How this is built, and who checks it.
Most self-administered programs will not tell you who wrote the material, who reviewed it, or what happens when somebody gets worse. This page answers all three, and the rest of the questions we think you should be asking.
How the curriculum is developed
Each program is written by people who had that condition and are several years clear of it. Drafting starts from the published literature for that condition specifically — not from a general model applied to both — and from the accounts of people who have used earlier drafts.
Nothing is written by somebody describing a population they have only read about, and nothing is adapted from the other program on the assumption that it will transfer.
Who reviews it
Every module is reviewed before release by a registered dietitian and by a licensed clinician with eating-disorder experience. The reviewers for Overcome Anorexia™ and Overcome Binge Eating™ are separate people, because the safety questions are not the same.
Reviewers hold a veto. If a reviewer says a passage could be read as instructional, competitive, or as a reason to delay medical care, it does not ship. They are paid for the review and never carry a client through us.
Named reviewers and their credentials will be listed here before launch.
How often it is reviewed
Every module is re-reviewed at least once a year, and immediately whenever a reviewer, a member or a clinician raises a specific concern about a passage. Material changed in response to a safety concern is re-reviewed before it goes back up.
What Overcome is, and what it is not
It is structured, self-administered, non-clinical educational material and exercises for medically stable adults, written to run alongside professional care.
It is not medical care, psychotherapy, nutrition counselling, diagnosis, or treatment for an eating disorder or any other condition. It does not monitor you, it cannot assess you, and it is not a crisis service.
Eligibility
Adults 18 and over who are medically stable. Each program page carries its own criteria, because what makes somebody unsuitable differs between them.
We would rather turn somebody away than take a payment from a person who needs a doctor. Nobody is asked to prove anything, and being outside the criteria is not a judgement — it usually means the thing you need costs more than $39 and involves a person in a room.
How Guided support differs from psychotherapy
A therapist can assess you, diagnose, treat trauma, and work with what is underneath. A guide can do none of that and is not permitted to try.
Guides are people who had an eating disorder and are several years clear of it, trained in this method and working to a written scope. They are not therapists, dietitians or clinicians, and they never present themselves as any. What a guide does is keep you moving through the material and hold you to what you said you would do. If a guide thinks you need clinical care, they will say so, and they will keep saying it.
Escalation and safety procedures
Every guide works to a written escalation path. Where a member describes symptoms that suggest medical instability, active crisis, or risk to themselves, the guide stops the coaching conversation and moves to the escalation script: name it plainly, give the relevant numbers, and make no attempt to assess or manage it.
On the self-administered tiers nobody reads what you write, so nothing can be escalated from it. We say that plainly rather than imply a safety net that does not exist.
Evidence and where the material comes from
The method draws on the same body of work as CBT-E and the relapse-prevention literature, and reviewers hold it against that. We have not run a trial on these programs and we do not claim any outcome.
Where we cite a figure anywhere on this site, the source is printed next to it. Where we have no evidence, we say so instead of reaching for somebody else’s.
How we handle emerging research
Reviewers flag relevant new work at the annual review or sooner. Where new evidence contradicts something we have published, the material is corrected and a dated note is added — we do not quietly edit and move on.
We do not chase preprints or single studies into the curriculum. A finding has to survive review before it changes what a member is told to do.
Privacy principles
What you write in the exercises is not read, not scored, and not used to train anything. On the Guided tier only your guide sees it.
No weight, calories, macros, sizes or photographs are collected anywhere, because there is no field for them. We do not bill insurance, report to any insurer, employer or clinician, or sell data. Your card statement reads Overcome LLC and nothing else. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
If we get something wrong
If anything in the material reads as unsafe, instructional, or as a reason to delay care you need, write to safety@joinovercome.com. Those are read the same day, Monday to Friday, and they go to the top of the queue.
If you are a clinician with a concern about something we have published, we want it. Reviewers are paid to say no to us and we would rather hear it from you than from a member.
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The thinking behind it is published in full before you pay. Read who each program is written for first.