EATING DISORDERS
Although babies know how to breath and hear their hunger signals from the time they are born, life experiences, particularly difficult ones, interfere with this natural relationship, and we can forget how to listen to our bodies' innate needs and messages.
Veronica will work with you at your pace through a strength-based model of care to empower you to get well. You will learn new ways to heal from trauma, to make order from disorder, to self-regulate, to co-regulate, to let go of the tight reigns of control, and to become well again.
Traditional therapies such as enhanced CBT for eating disorders, FBT, and nutritional education are used as well as somatic techniques, mindfulness strategies, polyvagal techniques, and guided meditation.
What is an eating disorder?
- Eating disorders are medical illnesses
- You can't tell if someone has an eating disorder by just looking at them (people with eating disorders can be underweight, normal weight or overweight)
- Over eating and under eating in combination with disordered thoughts and feelings about food, body, weight can be treated well with the right psychological strategies
- Family members often need to be educated on how to support someone with disordered eating
- You can recover and no, you don’t have to do it perfectly
Treatment may involve
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
- Hypnosis
- Family based therapy
- Temperament based treatment
- Nutritional education (dietician lead)