This is what we do. Every clinician at Hilltop Behavioral Health specializes in eating disorder treatment and nothing else. If you’re looking for expertise you can trust, you’re in the right place.
Every eating disorder has its own logic. Its own language. And its own way of making someone feel like they’re the only one. Below you’ll find what we know about each one – and how we treat it.
Prefer to talk it through? One call is enough to start.
The thoughts don’t stop. That’s what most people don’t understand from the outside.
It can look like discipline. Like control. Like someone who just takes care of themselves. But inside, it’s exhausting, and the relationship with food and your body has become something that takes up more space than anything else in your life.
If that sounds familiar, you’re in the right place.
It happens, and then you swear it won’t happen again. And then it does.
The cycle is exhausting. And the part that makes it hardest to stop isn’t the behavior, it’s that no one knows. Carrying something this heavy, completely alone, for this long, takes a toll that goes well beyond food.
You have tried to stop. You don’t have to keep trying alone.
It’s not about the food. You already know that.
The eating isn’t the problem, it’s what the eating is doing. Managing something, possibly quieting something. And for a while, it works. Until it doesn’t, and the shame that follows is its own kind of pain.
You’re not weak. You’re not lacking discipline. You’re dealing with something real, and it deserves real help.
Learn about our approach to binge eating disorder treatment in NJ
Everyone called it picky eating. But you know it’s more than that.” ARFID is not picky eating. It is a serious feeding and eating disorder characterized by extreme food avoidance driven by sensory sensitivity, fear of choking or vomiting, or a lack of interest in food altogether, without the body image concerns that define anorexia. It affects children, adolescents, and adults.
Learn about our ARFID treatment in NJ for children, teens, and adults
Nobody prepared you for this. No conversation, no warning sign, no moment where anyone said this could happen to you.
So you’ve been figuring it out alone. Calling it something else.
Men develop eating disorders at nearly the same rate as women. They’re just far less likely to get help, because nobody told them they could.
You just know something is wrong. The relationship with food doesn’t feel right, but it doesn’t match what you’ve read about anorexia or binge eating, and you’re not sure any of those labels fit.
They don’t have to fit perfectly. What matters is that something feels wrong – and that you have someone clinical who can help you figure out what it is and what to do about it.
Hilltop Behavioral Health is a specialty eating disorder practice in Summit, NJ, not a general therapy office that also treats eating disorders. Our clinical director, Brian Pollack, LCSW, CEDS-C, is one of a small number of male master’s level certified eating disorder specialists in the country. We also have 10 eating disorder specialsits on staff! We treat children, adolescents, adults, and families, in person at our Summit office and via telehealth across New Jersey and 21 states. If you’ve been wondering whether this is serious enough, that question alone is worth a conversation. We are one of the few practices in New Jersey with CEDS-C certified clinicians on staff, offering eating disorder treatment in New Jersey for you, your child, or someone you love.
Most people who reach out to us don’t have the words for it yet. They know something is up. They know food, their body, their balance, has become something taking up more space than it should. They can’t think their way out of it. But saying it out loud to another person, let alone a therapist, feels like a step they can consider.
That’s exactly where we start.
Our clinicians have spent years sitting with people who have never said any of this out loud before. The parent who noticed something but doesn’t know what to call it. The athlete whose relationship with food quietly became something they can’t control. The man who has been told, directly or indirectly, that this doesn’t happen to people like him.
It does, and we treat it every day.
What you’ll find here isn’t a program. It’s a clinical relationship, built with people who have real expertise, who will be honest with you, and who will meet you where you actually are, not where someone else decided you should be.
You don’t have to be ready. You just have to reach out.
No two people arrive at an eating disorder the same way. So we don’t treat them the same way.
We listen first. To what’s happening, to what’s been tried, to what the eating disorder is actually communicating. Then we build something around that. The modalities below are tools we draw from, not a protocol we run everyone through.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E) – helps untangle the thoughts that keep the eating disorder in place.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – builds present-moment awareness and resilience without requiring you to analyze everything.
Family-Based Treatment (FBT) – puts families at the center of a young person’s recovery, because the people who love them are their most powerful resource.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) – addresses what trauma left behind, without making you relive it.
All treatment is outpatient, in person at our Summit, NJ office or via telehealth across New Jersey and 21+ states.
Families searching for therapy for eating disorders, eating disorder programs in NJ, or eating disorder treatment in New Jersey often come to us after months of not knowing where to start, or after a program that wasn’t the right fit.
If any of this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, the first conversation is free
You don’t have to fit a specific profile to reach out. But if you’re wondering whether we work with people like you, we probably do.
Treated by clinicians who know what this looks like at every age.
Including those who have been in and out of treatment for years and are still looking for something that works.
Who never expected to be here and need a clinician who understands what that’s like, without having to explain it from the beginning.
Where the line between discipline and disorder is rarely talked about. Until it has to be. We talk about it first.
Who want to be part of the solution, not kept at a distance from it. We make room for you in the process.
Specialized care means something different here.
Every clinician at Hilltop is selected for their training, their values, and their capacity to meet people where they actually are, not where a treatment protocol expects them to be.
This is not a general therapy practice that also treats eating disorders. It is what we do.
Our founder and clinical director is one of a small number of male master’s-level Certified Eating Disorder Specialists in the country. Our team shares a deep clinical focus on recovery and embodiment, at every stage, and was built around the same standard of specialized care.
We know that navigating insurance is one of the hardest parts of getting started. We work with families to understand their options and will tell you directly what to expect.
If you’re not sure whether we’re the right fit, reach out anyway. The first conversation is free.
We treat the full spectrum of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID, orthorexia, and muscle dysmorphia. We also work with individuals who don’t fit neatly into a single diagnosis but know something is wrong with their relationship to food, their body, or exercise. Our clinicians hold CEDS-C certifications and our team includes both therapists and a registered dietitian.
Yes. We offer telehealth across New Jersey and in 21+ states. Wherever you are, we can meet you there.
Specialized eating disorder care shouldn’t be out of reach. Many of our clients have insurance benefits available they didn’t know they had, and we help them use it. We’ll walk you through what your plan covers, what to ask, and how to make the most of what’s available to you. For many, out-of-network benefits can significantly offset the cost of treatment. Reach out and we’ll figure it out together.
Warning signs vary by diagnosis, age, and gender. In adolescents, look for changes in eating habits, avoidance of meals, new rituals around food, withdrawal from social eating, significant weight changes in either direction, and increased anxiety around food and body. If something feels wrong, trust that instinct and reach out for a consultation.
Absolutely, and we’re proud of it! This is one of our primary clinical focuses, not an afterthought. Brian Pollack, LCSW, CEDS-C has dedicated expertise in male eating disorders, muscle dysmorphia, and the ways eating disorders show up differently in men. If you’ve been wondering whether this place is for you, it is. We specialize in men, and we treat everyone. We bring that same depth to every person who walks through the door.
Founder & Clinical Director, Hilltop Behavioral Health. Adjunct Professor, Yeshiva University. Host, Minding Men Podcast.
We know that reaching out is hard. We know you may have been thinking about this for a long time before landing here. That’s okay.
You don’t have to have the right words or the right diagnosis or even certainty that this is the right place.
You just have to reach out. We’ll take it from there.
