Eating Disorder Treatment Chicago: Your Relationship With Yourself
A person’s relationship with their body can feel overwhelming and painful. In a world that constantly pressures us to look a certain way, struggles with food and body image can feel isolating and confusing. Eating disorders are not about vanity. They are serious mental health conditions that deserve compassionate, specialized care.
You may be obsessing over food or weight. Additionally, You may feel terrified of gaining weight or out of control around certain foods. Maybe you use food to cope with difficult emotions. Anxiety increases if you miss a workout and find yourself constantly criticizing your body. No matter what the scale says — whether your weight has changed or not — your pain is real.
At Birch Tree Psychotherapy, we provide compassionate, evidence-based Eating Disorder Treatment in Chicago and the Northwest Suburban area. Our team understands how complex eating disorders can be. We help clients address the thoughts, behaviors, and underlying emotions that keep them stuck.
Recovery is possible. With the right support, you can build a more peaceful relationship with food, movement, and your body. If you are looking for Eating Disorder Treatment in Chicago, we are here to help.
Eating Disorder Therapy Focused on Your Goals
At Birch Tree Psychotherapy, we specialize in providing eating disorder treatment to people struggling with eating disorder recovery and other nutrition and body image concerns. No matter where you are in your treatment process, we will meet for an initial consultation to help you decide your next step.
Within a Health at Every Size (HAES) framework, we work with youth and adults with:
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Binge Eating Disorder/Emotional Eating
- Weight Concerns
- Unspecified Eating Disorder
- Disordered Eating
- Food Anxiety
- Body Image Issues
- Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
- other eating problems
Therapy is not only for people with diagnosed eating disorders. If your relationship with food, exercise, or your body is causing distress or affecting your daily life, extra support can help.
We use an integrative, team-based approach. When needed, we work closely with other professionals involved in your care, such as dietitians, physicians, or psychiatrists. In the beginning, we focus on stabilizing behaviors and supporting your physical health. As you begin to feel more stable, we gently explore the deeper patterns, emotions, and experiences that may be keeping the problem going.
Our goal is to help you feel safer in your body, more balanced in your habits, and more confident in your recovery.
Evidenced Based Care for Eating Disorders
We utilize an integrative approach in eating disorders treatment that incorporates:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Family Systems Therapy
- Family Based Treatment (FBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Health at Every Size (HAES)
- Intuitive Eating
Together, we will develop an individualized plan depending on your needs and goals.