Therapy for Eating Disorders
Supporting Positive Change & Healthy Eating Choices
Eating disorders are often thought about as focusing on what a person does or doesn’t eat. While a disordered relationship with food consumption is a common factor associated with eating disorders, they are actually much more complex conditions, involving disordered beliefs, emotions, thinking, and behaviors related to eating, weight, and body shape.
Types of Eating Disorders
There are many types of eating disorders, and each person’s relationship with food, weight, and their body is extremely complex. In many cases, the different types of eating disorders are cooccurring or experienced by individuals at different points in their lives. In most cases, the types of eating disorders are characterized by specific symptoms. Most eating disorders will include some form of food restriction like limiting calories or not eating at all, binge eating, and purging, which may include excessive exercise or vomiting.
How We Work
Our therapists work alongside individuals who are struggling with disordered eating of all kinds, but we frequently provide therapy for clients who are working toward recovery from anorexia nervosa and binging/purging disorders. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an individual’s belief (often false) that they are overweight. This leads them to only eat certain types of food, restrict calories, and over exercise. In most cases, people with this type of eating disorder are constantly worried about losing weight, and their self-esteem is often tied to their body weight.
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