Emotional Eating
We provide Emotional Eating treatment for children, pre-teens, adolescents, young adults, and adults.Emotional Eating
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What is Emotional Eating?
Emotional eating can occur when someone is experiencing a challenging emotion such as anxiety and stress. Eating can often be used as an attempt to feel as though you have control over the emotions you are experiencing. Emotional eating can also serve as a coping skill attempting to help you with the negative emotions that someone may be experiencing, or any conflicting emotions someone may be struggling with (Konttinen, 2020).
Emotional eating can lead to overeating behaviors or restricting food intake. Both of these behaviors are concerning. When someone is emotionally eating, they typically involve foods that lack nutritional value.
What Causes Emotional Eating?
Emotional eating is triggered by various factors:
- Stress: Increases cortisol levels, leading to cravings for comforting high-fat or sugary foods.
- Unresolved emotions: Negative emotions like sadness, anger, or loneliness can drive people to seek solace in food.
- Habitual response: Emotional eating may become an ingrained habit for coping with certain emotions.
- Lack of effective coping strategies: Individuals may turn to food for self-soothing or distraction.
- Low self-esteem: Food can be used to temporarily escape self-critical thoughts.
- Social influences: Cultural or familial patterns, such as using food to celebrate or show love.
- Emotional associations with food: Positive childhood memories or associations can evoke comfort and emotional security.
Addressing these underlying causes helps develop healthier coping strategies and fosters emotional resilience.
How We Treat
f you or someone you love is struggling with emotional eating, you may find yourself overwhelmed at what treatment can look like. There are a variety of options including inpatient and outpatient treatment options. Determining which level of care you need can be difficult, which is why it is advised that you consult with a mental health professional.
Resilience DBT & Eating Recovery are a team of Outpatient Eating Disorder Therapists in New Jersey, Florida, Maryland. Our therapists are ready and equipped with clinical services to provide healing.
Emotional eating counseling is the typical recommendation for individuals for those who find themselves struggling to control their engagement in emotional eating. This can include specialized treatment groups, individual sessions, educational sessions, and group sessions.
At Resilience DBT & Eating, you will meet with one of our staff members who will take the time needed to understand your concerns and challenges. From here, we will work with you to develop the appropriate treatment plan.
Our treatment center provides Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for children, pre-teens, adolescents, young adults, and adults who struggle with a variety of mental health concerns. This includes depression, eating disorders, trauma, anxiety, self-harm, and inhibited grief. To learn more about how our emotional eating counseling can help you, we invite you to contact us.
Health Risks Associated With
Emotional Eating
At Resilience DBT & Eating Recovery, we provide Bulimia Nervosa treatment for children, pre-teens, adolescents, young adults, and adults.
Health risks associated with emotional eating include:
- Weight gain and obesity: Excessive calorie consumption can lead to weight gain and increased obesity risk.
- Nutrient deficiencies: Unhealthy food choices may result in inadequate intake of essential nutrients.
- Increased risk of chronic diseases: Poor diet and weight gain can contribute to conditions like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers.
- Disrupted hunger and satiety signals: Emotional eating can impair recognition of genuine hunger and fullness cues.
- Gastrointestinal issues: Overeating or consuming unhealthy foods can cause indigestion, bloating, and constipation.
- Mental health concerns: Emotional eating can exacerbate feelings of guilt, shame, or low self-esteem and may contribute to anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues.
Developing healthier coping strategies can help mitigate these risks and establish a balanced relationship with food.
Your Eating Disorder Treatment Plan Is Based On Your Unique Needs
We offer evidenced-based therapies, parent training, and family support that meet your needs, fostering your path to recovery. Our Health at Every Size (HAES) approach will help you accept your body and yourself!
FAMILY BASED TREATMENT (FBT)
Family-Based Treatment (FBT) stands as the gold standard for addressing eating disorders in children and adolescents, particularly for early-onset cases of anorexia, bulimia, and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
This well-researched approach places parents at the forefront of their child’s re-nourishment and weight restoration process. Eating disorder recovery can be achieved through this early intervention.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Enhanced (CBT) is an ideal approach for older adolescents and adults struggling with eating disorders.
This evidenced-based approach is a powerful and effective treatment for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED). CBT-E treatment sessions are time-limited, structured, and goal-oriented.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders (DBT-ED)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders is the method of choice for individuals who struggle with co-occurring mental health issues in addition to the eating disorder; such as depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, or PTSD.
This comprehensive treatment method addresses the complexity of these mental health issues, in concert, prioritizing the most dangerous symptoms first.
Full Recovery is Possible
Our comprehensive services include Expressive Arts Therapy, Eating Disorder Recovery Groups, and Meal Support.
At Resilience Therapy, we have been practicing for over 25 years and know that full recovery is possible. When you are finally healed from your eating disorder, you’ll find that a whole world of possibilities will open up to you. Your healing will help free you to be successful, make a difference in the world, and live the life you dream of.
We are here to support and guide you, to help keep your household Body Positive, and to help you or your child reach their full growth potential and blossom the way they should—in mind, body, and soul.
How We Treat
Explore the benefits of an evidence-based approach to therapy
Family Based Treatment (FBT)
FBT, or the Maudsley approach, is a Gold Standard treatment. FBT is a culturally-sensitive method that keeps a child in their family environment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E)
We specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Enhanced (CBT-E) to support children, teens, and adolescents struggling with eating disorders
Comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Our compassionate and highly skilled therapists are dedicated to helping your loved ones develop emotional resilience, improve their self-esteem, and overcome challenges associated with various eating disorders.
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