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Eating Disorder Therapy
Virtual psychoanalytic therapy for eating disorders, disordered eating, and body-image concerns in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey.
You're restricting, purging, bingeing, over-exercising, or obsessing about food, exercise, or your weight all the time.
You feel like you have to be losing weight, need to start a new diet or workout plan, or constantly believe something is wrong with your body.
You believe your life can't start until you lose weight, get to your "goal" weight, or you are fully recovered. Your eating, body, or weight holds you back from engaging in life experiences, like seeing friends, going on dates, or even leaving your home.
You're feeling overwhelmed by how often you think or obsess about your body, food, or weight. Maybe you've even stopped engaging in disordered eating behaviors, but you just can't seem to stop the thoughts about food and your body.
What are Eating Disorders?
Eating disorders, or disordered eating, can take many forms. They don't have a specific "look" — anyone, at any size, can experience an issue with food and their body. This may involve restricting food, binge eating, purging, compulsive exercise, rigid food rules, body checking, or feeling consumed by thoughts about food, weight, and appearance.
These patterns are about much more than food. They are often issues of anxiety and the need for constant control, in a world that feels very chaotic — a way of managing emotions that are too difficult to feel directly. Emotions are what help us navigate the world, but when they can't be felt, they get played out in the body instead.
These patterns may have helped you feel safer, more in control, or less vulnerable to feelings that are difficult to sit with. Over time, however, what once felt protective can begin to narrow your life.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy can help With
Anorexia: all types; Restricting type, Purging type; Atypical Anorexia.
Bulimia.
Binge Eating Disorder (with or without restriction).
Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) and Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders (OSFED); Meaning maybe you experiencing a mixture of restricting, binging, purging, over-exercising, or don’t specifically fall into another Eating Disorder diagnosis (Reminder: Diagnoses are literally just labels: this doesn’t mean you don’t deserve treatment if you are struggling with your relationship with food, or your body)
Yo-Yo or Chronic dieting.
Orthorexia [the obsession with overly healthy or clean eating, and exercising; i.e. You only can eat organic foods, or foods that are deemed “good for your health” to feel safe around eating].
Body image issues or concerns.
Disordered Eating, or eating issues.
Obsessive over-exercising.
Obsessive thoughts and/or feelings around food, even if you aren’t engaging in your Eating Disorder or disorder eating.
Is This The Right Fit for You?
This may be for you if
This work tends to be a good fit if you're restricting, bingeing, purging, over-exercising, or caught in cycles of dieting — or if food, weight, exercise, or your appearance take up more mental space than feels okay. Maybe you're in recovery but still feel consumed by thoughts about food or your body, or you've been told you don't "look sick" and wonder if you're sick enough to deserve help. You're ready to understand your relationship with food and your body more deeply, not just manage the behaviors.
You do not need a diagnosis to begin. If food, your body, or your weight is taking up too much space in your life, you deserve support.
This may not be a fit right now if
This approach may not be the best fit as your only support if you need immediate medical stabilization, a higher level of eating disorder care, or more intensive nutritional support. If that's the case, we can think carefully together about what level of care — and what additional support — is most appropriate for you right now.
Seeking more intensive support isn't a failure. It can be an important part of getting the care you need. Therapy can also be one part of a broader treatment team, alongside medical, nutritional, psychiatric, or other specialized support.
What Are Sessions Like?
I understand how difficult it can be to finally reach out and ask for help — eating disorders are so often missed or overlooked, even within the medical field.
Ways an eating disorder can present may look similar from the outside, but I'm more interested in the reason you developed this way of coping, and how it's been serving you. This means I won't just slap a label or diagnosis on you. Together, we'll work to build curiosity, understanding, and compassion throughout your recovery process, so healing can actually be possible for you.
You might think you have to do this on your own. I'm here to tell you that you don't.
My ultimate wish for you is to find meaning and purpose in your life, outside of your external body.
Virtual Eating Disorder Therapy
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to have a diagnosis to get help for disordered eating?
No. You don't need a formal diagnosis for your relationship with food or your body to be worth addressing. If thoughts about food, weight, or exercise are taking up significant mental space, that's reason enough to reach out — a diagnosis is just a label, not a requirement for care.
Do I have to be underweight to have an eating disorder?
No — eating disorders don't have a specific look, and anyone, at any size, can struggle with food and their body. Many people with serious eating disorders are never underweight, which is often exactly why their struggle goes unrecognized, even by doctors.
What's the difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder?
Disordered eating exists on a spectrum and doesn't always meet criteria for a specific diagnosis, but it can be just as consuming and painful. Both are worth taking seriously — the goal is understanding what's driving the pattern, not sorting it into the "right" category first.
Is recovery possible even if I've struggled for a long time?
Yes — full recovery is possible regardless of how long you've been struggling. Recovery isn't just about stopping a behavior; it's about understanding what the eating disorder has been protecting you from, which creates change that actually lasts.
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