Our program is designed for individuals and their families who are struggling with anorexia, bulimia, and/or binge eating disorder. We use an effective approach that integrates nutrition counseling, body and movement therapy, and psychotherapy to change clients’ relationship with food and their bodies. We work with clients and their families in a supportive, nurturing environment, offering individual, family, and group therapy to help develop a healthier and more functional life.

We also offer an intensive, transitional program designed for individuals to acclimate back to their environment after inpatient treatment.

Sessions for Compulsive Overeating, Anorexia or Bulimia may address:

 Challenging distortions, myths, and fears concerning food and weight

• Addressing the underlying issues driving the use of food as a coping mechanism
• Learning to trust the body and make peace with food
• Recognizing internal cues and taking responsibility for food choices, weight, and activity level
• Separating food from feelings and making food about the body’s fuel and energy needs
• Rediscovering pleasurable eating and satisfying activity through self-acceptance
• Restructuring meals, snacks and vitamin therapies for nutritional recovery
• Addressing family dynamics, boundaries, control issues and healthy separation/individuation
• Exploring the client’s real feelings, life dreams, goals, and desires
• Enhancing body image and body connection through touch, imagery and cognitive behavioral therapy
• Identifying strategies to enhance positive self-esteem, self-talk and confidence
• Discovering hands-on strategies for positive re-feeding, weight and food acceptance

In-person sessions for eating disorders can also be supplemented with e-mail and phone coaching for additional support and continuity of treatment. See our methods of consultation for individuals.

Group sessions are offered for individual clients and their family members to address coping strategies, self-care techniques, and family dynamics. See our methods of consultation for groups.