Eating Disorder Group Therapy
During group therapy sessions, my priority is to create a safe and comfortable environment where every participant feels encouraged to share their experiences. Together, we will learn effective skills for managing eating disorder-related behaviors and triggers. We will also process ...
Hosted by Alexis Leeper
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Houston, TX 77007
During group therapy sessions, my priority is to create a safe and comfortable environment where every participant feels encouraged to share their experiences. Together, we will learn effective skills for managing eating disorder-related behaviors and triggers. We will also process ...
DBT, Domestic Violence, Trauma
We offer three outpatient groups at Counseling Solutions,, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for women, Substance Recovery for men and women, and Trauma for men and women.
Hosted by The IOPs at Counseling Solutions
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Killeen, TX 76542
We offer three outpatient groups at Counseling Solutions,, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for women, Substance Recovery for men and women, and Trauma for men and women.
Radically Open DBT Group
Are you a perfectionist? Do you think in terms of all or nothing? Are you self-judgmental? Do you feel that you aren't allowed to make mistakes? Do you have obsessive thoughts? Are you afraid to be vulnerable? If you answered ...
Hosted by Findlay Therapy Services
Treatment Center, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Frisco, TX 75034
Are you a perfectionist? Do you think in terms of all or nothing? Are you self-judgmental? Do you feel that you aren't allowed to make mistakes? Do you have obsessive thoughts? Are you afraid to be vulnerable? If you answered ...
Adult DBT Skills Group
For those who experience difficulty regulating emotions, tolerating distress, or engaging in problematic behaviors that negatively impact their life worth living and relationships. Weekly, 2 hours, 24-weeks. 1st hour of group: DBT Diary Card review for individual coaching, feedback, discussion ...
Hosted by Chelsea Fielder-Jenks
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, CEDS-S, PMH-C
Verified Verified
Group meets in Austin, TX 78731
For those who experience difficulty regulating emotions, tolerating distress, or engaging in problematic behaviors that negatively impact their life worth living and relationships. Weekly, 2 hours, 24-weeks. 1st hour of group: DBT Diary Card review for individual coaching, feedback, discussion ...
Adolescent DBT skills group
Houston Center for Psychotherapy is now accepting referrals for an adolescent DBT group. The group will be held at our Bellaire office. Please reach out to Elizabeth Arango, LCSW-S, lizsteiger@gmail.com, 832-917-4157.
Hosted by Elizabeth Arango
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-S
Verified Verified
Group meets in Bellaire, TX 77401
Houston Center for Psychotherapy is now accepting referrals for an adolescent DBT group. The group will be held at our Bellaire office. Please reach out to Elizabeth Arango, LCSW-S, lizsteiger@gmail.com, 832-917-4157.
Teen Skills Group for Eating Disorders
Umbrella Psychotherapy offers an in-person therapy group for teens to help build connections and community while strengthening therapeutic skills. This support group is for ages 13-18. The details: the groups are facilitated by Niki DuBois, LCSW, CEDS. Group lessons cover ...
Hosted by Niki DuBois
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CEDS
Verified Verified
Group meets in Austin, TX 78746
Umbrella Psychotherapy offers an in-person therapy group for teens to help build connections and community while strengthening therapeutic skills. This support group is for ages 13-18. The details: the groups are facilitated by Niki DuBois, LCSW, CEDS. Group lessons cover ...
Adolescent DBT Skills Group
A group to support teens in understanding and coping with emotions and deal more effectively with problems they experience. Led by DBT Skills Group Trained, Licensed Clinicians. High School Group meets Tuesdays 6-8 pm, Middle School Group meets Thursday 6-8 ...
Hosted by Chelsea Fielder-Jenks
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, CEDS-S, PMH-C
Verified Verified
Group meets in Austin, TX 78731
A group to support teens in understanding and coping with emotions and deal more effectively with problems they experience. Led by DBT Skills Group Trained, Licensed Clinicians. High School Group meets Tuesdays 6-8 pm, Middle School Group meets Thursday 6-8 ...
Body Image Skills Groups, multiple meeting times
Control how culture influences how you see your body. Regain freedom with how you feel in your body. Build smart Biblically-based Clinical Skills & Tools. Control anxiety, rigid eating, unhelpful patterns, and more. Harness ongoing support and momentum to accelerate ...
Hosted by Come Alongside DBT Groups for Christian Women
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S
Verified Verified
Group meets in Austin, TX 78744
Control how culture influences how you see your body. Regain freedom with how you feel in your body. Build smart Biblically-based Clinical Skills & Tools. Control anxiety, rigid eating, unhelpful patterns, and more. Harness ongoing support and momentum to accelerate ...
RO DBT classes
We offer virtual Radically Open DBT for over control behaviors, Perfectionism, & OCD. Classes meet every Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday 12-1:30 on Zoom or Thursday 4:30-6pm at our Austin location. you pick one Class day/time and attend weekly. Classes are ...
Hosted by Austin DBT Associates
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCSW, LPC, LMSW, LPCI, LCDC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Austin, TX 78759
We offer virtual Radically Open DBT for over control behaviors, Perfectionism, & OCD. Classes meet every Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday 12-1:30 on Zoom or Thursday 4:30-6pm at our Austin location. you pick one Class day/time and attend weekly. Classes are ...
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Eating Disorders Support Groups
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviors, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behavior affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counseling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioral disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behavior, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognize they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behavior has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.