Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S)

"TBT-S is a revolutionary eating disorder treatment!"

TBT-S approaches patients through their temperaments, which include traits and brain circuit tendencies. This allows clinicians to work with the biological foundation of who the patients are and how they make decisions. TBT-S is quite different from cognitive, emotional and behavioral therapies. It provides a biological context with treatment tools for ongoing therapies.

TBT-S integrates the last 25 years of temperament and brain-based research into two developmental treatment approaches, one for adults and one for child/adolescents with eating disorders. It provides patients with tools that help identify traits and brain-response tendencies, and tools to help shift trait expressions from destructive ED symptoms into strengths. These tools allow patients to explore why and HOW to use their own traits to recover!

"TBT-S is a game-changer!" 

TBT-S Training Institute experientially teaches professional psychologists, social workers, medical, dietary and mental health providers on the  temperament basis of eating disorders. TBT-S trainings and treatment tools parallel natural brain patterns with active methods to shape healthier habits. TBT-S trains providers working in virtual or in-person outpatient through higher levels of care settings.

"It sounds terribly complex and yet becomes wonderfully simple"

Vision

Move therapeutic fields forward to include temperament in treatment.

Mission

Train psychologists, social workers, and other mental health and dietary professionals internationally on an eating disorder treatment that augments ongoing therapies by incorporating temperament, biological mechanisms and trait-based research findings into strength-based interactive interventions.

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