Eating Disorders Support Groups in Chester County, PA

Women's Eating Disorder Support Group
This virtual support group is designed for women 30+ who are in recovery from an eating disorder. The group provides a supportive environment with the goal of connecting to others with shared experiences and to not feel alone through the ...
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Hosted by Jen Donovan
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CEDS
Verified Verified
Group meets in Paoli, PA 19301
This virtual support group is designed for women 30+ who are in recovery from an eating disorder. The group provides a supportive environment with the goal of connecting to others with shared experiences and to not feel alone through the ...
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Eating Disorder Intensive Outpatient
The program empowers individuals to cultivate a healthy relationship with themselves, their food choices, their bodies, and their body image. A registered dietitian provides personalized nutrition guidance. A nurse practitioner provides psychiatric support to address the importance of mental health ...
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Hosted by ETHOS Treatment LLC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in West Chester, PA 19382
The program empowers individuals to cultivate a healthy relationship with themselves, their food choices, their bodies, and their body image. A registered dietitian provides personalized nutrition guidance. A nurse practitioner provides psychiatric support to address the importance of mental health ...
(484) 613-3722 View (484) 613-3722
Family/ Support Group
This group is for parents and other supports of those struggling with an Eating Disorder. The group will focus on self-care, setting boundaries and maintaining your own health and well being while parenting or being in a support role for ...
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Hosted by Buttonwood A Place To Heal -Now offering IOP!
Licensed Professional Counselor, ATR-BC, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Downingtown, PA 19335
This group is for parents and other supports of those struggling with an Eating Disorder. The group will focus on self-care, setting boundaries and maintaining your own health and well being while parenting or being in a support role for ...
(484) 430-3676 View (484) 430-3676
food addiction
group therapy and intensive group therapy for food addiction
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Hosted by Rhona L Epstein
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Paoli, PA 19301
group therapy and intensive group therapy for food addiction
(484) 652-8716 View (484) 652-8716
Connection through ED Recovery
This virtual support group is designed for individuals 21+ who are in recovery from an eating disorder. The group provides a supportive environment with the goal of connecting to others with shared experience and to receive support from peers. Group ...
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Hosted by Jen Donovan
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CEDS
Verified Verified
Group meets in Paoli, PA 19301
This virtual support group is designed for individuals 21+ who are in recovery from an eating disorder. The group provides a supportive environment with the goal of connecting to others with shared experience and to receive support from peers. Group ...
(610) 601-3545 View (610) 601-3545
OP Adult ED Recovery Group
This group is for adults who are looking for additional support while working on their recovery from an eating disorder. The group will be in person on Mondays from 8:30-10 AM. The group will provide support for breakfast and introduce ...
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Hosted by Buttonwood A Place To Heal -Now offering IOP!
Licensed Professional Counselor, ATR-BC, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Downingtown, PA 19335
This group is for adults who are looking for additional support while working on their recovery from an eating disorder. The group will be in person on Mondays from 8:30-10 AM. The group will provide support for breakfast and introduce ...
(484) 430-3676 View (484) 430-3676
Adolescent ED Support Group
This group will provide support to those committed to working on their recovery from an eating disorder. A variety of coping strategies and life skills will be explored in the group sessions. Please call or email with questions 484-693-0111
Photo of Buttonwood A Place To Heal -Now offering IOP!, Licensed Professional Counselor in Chester County, PA
Hosted by Buttonwood A Place To Heal -Now offering IOP!
Licensed Professional Counselor, ATR-BC, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Downingtown, PA 19335
This group will provide support to those committed to working on their recovery from an eating disorder. A variety of coping strategies and life skills will be explored in the group sessions. Please call or email with questions 484-693-0111
(484) 430-3676 View (484) 430-3676
Emotionally Focused Yoga for Teens
Joy Wawrzyniak, LCSW is a child and adolescent mental health therapist as well as a 200-hour certified yoga instructor. Through this course, teens will gain self awareness, a healthy connection with their body, and gain skills to regulate their thoughts, ...
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Hosted by Joy L Wawrzyniak
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Exton, PA 19341
Joy Wawrzyniak, LCSW is a child and adolescent mental health therapist as well as a 200-hour certified yoga instructor. Through this course, teens will gain self awareness, a healthy connection with their body, and gain skills to regulate their thoughts, ...
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Be Moved Weekly Intuitive Movement Group
Weekly Movement group focused on learning how to connect with the body, listen to its signals, and become more open to and comfortable with sensation in the body. Movement is more than exercise and this group gives you time and ...
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Hosted by Keli Laverty
BC-DMT, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in West Chester, PA 19380
Weekly Movement group focused on learning how to connect with the body, listen to its signals, and become more open to and comfortable with sensation in the body. Movement is more than exercise and this group gives you time and ...
(484) 812-3044 View (484) 812-3044

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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.