Anorexia, bulimia, BED, ARFID — and the modalities that move them.
A clinician's hub for eating-disorder treatment: CBT-E as the transdiagnostic backbone, DBT and CFT for the affect and shame layer, FBT-style family work for adolescents, IFS for the eating-disorder voice, plus the worksheets clients actually use between sessions — regular eating, hunger-fullness tracking, binge chain analysis, food rules challenges, and body-image work.
The therapies most relevant to this topic.
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interlocking — change one and the others move.
Acceptance and change, held together — a skills-based therapy for emotion dysregulation.
Build the capacity for self-compassion in clients dominated by shame and self-criticism.
The mind is made of parts; underneath them all is Self — calm, curious, compassionate.
Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.
Integrative therapy for chronic patterns rooted in unmet childhood needs.
First-line picks and clinical guidance for the presentations under this topic.
Anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder — disordered eating maintained by overvaluation of weight/shape.
Different diagnoses have different first-line treatments. Weight restoration in anorexia is non-negotiable before psychotherapy gains traction. Bulimia and BED respond well to enhanced CBT.
Preoccupation with perceived flaws in appearance, with repetitive checking or camouflaging behaviors.
BDD sits in the OCD spectrum. Treatment is ERP-style — exposure to feared appearance situations + response prevention of mirror-checking, comparing, reassurance-seeking, and grooming rituals. High suicide risk; screen carefully.
Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.
Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.
What changes when you sit with this population.