The Central Coast Treatment Center

Eating Disorders

Treatment Focus

You can get treatment for eating disorders at this center, helping you navigate symptoms, build coping tools, and restore your physical health under expert care.

Outpatient

Primary Level of Care

Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Some centers offer intensive outpatient program (IOP), which falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient service.

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Insurance

Provider's Policy

They partner with a variety of national and California-based insurance companies.

Central Coast Treatment Center specializes in treating eating disorders for individuals of all ages. They offer partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs that provide structured, day-based care while allowing clients to stay connected to daily life. Their philosophy centers on helping clients reconnect with the wisdom of the self, where authenticity and self-worth come from within and not external achievements.

Strengthen Identity Through Practice

The center blends evidence-based and holistic therapies, including individual and group counseling, nutrition support, yoga, and experiential practices like grocery shopping and meal outings. Their attachment-based model emphasizes healing the client’s relationship with their body and identity, offering compassionate guidance through every stage of recovery.

Enhance Support Systems

The center also provides resources and education for families, recognizing the vital role they play in a loved one’s recovery and the importance of support without blame. Family and partner support groups, conscious movement, and hands-on meal planning are offered to help rebuild positive relationships with food and body through meaningful family involvement.

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  • Eating Disorders Program

AT A GLANCE

Center Overview

Location
508 Higuera St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 View Map
Primary Focus
You can get treatment for eating disorders at this center, helping you n...

Treatment Focus

You can get treatment for eating disorders at this center, helping you navigate symptoms, build coping tools, and restore your physical health under expert care.

Accreditation
Joint Commission

Joint Commission Accredited

The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.

Founded in 1951
75 years in business
Conditions We Treat
Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder +1 More
Substance Use We Treat
Co-Occurring Disorders
How to pay

Insurance Accepted

Provider's Policy: They partner with a variety of national and California-based insurance companies.
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Pricing and Program Length

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Staff

Meet Your Care Team

Cathy Meyer-Uyehara, FACHE, NHA

Cathy Meyer-Uyehara, FACHE, NHA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Dr. Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CED-S

Dr. Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CED-S

Director of eating disorder programming

Melissa Wheelock, LMFT

Melissa Wheelock, LMFT

Clinical Director

Frannie Guida, BA

Frannie Guida, BA

program coordinator

Care Options

Levels of Care

Eating disorders interfere with healthy eating habits, potentially causing weight changes, poor mental health, and physical harm. Treatment addresses underlying thoughts and beliefs, aiming to heal relationships with food. Weight restoration and other medical interventions stabilize physical health.
Residential
Not Offered at This Center
Residential eating disorder treatment provides intensive medical and therapeutic care in a safe, structured setting with 24/7 monitoring, meal-time support, therapy, and services for weight restoration as needed.
Day Treatment
In a PHP, patients live at home but follow an intensive schedule of treatment. Most programs require you to be on-site for about 40 hours per week.
Intensive Outpatient Program
An intensive outpatient program (IOP) falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient services, with therapy and skills-building activities designed to support recovery and provide flexibility. IOP is ideal for those needing support but not the 24/7 care of a residential facility.
Outpatient
Not Offered at This Center
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Virtual & In-Home Care
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Co-Occurring Disorders
Conditions like depression, substance use, and trauma can co-occur with eating disorders. Many programs provide co-occurring eating disorder treatment for comprehensive healing.
Treatment

Your Care Options

Specializations

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Depression

Depression

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders

An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Who We Treat

Men
Women
Men and Women

Men and Women

Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.

Approaches

Evidence-Based

Evidence-Based

A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.

Experiential

Experiential

Expressive tools and therapies help patients process past situations, learn more about themselves, and find healing through action.

Family Involvement

Family Involvement

Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.

Wellness

Wellness

Wellness philosophies focus on the physical, mental, and spiritual wellness of each patient, helping them restore purpose with natural remedies.

Therapies

1-on-1 Counseling

1-on-1 Counseling

Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

This cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to accept challenging feelings and make the appropriate changes to reach personal goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Experiential Therapy

Experiential Therapy

With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.

Group Therapy
Meditation & Mindfulness

Meditation & Mindfulness

A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.

Nutrition Counseling

Nutrition Counseling

Nutritious food helps patients heal from within, setting them up for mental and bodily wellness as they learn about healthy eating.

Trauma-Specific Therapy

Trauma-Specific Therapy

This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.

Languages

English

Conditions We Treat

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Depression

Depression

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders

An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Substances We Treat

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.

Aftercare

Follow-up Sessions (in-person)
Outpatient Treatment
Experience

Care Designed for Your Needs

Special Considerations

Healthy Meals are provided

Healthy Meals are provided

Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.

Frequently Asked Questions

Further Research

The following therapies are included: group therapy, 1-on-1 counseling and more.
San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
They partner with a variety of national and California-based insurance companies.
The Central Coast Treatment Center provides day treatment, intensive outpatient program and more.

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