Eating Disorders are stealthy little creatures that sneak into your bedroom at night with enticing ideas of how to make your life better and as soon as you realize the creature didn't actually care about you- it's too late. Eating Disorders literally take away pieces of your life bit by bit- are you ready to take it back?
Some of the common issues I work with are:
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Anorexia
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Bulimia
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Binge-Eating
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Compulsive Over-Exercising
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Orthorexia
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Disordered Eating
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Chronic Dieting
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Trauma
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Relationship Issues
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Body Image
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I use a Health At Every Size (HAES) when working with all above issues. No bodies are bad. All bodies are welcome. All bodies deserve love and care.
Eating Disorder Therapy Offerings
Individual Therapy:
Individual therapy is a great place for you to begin exploring how your eating disorder or disordered eating has cost you some of your freedom. It's in these 50 minute sessions where you will begin having honest and compassionate conversations about the impact this cost has had on your life. You will start to understand the function of your eating disorder and how it was actually created as a way to protect you. This is scary and incredibly brave work.
This is a slow process and we will go at your pace. The focus is to help you deal with the issues the eating disorder has been protecting you from so you no longer need this protection. Once you've done this, you will have your freedom back.
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Family Therapy:
Typically Eating Disorders are born out of certain types of family dynamics. It's not that family members are to blame for causing an eating disorder, it's more that the type of dynamics within a family can make it more likely for a person to develop an eating disorder. Family Therapy is aimed at helping these dynamics become better understood so that changes can happen within the family to foster the recovery of the individual with an eating disorder.
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Family Therapy can also be used as a way to help family members, friends and partners better understand what their loved one is going through. It can often be very difficult for people without an eating disorder to understand the thought process of their loved one and this can cause them to become frustrated or say unhelpful things, despite having good intentions.