Find An Eating Disorder Therapist in Elk River, MN.

If you struggle with food, this can control your life. Therapy is a supportive process that can help you understand your relationship with food and it's meaning in your life. An eating disorder can be a shameful process and very complicated. Trying to manage this on your own is a difficult struggle. While working with you in a therapeutic relationship, you can begin to understand more about yourself, gain insight and learn about self care from the inside out. You may eat to little, too much or have difficulty keeping food in. Seeking help is vital to your healing!

Do you overeat? Do you undereat? Do you sometimes do both? When your relationship with food is all that you think about it may be time for some therapy. Some people even avoid sex and intimacy because they don't feel good about their body image. Learn what foods trigger your eating and avoidance patterns. Learn healthy coping skills when you are with other people and when food is offered to you.

There has been a tendency to put all clients that suffer from eating disorders into the same category with the same interventions. For those that are emotionally based, a combination of interpersonal therapy, DBT, and addiction therapy, with a focus on nutrition and exercise has been effective. Any approach must be tailored to the individual and their circumstances and include compassionate accountability.

While I don’t specialize in eating disorders, I understand the ways that past trauma, perfectionism, control, and issues around worth and identity can impact our behaviors. Eating disorders, substance use, pornography addiction... the list could go on. We all go through pain, and we gravitate towards behaviors that promise control and relief from that pain. But, deep down, you probably know that long-term this story doesn’t end well. You probably need not only deep healing, but new strategies for coping with your present and building a hopeful future. At Lion Counseling, our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion God created you to be.

While most eating disorder issues are treated by cognitive behavioral methodologies or specialized outpatient/inpatient programs, Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, PhD provide relief first and foremost for the brain of one suffering from an eating disorder----without giving them medication. We believe that the neural circuitries responsible for the compulsive behaviors with eating are not necessarily only a neurotransmitter issue but of overused neural networks that affect the harmonization, balance, and decisions of the whole brain. Contact kevin@kevinfleminphd.com or 877-606-6161 to learn more about this safe and effective alternative.