DISORDERED EATING/BODY IMAGE

Dr. Lyndsay Elliott treats all forms of eating disorders; males and females, children, adolescents, and adults including relatives of those affected with an eating disorder. Dr. Elliott also works with Athletes and Compulsive Exercisers, Night Eating Syndrome, Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, Obesity, Compulsive Overeating, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). Her eclectic approach to therapy varies according to the needs of the Client, and emphasizes a collaboration of psychodynamic psychotherapy, interpersonal therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and coaching/mentoring when appropriate. Working together from a relational approach, therapy will focus on how you to relate to your eating disorder, others as well as to yourself.

While learning how to cope with your feelings directly related to food, eating, body image and weight, therapy is helpful in gaining control over your behaviors and symptoms, while also changing maladaptive patterns and facilitating your emotions. You will learn how to gain access to your “eating disorder self” (the part that is responsible for disordered eating behavior), integrate it back into your core self, putting the healthy self back into control.

As therapy progresses, it is important to focus on what you appreciate about your body, connecting with the healthy parts of yourself in order to quiet the critical voice. Through acceptance and finding your purpose, you can create a new lifestyle which provides long lasting changes without having to rely on or reject food as a source of comfort. By regaining a healthy sense of control, you can break old patterns and derive pleasure from a deeper place.

Dr. Elliott prefers to work with other health care providers in a multidisciplinary approach, where her patients can receive the very best care from providers that will help them to feel supported from a myriad of areas (nutrition/dietician, psychiatry, medical, etc.) This is done on a case by case basis as deemed necessary and in conjunction with patient input.

If you or someone you care about is struggling with an eating disorder, you are invited to contact Dr. Elliott for an initial consultation.  Many women and men have found freedom from their struggles with eating disorders utilizing Dr. Elliott’s caring, understanding and skilled approach to treatment.

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