Oliver-Pyatt Centers
Why Oliver-Pyatt Centers for Comprehensive Treatment?
A Highly Individualized Treatment Plan: "We Meet You Where You Are"
We know that each client comes to treatment with a unique mix of psychological and medical concerns, and with unique life circumstances, fears, goals, and motivations. While one client might begin treatment with an ability to do whatever is necessary to recover, another might begin with ambivalence, uncertain that true recovery is even a possibility.
Regardless of where you fall on that continuum, that is where we begin, with no judgment, and no expectation that your recovery will follow a set path.
Daily One-on-One Therapy Sessions
High frequency individual therapy allows you and your therapist to fully explore the core issues driving the eating disorder. It creates an environment which validates each individual's needs and worth, so that authentic and long-term recovery can occur. Many treatment centers are able to provide the structure needed to support normal eating during treatment, but unless these core issues are addressed, the client is at risk for returning to the eating disordered behavior once she leaves treatment.
An Intimate Environment with a High Staff-to-Client Ratio
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Located in a beautiful residential neighborhood in South Miami, we are a comprehensive treatment center set in an environment with the warmth of a home. We have a maximum of ten clients in our comprehensive program, with a staff-to-client ratio among the highest found in any program.
Supported Exposure Therapy in a Naturalistic Environment
This approach allows you to reintegrate into real life through daily, guided outings into the community once you have reached an appropriate stage in the recovery process. Together, we experience restaurants, shop for clothing, and manage urges to over-exercise, all while supporting the unique needs of your body, mind, and spirit. This allows you to generalize what you experience in treatment into daily life. Food and meals are managed in a naturalistic way, with a focus on mindful eating. Meals are not served on a tray in a cafeteria; rather, they are served in an intimate setting, and always with staff support.
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Unlike other programs, our clients leave the treatment environment each evening to go to a comfortably furnished apartment, with staff support present to help them manage their recovery process. We provide a safe place that allows our clients the serenity to reconnect with their true selves, yet also provides a gateway into regular life as recovery proceeds.
A Medically Led, Therapeutically Grounded Program
An eating disorder is complex, and recovery requires the integrated approach of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals who are expert in its treatment. At Oliver-Pyatt Centers, the entire team — comprised of MDs, PhDs, Nutritionists, Therapists, Recovery Coaches, Yoga Instructors, Massage Therapists, and Chef—works together to create an effective treatment experience for each client.
Our Mission
We at Oliver-Pyatt Centers strive to genuinely connect with each individual, to address the core issues driving the eating disorder, and to provide the tools needed to live a meaningful life, free from food and weight preoccupation. Our treatment for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorders, and exercise addiction is therapeutically grounded, and incorporates state of the art approaches, research, outcome data, and up-to-date medical knowledge. Our innovative protocols are based on a thorough understanding of eating disorders and the unique experience of each person affected by one.
Why Oliver-Pyatt Centers for Intensive Outpatient Treatment?
- A compassionate multi-disciplinary treatment team, which includes MDs, PhDs, and Rds
- A thorough assessment upon intake
- Supported exposure therapy, with supervised meals and snacks
- Close communication and collaboration with referring treatment professionals
- A weekly individual or family therapy session
What You Can Expect to Gain from Intensive Outpatient Treatment:
- Through dialectical behavioral skills training and cognitive behavioral therapy, you can expect an improved ability to cope with anxiety, interpersonal conflict, and eating disordered thoughts.
- Utilizing the mindful eating model, you can expect an increased ability to recognize your biological cues and to reduce the use of eating disordered behaviors.
- Through supported exposure therapy, you can expect a more relaxed and natural relationship with food.
- Utilizing expressive and experiential therapies, you can expect to develop an improved ability to integrate mind and body, while improving body image and gaining self-acceptance.
- Through individual psychotherapy sessions, you can expect to explore and modify your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as you navigate the process of recovery.
More Resources
Fostering Healthy Body Image And Weight In Your Pre-Teen Or Teen by Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt
Recovery Story of Founders of Oliver-Pyatt Centers @ Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt and Ms. Vicki Kroviak
Our programs are led by an MD and a PhD, both experts in the treatment of eating disorders. Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, MD, FAED, CEDS (above right), and Dr. Melissa McLain, PhD (above left), combine clinical expertise with warmth and compassion. As a team, they've created an environment of care and trust that respects the integrity of the individual while delivering meaningful and effective treatment.
Location/Contact Information
Address: 6150 SW 76th Street, South Miami, FL 33143
For more information call: 866-511-HEAL (4325)
For more information e-mail: liz@oliverpyattcenters.com
Visit our website: www.oliverpyattcenters.com
