A weekly skills education group for people struggling with eating disorders and long standing patterns of behavior interfering with forming relationships, maintaining mental health and using effective coping skills. Insurance not required, group is $35 per session. Requires a six-month commitment and orientation session, cost is $60. Day and evening group available. If interested, discuss with your therapist or contact Amy directly; email is best.
Hosted by Dr. Amy Avery
Counselor, LPCC-S, DMin, MACM, MDiv, EMDR
Group meets in Westerville, OH 43082
A weekly skills education group for people struggling with eating disorders and long standing patterns of behavior interfering with forming relationships, maintaining mental health and using effective coping skills. Insurance not required, group is $35 per session. Requires a six-month commitment and orientation session, cost is $60. Day and evening group available. If interested, discuss with your therapist or contact Amy directly; email is best.
For individuals that recognize that the trauma/overwhelm they have had in their childhood (or adulthood) has manifested in ways which challenge their lives. We ALL have trauma in our background. We cope with that trauma by creating "a false self" to manage the overwhelm. The false self then becomes challenging to maintain and then...we medicate. Food, alcohol, drugs, workaholism, co-dependency, avoidance; there are many ways we each choose our way of silencing the noise. The goal of this group is to allow individuals to come with a willingness to do the real work; processing trauma in a supportive and enriching environment.
Hosted by Dr. Amy Avery
Counselor, LPCC-S, DMin, MACM, MDiv, EMDR
Group meets in Westerville, OH 43082
For individuals that recognize that the trauma/overwhelm they have had in their childhood (or adulthood) has manifested in ways which challenge their lives. We ALL have trauma in our background. We cope with that trauma by creating "a false self" to manage the overwhelm. The false self then becomes challenging to maintain and then...we medicate. Food, alcohol, drugs, workaholism, co-dependency, avoidance; there are many ways we each choose our way of silencing the noise. The goal of this group is to allow individuals to come with a willingness to do the real work; processing trauma in a supportive and enriching environment.
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Coming 2024: DBT Skills Training consists of 24 weekly group sessions focused on four modules- Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Commitment to the entire 24-sessions is required, as the skills build on each other. In this group, you will learn how to apply these DBT skills responding to and coping with eating disorder symptoms and behaviors. We also discuss their application to general emotion dysregulation.
I provide individual and group treatment for all eating disorder concerns utilizing CBT, DBT, and SSCM.
Coming 2024: DBT Skills Training consists of 24 weekly group sessions focused on four modules- Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Commitment to the entire 24-sessions is required, as the skills build on each other. In this group, you will learn how to apply these DBT skills responding to and coping with eating disorder symptoms and behaviors. We also discuss their application to general emotion dysregulation.
Enrolling now! This in-person group will look at difficulties identifying body sensations, where emotions arise in the body, and judgements made when our body experiences a sensation or emotion. It will also delve into grounding techniques and gain practice connecting the mind and the body. This group is a perfect companion to treatment for all clients who struggle with their mind-body connection, have difficulty being in their own bodies, and for individuals who have challenges in identifying their feelings, body cues, or those who spend too much time on their thoughts and worries. Beginning April, 23, 2025.
Hosted by Kim Gillie
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LISW-S, C-IAYT
Group meets in Columbus, OH 43220
My career focus has been to therapeutically partner with adults of all ages who struggle with eating disorders, body image issues, and frequent comorbidities such as anxiety and depression, as well as trauma.
Enrolling now! This in-person group will look at difficulties identifying body sensations, where emotions arise in the body, and judgements made when our body experiences a sensation or emotion. It will also delve into grounding techniques and gain practice connecting the mind and the body. This group is a perfect companion to treatment for all clients who struggle with their mind-body connection, have difficulty being in their own bodies, and for individuals who have challenges in identifying their feelings, body cues, or those who spend too much time on their thoughts and worries. Beginning April, 23, 2025.
Online Groups
This flexible group is open to adults and older teens of any gender suffering from a disordered relationship with food and body. Issues may include Binge- Eating Disorder, Anorexia, Bulimia, chronic dieting, compulsive overeating, or other related symptoms. For individuals who need more support than individual counseling alone can provide, the additional tools and structure of a group can help make recovery a reality. These therapeutic meetings are an opportunity to connect with people who have similar challenges, experiences, and goals. Clients are typically encouraged to establish a dietitian and coordinate care with a primary care physician.
This flexible group is open to adults and older teens of any gender suffering from a disordered relationship with food and body. Issues may include Binge- Eating Disorder, Anorexia, Bulimia, chronic dieting, compulsive overeating, or other related symptoms. For individuals who need more support than individual counseling alone can provide, the additional tools and structure of a group can help make recovery a reality. These therapeutic meetings are an opportunity to connect with people who have similar challenges, experiences, and goals. Clients are typically encouraged to establish a dietitian and coordinate care with a primary care physician.
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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.