Activities
Individual treatment for adults, young people and adolescents suffering from overweight and obesity
ISIS - The Interdisciplinary Center for Weight Management, Nutrition and Wellness employ dieticians, psychologists, and personal trainers who specialize in the treatment of overweight and obesity. We offer diverse personal treatment programs, that are established according to the objectives, desires and needs of the patient, and that aim to introduce a behavioral change process and motivate the patient to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Patients may receive individual treatment or interdisciplinary treatment which combines nutritional counseling, emotional support and physical activity. Upon the completion of the therapeutic process, a maintenance and long-term follow up program are constructed, enabling patients to maintain their achievements in the long-term.
Individual treatment for adults, young people and adolescents suffering from eating disorders
ISIS - The Interdisciplinary Center for Weight Management, Nutrition and Wellness employ dieticians, and psychologists who specialize in the treatment of eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder). The treatment is comprised of individual meetings with a psychologist and dietician, constructing a therapeutic program to achieve short-term and long-term objectives and accompanying parents who act as the main vehicles for introducing change, and who assist in their children's therapy and rehabilitation process. Respective of the patient's nutritional and medical condition, there is also a gradual incorporation of physical activity with a certified personal trainer. The treatment is tailored to the needs of each specific patient pursuant to the medical diagnosis, the nutritional and emotional condition of the patient, various symptoms and progress in the therapeutic process.
Group therapy for young people and adults suffering from overweight and obesity
ISIS - The Interdisciplinary Center for Weight Management, Nutrition and Wellness offers a unique program for the treatment and prevention of overweight at all levels of severity, from moderate overweight to morbid obesity - based on the interdisciplinary therapeutic model and group support. The group model provides a comprehensive solution comprised of nutritional consulting, physical training and emotional therapy, in addition to a safe, stable and supportive setting, which assists in coping with difficulties and facing challenges involved in the techniques of modifying lifestyle and achieving weight loss. The treatment is conducted in small and intimate groups (consisting of up to 4 patients) and includes individual meetings and group meetings with the dietician and the psychologist and bi-weekly training sessions in a professional gym at the ISIS Center. Upon the completion of the therapeutic process, a maintenance and follow-up program is constructed, enabling patients to maintain the treatment achievement in the long term.
Treatment of toddlers and young children suffering from overweight- focusing on guiding parents
ISIS holds a group for guiding parents of toddlers and young children suffering from overweight. The objective of this activity is to provide parents with direction and guidance as to how to develop proper nutritional habits and a healthy lifestyle for the entire family. The group setting provides parents with knowledge relating to child nutrition, imparts tools that help provide children with emotional support and offers guidance on how to create a change in family lifestyle. The meetings deal with a variety of issues, including constructing a balanced diet, healthy cooking, a combination of physical activity in the child's life and in the life of the entire family, how to place boundaries in nutrition without depriving or frustrating the young child, providing a solution and support for children suffering from social rejection due to their weight, and other strategies. Concurrent with the parents' group, the children participate in psychodrama meetings with a certified art therapist, to develop social skills and a healthy body image.
Group of adolescents suffering from overweight
ISIS holds a special group therapy for adolescents. The intimate group setting enables interdisciplinary therapy (physical, emotional and nutritional) for overweight adolescents, and takes into account the emotional and physical changes taking places in the lives of these teens, and adapts strategies to these changes. The group is accompanied by a dietician, psychologist and personal trainer, who specialize in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity during adolescence. The group therapy model provides a setting, which, in addition to offering professional accompaniment geared towards adolescents, also serves as a forum in which they may share their experiences and receive support from peers their age who are contending with the same issues. Alongside the youth group we also hold a training group for parents of adolescent patients.
Professional gym
The professional gym at the ISIS Interdisciplinary Center for Weight Management, Nutrition and Wellness offers an intimate and personal environment. The gym is equipped with the best professional fitness equipment and offers power training, aerobic training, yoga lessons and Pilates. The gym was set up to provide a place where patients suffering from eating disorders and obesity who are coping with difficulties with their body image and usually shy away from physical activity, could feel at ease to work out and benefit from all the advantages of a professional gym as well as learn how to make physical activity a part of their healthy lifestyle. The training takes place individually or in small groups (of up to 4 people), accompanied by a certified personal trainer. The fitness program may be accompanied by the appropriate nutritional plan and psychological counseling in an individual or group setting.
Parents' Group
The ISIS Interdisciplinary Center for Weight Maintenance, Nutrition and Wellness operates a support program and training for parents of children suffering from obesity and eating disorders. Many parents fear that they don't have sufficient tools to provide their child with the assistance that he/she needs. The parents' group offers parents practical tools to provide their child with the proper support and to develop a healthier family lifestyle. Additionally the group constitutes a supportive framework, in which parents may receive counseling and emotional assistance from professionals and other parents, in their struggle with difficulties that they themselves encounter along the way.
Group for Pregnant Women
A group setting for physical, emotional and nutritional support of women during pregnancy. The group is led by a dietician and a personal fitness trainer who will help you maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle, despite the many changes that you are experiencing in your nutritional needs, in hormonal balance, in the body build and shape, etc., as well as a clinical psychologist who will provide you with tools and support to contend with the many emotional changes that occur during pregnancy. The structure of the group and all the activities which take place therein are conducted in complete coordination with the special needs of pregnant women. Following the delivery, the group will continue to meet and with the help of the accompanying staff will learn how to cope with key issues such as breast feeding, returning to physical activity, controlled weight loss, and more.
Individualized or group therapy for people who have undergone bariatric surgery (gastric bypass surgery)
ISIS - The Interdisciplinary Center for Weight Management, Nutrition and Wellness offers professional treatment for people before and after bariatric surgery (gastric bypass surgery). ISIS Center professionals will accompany you on the complicated road to weight loss, while helping to maintain your physical and emotional health. The therapy is provided by professional dieticians and psychologists who specialize in the treatment of obesity and eating disorders. The treatment is gradually constructed respective of the needs of each individual patient, and integrates nutritional accompaniment and guidance, emotional support and progressive fitness training, in order to successfully contend with the post-operative adjustment period. We will provide you with the best professional support so that you succeed in losing weight, working out, changing your lifestyle, and obtaining your new body with minimum emotional crises, whereby you will be able to maintain the results of your surgery in the long term.
