Eating Disorders

The treatment for Eating Disorders focuses on understanding and addressing the deeper emotional and psychological causes that affect the relationship with food and the body. Through a personalized approach, the sessions provide a safe space to explore the reasons behind your eating behaviors, such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating.

The therapy helps to rebuild negative beliefs and develop healthier habits, aiming to restore a balanced relationship with food. At the same time, it supports the enhancement of self-esteem and self-confidence, elements that are often affected by eating disorders.

Sessions may include psychoeducation, counseling, and techniques for developing self-regulation skills, offering a comprehensive therapeutic framework for restoring physical and mental health.

WHY ARE YOU GAINING WEIGHT...?
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Our body reflects the whole individual and everything that exists between the mind and the body. A diet aimed at weight loss and overall physical health can be implemented more successfully as we listen to our body. For the desired outcome, it is necessary to align with respect for our body's needs under the given circumstances, taking into account what our organic state and mood can support at a specific time. When we do not heed our body's needs, we risk sabotaging any effort, creating obstacles instead of assisting and supporting our goal. Physical health is inevitably linked to mental need; ignoring it feels like trying to wear a tight garment that does not fit us, restricting our movements and comfort. Most often, people visit dieticians and nutritionists to help them follow a healthier diet. The result is that the weight they lose is often regained because the conflict leading them to eat has not been resolved, thus falling into a vicious cycle. Therefore, individuals who recognize their need for emotional eating should consult a mental health professional. Through therapy, this emotion-food mechanism will be replaced, any traumatic experiences associated with food will be addressed, and the individual’s self-esteem will be strengthened. The person may also follow a medication regimen to combat intense anxiety or depressive symptoms if deemed necessary by the psychiatrist. Food is one of life's great pleasures, and overeating is one of the growing problems. However, in eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating, food and emotions intertwine in a health-threatening way. Eating behavior is mainly connected to and influenced by an individual's mindset concerning the environment and themselves, as well as how they feel about themselves. Depression is directly related to eating disorders, as it is accompanied by low self-esteem and excessive anxiety. Emotional eating involves a situation where, although the individual has satisfied their nutritional needs, they continue to desire further food intake to meet a positive or negative emotion. Anxiety affects the quality of nutrition by promoting unhealthy eating patterns, which often further exacerbates anxiety. In addition, the individual ultimately experiences a vicious cycle of anxiety – unhealthy eating – body image change – depression. We focus on food intake that is not driven by hunger. We want to find the relationship between emotions and food intake, which takes the form of an enhanced craving for readily available foods. The issues related to eating disorders are not merely problems concerning how food is consumed but are also related to the image we have of our bodies and the overall care and love we give ourselves. It is often very apparent that people with eating issues have a poor body image and attempt to correct their "flaws" with exhausting and torturous diets, leading to binge episodes and resulting in self-destructive behavior. Often, it is necessary to break down the excessive strictness within and build a softer relationship with oneself and one's body. It goes without saying that achieving these changes requires time, trials, making mistakes along a path of change and acceptance. Psychotherapy is called upon to provide the impetus and motivation for all these changes. Body image, self-esteem, love, and care for oneself and the body are major points where psychotherapy is asked to focus. Issues such as how we eat, the needs we fulfill, emotional gaps, and the expression of emotions also represent significant areas of change in the therapeutic process. When the need for control and self-mastery ends up being expressed and exhausted in controlling food, avoiding unhealthy foods, and insisting on healthy choices, the relationship with food transforms into a strict, sometimes suffocating framework that violates the organic and mental needs for a more relaxed approach to food choices, nullifying the concept of enjoyment. Stress and hormones lead to overeating, and body image also receives greater attention. Emotional eating occurs when an individual continues to eat even after satisfying their nutritional needs to release or combat a positive or negative emotion. Overeating constitutes compensation or reaction primarily to negative emotions. Psychotherapeutic work integrates the mind and body and represents a significant complementary resource for immediate assistance to people who need help, especially when they decide to shed excess weight or when eating disorders are present. In the process of individual or group psychotherapy, individuals learn to come closer to themselves, to perceive and understand their real needs, their most authentic feelings, and their deepest thoughts, so they can see more clearly what hinders them from having a desired flow in their eating habits. The body, with all its properties, characteristics, memories, and reactions, serves as an excellent tool for the more comprehensive development and maturation of the individual, recognizing what hinders them from progressing in dieting.