Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Feeling trapped by intrusive thoughts about food and body image?
You do not need to have a diagnosed eating disorder for food and appearance concerns to be hijacking your brain and disrupting your happiness. Gain confidence, learn coping skills, and cultivate a healthier relationship with food and self by engaging in goal directed counseling with Joynt Counseling.
With years of experience, I've guided many through recovery at multiple care levels and partnered with respected programs like Monte Nido and The Healing Connection. I have worked with individuals struggling with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Orthorexia, and Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. I use evidence based and innovative approaches for each diagnosis, guiding you in the process and meeting you where you’re at.
The Plan
1. Schedule a call to discuss your needs.
2. Book an appointment that fits your schedule.
3. Start learning skills to reduce food guilt, thoughts, and obsessions.
Family coaching, psychoeducation, and meal support also available
Approaches
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy will provide you with hard and fast skills to regulate difficult emotions, improve communication and boundary setting, manage intense urges, and enhance mindfulness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ARFID is an engaging approach that works on reducing the negative thoughts and feelings around various foods while concurrently engaging in ongoing exposures to increase food variety.
Exposure Therapy works to reduce the anxiety you might feel around food and the absence of using compensatory behaviors through gradual exposure to fears, moving up in a step ladder like fashion
Body Neutrality aids those struggling with body image by removing the idea that one has to “love” their body, instead focusing on what your body does for you and moving focus to other, more valued, areas of the self and life.
Health at Every Size is about inclusivity and compassion for individuals of all sizes and moves away from harmful narratives that serve to oppress people of different body shapes. It focuses on intuitive eating, movement for joy, and challenging outdated beliefs connecting weight and body size to overall health.