Treatment Approach
for Eating Disorders
Multidisciplinary Care
Effective treatment of an eating disorder requires a team effort. This often means that you will have nutrition and medical providers to help support you in your journey. We will work together to figure out what this looks like for you.
About/Not About Food
The reality is that eating disorders are both not about food and about food. This means that it will be important for us to both address what is happening with food and to better understand the underlying issues, motivations, and needs that have contributed to and/or continue to maintain the eating disorder.
Presence Over Absence
Recovering from an eating disorder is not just about the absence of symptoms; you deserve to experience being present in your life. We will work together to empower you to invest in your relationships, your values, and your self.
Trauma-Informed Care
Treatment is underpinned by principles that seek to recognize and understand the impact of trauma. The foundation for our work together will focus on safety, transparency, collaboration, empowerment, and humility and awareness around cultural, historical, and gender issues.
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Body Liberation and
Health At Every Size (HAES)
Body liberation refers to the idea that bodies should be free from the social and political systems of oppression that value some bodies over others. Health-At-Every-Size aims to promote body respect and compassionate self-care, and decouples health from weight. Both of these philosophies will inform how we think about your relationship to your body.
Intersectionality
Your identities inform the way that you experience the world and yourself, and the ways in which the world responds to and experiences you. Understanding and taking into account the complex ways race, gender, sexuality, body size, and ability (among other things) interact with one another and inform our lived experiences is critical to ethically-sound, holistic, person-centered care.