It’s hard to know where to turn when seeking help for an eating disorder. You want to find someone who understands you, someone who has advanced training and experience... someone you can trust.

Thousands of people have successfully found that understanding and help through The Bella Vita, A Beautiful Life Psychology Group, Inc.

We are here to help you bring a healthy balance back to your life. We believe in a multifaceted approach to treating eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, as well as, depression, bi-polar, anxiety, obsessive compulsive, trauma, alcohol, chemical dependency and body dysmorphic disorder, and many other debilitating conditions that diminish the quality of life.

What Makes Our Programs Unique?

The Bella Vita in Los Angeles and The Bella Vita in San Fernando Valley provide the following unique services to individuals seeking treatment for eating disorders:

Full Continuum of Care - The Bella Vita facilities combine to treat all levels of care, from outpatient to inpatient.

Continuity of Care - The same treatment team sees the same patient through all levels of care.

Nutritional Rehabilitation and Psychological Growth - We address malnourishment and psychological growth with a three-tiered system.

Individualized Programming and Family Involvement - We tailor treatment programs per the individual and involve the family from the beginning.

Discharge Planning -We estimate a realistic timeline for positive results from the day treatment begins. We actively encourage constructive lifestyle changes and develop support systems to be integrated into a healthier, more fulfilling life.

Mind, Body and Soul Integration - Our collective program offerings encompass the mind, the body and soul. This results in a more thorough, therapeutic experience.

Extensive Population - We offer treatment to all individuals:  adolescent and adult, male and female.

At The Bella Vita, A Beautiful Life Psychology Group Inc., our programs are designed to address more than just the eating disorders symptoms of anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating. We help you discover how to deal with the inner feelings and emotions that trigger emotional susceptibility and offer effective coping skills to diminish behaviors. For each individual, these underlying issues may be complicated by other disorders, such as depression, bi-polar, anxiety, obsessive compulsive, trauma, chemical dependency, body dysmorphic disorder and many other debilitating conditions that diminish the quality of life.  So, we clinically diagnose you, the individual, not just your symptoms or condition. The healing then begins from within.

Healing From Within, Where You Need It The Most

Our goal is to help you heal from the inside out. This is an on-going process of teaching you to stay in touch with, and honor, your feelings, thoughts and intuitions. Our highly knowledgeable and experienced team helps you learn to deal with the external pressures that pull you towards unhealthy behavior. We give you the tools to think differently, so you learn to feel and behave differently. Your challenge is to take personal responsibility for your own life, learning how to trust yourself and others to free yourself from your disorder, in turn bringing about inner peace and healing. Our challenge is to help you find ways within yourself to meet these personal and therapeutic goals, and create with you ways to effectively do this long after your time with us has passed. We strive to create a comfortable, nurturing environment based on building trust, personal relationships, and a mutual understanding of each other.

We Work With Many Insurance Carriers

Your care may be covered by insurance.  We accept most health insurance, and even file it for you.  Uninsured?  Ask about low-payment options designed to fit your budget.  We look forward to hearing from you and helping you to achieve your goals.

Our Eating Disorder Treatment Options

Dr. Patricia Pitts, PhD will work alongside her staff and her patients to most accurately assess what type of treatment they may require, and which of The Bella Vita outpatient counseling services or programs, and at which facility, could most appropriately facilitate the overall needs of our patients. For an initial consultation with Dr. Pitts, please contact our office to schedule an appointment.

Outpatient Counseling Services at The Bella Vita
The Bella Vita's unique approach to healing their eating disorder patients involves many variations of clinical services or programs.  The least structured treatment for eating disorder involves outpatient services.  For individuals who do not need a program, we offer, as needed, individual therapy, couples and family therapy, nutritional counseling and psychiatric care.   You can read more about outpatient counseling services in general, or read more specifically about the types of eating disorder programs we facilitate below.

Intensive Outpatient Program at The Bella Vita
Our Intensive Outpatient Program is four hours a day, up to six days a week.  This Program is designed for the individuals who need some therapeutic structure to actively incorporate our solutions into the patient's everyday, applicable life. The intensive outpatient programs are structured in a therapeutic group atmosphere with individual services that, in many cases, allows the patients to attend this program in addition to maintaining the obligations of their daily lives and responsibilities. Our program is specifically here to meet the individual’s unique needs. We encourage the individuals to take an active role …  Read More

Partial Hospitalization Program at The Bella Vita
The Partial Hospitalization Program offers the benefit of your own personalized clinical and support staff eight hours per day, engaging in different types of individual, family, nutritional and psychiatric services, group therapy, therapeutic meals and training effective coping skills geared towards placing you on the path to healing, and teaching you how to independently walk that path. It is our unique way of bringing a more intensive approach of an inpatient hospital program, into a less restrictive environment. Read More

Residential & Inpatient Treatment at The Bella Vita
The Bella Vita's well-developed Residential and Inpatient curriculums include individualized, experiential therapies, and nutritional education to help patients deal with the physical danger they are putting themselves in. Our program will assist patients to establish a clear set of goals and established boundaries, which are closely monitored and reinforced to assist patients in their path towards achieving these goals.

Therapeutic Treatment at The Bella Vita

Spiritual Wellness Spiritual techniques are the product of diverse cultures and peoples around the world. It has been rooted in the traditions of the world's great religions, and practically all religious groups practice meditation in one form or another. The value of Spiritual Healing to alleviate suffering and promote wellness, in many forms, has been known and practiced for thousands of years. Read More

Physical Wellness Physical wellness is demonstrated by the overall fitness of an individual. It encourages principles of good health and knowledge which can affect behavior patterns that lead to a healthy lifestyle. At The Bella Vita, we strive to offer wellness therapies on all fronts. The combination of Yoga and Massage Therapies we offer are aimed towards promoting health not only throughout the mind, but through the body. Read More

Psychological Wellness Along with extraordinary methods of treating and healing patients who suffer from the effects of varied eating disorders, our approach to outpatient counseling services are diverse and effective. Our goal is to see you overcome what negatively challenges you, however we can. We offer comprehensive care without the high costs associated with inpatient coverage...Read More

Partial Hospitalization Programs at The Bella Vita Our preferred method of intensively treating patients with a severe eating disorder, our Partial Hospitalization Program is an effective, result oriented therapy that imbues our patients with a sense of ability and confidence towards these debilitating, yet treatable, types of eating disorders. Read More

Intensive Outpatient Programs at The Bella Vita Our Intensive Outpatient Program could be the perfect treatment option for someone who has an actively obligated life, one who can only take minimal time off in order to maintain the responsibilities necessary to carry on with their normal life, yet requires treatment in order to cope with an eating disorder.  During the Initial Consultation, we will assess whether or not this is the most appropriate level of care for you. Read More