In this group, participants will: Explore the various influences that contribute to their relationships with eating, exercise, and body image; Build skills to support reducing and coping with eating disorder thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; Gain tools to live a more ...
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Hosted by Rosie Nebel
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37207
In this group, participants will: Explore the various influences that contribute to their relationships with eating, exercise, and body image; Build skills to support reducing and coping with eating disorder thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; Gain tools to live a more ...
PSYCHe PLLC hosts a once weekly online RO-DBT Skills Group on Wednesdays (6:00-7:30pm EST). Enrollment is open now! RO-DBT is a treatment for those struggling with overcontrolled behavior and emotional loneliness. Disorders of overcontrol include chronic depression, anxiety disorders, Anorexia ...
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Hosted by Sally Roesch
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LMHC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37215
PSYCHe PLLC hosts a once weekly online RO-DBT Skills Group on Wednesdays (6:00-7:30pm EST). Enrollment is open now! RO-DBT is a treatment for those struggling with overcontrolled behavior and emotional loneliness. Disorders of overcontrol include chronic depression, anxiety disorders, Anorexia ...
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Hosted by Jessie Gladden
Pre-Licensed Professional, LPC-t
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37203
This is a processing group for adult women with eating disorders who are working towards establishing or maintaining eating disorder recovery. We meet on Tuesday nights from 5pm-7pm. Cost is $100/session, with a minimum of a 6-week commitment.
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Hosted by Caverly Warren
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37203
This is a processing group for adult women with eating disorders who are working towards establishing or maintaining eating disorder recovery. We meet on Tuesday nights from 5pm-7pm. Cost is $100/session, with a minimum of a 6-week commitment.
Come and find other like minded women to walk with you on your recovery journey.
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Hosted by Beth Jones
Licensed Professional Counselor, MHSP, MS
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37203
Come and find other like minded women to walk with you on your recovery journey.
Diets are not required to lose weight. In fact, many dieters gain back the weight they lost after they stop dieting. Want to love food without the guilt? Tired of the yo-yo roller coaster ride? Wish you could just lose ...
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Hosted by Sara Minges Life Coach
BA, MS
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37203
Diets are not required to lose weight. In fact, many dieters gain back the weight they lost after they stop dieting. Want to love food without the guilt? Tired of the yo-yo roller coaster ride? Wish you could just lose ...
**Group for Women starting January 30th** This is a 10-session virtual skills group for clients in consistent trauma therapy. The group provides psychoeducation on the impacts of trauma and time to practice skills to manage trauma symptoms. Skills are based ...
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Hosted by Katy Hurst Counseling & Associates, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC, MHSP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37203
**Group for Women starting January 30th** This is a 10-session virtual skills group for clients in consistent trauma therapy. The group provides psychoeducation on the impacts of trauma and time to practice skills to manage trauma symptoms. Skills are based ...
PSYCHe PLLC hosts a once weekly online RO-DBT Skills Group on Wednesdays (5:00-6:30pm CST/ 6:00-7:30 EST). Enrollment is open now! RO-DBT is a treatment for those struggling with overcontrolled behavior and emotional loneliness. Disorders of overcontrol include chronic depression, anxiety ...
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Hosted by PSYCHē, PLLC
Treatment Center, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nashville, TN 37215
PSYCHe PLLC hosts a once weekly online RO-DBT Skills Group on Wednesdays (5:00-6:30pm CST/ 6:00-7:30 EST). Enrollment is open now! RO-DBT is a treatment for those struggling with overcontrolled behavior and emotional loneliness. Disorders of overcontrol include chronic depression, anxiety ...
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Even if you’ve only just started the process of improving your body image, you will find community here. Learn concrete skills to aid In moments of body image challenges. Develop an expanded definition of beauty to include both self and ...
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Hosted by Bright Horse Counseling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Brentwood, TN 37027
Even if you’ve only just started the process of improving your body image, you will find community here. Learn concrete skills to aid In moments of body image challenges. Develop an expanded definition of beauty to include both self and ...
This process group focuses on dealing with emotional eating issues with particular attention to overeating. Membership is capped at eight. The group is ongoing.
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Hosted by Susan Hammonds-White
Counselor, EdD, LPC, MHSP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Brentwood, TN 37027
This process group focuses on dealing with emotional eating issues with particular attention to overeating. Membership is capped at eight. The group is ongoing.
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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.