Clinical · Diagnostic · Evidence-BasedIntegrated Treatment, LLC
Here, Tara Deliberto, PhD provides evidence-based care to patients navigating eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, burnout, stress, and relationship difficulty. She also leads treatment innovation in the space of body image and eating, offers case consultation to fellow professionals, teaches continuing education courses, and provides AI mental health support consultation.
The approach is manualized and precise: clear, replicable protocols rather than improvised technique, built from years of clinical training and research at some of the field's leading institutions.
- Eating Disorders
- Body Image
- Family
- Women's Issues
- Divorce
- Parenting
- Stress Management
Tara Deliberto, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, treatment innovator, and author. She trained at Harvard University, Hofstra University, as well as the medical college of Cornell University for her post-doctoral degree, where she stayed on as faculty. She founded and directed the Eating Disorders Partial Hospitalization Program (ED PHP) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — a top-rated psychiatric hospital — and was Senior Lab Manager at Harvard University's Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research. Her career: the evidence-based treatment of diagnosable conditions — such as eating disorders and emotion dysregulation.
View Dr. Deliberto's full CV for a complete record of training, positions, and publications, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
What Dr. Deliberto has built & offers
Two decades of work across clinical care, publishing, training, research, and technology — organized here so you can jump straight to what's relevant. Each area below links to the corresponding section.
Eating disorder care is notoriously hard to access — and IMT (Integrative Modalities Therapy) was built to close that gap. Created by Dr. Deliberto, it's a manualized, step-by-step protocol that lets non-specialist clinicians deliver evidence-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders. Published by New Harbinger in 2019, translated into Spanish by Ítaca Formación, with hundreds of pages of material free to anyone.
Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating
Spanish Edition · Ítaca FormaciónTratamiento de los Trastornos Alimentarios en Adolescentes: Intervenciones Basadas en la Evidencia para la Anorexia, la Bulimia y el Trastorno por Atracón
A truly comprehensive guide in the treatment of eating disorders during adolescence—their most common period of onset. Deliberto and Hirsch seamlessly integrate the core components from several treatment modalities into one extensive manual, and with their own pearls of clinical wisdom interspersed throughout, this is a must-read for anyone involved in the treatment of eating disorders.
This book is an invaluable resource for clinicians treating adolescent eating disorders. Not only have two expert clinicians described their experience with interventions, they have pulled together materials and resources that will help engage patients in the therapy process. Adolescent eating disorders can be difficult to treat—this book is like having an expert clinical supervisor always available to answer the inevitable, "what do I do next?"
Free and low-cost materials for individuals in recovery and the families supporting them — workbooks, accessories to the IMT manual, and independent research on outcomes.
2019 · New HarbingerClient Resources for Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating
Spanish Edition · Ítaca FormaciónTratamiento de los Trastornos Alimentarios en Adolescentes: Intervenciones Basadas en la Evidencia para la Anorexia, la Bulimia y el Trastorno por Atracón
It isn't often that I see a resource as thorough, spot-on, and hopeful as the Integrative Modalities Therapy (IMT) books. Without a doubt, this is what my family and I needed when I was struggling at a young age. I highly recommend IMT and will continue to do so for years to come!
I am impressed at the lengths the authors went to in soliciting input from parents who successfully helped their child with an eating disorder to recover. They have synthesized components from several evidence-based treatment models into a manualized approach, presenting information in an accessible manner that prioritizes practical solutions to improve the clinical-caregiver feedback and direction loop to provide the best chance for full recovery to patients/clients. IMT is a promising and accessible format enabling a wide variety of clinicians to deliver state-of-the-art understanding and resources to families impacted by the devastation of an eating disorder diagnosis.
A team at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital independently studied RAPP, a supplemental 8-week virtual group therapy program for adolescents discharged from inpatient eating disorder treatment. RAPP runs three weekly groups — nutrition, CBT, and ACT — and its CBT group curriculum is based on Dr. Deliberto's book, Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents (New Harbinger, 2019). Neither Dr. Deliberto nor Integrated Treatment was involved in the study.
Published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders (2025), the study found:
- 80% average weekly attendance, 4.2 out of 5 patient satisfaction
- Higher attendance linked to lower anxiety (p=.01) and fewer eating disorder symptoms (p<.001)
- Female completers saw a lower 6-month readmission rate than the historical comparison group (p=.03)
Talking eating disorders & body image
CE Courses for Clinicians
CE trainings on IMT and the evidence-based treatment of eating disorders — designed for practicing clinicians who want structured, replicable protocols they can bring into their own caseload.
Mindful and Compassionate Treatment of People with Eating Disorders
Four live online sessions on non-judgmental assessment, family and community involvement, and adapting exposure techniques to address experiential avoidance in eating disorders.
IMT for Eating Disorders — On-Demand Training
A self-paced continuing education course covering the IMT protocol for eating disorders — take it on your own schedule and earn CE credit through CoreWellness.
Working With Disordered Eating in Perinatal Mental Health — Introductory
An introductory self-study training for mental health professionals on non-judgmentally assessing and treating disordered eating and poor body image in prenatal and perinatal populations, with a community and family-oriented approach.
Treating Disordered Eating and Body Image in Perinatal Populations — Advanced
An advanced self-study training on identifying and treating disordered eating and body image symptoms in perinatal populations, including how to integrate a multidisciplinary team into care.
A course for the general public
No clinical background required — a self-paced course for anyone wanting to rebuild a healthier relationship with their body.
Reach out. You don't have to have it all figured out.
Whether you're wondering about care for yourself, worried about someone you love, or a clinician looking for a thought partner on a complex case — this is a good place to start. There's no perfect moment, no right words. A short email is enough.
- For yourself — if part of you is curious what change could look like, that part is worth listening to.
- For a loved one — you don't need a diagnosis or a plan; you just need somewhere to bring the question.
- For clinicians — case consultation and IMT guidance for anyone working with eating disorders.
Reach Dr. Deliberto through her Psychology Today profile. Email is preferred over calling — she'll follow up from there.