Eating Disorders Services

Recovery Comes With a Team Who Understands You

At CentraCare, we know that healing occurs when we focus on mind, body and spirit. No matter your age, gender or when your relationship with food became a struggle, we can help you take a step into wellness by meeting with our interdisciplinary treatment team.

We are also here to help parents and supportive others assist their loved one in finding their way back to normalized eating, movement and body image.

Doctors & Care Team Locations

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Schedule an Appointment

To schedule an appointment, please have your primary care provider send a referral. For questions, please contact us at 320-255-5996 or edinfo@centracare.com.

Why Choose Us

An established reputation. We have served the community’s eating disorder needs for more than 30 years.
Individualized care. Our multidisciplinary team provides you with a plan that best meets your needs.
Access to other providers and services. As part of CentraCare, you benefit from a shared medical record between your providers. Also, we can help you access other services — in the community and throughout the state — when another level of care is needed.

Using a comprehensive approach, we provide these services:

Evaluate your condition
Create a customized treatment plan that may include individual, group or family therapy, and nutritional counseling
Perform a medical assessment and a psychiatric evaluation, as appropriate
Educate you on the functions of food, the importance of meal planning for symptom management and the need to develop normal eating behaviors

Eating Disorders We Treat

Eating disorders can be complicated and may involve one's emotional and mental health. To help encourage understanding, some descriptions of common eating disorders are provided below.

If you believe you or a loved one has an eating disorder, we can help.

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by:

weight loss (or lack of appropriate weight gain in growing children)
difficulties maintaining an appropriate body weight for height, age, and stature
distorted body image

People with anorexia generally restrict the number of calories and the types of food they eat. Some people with the disorder also exercise compulsively, purge via vomiting and laxatives, and/or binge eat.

Anorexia can affect people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races and ethnicities.

Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

Binge eating disorder (BED) is characterized by recurrent episodes of:

Eating large quantities of food (often very quickly and to the point of discomfort)
A feeling of a loss of control during the binge
Experiencing shame, distress or guilt afterwards

BED also does not involve compensatory measures (e.g., purging) to counter the binge eating. It is the most common eating disorder in the United States.

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which individuals significantly limit the volume or variety of foods they consume, causing malnutrition, weight loss or psychosocial problems.

Unlike eating disorders — such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia — body image disturbance is not a root cause.

Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia nervosa is characterized by a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating.

Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)

OSFED is a category used to encompass those individuals who did not meet strict diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa but still have a significant eating disorder.