Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating Disorder Therapy in Northwest Arkansas for Teens and Adults

Are Your Food and Weight Issues Consuming Your Life?

Living with disordered eating and food issues is an all-consuming cycle of guilt and shame. Days are filled with thoughts of food and what to eat or not eat. Worry about body image is never ending.
Do you feel your life is falling apart around you and you are helpless to make a change?
As a result, has this loss of control caused you to center your life around food, exercise, mirrors, counting calories or the number on the scale?
Maybe, you feel you have done something wrong. Thus, you are not worth other people’s love and attention?In addition, do you fear that you are a burden to others. Or that you could never be accepted despite your imperfections?
Are you thinking, “If only I could reach my diet goals, then I would be able to trust people and have the close friendships I have always pictured”?
Lastly, do you wonder what life might be like if you were free from shame and self-hatred?

If so, are you considering eating disorder treatment?

You can break free of this cycle and have a healthy relationship with food and your body. You don’t have to keep struggling with this.

Whether you struggle with body image issues, binging, restricting, purging, over exercising or a combination of these, eating disorder treatment can help.

Many People Feel Dissatisfied With Their Bodies

Focusing excessively on diet and weight is more common than you might think . Both men and women struggle with body image issues and eating disorders.

As you know, it is virtually impossible to live in our society without being flooded with messages about how our bodies should look. These societal messages may come from family, friends or the media. Overall, they can contribute to the development of eating disorders.

Often, an eating disorder is a symptom of something else that is happening within the individual. Perhaps, you may have recently gone through a loss, a major life transition, or an emotionally intense experience. Leaving you unable to express your feelings. Therapy can help you uncover buried emotions. Allowing you to find healthy ways to move through your pain.

You Can Have Control Over Your Life Again

Eating disorder treatment can be extremely effective in helping you experience more freedom, joy, creativity and satisfaction in your daily life. You will learn how to have healthy control over your life without the need to over control.

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Facts You Should Know About Eating Disorder

Eating disorders are not defined solely by weight. They may occur in people who can be normal weight, overweight, or underweight.
Families are not to blame, and can be the patients’ and providers’ best allies in treatment.
Eating disorders are not choices, but serious biologically influenced illnesses.
Eating disorders affect people of all genders, ages, races, ethnicities, body shapes and weights, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic statuses.
Full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Early detection and intervention are critical.

What Does Eating Disorder Treatment Look Like?

In general, the environment I provide is safe and welcoming for discussing and processing any issues. Comfortably, you can share honestly and openly, without any fear of judgment.

Unfortunately, many therapists overlook the fact that the body has many answers. It is a wealth of knowledge. . Opening up your understanding of the core issues that are causing your weight and dieting issues. Over time, you will begin to pay more attention to the messages your body is signaling. As a result, you can feel more peace with your body and live a life of freedom.

You will be given support, education, and practical strategies. During a session, you will begin to develop a new relationship to your thoughts, emotions and body. Importantly, this can be accomplished through the therapeutic relationship itself. Most of our core issues and struggles arise in relationship. Therefore, a secure supportive relationship built in therapy will help you develop a healthy relationship with yourself and with others.

You may believe that eating disorder treatment can help you, but still have concerns or questions…

I'm not sure I have a "full-blown" eating disorder.

Maybe I don’t need eating disorder treatment.

You don’t have to be sick and dying to “deserve” help! Even if you feel your eating disorder is not severe, it is probably preventing you from having a satisfying life. In essence, you may be using it to numb out or to cope with stress. This can keep you from reaching out to others.

As a result of feeling numb, you could be missing out on the wonderful range of emotions life has to offer – including joy. It is possible to find non-harmful ways to relate to your mind and body, no matter how big or small you feel your issues are.

I can manage this on my own without having to spend money on therapy.

No one wants to spend money if they do not have to. You may have already tried many things to help you stop disordered behaviors. By now, you feel frustrated and fed-up. Professional eating disorder treatment and support can give you a new outlook on your situation. This will result in a better understanding of what is happening underneath. Not only that, but investing in your emotional health may be the best decision you can make for you long-term wellbeing.

I’m worried that if I seek out eating disorder treatment and stop thinking about my weight all the time, I will gain weight.

Eating disorders are not defined solely by weight. They may occur in people who can be normal weight, overweight, or underweight.
Families are not to blame, and can be the patients’ and providers’ best allies in treatment.
Eating disorders are not choices, but serious biologically influenced illnesses.
Eating disorders affect people of all genders, ages, races, ethnicities, body shapes and weights, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic statuses.
Full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Early detection and intervention are critical.

What Does Eating Disorder Treatment Look Like?

This is a common worry. Surprisingly, once you start listening to your body, you can improve your overall nutrition and health. The good news is that many people are able to feel healthy and comfortable at their natural weight. As a result, this allows them more time and energy to move on to important things such as pursuing pleasure and enjoyment in life.

Ultimately, when you learn to deeply listen to your body’s intuition, you may be amazed at how energized and enthusiastic you feel.

The effects of eating disorder can be devastating on your life and on the lives of those people close to you. Your family and friends may want to help, but just don’t know how. Eating disorders interfere with your ability to be connected and present in life. You may think that you cannot recover from your eating disorder. Maybe other people can, but the same rules don’t apply to you. No matter if you have been struggling with your disordered eating for a short time, or most of your life, you don’t have to live with your eating disorder any longer.

We believe in full recovery from disordered eating and in your ability to create a full and meaningful life. A life free of the constant thought of food and body. A life with purpose and meaning.

Brookway Counseling has Eating Disorder specialists and Certified Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapist (EDIT™) who are uniquely trained to treat Anorexia, Bulimia, Overeating, Binge Eating Disorder, and body image issues. Through our many years experience we have seen many girls, boys, women and men fully recover from eating disorders.

No one eating disorder treatment approach works for everyone. We treat the individual, not the eating disorder. We use the most effective forms of counseling such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). For children and teens we utilize the Maudsley Method which actively involves the family in the therapy process.

If you are tired of struggling with disorder eating or an eating disorder, contact us now.