You can't think well, love well, sleep well, if you haven't eaten well"
-Virginia Wolf
Eating Disorders are a group of very serious but treatable physical and mental conditions that impact a person’s ability to have an adaptive relationship with food and exercise.
They're exhausting.
From the moment you wake up until the end of your day you're in a constant state of thinking about your food. Planning the menu, considering the costs, making substitutions, researching restaurants before you dine there, and judging yourself harshly for every misstep. This may have been going so long that it seems normal.
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But we want you to know that there is relief. You don't have to continue living a life that revolves around your diet and exercise.
Our approaches include Family-Based Treatment (for children, adolescents, and young adults with social support) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Enhanced (for adults). Click here for important eating disorder resources.
Family-Based Treatment
Family-based treatment (FBT) is the leading treatment for adolescent eating disorders and is based on five tenets, or fundamental assumptions:
(1) the therapist holds an agnostic view of the cause of the illness;
(2) the therapist takes a non-authoritarian stance in treatment;
(3) parents are empowered to bring about the recovery of their child; (
4) the eating disorder is separated from the patient and externalized; and (5) FBT utilizes a pragmatic approach to treatment.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Enhanced
CBT-E is one of the most effective treatments for eating disorders. It is an approach that treats all forms of eating disorder including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and other similar states​.When working with people who are not significantly underweight, CBT-E generally involves an initial assessment appointment followed by 20 treatment sessions over 20 weeks, lasting 50-minutes each.
CBT-E isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” treatment. It is a highly individualized treatment where your therapist creates a specific version of CBT-E to match the specific eating challenge you may be struggling with.
Relational Therapy
Relational therapy is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the impact of relationships on a person's emotional well-being. The therapist and client explore the client's interactions with others and how those relationships impact their relationship with food. Our therapists also use cognitive-behavioral interventions to help you identify any unhealthy thinking habits and behaviors. We also considers the relationship that we have in therapy room, and how our relationship might impact your understanding of your other relationships.
What to expect while working on eating disorder recovery with Flourish Psychology
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