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Treatment for Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Eating disorders can affect your emotional well-being, physical health, relationships, and everyday life. Because recovery involves both your mind and your body, effective and ethical treatment often includes support from a team of providers. Depending on your needs, your treatment team may include a therapist, registered dietitian, primary care provider, psychiatrist, or other healthcare professionals.
I can support you with the psychological and emotional parts of recovery, but I cannot provide the medical or nutritional care that may also be important. For this reason, I require clients receiving eating disorder treatment to be connected with an appropriate multidisciplinary team. If you don’t already have one in place, I can help you find trusted providers in the community. You don’t have to coordinate everything on your own.
Therapy will be tailored to your experiences, goals, and stage of recovery. Approaches we may draw from include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and feminist therapy.
Recovery doesn’t require you to do everything perfectly. Our work will focus on helping the eating disorder take up less space so you have more room for the life you want.
Helps you recognize the connections among your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while building more flexible ways of responding to food and body-image concerns.
CBT
Guides you to make room for difficult thoughts, feelings, and urges without allowing the eating disorder to make your choices. We’ll also explore what matters to you outside of the eating disorder and practice moving toward those values.
ACT
Offers practical skills for navigating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and responding to urges without automatically turning to eating disorder behaviors.
DBT
Supports you to gradually approach feared foods, physical sensations, changes in routine, or other experiences that have become connected to anxiety and avoidance. This work is collaborative and paced according to your treatment needs.
ERP
Helps us consider how cultural messages, identity, power, discrimination, and societal expectations may have shaped your relationship with food, movement, and your body. Therapy can help you question harmful messages rather than treating your distress as something that exists only within you.
FEMINIST THERAPY
Recovery Is About Making More Room for Your Life
Eating disorder treatment isn’t just about changing what or how you eat. It’s about helping food, exercise, weight, and your body take up less space in your life so there’s more room for relationships, experiences, spontaneity, rest, and the things that matter to you.
Recovery doesn’t require doing everything perfectly. Together, we can work toward greater flexibility, build trust in yourself, and practice responding differently when eating disorder thoughts and urges show up. The goal is not a perfect relationship with food or your body. It’s a life where the eating disorder gets less of a say in how you choose to live.