Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been proven to be the most clinical effective treatment for all eating disorders. In fact, in many studies that compared CBT to traditional forms of talk therapy, CBT was found to reduce the most eating disorder symptoms, it was the shortest treatment needed, and it was found to create the least amount of relapse among patients.
Eating disorders vary however the following components are generally found to be used for any eating disorder someone might be struggling with. These include:
You learn to identify your helpful or distorted thinking patterns and reframe them with more reality based thoughts. These thoughts may be around food, body, shape, and emotions.
You identify the factors that maintain the behaviors you would like to change. Once identifying the behaviors you can then examine how they are working and more specifically how they are not working for you.
There has been significant research to show that people with eating disorders manage their emotions using food and problematic eating behaviors. We also know that clinical depression comes with 50% of the eating disorder cases therefore emotional regulation strategies are essential. By learning how to manage and regulate your own emotions, you can learn how to change your thinking and reduce the urge to engage in that problematic eating behavior.
Learning how to better tolerate those urges that lead to problematic eating behaviors, you are able to choose with conscious choice how to behave in certain …….
Hypnotic and Core Belief Intervention:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be used easily and safely in a counseling setting and provides many tools for take home use an immediate, consistent challenge. Reach out for help if you are struggling with problematic eating or an eating disorder now.
