about eating disorder–related treatment.
Kiwi Recovery provides mental health treatment for teens and young adults whose eating-related behaviors are secondary to emotional or behavioral challenges. We do not provide primary or medically acute eating disorder treatment.
We support disordered eating behaviors such as restrictive eating, bingeing, purging, food-related anxiety, or rigid thinking around eating when these behaviors are not medically unstable and do not require specialized medical oversight.
Kiwi Recovery does not treat primary eating disorders that require medical monitoring, nutritional rehabilitation, or specialized eating disorder care.
Treatment may be appropriate if eating-related behaviors are connected to emotional distress, anxiety, perfectionism, or trauma — and medical oversight is not required. A clinical assessment helps determine fit or referral.
Yes. DBT is a core part of treatment and supports emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and impulse control related to eating behaviors.
Yes. Family involvement is included for teens and incorporated for young adults when clinically appropriate.
No. Kiwi Recovery does not provide individualized meal planning or medical nutrition therapy. Treatment focuses on mental health, emotional regulation, and behavioral support.
Kiwi Recovery offers PHP and IOP based on clinical assessment and emotional needs.
