Intensive Day Treatment
Recover in person or online
A recovery community
What is day treatment?
Day treatment is an innovative and intensive approach to eating disorder recovery.
Offering tailored support that addresses all aspect of an eating disorder, this approach allows you to focus on recovery whilst keeping you connected to your life and loved ones.
Day treatment is for those who need more than just one therapy or dietetic session per week. Working alongside eating disorder experts, you’ll benefit from:
- Specialist group therapies
- Individual therapy
- Dietetic sessions
- Occupational therapy
- Meals and snack support
- Psychiatric support (as needed)
- Nursing support (as needed)
- Parent and carer support
Day treatment works to heal the whole person by exploring the underlying causes of the eating disorder and taking a personalised and stepped approach that ensures long-term recovery.
Our community-based approach allows you to connect with others on the same path and receive expert support from clinicians who have spent their careers supporting people through recovery.
Meeting you where you are
Day treatment can be attended in person, online, or as a blend of both
Online Programme
A virtual, face-to-face programme, wherever you are.
Clients join a minimum of 3 morning, afternoon, or full day sessions per week.
In Person Programme
A safe space for recovery in central London.
Clients attend a minimum of 3 full-day sessions per week from our specialist clinic in Marylebone.
Keeping you connected to your everyday life.
We want you to regain the joys and pleasures of everyday life without the overbearing presence of an eating disorder.
By returning home or logging off in the evenings and weekends, you’ll transition your experience in treatment back into your everyday life at home, helping nurture autonomy in recovery.
Our approach ensures that treatment evolves with you over time, meaning that programmes follow a stepped approach that gradually reduce the amount and type of support that you need in line with your progress in recovery.
This specialist approach keeps you connected to your life and loved ones, whilst ensuring long-term, sustainable recovery.
“I’m so grateful for the support, skill and dedication of the staff who truly design a unique programme for each person.”
Alumni Client
Your day treatment programme includes:
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy happens within the context of a safe and confidential relationship with an expert therapist who is non-judgemental, compassionate and committed to your individual recovery. Together, you’ll gain insight into your eating disorder and the underlying causes, and develop new coping skills that lessen the hold of the eating disorder.
Group therapy
Eating disorders thrive in isolation, so Orri is founded on the concept of community. Group therapy provides a space of shelter where a collective comes together to ‘bear witness’ to one another.
Groups are facilitated by experienced psychotherapists, dietitians, and mental health nurses, and established within boundaries of confidentiality and respect, allowing clients to work towards connecting to their vulnerability.
In time, group therapy provides a mutual space of shared understanding. Whilst many may feel understandably apprehensive at first, the group therapy process offers an invaluable experience where clients draw strength from others and also see others draw strength from them.
Dietetics and meal support
We do dietetics a little differently at Orri. We do not talk about calories, nor do we lay down rules.
People with eating disorders can already have a lot of rules. Instead, we strike the balance between providing nutritious food that feels safe, whilst allowing clients to gently challenge behaviours that are holding them back.
Our emphasis is on establishing meaningful structure around food, as opposed to limiting rules, within a social setting that helps clients to retrace their steps back to a safe and intuitive eating pattern.
Occupational therapy
Occupational Therapy looks holistically at an individual, their environment and daily occupations to evaluate their level of functioning and quality of life.
Our team of Occupational Therapists work alongside clients to facilitate therapeutic interventions that bring both a sense of autonomy and support to the areas of their lives where they may need extra guidance and/or skill-building.
Psychiatry (as required)
Every client’s programme is managed by a multi-disciplinary team which includes world-class psychiatrists supported by a team of specialist nurses.
Prof. Paul Robinson, Orri’s Director of Research and Development, is a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist and best known for his promotion of intensive community treatment to minimise the need for hospital care.
Dr Sara Morando is a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry. She has worked for 16 years across various inpatient and daycare settings, with community mental health teams, specialist eating disorder services, personality disorders services and psychotherapy services.
Dr Louisa Beckford is a Consultant Psychiatrist with a wide range of experience in specialist mental health services including addictions, neuropsychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.
Nursing
Our nursing team look after the physical health and safety of our clients, managing risk assessments, weights, blood tests, ECGs and much more.
Somatic and body-based therapies
We offer a unique range of body-based therapies that help unify the mind and body, using a combination of yoga, mindfulness and meditation to help people connect their bodies with their feelings.
Working somatically encourages clients to experience emotional and physical sensations and learn to navigate them by regulating their nervous system with a combination of awareness, mindfulness and self-care.
No matter where you’re at in your journey.
Wherever you find yourself today, we want to meet you there.
No one understands their eating disorder better than themselves. That’s why before anything we take the time to get to know each other and understand your story. This way, we ensure that when you’re ready to take that next step, you feel safe and confident.
Our intake assessment is a highly in-depth appointment, exploring all aspects of you, your experience of your eating disorder, and your goals for recovery. It’s also an opportunity for you to ask any questions you have and feel supported and informed by a specialist admissions team who have helped hundreds into recovery.
Following each assessment is a ‘Next Steps’ meeting where we discuss our recommendations for your treatment in a collaborative and personalised manner. We know this can be a time of high anxiety, so we’re here to walk alongside you every step of the way.
A stepped approach for long-term recovery
Outstanding care is what we do, kindness makes us Orri.
You don’t have to do this journey alone. We are a team of experts who draw upon years of experience and innovative research to make recovery possible for all.
But what we really want you to know about us is that we care.
At Orri, you will find hope, compassion and empathy – a community that will never give up on you.
