Eating Disorders Therapists in Huger, SC
Are you a high-achiever who finds yourself stuck in the exhausting pursuit of perfection? Are you a deeply feeling people-pleaser who gets lost in the maze of your mind, wrestling with intrusive thoughts, anxiety, or the weight of past traumas? If so, you're in the right place. I'm here to offer you a sanctuary, a safe space where introspection meets empowerment. As a dedicated clinical mental health therapist specializing in treating motivated individuals like yourself, I understand the unique challenges you face.
Are you a high-achiever who finds yourself stuck in the exhausting pursuit of perfection? Are you a deeply feeling people-pleaser who gets lost in the maze of your mind, wrestling with intrusive thoughts, anxiety, or the weight of past traumas? If so, you're in the right place. I'm here to offer you a sanctuary, a safe space where introspection meets empowerment. As a dedicated clinical mental health therapist specializing in treating motivated individuals like yourself, I understand the unique challenges you face.
Do you sense that something in your life needs to change, but you don't know where to start? When stressors or challenges arise, we can lose touch with our identity, values and instinctive resourcefulness. The best part of being a clinician for me, is supporting clients to discover their own strengths and skills. In sessions, I work to understand your story in depth and empower you to build self-compassion. Collaboratively, we will identify both helpful and unhelpful patterns. I provide support with your needs and priorities being the central focus. Are you wondering if therapy can make a meaningful difference in your life?.
Do you sense that something in your life needs to change, but you don't know where to start? When stressors or challenges arise, we can lose touch with our identity, values and instinctive resourcefulness. The best part of being a clinician for me, is supporting clients to discover their own strengths and skills. In sessions, I work to understand your story in depth and empower you to build self-compassion. Collaboratively, we will identify both helpful and unhelpful patterns. I provide support with your needs and priorities being the central focus. Are you wondering if therapy can make a meaningful difference in your life?.
Dr. Yashica Holmes-Smith (“Dr. Y”) is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina who has been practicing since 2019. She earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Psychology with an emphasis in Media Psychology from Fielding Graduate University, an M.S. in Applied Clinical Psychology from University of South Carolina Aiken, and a B.A. in Psychology from Georgia State University. Dr. Y helps clients with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, coping skills, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Dr. Yashica Holmes-Smith (“Dr. Y”) is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina who has been practicing since 2019. She earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Psychology with an emphasis in Media Psychology from Fielding Graduate University, an M.S. in Applied Clinical Psychology from University of South Carolina Aiken, and a B.A. in Psychology from Georgia State University. Dr. Y helps clients with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, coping skills, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Bonnetta Hall, LPCA, is dedicated to supporting individuals across South Carolina through life’s challenges by meeting them exactly where they are in their personal journey. With a compassionate and empowering approach, she helps clients uncover their own strengths and navigate life's stages, working together to build a healthier, more fulfilling future. At LifeStance Health, Bonnetta specializes in guiding clients through anxiety, childhood behavior issues, and challenges related to cooccurring disorders.
Bonnetta Hall, LPCA, is dedicated to supporting individuals across South Carolina through life’s challenges by meeting them exactly where they are in their personal journey. With a compassionate and empowering approach, she helps clients uncover their own strengths and navigate life's stages, working together to build a healthier, more fulfilling future. At LifeStance Health, Bonnetta specializes in guiding clients through anxiety, childhood behavior issues, and challenges related to cooccurring disorders.
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Marcella Berman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LISW-CP
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
The decision to start therapy is a courageous first step towards understanding, healing, and growth. Whether you are struggling with troubling thoughts or feelings, lack of confidence, excessive worry, depression, loss, or relationship issues therapy can help. Marcella utilizes a client-centered approach while working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families who struggles with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and relationship issues in a non-judgmental space. With mindfulness-based practices and cognitive behavioral techniques we can change the thoughts and behaviors that contribute to overwhelming feelings.
The decision to start therapy is a courageous first step towards understanding, healing, and growth. Whether you are struggling with troubling thoughts or feelings, lack of confidence, excessive worry, depression, loss, or relationship issues therapy can help. Marcella utilizes a client-centered approach while working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families who struggles with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and relationship issues in a non-judgmental space. With mindfulness-based practices and cognitive behavioral techniques we can change the thoughts and behaviors that contribute to overwhelming feelings.
Dr. Brooke McGinnis
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Daniel Island, SC 29492
Waitlist for new clients
She has specialties in working with trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, self-defeating behaviors, ADHD, eating disorders, relationship difficulties, and adjustment concerns.
Dr. McGinnis’ practice focuses on increasing connection with one’s inner self through exploring and processing difficult emotions, experiences, and beliefs. Her goal is to help individuals work through difficulties they face in order to reduce unnecessary suffering and create a life worth living. Dr. McGinnis believes therapy is a powerful, complex, interpersonal process and works with individuals on acceptance of the self and one’s life as it is in order to create change and move towards a life that provides meaning, fulfillment, and sense of purpose. She is passionate about her work and inspired by her clients' stories of healing.
She has specialties in working with trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, self-defeating behaviors, ADHD, eating disorders, relationship difficulties, and adjustment concerns.
Dr. McGinnis’ practice focuses on increasing connection with one’s inner self through exploring and processing difficult emotions, experiences, and beliefs. Her goal is to help individuals work through difficulties they face in order to reduce unnecessary suffering and create a life worth living. Dr. McGinnis believes therapy is a powerful, complex, interpersonal process and works with individuals on acceptance of the self and one’s life as it is in order to create change and move towards a life that provides meaning, fulfillment, and sense of purpose. She is passionate about her work and inspired by her clients' stories of healing.
I specialize in sport psychology, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, interpersonal relationships, and life transitions.
As a former Division I athlete who has faced many setbacks, I strongly believe in the power of asking for help. My past experiences recovering from the mental and physical components of athletic injury motivate me to help individuals fight their own mental battles. I will work alongside you to better understand your struggles while using CBT, DBT, and strength-based approaches to allow you to make change at your own pace. In our work together, we will identify your personal values and motivators to help achieve your goals.
I specialize in sport psychology, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, interpersonal relationships, and life transitions.
As a former Division I athlete who has faced many setbacks, I strongly believe in the power of asking for help. My past experiences recovering from the mental and physical components of athletic injury motivate me to help individuals fight their own mental battles. I will work alongside you to better understand your struggles while using CBT, DBT, and strength-based approaches to allow you to make change at your own pace. In our work together, we will identify your personal values and motivators to help achieve your goals.
Kristin Shulman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LISW-CP
Verified Verified
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466 (Online Only)
Hello - I'm Kristin! Entering into therapy can be scary, but here's the deal - working through scary is where growth occurs! If you feel stuck, lost, struggling with change, afraid, or unsure of the next step, I hope you will give counseling a try. My role as a therapist is not to fix your feelings but to hold your discomfort, distress, and fears in safe, caring hands. We will work together to find new ways to conquer your problems, heal old wounds and move you into a safe place where you can grow. I have worked with chronic illness, depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, codependence, eating disorders, and pre / post-bariatric clients.
Hello - I'm Kristin! Entering into therapy can be scary, but here's the deal - working through scary is where growth occurs! If you feel stuck, lost, struggling with change, afraid, or unsure of the next step, I hope you will give counseling a try. My role as a therapist is not to fix your feelings but to hold your discomfort, distress, and fears in safe, caring hands. We will work together to find new ways to conquer your problems, heal old wounds and move you into a safe place where you can grow. I have worked with chronic illness, depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, codependence, eating disorders, and pre / post-bariatric clients.
Erin Scheibling
Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, LPC-A
Verified Verified
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466 (Online Only)
I treat adolescents and adults. My areas of specialty include grief, treating teachers/educators, students facing academic challenges, ADHD, anxiety, body image challenges, eating disorders, and interpersonal/relational challenges.
I treat adolescents and adults. My areas of specialty include grief, treating teachers/educators, students facing academic challenges, ADHD, anxiety, body image challenges, eating disorders, and interpersonal/relational challenges.
Brite Side Counseling, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Charleston, SC 29492 (Online Only)
I have been working with adolescents and adults, treating substance abuse, adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, anger management, eating disorders and relationship issues for 8 years.
Counseling is a unique journey, involving a collaboration between therapist and client. Each individual is different and I believe in individualizing therapy, versus a "one size fits all" method. I believe in supporting clients by guiding them through self-discovery and challenging/processing their internal dialogues.
I have been working with adolescents and adults, treating substance abuse, adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, anger management, eating disorders and relationship issues for 8 years.
Counseling is a unique journey, involving a collaboration between therapist and client. Each individual is different and I believe in individualizing therapy, versus a "one size fits all" method. I believe in supporting clients by guiding them through self-discovery and challenging/processing their internal dialogues.
Leslie Sorce
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
Leslie is part of Low Country Behavioral Health LLC. Seeking support can be a difficult and a courageous decision. Deepening your self-awareness and understanding your journey can be a very impactful process. She believes in focusing on your strengths by truly valuing and honoring the individuals’ experience. She is a dedicated and compassionate therapist, with a focus on evidence-based practices. Leslie specializes in anxiety disorders, trauma, life transitions, stress management, and eating disorders. Leslie brings a comprehensive understanding of these complex issues to her practice.
Leslie is part of Low Country Behavioral Health LLC. Seeking support can be a difficult and a courageous decision. Deepening your self-awareness and understanding your journey can be a very impactful process. She believes in focusing on your strengths by truly valuing and honoring the individuals’ experience. She is a dedicated and compassionate therapist, with a focus on evidence-based practices. Leslie specializes in anxiety disorders, trauma, life transitions, stress management, and eating disorders. Leslie brings a comprehensive understanding of these complex issues to her practice.
My areas of specialty include the treatment of anxiety, depression, personality disorders, body image / eating disorders, interpersonal and family relationships, life transitions, personal development, stress management and gender identity.
Seeking therapy for the first time may feel intimidating for some. My intention is to meet each individual where they are, to ensure a safe, compassionate environment. I believe in working collaboratively with clients in order to identify personal strengths and develop new coping skills, with the ultimate goal of improving your functioning and relationships within your personal, professional and/or academic environments. We will work to explore behaviors, beliefs, and relationship patterns that no longer serve you well and explore your current values systems in order to reach a to sense of fulfillment in your life.
My areas of specialty include the treatment of anxiety, depression, personality disorders, body image / eating disorders, interpersonal and family relationships, life transitions, personal development, stress management and gender identity.
Seeking therapy for the first time may feel intimidating for some. My intention is to meet each individual where they are, to ensure a safe, compassionate environment. I believe in working collaboratively with clients in order to identify personal strengths and develop new coping skills, with the ultimate goal of improving your functioning and relationships within your personal, professional and/or academic environments. We will work to explore behaviors, beliefs, and relationship patterns that no longer serve you well and explore your current values systems in order to reach a to sense of fulfillment in your life.
Samantha McKenzie
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LISW-CP
Verified Verified
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
I am currently accepting new clients! Ages 6 - Adult. I take a person-centered approach and meet each client right where they are. I believe each person is unique and worth listening to. I work with children, teens, and adults to gain healthy coping skills and strategies toward reaching their potential. Whether it is difficulty with anxiety, depression, ADHD, Autism, or disordered eating, I have a passion for connecting with each client so that we can work together to increase self awareness and overall satisfaction for life. For more information about the groups I offer, click the "groups" tab next to the "about" tab.
I am currently accepting new clients! Ages 6 - Adult. I take a person-centered approach and meet each client right where they are. I believe each person is unique and worth listening to. I work with children, teens, and adults to gain healthy coping skills and strategies toward reaching their potential. Whether it is difficulty with anxiety, depression, ADHD, Autism, or disordered eating, I have a passion for connecting with each client so that we can work together to increase self awareness and overall satisfaction for life. For more information about the groups I offer, click the "groups" tab next to the "about" tab.
Maria Elizabeth Luisi
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, BSW, MSW, LMSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
I have always had a passion for helping people who are hurting, stuck, overwhelmed, or lost. I help children, adolescents, adults, and families better understand themselves, identify issues that aren’t working for them, and find ways toward self empowerment & confidence to create a life they love. Our work together will always be a collaborative effort, tailored to your individual needs and your own unique story.
I have always had a passion for helping people who are hurting, stuck, overwhelmed, or lost. I help children, adolescents, adults, and families better understand themselves, identify issues that aren’t working for them, and find ways toward self empowerment & confidence to create a life they love. Our work together will always be a collaborative effort, tailored to your individual needs and your own unique story.
Patti Moynihan
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, LMFT-A
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
Do you feel negatively affected by depression or anxiety? Do you struggle within your relationships? Do you feel stuck making important life decisions regarding marriage, family, career, friendships, or more? Do you find yourself wishing you could be happier? Has an important event happened in your life and you're having trouble integrating change into your life? You may feel alone and lost. You may believe that you have to feel this way forever. Personalized therapy can help.
Do you feel negatively affected by depression or anxiety? Do you struggle within your relationships? Do you feel stuck making important life decisions regarding marriage, family, career, friendships, or more? Do you find yourself wishing you could be happier? Has an important event happened in your life and you're having trouble integrating change into your life? You may feel alone and lost. You may believe that you have to feel this way forever. Personalized therapy can help.
As a clinical psychologist, my job is to work myself out of a job - pure and simple. I work to help you get to the point where won't need my help anymore. This has been my philosophy for 29 years and counting. If you are, or think you are depressed, feeling lost or anxious, stressed or simply unhappy in life, and you wonder if counseling, psychotherapy, marriage counseling or stress management might help, I'm here to listen and help. I specialize in care for adults & adolescents, stress management, marriage/couples counseling, and pre-marital counseling.
As a clinical psychologist, my job is to work myself out of a job - pure and simple. I work to help you get to the point where won't need my help anymore. This has been my philosophy for 29 years and counting. If you are, or think you are depressed, feeling lost or anxious, stressed or simply unhappy in life, and you wonder if counseling, psychotherapy, marriage counseling or stress management might help, I'm here to listen and help. I specialize in care for adults & adolescents, stress management, marriage/couples counseling, and pre-marital counseling.
Lee Picciuto
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LISW-CP
Verified Verified
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
Waitlist for new clients
Whether you suffer from anxiety, depression, low self-worth, etc., I believe there is almost always an underlying trauma that must be fully addressed before healing can occur. These traumas can be overt, such as abuse or neglect, or more insidious, such as a disparaging comment made by a parent or a peer. These traumas, whether “Big T” or “Little t,” are the reason we have the “voice in our head”—our inner critic who tells us that we aren’t good enough, worthy enough, etc. The work I do—which is a combination of Attachment Therapy, Ego State Therapy, and EMDR Therapy, helps to transform our negative inner critic once and for all.
Whether you suffer from anxiety, depression, low self-worth, etc., I believe there is almost always an underlying trauma that must be fully addressed before healing can occur. These traumas can be overt, such as abuse or neglect, or more insidious, such as a disparaging comment made by a parent or a peer. These traumas, whether “Big T” or “Little t,” are the reason we have the “voice in our head”—our inner critic who tells us that we aren’t good enough, worthy enough, etc. The work I do—which is a combination of Attachment Therapy, Ego State Therapy, and EMDR Therapy, helps to transform our negative inner critic once and for all.
Nicole Moriarty: Complete Trauma Resolution
Counselor, MS, LPC, LPCC
Verified Verified
Charleston, SC 29492
There is a solution. There is hope. And there is healing. Anxiety, depression, disordered eating, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, disruption in relationships, substance abuse, and on and on. These are curable, changeable, healable issues. When you go straight to the root of the issue, you can bring deep, lasting change. And we now know that the root of every mental health disorder (and many physical diseases as well) is some form of unresolved trauma. Trauma refers to any experience or pattern of experiences that overwhelms our resources. If we don't have enough safety, support and understanding to process it, we store it.
There is a solution. There is hope. And there is healing. Anxiety, depression, disordered eating, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, disruption in relationships, substance abuse, and on and on. These are curable, changeable, healable issues. When you go straight to the root of the issue, you can bring deep, lasting change. And we now know that the root of every mental health disorder (and many physical diseases as well) is some form of unresolved trauma. Trauma refers to any experience or pattern of experiences that overwhelms our resources. If we don't have enough safety, support and understanding to process it, we store it.
Cindy Boatwright
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, MEd, LPC, NBCC
Verified Verified
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
You've started looking for a therapist because something is getting in the way of your leading the life you want: worsening anxiety, a life event, feeling down, stuck or unhappy. I offer individualized counseling based on the personality, needs and goals of my patients. I don't judge. I will be your biggest cheerleader to help you overcome whatever hurdles are in your way. Everyone wants to lead life to the fullest, and we should feel worthy of that life. All too often I hear patients say, "I don't deserve.." or "I'm not good enough." We get trapped in comparing ourselves to others and hearing past messages of discouragement.
You've started looking for a therapist because something is getting in the way of your leading the life you want: worsening anxiety, a life event, feeling down, stuck or unhappy. I offer individualized counseling based on the personality, needs and goals of my patients. I don't judge. I will be your biggest cheerleader to help you overcome whatever hurdles are in your way. Everyone wants to lead life to the fullest, and we should feel worthy of that life. All too often I hear patients say, "I don't deserve.." or "I'm not good enough." We get trapped in comparing ourselves to others and hearing past messages of discouragement.
My ideal client is one seeking to find their own personal identity. I use a combination of theoretical approaches to accommodate the specific needs for each client. I always start with a client centered approach to build a trusting relationship. Once that is established I move into a psychoanalytic approach (counselor and client work to understand the inner life of the client through deep exploration of unconscious and past experiences). Once connections from the past and present are acknowledged, and understood, I end therapy using a reality based approach (focusing on the things in life we can control).
My ideal client is one seeking to find their own personal identity. I use a combination of theoretical approaches to accommodate the specific needs for each client. I always start with a client centered approach to build a trusting relationship. Once that is established I move into a psychoanalytic approach (counselor and client work to understand the inner life of the client through deep exploration of unconscious and past experiences). Once connections from the past and present are acknowledged, and understood, I end therapy using a reality based approach (focusing on the things in life we can control).
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Eating Disorders Therapists
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.