Your family is the strongest treatment anorexia will ever meet
Family therapy is the first treatment recommended for young people with anorexia. Univa puts it in your hands — one app for your child, one for you, twenty weeks of structured care.
The illness is a visitor, not an identity
Caregivers often describe anorexia as something that came to visit — a voice that isn't their child's own. Recovery means talking to the person, and helping their voice grow stronger than the visitor's.
Anorexia is treatable, and families sit at the center of the treatment that works best. This is not something being done to you while you watch. You are part of the medicine.
Before the eating disorder came to visit, your loved one had this really vibrant blue balloon — all the things they're good at, the things they like doing, what makes them happy.
— Jenny Langley, Expert Caregiver, Univa Care Program
What families often notice first
Families often notice changes in behavior before anything else: meals becoming tense or avoided, new rules and rituals around food, withdrawal from friends, low mood, tiredness, feeling cold, or exercise that feels driven rather than fun.
You don't need to see every sign, or be certain, to act. If your instinct says something is wrong, a primary care doctor appointment is the right first step — and the earlier the better.
The evidence points home
Parents aren't the cause of anorexia — they're the strongest resource for recovery. Our program is built on both proven approaches.
Family therapy (FT-AN/FBT)
Family therapy is recommended as the first-line psychological treatment for children and young people with anorexia. Decades of research sit behind it.
The New Maudsley approach
Developed at the Maudsley Hospital: the practical caregiver skills — how to respond at the table, how to lower the temperature, how to protect your own reserves.
What you'll have in your pocket
Built by the clinicians who treat this, and the families who live it. Two apps that move in step — one for your child, one for you.
20 weeks, two apps
Your weekly modules run a week ahead of your child's, so you know what's coming before they get there.
Meal planning and support
What to plan, what to say, and what to do during those distressing meal times.
Diaries
Food, thoughts and feelings, recorded simply — and shared with your care team only when you choose.
Help with the hardest behaviors
Example behaviors such as over-exercise and purging quietly hold recovery back. You'll learn what drives them, how to spot them early, and how to respond.
A few of the things you'll find inside. Behind them sit dozens of modules and videos from families who’ve been there, and other tools to help you and your child.
Twenty weeks. Two apps.
One recovery.
Two connected tracks, moving in sync — because anorexia never affects just one person.
Two connected apps
Twenty weeks, two tracks in sync — one app for your child, one for you. When they reach meal anxiety, yours shows you how to support it.
Your child's track
Understanding the illness, separating themselves from the illness voice, managing anxiety, rebuilding regular eating, and reclaiming their identity.
Your own track
Meal support and Survive & Thrive in-the-moment skills (with Jenny Langley), managing your own exhaustion, and knowing when to hand back control.
Check-ins & shared progress
Daily and weekly check-ins capture your progress and the difficult moments too. With consent, summaries are shared with your team.
Real families, real progress
Recovery isn't a straight line — it's a roller coaster. But with the right support, it's real, and common, and worth every small step.
Anorexia moved in uninvited. Help is here today.
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