Eating disorders
Anorexia, bulimia, BED, ARFID — and the modalities that move them.
In this guide
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.
Modalities
The therapies most relevant to this topic.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interlocking — change one and the others move.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Acceptance and change, held together — a skills-based therapy for emotion dysregulation.
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Build the capacity for self-compassion in clients dominated by shame and self-criticism.
Internal Family Systems
The mind is made of parts; underneath them all is Self — calm, curious, compassionate.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.
Schema Therapy
Integrative therapy for chronic patterns rooted in unmet childhood needs.
Disorders
First-line picks and clinical guidance for the presentations under this topic.
Eating Disorders
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.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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.
Worksheets
Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.
Worked cases
Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.
Populations
What changes when you sit with this population.