First, do you feel an obsession about calories?
Do you feel your body shape and weight is the most important thing and the focus of your life?
Also, do you weight yourself multiple times a day or week?
If you fear gaining weight, would you feel a rush of intense feelings even if you gained a small amount more?
Eating disorders impact children, teens, couples, and adults alike. Also, eating disorders can include self-harming behaviors like bulimia, purging, over exercise, starvation, and compulsive food rigidity.
Do you feel fear around foods or pressure to be a specific weight?
If you resonate with any of these questions, the team of eating disorder therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help. We are LGBTQIA+ affirming therapists that enjoy specializing with eating disorder therapy.
To begin in holistic eating disorder therapy to feel stronger, book a free 30-minute phone consult with any of our intake coordinators using the pink button below.
Thinking back on your life, would you say you’ve been dieting or worried about food for most of your life?
Now, when controlling food, have you ever restricted a specific food group entirely?
Would you feel guilty or shame yourself if you missed a day of exercise that was on your schedule?
Have you done any of the following to control your weight or change how you look?
Often, when eating disorders are present, you may find yourself cutting out entire food groups. Diet culture gives the message to cut out certain foods. For instance, some people may eliminate foods like carbohydrates or red meat. At Wisdom Within Counseling, that all food fit into a loving relationship with your mind-body, and spirit. As well, have you counted the calories of every food you ate in an effort to look a specific way?
Who can develop an eating disorder?
Eating disorders can look different for different people. Also, eating disorders affect all gender and ages. Eating disorders are often stereotyped around cis-gender, white women, but people of all genders struggle with a loving relationship with food. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our therapists focus on LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy. People in larger bodies struggle just as much as people living in smaller bodies, though they often go unnoticed.
How eating disorders develop?
To add, people can develop eating disorders after big, stressful events in life. Often, traumatic events can trigger a person to try to create their own sense of safety. Grief and loss are also connected to eating disorders. When you lose a loved one, a family pet, feel like you’ve lost your childhood, or lost your marriage, eating disorders can develop. Essentially, it is really common to see an increase in disordered eating after trauma, loss, or when going through grief. For instance, someone may have an eating disorder that is restrictive at times. At other times, bulimia, binge-eating and purging can also surface. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our eating disorder specialists help you release fear, worry, and tension around food choices and eating. So, you can learn to nurture yourself through food and eating.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer a mixture of positive thinking skills no matter your gender, sexual orientation, or gender expression.
In general, our holistic marriage and family therapists help you build respect and think positively about your body through food. From learning to love and respect your body’s natural abilities, you can create health at any size.
LGBTQIA+ transgender affirming eating disorder therapy
To add, as transgender affirming therapists, we recognize that body acceptance not a suitable label for everyone. Therefore, in counseling for eating disorder recovery, you can learn positive coping tools for respecting yourself. We work with LGBTQIA+ children, teenagers, adults, and couples. Often, with binge-eating disorder, anorexia, and bulimia, decision-making skills around food are difficult and chaotic. Therapy can help you make meal time fun, playful, and creative. Through holistic counseling, you can improve your decision-making skills and make choices from self-love.
We teach you how to take care of yourself and make decisions from self-love.
Have you ever restricted yourself to less than 1,200 calories per day, or only ate a small variety of food or the same foods every day?
Even though you are still eating, these are rigid food behaviors that are symptoms of an eating disorder. Therefore, if you experience any of these symptoms, it is essential to seek counseling for your eating disorder right away. In addition, eating only no-calorie or low-calorie foods and skipping meals are signs of an eating disorder. If you take laxatives or pills or throw up when you feel full, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling offers positive coping skills.
To begin, build a healthy relationship with food by booking a free 30-minute phone consult with any of our intake coordinators using the pink button below.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, the marriage and family therapists offer a special focus on eating disorders.
Going to weekly or twice a week counseling may be a transition back home from hospitalization for some teenagers and adults. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help adolescent girls, teenager boys, women, and men, who struggle with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or a binge-eating disorder. Some of our therapists specialize in helping adolescent girls. Another therapist on the Wisdom Within Counseling team helps emerging adults who are ages 18-40. As well, we have another therapist who focuses on adult women balancing parenting responsible, work, food, and family life.
Overall, when it comes to eating disorder therapy, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling support your mind, body, and spirit. From building a healthy relationship with food, we help adolescents and adults a like who are suffering from eating disorders.
Furthermore, you receive a comprehensive approach where you can use creative art, painting, yoga, music, and outdoor therapies to build healthy coping tools.
Therefore, from a holistic counseling perspective, we help you focus on reducing your eating disorder symptoms while also learning to love and accept yourself. And, from positive coping tools, you can learn to understanding yourself and your triggers for rigid food behaviors.
How do creative, holistic therapies help eating disorder recovery?
Are you thinking, “What is art therapy?” Well, art therapy is one of the many creative therapies available to build positive coping tools. When painting, drawing, or using glitter gel pens, art therapy becomes a form of communication. When words are difficult to find, or your teenager doesn’t want to talk, art therapy establishes safety and trust. Overall, art therapy can offer a sense of clarity, confidence, and emotional freedom. After doing art therapy, fears around food and self-criticism can be released. Lastly, art provides a peaceful, calming inner experience, and help children, teens, and adults alike express emotions and ideas that may be difficult to talk about verbally.
So, how can creative art help improve my eating disorder?
Often, eating disorder are hidden and the restricting, purging, and binge-eating behaviors are secretive. Having an eating disorder can feel like you are wearing a backpack full of heavy rocks. Therefore, from art and creative therapies, you can release the weight you’ve been carrying. You can practice letting go of the desire to be perfect or fit into a specific standard are parts of eating disorder therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling. As well, our eating disorder specialists also help people who are into the process of recovery, but fear relapsing. So, through creative art therapy, you can discuss anxiety and fear around imperfections. As well, self-acceptance and self-respect can grow from art. After an art therapy experience, you can talk about goals toward increasing conversations with family members. Also, art therapy increases the efficiency of utilizing holistic coping skills to challenge disordered thinking outside therapy sessions.
To begin in eating disorder specialized therapy, book a free 30-minute phone consult with any of our intake coordinators using the pink button below.
Also, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer you holistic, creative therapies for healthy emotional expression and release. Through positive coping tools, our therapists help you develop a healthy self that helps you feel stronger and nurture yourself in emotional, emotional, and physical ways.
What is purging, often with anorexia and binge eating disorders?
First, purging is a common symptom of anorexia nervosa. Often, purging develops slowly over time from shame. With anorexia and bulimia, purging behaviors can include vomiting and the use of laxative or diuretic medications. On a side note, which is a little less common, purging can also include the use of enemas. These behaviors are often done alone and hidden from family and friends. Now, you may be experiencing binge-eating, anorexia, and purging all in one day or week, in severe cases. Some people with eating disorders just experience anorexia or restrictive patterns with food. Other times, people experience throwing up, over exercising, and binge-eating large amounts of food. Binge eating disorders and purging are a pattern of eating excessive amounts and throwing up on purpose, self-induced.
If you are feeling overwhelmed or hopeless, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you sort through these big, intense feelings. The eating disorder specialists help you feel stronger, healthier, and gain the courage to thrive.
The eating disorder specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling help people who have binge eating disorder, who experience shame, guilt, sadness, loss, anger, and anxiety, build a healthy body image and loving relationship with food.
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To begin with one of our eating disorder therapy specialists, book a free 30-minute phone consult with any of our intake coordinators using the pink button below.
