Remuda Ranch

Remuda Life provides residential treatment options to women and girls struggling with eating or anxiety disorders. Although treatment differs depending on individual need, all programs share certain commonalities. Each utilizes the highly effective Remuda Model of Treatment and a multidisciplinary treatment approach, including primary care providers, psychiatrists, psychologists, masters or doctoral-level therapists, registered dietitians and nurses. Each resident receives an individualized treatment plan, designed to meet her specific needs and recovery goals.

Remuda Life has two locations, a quiet neighborhood in metropolitan Phoenix and a peaceful town in rural Virginia, where residents live in homes or apartments. Three programs are offered at Remuda Life: Residential Care, Independent Living, and Emotional Eating.

Residential Care

Today, 95% of our more than 9,000 intensive patients remain in recovery. This unparalleled outcome is due, in large part, to the Remuda Life Program.

Returning directly home after inpatient care often proves too difficult for both the patient and the family. The extreme challenge of facing the real world can result in unwanted relapse. Remuda Life offers women and girls a supportive, yet less-structured, environment to practice and develop their recovery skills. After completing our Remuda Life program, patients are ready to return home without creating a wave of panic and stress; they have strengthened their skills, self-confidence and ability to trust others.

Women and girls also come to this program directly from outpatient care when their eating or anxiety disorder behaviors are not severe enough to warrant inpatient treatment. The time spent in our residential program, offering 24-hour support while practicing life skills, often proves exactly what they need to enter true recovery.

Residents live together in homes. They meet regularly with their therapist and participate in a number of groups. They live independently, have daily responsibilities and get involved in part-time work, volunteer projects or school.

Group Sessions Available:

• Process Group Therapy
• Emotion Regulation
• Expressive Therapy
• Body Image
• Exposure with Response Prevention
• Boundaries and Relationships
• Recreation and Leisure
• Substance Recovery
• Skills Group
• Cooking Group
• Restaurant Experientials
• Trauma Recovery Group
• Healthy Mind – Healthy Body
• Exercise/Strength Building
• Nutrition Group
• Spiritual Growth
• Recovery Steps

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Independent Living

Remuda Life offers an additional level of treatment to ease the transition home. Independent Living provides residents the same individual and group therapies as the residential program; however, residents live in an apartment setting away from the facility. This allows women to practice their new skills in real-life situations before returning home.

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Emotional Eating

Remuda’s Emotional Eating Program is designed to help women and girls struggling with Obesity, Compulsive Overeating and Binge-Eating Disorder. This is not a weight-loss program, and we do not follow a food addiction model; rather, it’s specialized treatment intended to break the cycle of emotional eating.

Each resident receives an individualized treatment plan, created to meet her specific therapeutic needs. During her 30 to 60-day stay, she meets regularly with her treatment team of eating disorder professionals. Through a variety of innovative therapy techniques, both individual and group, each resident uncovers the complex factors contributing to her unhealthy relationship with food. Only through such understanding is recovery possible. Recreation and leisure time are built into the schedule as well, allowing each resident to follow an exercise program created just for her.

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Outcomes of the Remuda Model of Treatment

Since 1990, the Remuda Model of Treatment has provided care to more than 9,000 individuals with eating disorders. While we can’t guarantee that our patients won’t struggle, we can promise that they will have the best possible care and the greatest chance of recovery. A full 95% of our patients are in good recovery one, five and ten years after leaving our programs. They no longer have a diagnosable eating disorder, their personal relationships have improved and they are functioning more effectively in school and work; in short, they are living life.

At Remuda Life, we meet eating and anxiety disorder patients at their point of need. We provide the level of care required for complete and lasting recovery to occur. Research indicates that patients are less likely to relapse if they enter our transitional program, in opposition to going directly home after inpatient treatment. Remuda Life patients demonstrate greater improvement in critical issues related to their eating disorder, such as their drive for thinness, self-esteem and maturity fears.

The Emotional Eating Program is equally significant. Surveys indicate that patients are extremely satisfied with this program. They experience excellent recovery from depression, considerable improvement in self esteem, and recovery from their eating disorder.

Why Now?

Today, eating and anxiety disorders are diagnosed in all ages, all cultures, all ethnicities. No one is immune. If left untreated, these disorders can paralyze an individual’s life. To say nothing of the destruction of the entire family system where no one – not parents, siblings, husbands or children -- is spared.

But if caught and treated early, recovery can be a reality. Research indicates the sooner a patient of any age receives treatment, the more likely she is to recover from an eating or anxiety disorder.

Why Remuda?

Because it works.

If you know a woman or girl who is struggling with an eating or anxiety disorder, call us today.

Videos to watch:

• Remuda Life Program Video
• Emotional Eating Program
• Remuda Life Video Tour