There’s been a great deal of research over the last twenty years as those in the medical community seek to isolate the most effective methods for treating eating disorders. Consistently, the research comes back to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – and specifically the...
Eating disorder sufferers experience distress before mealtime, during mealtime, after mealtime… In other words, when in the throes of an ED there is little reprieve from food-related fear, anxiety, and preoccupation. With treatment there can be relief from these...
So often, the stigmas surrounding eating disorders are attributed to cisgender, white, female populations when in reality, eating disorders are not bound to race, gender or age. Considering that one study identified that “trans individuals have nearly 5 times the...
As we continue our blog series on DBT Skills for coping, we enter the DBT module or chapter called Emotion Regulation. Emotion Regulation skills have three primary goals: 1) to help us better attend to and understand our emotions, 2) to decrease our vulnerability to...
Due to the widespread accessibility of cell phones and electronic devices, the mental health field has embraced the likelihood that treatment options could, and very well should expand over the next decade. As a result of this movement, various e-therapies have been...