Anorexia is not eating food and a fear of gaining weight. Bulimia is purging foods after having eaten for fear of gaining weight. Both these and other eating disorders are extremely dangerous and have some of the highest morbidity rates of any mental illness.
There are residential or inpatient programs for those experiencing eating disorders to reside in a more controlled environment during their recovery.
Treatment for an eating disorder will address symptoms, medical consequences, and all factors that contribute to or maintain the eating disorder. Typically treatment will be provided by a treatment team and consist of psychotherapy and nutrition counseling while also addressing any co-occurring mental health or medical issues related to the eating disorder.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Eating Disorders
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Congratulations on taking your first step towards emotional empowerment! The first step is usually one of the hardest as it means that you have been thinking about making changes, probably for quite some time, and are finally ready. It takes a lot of courage to do that! Know that you are not alone. Together, we will walk on a healing...
I work with adolescents and adults who are interested in exploring and engaging their innate healing abilities, offering a safe and accepting space, a gentle approach for trust to form, and support to recover from grief, trauma, life transitions, and other life circumstances, toward experiencing greater life satisfaction. With children, my approach includes creative play and expressive arts...
Jessica Aiello offers individual tailor-made intensive therapy for individual and couples based on evidenced based best practices. Jessica’s purpose is to encourage clients by creatively communicating truth. Jessica believes that providing a supportive encouraging environment for clients, they are able to look inside, draw on their strengths and confront dysfunctions in order to live on purpose...
From birth through death, each stage of life is dynamic and valuable. Through these stages, we sometimes encounter challenges beyond our own capacity and we need to reach out for help. I believe in healing. I believe we all have the capacity to recover and learn deeply about ourselves through our most challenging experiences. I enjoy working with people of all ages and in all life stages. I hav...
Therapy should be accessible to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender preference, trauma history, mental or physical health challenges or income. That is why I keep my fee at $75 per session. Psychotherapy can help you move through difficult times and losses. It can help you identify your personal barriers to change and help you develop tools to enhance your future. I will work w...
Terry Rauschuber is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with a master’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a mental health therapist with over 20 years of successful experience working with adults and seniors with depression and anxiety. She applies techniques to develop skills to learn how to manage negative thought processes and develop alternative thinking patterns. Terry’s...
By utilizing a warm and understanding approach, while also being direct, Jill focuses on addressing unhealthy behaviors and patterns which may prevent awareness and growth for her clients. Jill encourages her clients to find their voice and strength through CBT, DBT, ACT and assertiveness training. Jill emphasizes establishing trust with her clients by offering respect, encouragement, and suppo...
I am a National Board Certified Counselor and Certified Child and Adolescent Counselor specializing in working with elementary, middle, and high school age children. As a child therapist I utilize play therapy, expressive art, and sandtray therapy modalities, providing children with developmentally appropriate opportunities to self-direct and “play out” their feelings and inner worlds much as...
There are countless reasons you may decide to begin working with a therapist. Perhaps you are going through life changes and do not how to feel, or maybe you need guidance working through a catastrophic event that left you traumatized. Whatever personal reasons you may have, I can help you navigate through your issues. Whether you want to work on processing complex trauma or simply want to asse...
Accepting new clients and offer virtual appointments. I offer a variety of modalities including CBT, NLP, Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy and RTT™ (Rapid Transformational Therapy). RTT™ is an extremely unique, powerful and effective hypnotherapy technique: it allows me to deliver vivid and direct suggestions to your subconscious mind. Professionally trained directly by the awarding winning and t...
As a certified Internal Family Systems therapist and Intuitive, Elizabeth is looking forward to cultivating a space with room to understand our own inherent truth, wisdom and sacredness within. Through sessions that combine both holistic psychotherapy and counseling, Elizabeth will help you build a relationship with yourself that is rooted in love and nourishment. Elizabeth believes that our...
Delinda Swanston is a licensed professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia whose work includes meeting needs of adults, children, and adolescents in inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and field settings. Her 25 years experience includes confidential service to military personnel and their families oversees, and stateside. She has served for 11 years as an officer for local human right...
Aisha Alston is a licensed mental health counselor from the state of North Carolina. There are two Mantra’s she often refers to in therapy with clients. Change is a personal choice which is often uncomfortable. The other is, what you allow will continue. Aisha has experience working with clients that are seeking counseling for an array of challenges faced in life. She works with all individuals...
Welcome! I believe that one of the essential ingredients of change and transformative psychotherapy is the relationship between the individual and the therapist. Feeling understood and comfortable only helps reduce one's symptoms, encouraging self-acceptance, but also leads toward deeper work which promotes lasting change and a deeper experience of one's whole self. My Treatment approach is...
My work as a psychologist is rooted in a profound belief that by recognizing and honoring our complex, messy life stories with honesty and gentleness, we lay the foundation to heal the obstacles preventing us from building fulfilling, meaningful lives. Throughout life, we all create narratives about ourselves to help us survive. These narratives are shaped by myriad factors (individual life...
