This makes it hard to accept our body and can impact the way we feel about ourselves.
Our beliefs around body image are important as it impacts our mental and physical health. While the media portrays a certain body type, this doesn’t cause an eating disorder.
Disordered Eating refers to thoughts and feelings about food that affect one’s eating behaviours and alter consumption of food in a way that negatively affects someone’s physical and psychosocial functioning.
This complicated illness can affect a person’s sense of identity, worth and self-esteem. No one develops an eating disorder simply to lose weight; there are often other driving forces behind the condition. Restricting ones eating is often a way to cope with difficult problems or regain a sense of control. Disordered eating is also often associated with other mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse.
Eating disorders can affect anyone, but those experiencing low self-esteem or poor body image, perfectionism or difficulties dealing with stress may be more likely to experience it.
There are many complex emotions surrounding eating disorders and reaching out for help is not an easy step. But luckily, eating disorders are treatable, and you can recover.
Our therapists use a combination of approaches to target our treatment to the client’s needs. Using a holistic viewpoint, we explore the root of the eating disorder. Many people stuck in an eating disorder don’t understand why they overeat or refuse to eat. By treating the source, our client’s mindset and disordered eating symptoms tend to improve.
By using methods like CBT, our therapists help our clients adjust their mindset by identifying distorted thinking patterns and replacing them with healthy and rational outlooks. We also teach our clients strategies to try at home like problem-solving, stress management and relaxation techniques.
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We will do an assessment of your specific situation and goals, to come up with a targeted and individualized approach to therapy that draws from a variety of the listed modalities.
Change unhelpful and problematic ways of thinking got change unwanted or unhealthy behaviour
Utilized techniques like meditation, stretching, and breathing to increase awareness of our thoughts, feelings and actions
Develop healthy coping strategies and mindfulness skills like living in the moment to improve relationships and regulate emotions
Learn to separate yourself from your problem by relying on your own skills to minimize the problems in your life
Focuses on the family as a unit and how generational, social, community and cultural factors influence the family members
