Aloha Center | Eating Disorder and Body Image Treatment of the Carolinas

A Community for All

Everyone deserves access to the care they need to not only recover but thrive! You are not alone, food and body image are complicated, we are here to help you come up with a plan to heal mind, body, and soul.

Aloha & Welcome

Aloha Centers approach to eating disorder treatment is individually tailored, culturally sensitive and grounded in evidenced-based treatment including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Radically Open-DBT (RO-DBT) in addition Cognitive Behavioral theRapy (CBT) and we uniquely integrate alternative, expressive arts, and exposure-based therapies with 21st-century Telemedicine options. It is our mission to help our clients move beyond the mere absence of symptoms and into the fullness of life.

Closed- due to COVID 19 – Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Recovery is rarely (if ever) linear, and we know only you know where you are at in that journey. Our evening IOP program is 3 days a week for 3 hrs. a day. It is primarily group therapy based, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) informed, includes weekly 1:1 sessions with a licensed therapist, and a weekly complimentary virtual family skills group that’s accessible anywhere in the world via face-to-face video. It is designed to help you recover while still going to school, work, and be around your support system.

Group Therapy with Aloha, a recovery safety net

We have weekly eating disorder skill and support groups throughout the year. There is something magical about group therapy to receive support from peers, that you just can’t get from one on one therapy. Recovering, or being in recovery & maintaining it in a diet culture world is tough and you didn’t go through all this work just to stay stuck with ED (Eating Disorder). Let us help you breathe and take away the anxiety to bring you from “Recovery to Really Living your Best Life”

Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and co-occurring disorders such as anxiety, adhd, depression, and mood disorders.

In person or virtually

We have an experienced team of compassionate therapists and recovery coaches who are excited and ready to help you & your family find joy and finally heal your eating disorder. We also are one of the few providers in SC doing Family Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders among other treatment modalities in SC and NC. Read more

Kelly O. Toney, MSW, LISW-CP,CEDS-S

Certified Eating Disorder & Body Image Specialist and iaedp approved supervisor

I founded the Aloha Center after a decade of experience healing body image & eating disorders while working at the highest levels of care. Before opening up ALOHA, I lead multiple intensive outpatient programs (IOP) for eating disorders in Columbia, SC. After seeing a desperate need for services between residential treatment and outpatient level of care that set up clients and families to be frustrated after going home, only to relapse. I opened the Aloha Center and designed these programs specifically to solve this gap in care. We enable you to heal at your own pace with coordinated care and a team of specialist to step down gradually. This program is essential for continuity of care and relapse prevention. The lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder is one we value and we openly hire staff that are strong in their recovery that want to give back. Let us help you recover, and support you in your evolution moving from “Recovery to Really Living” with authentic connection in our groups, with people who get ED, speak ED, and know how to quiet that voice, no matter where you are in the South Carolina, North Carolina & Virtually.