Is your loved one suffering from an Eating Disorder disorder and in denial about needing help? A well-planned family Intervention can help get your loved one the treatment they so desperately need.
What is an Interventionist?
An Interventionist is a professional who will help to educate and empower the family so that they can influence their afflicted loved one into accepting treatment for their disorder. He or she will guide, coach, and support the family through a well-planned and customized Intervention.
You and your Interventionist will create an action plan specifically designed to help your loved one recognize their problem. The intervention plan should include building the intervention team (typically family and close friends), enabling, how to lovingly (yet effectively) set healthy boundaries, what an intervention is and what it is not, intervention setting, and writing letters to be used at the intervention, and more.
During this process, the interventionist will also coordinate the enrollment and entrance into a treatment program that is best suited to your loved one’s needs.
If your loved one is in denial about their eating disorder, take the first step today and find a Professional Interventionist who can help.
How Do Eating Disorder Interventionists Work?
The first step in the eating disorder intervention process is to seek help. If your family member or loved one has an eating disorder but is unwilling to admit it, you don’t have to sit back and watch them suffer in denial. You can do something to help!
Do some research and find an eating disorder interventionist in your area. Once you’ve identified an interventionist contact them and let them know what’s going on.
After speaking directly with the interventionist specialist, they will create an action plan specifically designed to motivate your loved one to recognize his or her problem and enter treatment. The intervention plan will include factors like the setting, participants involved (family members, etc.), and a specific approach best suited to your loved one’s needs.
Before the intervention, the specialist may spend time educating you and your family on eating disorders and how you can best support and help your loved one during treatment.
The intervention itself will most likely involve a counseling session/s, so family and friends have a chance to share how the disorder’s destructive behavior has impacted them. If the individual agrees to treatment, the interventionist will typically coordinate the enrollment and entrance into a treatment program.
Interventionists help countless people recognize their illnesses and accept their need for help. In fact, a study on ED interventions showed that there is an 89 percent success rate with an intervention.
If your loved one is in denial about their eating disorder, take the first step today and find a professional eating disorder interventionist in your area who can help.
Reach out for support
Interventionist Joe Ortiz can help guide you and your family through the intervention process. Together you will explore how the eating disorder is affecting your relationships—and how various family dynamics may be contributing to the problem or impeding recovery. Joe will help you regain control of your lives and enter into a life of Recovery. Recovery for the whole family!
