Will I be made to eat?

No. Meals are supported and supervised, not forced. You choose what is on your plate at the weekly planning day, and clinical staff are present at mealtimes because eating is difficult, not to police it.

Do I choose my own food?

Yes. There is a meal planning day each Monday where you select your meals for the week ahead, and service is cafeteria-style, so you also choose at the point of eating. The intention is that there are no surprises about what will be on your plate.

What if I have allergies or dietary restrictions?

Tell admissions on your first call. Allergies and restrictions are recorded during the prescreen and built into your plan before you arrive, so they are not something discovered at the first meal. That includes medical allergies, religious and ethical restrictions, and foods that are genuinely intolerable to you.

What happens if a meal is difficult?

That is expected, and it is what the clinical team and the dietitian are there for. A difficult meal is information rather than a failure. Your plan is set after your assessment and adjusts as you go, and this gets worked through with you rather than logged against you.

Can I keep my own food?

Personal shelf-stable food storage is available at the Corbett residential campus, and there is a snack bar with access to food outside mealtimes.

Is meal support only for anorexia?

It applies across the eating disorders we treat, including restriction, bulimia and binge eating, and to people whose eating disorder sits alongside substance use. What meal support looks like for you is set by your clinical assessment rather than by a diagnosis label.

Do I need a substance use problem to come here?

Most people we treat for an eating disorder are also managing substance use, and the residential programme treats both together in one plan. If substance use is not part of your picture, say so on the call and admissions will talk through which setting fits.

Meal Support in Eating Disorder Treatment

Supervised, structured eating alongside clinical staff and a registered dietitian, at our two Las Vegas locations. It is part of treatment rather than a test you can fail.

You choose your own meals, a week ahead, and again at the counter
Clinical staff are at the table with you, not watching from across the room
Allergies and restrictions are recorded before you arrive, not at the first meal
Residential at Corbett and outpatient at Montessouri, in Las Vegas

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Laura De Fiesta, MS, RD, LD, Director of Nutrition and Culinary Services
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The thing nobody expects

You choose your own meals, a week ahead.

Most people arrive at our Corbett campus expecting a tray to be put in front of them. What actually happens is a meal planning day every Monday, where you select your own meals for the week ahead.

Service is cafeteria-style, so you choose again at the point of eating rather than being handed something decided for you days earlier. There is a salad bar and a snack bar, and food is accessible outside mealtimes.

The point of all of it is the same. There are no surprises about what will be on your plate, and for a lot of people that single fact is what makes the rest of treatment possible to contemplate.

Where you keep control

You pick your meals on Monday, for the week ahead
You choose again at the counter, cafeteria-style
Salad bar and snack bar, accessible outside mealtimes
Your own shelf-stable food can be stored

All meals and snacks are provided. What appears on your plate is something you decided.

What mealtimes involve

Structure, and people who know what they are doing.

Meals happen with clinical staff present. Not standing over you, but present, because eating is the difficult part and it is easier with support than without it.

Staff at the table

Clinical staff are part of mealtimes rather than observers of them. Their job is to make the meal possible, not to assess how you did.

Everything provided

All meals and snacks are included, and there is no expectation that you arrange food for yourself while you are here.

Food between meals

A salad bar and a snack bar, with access outside mealtimes. Food is not something that appears three times a day and then disappears.

Your own storage

Personal shelf-stable food storage is permitted at the Corbett campus, so familiar things can stay with you.

The part people do not say out loud

If eating in front of other people frightens you.

It is one of the most common reasons people put off treatment, and it is almost never said directly. The idea of sitting at a table, being watched, being expected to finish, is for a lot of people more frightening than the disorder itself has become.

That fear is expected here. It is not a sign you are not ready, and it is not something you have to have solved before you arrive. It is precisely what the clinical team and the dietitian work with.

A meal that is difficult is not a failure. It is information, and it gets worked through with you rather than logged against you. Nobody is left to manage it alone.

Worth saying plainly

Meals are supported and supervised. You will not be forced to eat, and mealtimes are not a test of compliance.

Medical supervision exists because the body's response to renewed eating can need monitoring. That is a clinical safeguard described by the NIH, and a reason the medical team is involved rather than something to be afraid of.

If you are in crisis, call or text 988 at any hour.

Who is there

The dietitian is not just a weekly appointment.

You have one-to-one sessions with a registered dietitian, and separately, dietitian and nutrition techs are present in the milieu continuously: at meals, between them, in the ordinary hours of the day rather than only in scheduled time.

That continuity matters more than the sessions do. The difficult moment with food rarely happens at two o'clock on a Thursday because that is when the appointment was.

Nutrition and culinary services across the network are led by Laura De Fiesta, MS, RD, LD, Director of Nutrition and Culinary Services.

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Before you arrive

Allergies, restrictions, and the things you cannot eat.

These are recorded during the prescreen, before admission, so they are built into your plan rather than discovered at the first meal. Tell admissions on the first call. It is a normal part of the conversation, not an imposition.

That includes medical allergies, religious and ethical restrictions, and foods that are genuinely intolerable to you for reasons that have nothing to do with the disorder. Say all of it. The distinction between those things is exactly what the clinical team is trained to work with.

Learning to eat outside treatment

Cooking classes and participatory meal planning are part of the programme, and they are the bridge rather than an activity. Choosing meals, preparing food and planning a week are the things you will be doing on your own afterwards.

Treatment that only works while someone else is deciding what you eat is not treatment that lasts. The intention is that the skills leave with you.

Where meal support happens

Las Vegas, at both of our locations there.

Eating disorder treatment is provided at our two Las Vegas locations and not elsewhere in the network. Our facilities in Arizona, Texas and Oregon focus on substance use and co-occurring mental health care. Saying that here is deliberate, because it is better to know before you travel than after.

Corbett, residential

Las Vegas, Nevada

A separate villa for eating disorder clients only, with a private bedroom and private bathroom for every guest.

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Montessouri, outpatient

Las Vegas, Nevada

PHP and IOP, with meal support, nutrition groups and dietitian involvement as part of programming.

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Rarely one thing on its own

Eating disorders and substance use, together.

Most of the people we treat for an eating disorder are managing substance use as well. That is not two separate problems that happen to have arrived at once. They usually hold each other in place.

The residential programme treats both in the same plan with the same team. Treating one and referring out the other is the most reliable way for neither to hold.

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Common questions

Questions people ask about meal support

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Will I be made to eat?: No. Meals are supported and supervised, not forced. You choose what is on your plate at the weekly planning day, and clinical staff are present at mealtimes because eating is difficult, not to police it.
Do I choose my own food?: Yes. There is a meal planning day each Monday where you select your meals for the week ahead, and service is cafeteria-style, so you also choose at the point of eating. The intention is that there are no surprises about what will be on your plate.
What if I have allergies or dietary restrictions?: Tell admissions on your first call. Allergies and restrictions are recorded during the prescreen and built into your plan before you arrive, so they are not something discovered at the first meal. That includes medical allergies, religious and ethical restrictions, and foods that are genuinely intolerable to you.
What happens if a meal is difficult?: That is expected, and it is what the clinical team and the dietitian are there for. A difficult meal is information rather than a failure. Your plan is set after your assessment and adjusts as you go, and this gets worked through with you rather than logged against you.
Can I keep my own food?: Personal shelf-stable food storage is available at the Corbett residential campus, and there is a snack bar with access to food outside mealtimes.
Is meal support only for anorexia?: It applies across the eating disorders we treat, including restriction, bulimia and binge eating, and to people whose eating disorder sits alongside substance use. What meal support looks like for you is set by your clinical assessment rather than by a diagnosis label.
Is this available at all your locations?: Eating disorder treatment runs at our two Las Vegas locations: residential care at the Corbett campus and outpatient care at Montessouri. Our facilities in Arizona, Texas and Oregon focus on substance use and co-occurring mental health, so if you are elsewhere, call and we will talk through travelling here or point you toward the right provider closer to home.
Do I need a substance use problem to come here?: Most people we treat for an eating disorder are also managing substance use, and the residential programme treats both together in one plan. If substance use is not part of your picture, say so on the call and admissions will talk through which setting fits.

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