Binge Eating Disorder Therapist
Binge Eating Disorder Therapy
Stephanie Van Schaick, LMHC, C-DBT, CIMHP
Eating Disorder and Trauma Therapist
You feel out of control around food.
If you’re not eating, your mind is consumed with food. It’s starting to affect your health, your energy levels and how you feel both physically and emotionally.
You don’t know why, but, for as long as you could remember, eating has always felt like a warm hug. It’s been a comfort. It helps you to not feel. You turn to food when you’re stressed, bored, sad or angry. You sometimes spend a tremendous amount of money on food and you hide the receipts and bank statements. Sometimes you plan a time to binge and wait until night when everyone in the house is asleep so that you can be free to eat. Other times, it wasn’t planned at all. One food turns into the next. It starts off feeling delightful and satisfying, but it ends with you feeling sick, disgusted and ashamed. Somewhere in the middle, you stop feeling, it becomes a blur or like an out-of-body experience. You do everything you can to hide your behavior from others like avoiding “binge foods” when you are not alone or hiding all the evidence of what you’ve eaten. You’ve tried stopping these binges on your own, but nothing seems to stick.
My Approach to Binge Eating Disorder Therapy
You’re worried about your health. You’re tired of feeling this way and you know that you need to make a change. Therapy can help.
I’m Stephanie. I’m a therapist who helps women, ages 15 and up who struggle with their relationship with food, their bodies and themselves. I understand that you feel out of control with food, your health and your life. I’ve been able to help women finally break out of this cycle of binging, feel better about themselves and feel as though they are the ones in control, not the food. In our sessions, we will create goals that you can take action on immediately to help you to start getting better. My clients see me weekly so that we can work on those goals, work through those feelings, figure out what is and isn’t working and continue to take steps toward a recovered you.
You deserve to feel better and to feel in control of your life. With the right help, we can get you moving toward your recovered self so that you can live a life free of this burden and shame.
Binge Eating Disorder Therapy
Ready to break out of this cycle and to start feeling better?
Then, the next step is to set up a FREE 15 minute phone consultation with me. To schedule a consultation, call (631)-317-1654 or e-mail Stateofbalancementalhealth@gmail.com or submit a request to be contacted here.
My specialties include online therapy for eating disorders, anorexia therapy, bulimia therapy, binge eating disorder therapy, body image therapy and trauma therapy. Contact us today to schedule your free phone consultation for online therapy for Long Island, NYC or Florida.
Binge Eating Disorder Therapy FAQs
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Binges can look drastically different from person to person or even from binge to binge. To put in simply, it typically consists of consuming a large quantity of food in a short period of time often leading to extreme nausea or even stomach pain. Although, there are many different experiences a person can have, some experiences include feeling numb, eating mechanically, feeling out-of-control or out-of-body. Binges are typically done alone and often leads the person binging to feel shame. A person may take extreme lengths to “hide” the binge from others whether that be waiting until noone’s home to binge, eating in their car or throwing out all of the “evidence” such as food wrappers.
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Binge eating can affect any age group. It is slightly more common after age 18, possibly because there is more access to being able to binge such as having more privacy in their dorm or car or having a job and more money to be able to engage in their binging behaviors.
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People who binge may be confused as to why they feel the need to continue to eat past the point of noticeably feeling full. The reasons for this vary, but we know that there are neuropathways developed in the brain that reinforce binging behaviors. This is something that an eating disorder therapist can help you with. Also, the process of eating and the comfort of the food can help someone temporarily cope with anxiety, depression, emptiness and stress, amongst other things.
