Therapist for Eating Disorder
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Therapist for emotional eating/body image?
–May 2, 2025Hi all, I am looking for a therapist for an adult that specializes in disordered eating - not an ED exactly, just mildly-moderately upsetting emotional eating/snacking and body image issues.
Anyone know of a therapist who was especially helpful with these issues? Thank you!
May 2, 2025Therapist for teen who is binging/purging
–Jan 24, 2023I'm looking for therapist referrals in the East Bay, preferably Oakland/Berkeley, who specialize in teen eating disorders and anxiety. Also maybe teen support groups? My high school-age daughter told me she's been binging/purging to cope with the overwhelm of Junior year. She wants to stop her behavior but needs help; so do I. Thanks for your ideas and recommendations.
Jan 24, 2023Therapist for teen with eating disorder
–Mar 8, 2021We are desperate for an in person therapist (with Covid Safe precautions)for our 15 year old daughter.
She has had an eating disorder for 3 years due in part to severe fat shaming from peers in elementary school. She never told us about the bullying until after we discovered her eating disorder.
She has been failing her classes and has been very manipulative with us and her teachers. Pretending to do homework and just got in trouble for plagiarism in one class.
We greatly diminished screen time. We don’t want to completely isolate her from friends so she gets one hour a day.
We have now discovered cuts on her inner thighs and are so saddened and lost about what to do.She has been in therapy but ended up not liking the therapist.
We need someone who can smell bullshit because she has a tendency to lie for no good reason.Mar 8, 2021Therapist / treatment for daughter with anorexia
–Apr 22, 2019Our 16-year-old daughter was diagnosed with anorexia last fall. She had been seeing a Kaiser therapist for nine months for anxiety, depression, and difficulty sleeping. Eventually she was referred to a psychiatrist who spotted the eating disorder immediately. She started seeing the teen pediatrician, a nutritionist, and a therapist and we were coached to feed her three meals and three snacks daily (which was extremely difficult for her at first, but she is mostly compliant now).Since that time she has regained about half of the weight she lost, started her period again (after losing it for 9 months). Her mood has improved (she’s taking antidepressants) but her ED thoughts are still very strong and she says she doesn’t want to recover. She does not particularly like her therapist at Kaiser. Has anyone else had experience with the eating disorder teen treatment team at Kaiser Oakland and have you supplemented with any other outside therapist or treatment programs? Can you recommend a therapist in Oakland or Berkeley who specializes in eating disorders? Any other advice or hope for us as we navigate this horrible illness?
Apr 22, 2019
YES! I have two suggestions. The first is to check out Kindful Body (https://www.kindfulbody.com/). The second is my therapist, Meghan Montgomery https://www.guidedrevolution.com/therapist-littleton-colorado. I began working with Meghan while she was with Kindful Body, and now see her privately online since she left the group. She is amazing and works precisely on body image issues.
May I suggest also working with an anti-diet dietician? I began seeing one at Kindful Body together with Meghan; once the dietician also left the group (perhaps implying something about the group... who knows?), I went with her. I find that my dietician often digs up more about emotional eating and body image issues than the therapist. She kind of pokes at them, uncovers them, then I work on them with my therapist. Feel free to privately message me if you'd like more info.
Not a therapist, but I have found SociEATy to be a wonderful online community with lots of support and advice on these issues. It is the best resource I've found, and much better than the coach I tried working with. https://colleenchristensennutrition.com/