Eating Disorder Support

  • Melrose Center: A center that provides care for eating disorders, with the help of doctors, dieticians, and therapists.
  • Project Heal: This resource helps people access eating disorder treatment through financial assistance and treatment navigation, prioritizing those in marginalized bodies, including larger bodies.
  • Liberated Nutrition: A resource with Registered Dietitian Nutritionists who help individuals who struggle with their relationship with food.
  • Cultivate Counseling and Wellness: According to the Eating Disorder Hope website, “Cultivate Counseling and Wellness is a compassionate team of certified eating disorder specialists who help clients make peace with food and their bodies. The group specializes in providing treatment to adolescents and young adults. Their mission is to promote healthy eating habits, foster a positive body image, reduce anxiety around eating, and support overall wellness through evidence-based approaches”
  • Anyone's Journey: A resource that has many Registered Dieticians to help anyone through their journey and building a healthier relationship with food.
  • Children's Minnesota: Children’s Hospital has a specialized clinic for children, adolescents and young adults who are facing an Eating Disorder.
  • The Emily Program: offers outpatient, day treatment, and residential eating disorder services for children, teens, young adults, and adults, using a holistic, individualized approach with medical, nutritional, and therapeutic support. They treat a wide range of eating disorders (like anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, ARFID, OSFED) and emphasize inclusive, trauma-informed care.
  • The Water’s Edge Counseling & Healing Center (Burnsville): offers both in-person (Burnsville) and statewide telehealth eating disorder treatment. They use a “whole-person” (body, soul, spirit) approach, providing services like individual therapy, nutrition counseling, family-based treatment, and intensive outpatient programs (for adolescents and adults). They also provide spiritual integration and trauma-informed care as part of their treatment model.
  • Equip Eating Disorder Care (Virtual):  Equip Health offers fully virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatment for people of all ages, across all 50 states, including those without a formal diagnosis. They use a multidisciplinary team (therapist, dietitian, medical provider, and mentors) and draw from approaches like family-based treatment, CBT-E, ERP, and more to create personalized treatment plans.
  • The Minnesota directory on Eating Disorder Hope: lists local treatment centers, therapists, and dietitians across the state who specialize in care for disorders like anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. It also highlights virtual / online treatment options and provides contact information and guidance to help youth and families find the right level of support.
Doctor meeting with a young adult patient in a clinic.

Weight Inclusive Health

  • Weight Request Sheet: A form that can be brought to providers for individuals with requests in terms of getting weighed within appointments.
  • WithAll: A resource that supplies prevention education, and advocates to end weight stigma. They focus on building positive body image in youth and adults.
  • Radical Health Alliance: A resource that helps you find providers that can fit your individual needs, including information about primary care, dieticians, OB/GYN care, and many other specialties and resources.
  • NAAFA: A fat-friendly organization that helps provide resources and community.
  • Neda: They offer free, confidential help and provider referrals, including fat-friendly options. Text “NEDA” to 741741 for crisis support.