We’ll do what works for you

While we have training in all the evidenced-based therapies listed below, it’s important to work together with our clients to determine the best therapeutic path that will help meet their needs, whether that’s a more structured plan containing skills and somatic interventions or going with the flow integrating creativity and humor.

Therapies

  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

    In this therapy, clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    In this therapy, clients focus on modifying unhelpful emotions, behaviors, and thoughts by reframing and uprooting negative or irrational beliefs. CBT rests on the idea that thoughts and perceptions influence behavior.

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

    In this therapy, clients will navigate structured skills with a strong educational component designed for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships. The “dialectic” in dialectical behavior therapy is an acknowledgment that real life is complex, and health is not a static thing but an ongoing process

Our Approach to Eating Disorders

Many members of our team have experience working in higher levels of care with eating and mood disorders, and through that experience have used many different therapies, including some listed above.  While treatment programs are a necessary component of eating disorder recovery for some clients, we want to deepen the recovery process leading clients to being fully recovered. Coping skills can be a wonderful asset during difficult times, but we want to facilitate for our clients a long-lasting satisfactory relationship with their minds and their bodies.  One where they don’t feel caught up in the cycle of an eating disorder. Whether coming to one of our team members from a higher level of care or just starting your journey in how you relate to food and your body, we will encourage the same thing…becoming embodied.  

What does embodied mean you ask?  Well, let’s take a moment to unpack the definition and understand why it’s so important to eating disorder recovery sustainability.  Embodiment means living life through all the senses making sure to include the body in the lived human experience.  So frequently do we disregard the information our body is trying to communicate to us because we have the belief that we know better, that we can just push through, or that it’s unsafe to listen to it. For someone with an eating disorder, this can look like pushing past hunger or fullness cues and listening to the mind’s judgments about what to eat or how much. 

Frequently, we will hear clients express still feeling “stuck” despite the great deal of progress they’ve made.  What they’ve been missing as part of their recovery is one of the most important pieces—their own body. Through our approach, we want to bring clients back into their bodies guiding them to understand it, create safety in it, and compassionately reconnect with it. In the therapy space, this can look like integrating somatic practices that build interoceptive awareness or exploring education on the nervous system. We encourage clients to explore and be curious about food and movement reflecting on what their body is telling them instead of the mind. These principles can also be found in the Befriending Your Own Body program we offer.

When you become more embodied recognizing that mind and body are one, you’re taking one step closer to freedom.