About Eating Disorders + Body Image

At A Good Place, we are dedicated to building a culture that helps people love themselves and their bodies. We believe that positive change comes from a place of self-love, not from self-loathing. With our approach, we support the development of a healthy body image in our clients, which is fundamental to beginning a recovery from an eating disorder.

We address a wide spectrum of eating disorders and body image issues. Together we explore obstacles to coping and recovery to develop an individualized plan of treatment. From the onset, we assess the severity of your current challenges, and may refer to more intensive care with an expert treatment partner to ensure you are safe and have the support you need for recovery. This may include group support, Intensive outpatient treatment, or an inpatient residential program. We often collaborate with and coordinate care with such speciality services.  

Our work is based on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) model.  With CBT, we can establish goals to normalize eating routines and provide learning tools to cope with thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that lead to unhealthy behaviors. The behaviors we address can include over-eating, restricting, over-exercising, and purging among others.  We also draw on principles of the book Intuitive Eating, to help you create a healthy relationship with your food, mind, and body. Throughout the treatment, we incorporate theories and practices of self-compassion, mindfulness, and the Body Positive movement.

About Body Dysmorphic Disorder

You may have Body Dysmorphic Disorder if you focus on a perceived flaw and obsess about this flaw for hours a day. Do you perform certain rituals as an attempt to hide or improve this perceived flaw? Often, people in your life will not even notice the perceived flaw that causes you so much distress. BDD can be debilitating and negatively affect all aspects of your life and relationships with others.  Our approach to treating BDD relies on an effective CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) approach, which is similar to treatment for Anxiety Disorders and OCD. A Good Place has therapists who are trained in CBT and can help you experience some relief from BDD.

Suffering from an unhealthy body image, eating disorder such as anorexia, compulsive overeating, emotional eating, or bulimia can be a lonely and shameful road. You don’t have to go it alone. Reach out to A Good Place Therapy to begin the process of taking back control of your life.

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