Therapy for Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating

You don’t have to fight your body to feel at home in it.
If food, body image, or eating habits feel like a constant source of stress, guilt, or shame, you’re not alone. Whether you're living with a diagnosed eating disorder or struggling with disordered eating patterns that don’t have a label, therapy can offer a path toward healing — one rooted in compassion, not control.

Eating Struggles Are About More Than Food

Eating disorders and disordered eating are rarely just about food. They’re often ways of coping — with stress, trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, or feeling out of control. You might feel like your relationship with food is the only thing you can manage, or that your body has become a battleground.

In therapy, we look underneath the surface to understand why these patterns developed — not to judge them, but to help you find safer, more sustainable ways to care for yourself.

Common Signs of Disordered Eating

Not every struggle fits neatly into a diagnosis like anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder. If you’re wondering whether therapy might help, here are some common signs that your relationship with food or your body may need support:

  • Obsessive thoughts about food, weight, or exercise

  • Bingeing, restricting, purging, or compulsive eating

  • Feeling out of control around food

  • Eating in secret or with shame

  • Anxiety about meals or social eating

  • Harsh self-criticism about your body or appearance

  • Using food to numb emotions or feel “in control”

How Therapy Can Help

Healing your relationship with food and your body isn’t about more rules or willpower. It’s about curiosity, compassion, and connection — and therapy provides a safe space to do that work.

In therapy, you can:

  • Understand the roots of your eating patterns and body image struggles

  • Reduce shame and guilt through self-compassion and validation

  • Explore how trauma, anxiety, or perfectionism may be playing a role

  • Learn to regulate emotions without turning to harmful behaviors

  • Develop a more intuitive, flexible approach to eating

  • Build body trust and work toward body neutrality or acceptance

You Are Not a Problem to Fix

There is nothing wrong with you for struggling. You’ve developed ways to survive — and therapy can help you gently unlearn the ones that are no longer serving you. This work is not about perfection or control. It’s about healing, reclaiming your voice, and learning to live in a body that feels safe to inhabit.

You're not alone
And it's not too late.

It can be overwhelming to start therapy, but Rachel works to make it feel safe and supportive!

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