Understanding Disordered Eating
Having an eating disorder, whether anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder, is not an indictment that something is deficient in you. Instead, it is something that takes you over, has tremendous influence and power over your behaviors, thoughts, and ideas, promotes your detachment from your body, and undermines your best efforts to care for yourself. It can erase your sense of who you are. As a counselor I am unwavering in my desire to help you recover from an eating disorder. Together we can create successful strategies and find practical ways to challenge its dominance, learn new ways to deal with strong emotions, manage stress and discover practices of intuitive eating. Including a counselor on your recovery team can bring to light those times when you’ve resisted the eating disorder’s influence over you, help you restore your spirit and your identity, reclaim your passions and interests, and fully participate in life again. I offer therapy and consultation for families and couples to assist you in recovery.