OA Works Alongside Professionals

For the Professional: curious how Overeaters Anonymous (OA) can support your work to help your patients who are compulsive eaters? You’re in the right place. We work alongside many like you. OA complements your recommendations. OA offers an ongoing support system for members and encourages them to help one another–thereby weakening their isolation and loneliness. OA claims no medical, nutritional, or psychological expertise. We recommend members contact qualified professionals for help in these areas. 

About Us

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively.

There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues.

Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.

What Professionals Say

“Overeaters Anonymous offers people of all sizes and shapes the common ground for finding a way out of the food-compulsion abyss. . . . Having our patients participate in OA during treatment and after they return home is the difference between helping them find a brief reprieve from their disease and offering them long-term recovery from a ‘seemingly hopeless condition.’ ”

— Marty Lerner, PhD, founder/director of an eating-disorders treatment center

To the Professional: Links

View the OA Membership Survey 

Take a minute to review Compulsive Overeating—An Inside View: The various manifestation of compulsive overeating for more about the behaviors our members have reported using to both conceal and cope with their compulsive eating.

Read our latest copy of the Professional Community Courier newsletter.

Learn more about How OA Works

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