Eating Recovery Center — Free Virtual Eating Disorder Support Groups
About Eating Recovery Center Virtual Support Groups
Eating Recovery Center (ERC) hosts a network of free, online eating disorder support groups designed for the wider recovery community — not just ERC patients. The groups are led by trained facilitators and run weekly over Zoom, so members can join from anywhere in the country at no cost.
What to Expect
Each Zoom group runs about an hour. Facilitators open with group guidelines focused on safety, confidentiality, and pro-recovery language, then invite members to check in with how they’re doing and what brought them to the group that week. Conversation flows from there — sometimes anchored by a prompt like a quote, a recovery skill, or a body image theme, and sometimes opened up entirely to whatever members need to talk about. ERC’s facilitators are practiced at holding space without steering, and members can keep their camera on or off, share or stay quiet, and come weekly or whenever they need it.
Who This Group Is For
ERC offers different groups for different recovery roles. The alumni and community recovery groups welcome adults navigating any eating disorder — anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, OSFED, ARFID — at any stage. Family and caregiver support groups serve parents and other loved ones of children, adolescents, and adults in treatment. There’s also a peer recovery space for clinicians who themselves have lived eating disorder experience. To keep groups intimate and conversational, members are asked to register for no more than two groups at a time.
Why Peer Support Works
A facilitator-led group occupies a unique middle space between solo recovery work and clinical treatment. You get the structure and safety of a professional in the room, but the conversation belongs to peers — people whose lived experience makes them quicker to recognize subtle eating disorder thinking, body shame, or recovery fatigue than even the most skilled provider. That mix of clinical guardrails and community honesty is what keeps people coming back week after week.
How to Join
Visit ERC’s support groups page to browse current group times and topics. Each group has its own registration link; once you sign up, you’ll receive Zoom details by email. All groups are free. For questions about specific groups or schedules, contact alumni@eatingrecovery.com. Pre-recorded series are also available anytime if a live group isn’t a fit for your schedule.