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Eating Disorder Therapy
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Eating Disorders Can Look Different for Everyone
- Anorexia
- Bulimia
- Binge Eating
- Disordered Eating
- Body Image
- Food Anxiety
- Restrictive Eating
- Bingeing & Purging
- Emotional Eating
- Self-Esteem
- Anxiety & Depression
- Perfectionism
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As you begin your journey with us, we’ll ask you to complete a few simple assessments from the convenience of your smartphone, tablet, or computer using our Blueprint system. Once you create your account, you’ll enjoy the benefits of workbooks, care resources, and automated assessments that check-in on your progress. These assessments are extremely valuable to ensuring your care is specifically tailored to your needs.
Support for Eating Disorders & Body Image
Eating disorder therapy can help you understand the thoughts, emotions, experiences, and behaviors connected to food and body image. Treatment can help you challenge unhealthy patterns, strengthen coping skills, address underlying mental health concerns, and work toward a healthier and more sustainable relationship with food and yourself.
- Understand Eating Patterns & Triggers
- Improve Body Image
- Challenge Unhelpful Thoughts
- Develop Healthy Coping Skills
- Address Underlying Emotions
- Strengthen Self-Esteem
Individual therapy provides a private, supportive environment to explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviors related to food, eating, and body image. Your therapist can help you identify patterns and triggers, address underlying concerns, strengthen coping skills, and work toward individualized recovery goals.
An eating disorder can affect communication, intimacy, routines, and emotional connection within a relationship. Couples therapy can help partners better understand the impact of an eating disorder, improve communication, establish healthy boundaries, and learn supportive ways to navigate recovery together.
Eating disorders and body image concerns can emerge during childhood and adolescence and may affect emotional, social, and physical well-being. Therapy can provide age-appropriate support while helping young people understand their thoughts and emotions, develop healthier coping skills, and navigate concerns related to food and body image. Family involvement may also be an important part of treatment when appropriate.
Eating disorders can occur alongside anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and other mental health concerns. Our psychiatric providers can evaluate co-occurring symptoms and, when appropriate, provide medication management as one part of a broader treatment plan.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Consider seeking support if thoughts or behaviors involving food, weight, exercise, or body image are causing distress or interfering with your health, relationships, school, work, or everyday life. You don’t need to have a formal eating disorder diagnosis or wait until symptoms become severe before talking with a therapist.
Therapy may be part of treatment for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED), and other patterns of disordered eating. The appropriate treatment and level of care depend on your symptoms and individual needs.
Treatment is individualized, but therapy may explore eating behaviors, body image, emotions, triggers, relationships, self-esteem, and underlying mental health concerns. Your therapist can help you develop coping strategies and work toward treatment goals as part of your overall recovery plan.
Therapy can support children and adolescents experiencing eating concerns, depending on the provider and the young person’s clinical needs. Because eating disorders can affect physical health and development, treatment may also involve parents or caregivers and coordination with appropriate medical and nutritional professionals.
Yes. Eating disorders frequently occur alongside other mental health concerns, including anxiety and depression. Treatment can address these interconnected concerns rather than focusing only on eating behaviors.
Eating disorders can affect both mental and physical health, and outpatient psychotherapy is only one part of treatment for some people. Depending on symptoms and medical needs, treatment may also involve a physician, registered dietitian, psychiatrist, or a specialized eating disorder program.
When an eating disorder presents significant medical or safety concerns, a more intensive level of care—such as intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, residential, or inpatient treatment—may be necessary.
Medication may be appropriate for certain symptoms or co-occurring mental health conditions, but it isn’t a substitute for comprehensive eating disorder treatment. A psychiatric provider can evaluate your individual needs and discuss whether medication has an appropriate role in your treatment plan.
Safe Harbor offers both in-person and telehealth therapy depending on your location, clinical needs, insurance, and provider availability. Because some eating disorder symptoms require closer medical monitoring or a higher level of care, telehealth may not be appropriate in every situation.
Many insurance plans provide behavioral health coverage that may include outpatient therapy and psychiatric services related to eating disorders. Coverage, copays, deductibles, provider participation, and requirements vary by plan.
