Eating Disorder Therapy
You deserve a life that isn't controlled by food, your body, the scale, or the eating disorder voice in your head.
Eating disorders can make your world feel smaller. What to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, what your body looks like, and what you "should" or "shouldn't" do can begin taking up an exhausting amount of mental space.
At Healing Solutions Counseling, I provide compassionate, individualized eating disorder therapy for adults at all stages of recovery. Whether you’re struggling with restriction, binge eating, purging, body image, or an exhausting preoccupation with food and weight, therapy can help you understand what is keeping the eating disorder going and begin building a different relationship with food, your body, and yourself.
You don't have to wait until you feel "sick enough" or completely ready for recovery to ask for help.
When Food and Your Body Take Up Too Much Mental Space
Maybe other people don't realize how much of your day is spent thinking about food or your body
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Restricting or skipping meals
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Feeling anxious or guilty after eating
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Following rigid food rules
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Constantly checking or comparing your body
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Feeling intense fear or anxiety about weight gain or body changes
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Avoiding certain foods or situations because of food
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Binge eating or feeling out of control around food
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Experiencing binge-purge behaviors
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Exercising because you feel like you have to
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Trying to "make up for" something you ate
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Feeling disconnected from hunger or fullness
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Knowing what you're "supposed" to do in recovery but struggling to do it
Sometimes you may even wonder whether your relationship with food is "bad enough" to deserve treatment.
It is okay to seek support before things get worse.
Eating Disorders I Treat
Eating disorders can look different from person to person. Therapy is individualized to your experiences, symptoms, and recovery needs.
Anorexia & Restrictive Eating
Restriction can start quietly—skipping meals, eating smaller portions, cutting out certain foods, or feeling safer when you eat less. Over time, rules around food and fear of weight gain or body changes can begin to take over more and more of your life. Therapy can help you understand the eating disorder voice, challenge rigid patterns, and work toward a relationship with food and your body that isn't driven by fear.
Bulimia & Binge-Purge Behaviors
Binge-purge patterns can create a painful cycle of feeling out of control with food, followed by an intense need to compensate or “undo” what was eaten. Over time, this cycle can become exhausting and difficult to interrupt. Therapy can help you understand what keeps the cycle going, develop new ways to respond to urges, and build a more peaceful relationship with food and your body.
Binge Eating & Loss of Control Eating
Binge eating can feel like being disconnected from your choices around food or unable to stop once eating begins. It may be followed by guilt, shame, or promises to “do better” the next day. Therapy can help you understand what is driving the pattern, reduce the shame surrounding food, and build a more trusting and flexible relationship with eating.
Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Therapy
My approach to eating disorder treatment is individualized and may incorporate Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E), an evidence-based treatment developed specifically for eating disorders. We may work on understanding the patterns that keep the eating disorder going, reducing rigid food rules and behaviors, addressing body image concerns, and developing a more flexible relationship with food and your body.
What Eating Disorder Therapy Can Look Like
Eating disorder therapy is about more than changing what you eat. Together, we can explore the thoughts, emotions, experiences, and patterns that have shaped your relationship with food and your body.
Understanding the Eating Disorder Voice
Learn to recognize the thoughts, rules, and fears that keep the eating disorder in control—and begin separating what you want from what the eating disorder wants.
Body Image & Body Trust
Explore body image without pressure to love how you look. We can work toward greater body trust, reduce checking and comparison, and help you feel less controlled by thoughts about weight, shape, or appearance.
Building a Different Relationship With Food
Work toward more flexibility and less fear around eating while understanding the emotions, beliefs, and patterns that can make food feel so complicated.
Healing What’s Underneath
Food and body struggles often connect to experiences beyond eating. Therapy can make space for anxiety, perfectionism, trauma, relationships, or past experiences that may be contributing to the eating disorder.