First, diet culture’s insidious messages have confused many of us. And, we receive unhealthy messages to be a specific size or shape. Over years, being told that we have to be a specific weight hurts self-worth and self-esteem. Media, books, and television complicate our relationship with food and our bodies. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our eating disorder specialists help you to build a nurturing, loving relationship with food and your body.
If you or your teenager is struggling with shame, guilt, and worry around eating, our team would love to teach self-compassion skills.
Holistic, creative coping tools support a holistic, intuitive, and confident way of living.
Our holistic eating disorder specialists have a passion for providing brave spaces for individuals living in marginalized bodies. And, our therapists are LGBTQIA+ gender affirming care providers. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we work with adolescents and adults with eating disorders and challenges. For example, your teenager may have an eating disorder. But, they are sharing that they are bisexual, gay, or lesbian too. In addition, transgender teenagers may develop an eating disorder out of body dysmorphia.
Does your teenager fear certain foods, or they criticize their body?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, talking about gender and sexuality and eating disorders are our counseling specialties. Plus, you can learn how to release anxiety in calm, healthy ways. Essentially, eating disorders are part of a larger emotional need. We offer DBT skills for body positivity and we are LGBTQ+A affirming. So, whether your teenager identifies as non-binary, queer, or pansexual, we specialize in LGBTQIA+. As well, our therapists in Connecticut promote racial justice.
Through a Health at Every Size™ approach, our therapists love helping people of all ages become confident, intuitive eaters and rebuild their relationship with their bodies.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our eating disorder specialists recognize that body acceptance may not be accessible to all. Therefore, our therapists work with body respect and trust™ to help guide you on your path towards body liberation. As well, our therapists use ACT, DBT, and CBT along with a variety of other tools. All therapists have unique trainings working at the residential, php, and iop levels of care for eating disorder treatment. As well, some of our therapists also specialize in alcohol and substance abuse disorders.
Wisdom Within Counseling, our eating disorder specialists love building collaborative relationships with individuals looking for anti-diet practitioners seeking to make peace with their bodies in a creative, nonjudgmental space.
What types of other challenges can you bring to your eating disorder specialist?
Borderline personality disorder and eating disorder specialists
Frequently, the eating disorder specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling work with borderline personality disorder (BPD). With BPD, mood swings can feel high and very low. Often, it can be difficult to keep relationships steady. In time, your eating disorder specialist can help you build tools to feel calmer. Plus, Wisdom Within Counseling offers a holistic counseling approach. So, mindfulness meditation and yoga therapy help reduce stress, thus improving eating skills. At Wisdom Within Counseling, the eating disorder specialists help children, adolescents and adults love themselves.
From working with an eating disorder specialist, develop positive coping skills to have a confident relationship with food.
Eating disorder skills support releasing negative, intense emotions like anger in healthy ways.
Eating disorders often develop in major life transitions. So, working with an eating disorder specialist can help you feel strong and resilient.
How does working with an eating disorder specialists help with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Often, when a teenager has an eating disorder, anorexia or bulimia, peer relationships change. Teenagers withdraw socially and peer relationships suffer. As well, with an eating disorder, anorexia or bulimia, a teenager does not have energy for social activities. Additionally, working with an eating disorder specialist can help lack of energy, depression, OCD, and anxiety. Teenagers that suffer from eating disorder, anorexia or bulimia have low self–esteem. Essentially, creative therapy involving art, yoga, music, and nature boosts self-esteem. In therapy, a teenager with an eating disorder, anorexia or bulimia can express in creative ways. Painting, glitter gel pens, and clay are all available for healthy alternatives for emotional expression.
How do our eating disorder specialists help teens who are self-harming, or who have suicidal ideation?
Has your teenager been expressing depressive thoughts? Feeling like their life isn’t worth living? Wisdom Within Counseling strives to offer teenagers a nurturing space to take back their life. Teenagers with eating disorders need help learning how to enjoy food. As well, we help teenagers with eating disorders release fear around foods. Often, they worry about, or even binge-eat out of extreme fear of food.
How do eating disorders develop?
Sometimes, eating disorders come from media and culture. Other times, this messaging comes from peers who criticize themselves. Furthermore, an eating disorder can develop from high stress and feeling too much stress. Other times, an eating disorder develops from giving to too many areas besides ourselves. In conclusion, holistic eating disorder therapy supports connection to mind, body, and spirit. Lastly, working with an eating disorder specialist can help your teenager be emotionally set up for college years.
And, our eating disorder specialists help depressed teenagers with eating disorders creative a life worth living.
To add, has your teenager been in the hospital for mental health challenges or suicidal ideation? Frequently, eating disorders, stress and peer drama play a role in suicidal ideation. At times, suicidal ideation and eating disorder go hand in hand. For teenagers, anxiety, depression, OCD, loss, sadness, and trauma can feel overwhelming. Frequently, our therapists work with teenagers who are getting out of the hospital. Or, we work with teens who have a past history of hospitalization.
Many times, teenagers take part in self-harm out of not knowing what to do with intense feelings.
So, we provide your teenager with a safe space to feel calmer and safe. And, your young adult can learn ways to release to step self-harming. From there, your young adults with an eating disorder can start to verbalize emotions and needs.
The best way to get started with me is to book a phone consult with the intake coordinators at Wisdom Within Counseling at www.WisdomWithinCt.com.
