Walden Clinic in Amherst, MA
Providing PHP, IOP and Outpatient Therapeutic Services
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Amherst Clinic
100 University Drive |
The Amherst clinic is Walden’s fourth satellite clinic. The 6,000-square foot clinic, is just half a mile from the University of Massachusetts campus and offers easy access to both students and residents living in the five-college area. The clinic offers partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient eating-disorder programs for adolescents and adults including adult binge-eating disorder. The clinic also offers eating disorders outpatient treatment for adolescents and adults.
Partial Hospitalization Programs
Intensive Outpatient Programs
The Amherst clinic provides eating disorders Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) for adolescents and adults of all genders.
The adult IOP is designed for individuals seeking additional support in their recovery process from an eating disorder. Adults attend the program in combination with outpatient treatment. The program is ideal for people transitioning from a higher level of care or those who need more support than their outpatient team can provide.
- Adult Intensive Outpatient Program
- Adult Intensive Outpatient Binge Eating Program
- Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program
Outpatient Services
Support Groups
A Free Alumni Support Group for adolescents and adults is hosted every Monday from 5:30 to 6:30pm. (Open to former Walden patients)
For directions to our Amherst clinic, please click here.
News Related to the Amherst Clinic and The Community It Serves
Cultural Humility in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
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Walden Tackles LGBTQ Eating Disorders
New England Psychologist - November 2017The statistics for eating disorders in the LGBTQ community are unsettling. That’s where places like Walden Behavioral Care come in. With facilities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Georgia, they have specific treatment programs for the LGBTQ community with eating disorders. Read More
New Haven College Hosts Program on Eating Disorders
New Haven Register - October 2017Eating disorders are centered around negative body images. But artistic images, generated by those who suffer from eating disorders, can have a healing power. That was the message delivered Friday night at Albertus Magnus College, which hosted a program and art exhibition on “The Images of Eating Disorders.” Read More
Walden Behavioral Care Launches Program to Help LGBT Community
WWLP-22News - June 2017Those who suffer from eating disorders within the LGBT community have a place to find support in Amherst. Walden Behavioral Care launched a program that is the only program of its kind in New England. Read More
National Eating Disorders Week Raise Awareness of Illnesses
The Reminder - March 2017It affects the lives of 30 million Americans, encompassing all age groups, genders, races and socio-economic groups. Yet eating disorders – anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and other specified feeding and eating disorder behaviors – are among the least discussed forms of mental illness. Read More
Answers to Appetite Control
WBGY Springfield - June 2014Up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S. Jim Greenblatt, Chief Medical Officer of Walden Behavioral Care and author of a new book, “Answers to Appetite Control,” talks about the struggles with eating and also different questions viewers on Facebook have about eating disorders. Read More