Body Image Therapy
Body Image Therapy
Stephanie Van Schaick, LMHC, C-DBT, CIMHP
Eating Disorder and Trauma Therapist
You feel so uncomfortable in your own body that you just wish you could crawl out of your skin.
You dread getting ready in the morning, picking out an outfit and looking in the mirror. You compulsively check the mirror looking for any and every possible imperfection. You’re consumed with thoughts about what you hate about your body and what you wish you could change. You’ve tried diets and different types of clothing, expensive skin products and lots of makeup. You do anything you can to hide those imperfections. You may have considered taking more drastic measures like cosmetic procedures and maybe even plastic surgery.
You believe that you’d feel better if only you looked the way you want, but you know that that’s not really going to make you happy. You do whatever you can to avoid being seen - you isolate yourself, remain quiet and stay in your comfort zone. You do anything you can to hide your body under clothes. You dread summertime and having to choose between hiding under clothes, being sweltering hot and worried about what others think of you OR wearing less clothing, people seeing more of your body and still worried about what others think of you.
You’ve tried to change your body. You’ve tried to accept your body, but, no matter what, you struggle being in your own skin. You may have even written off your struggle as “normal” and that you should just “deal with it.” You don’t want to feel this way anymore, but you don’t know how to get out. It feels like the only options are continuing to live with this constant distress which sounds awful or to accept your body which sounds terrifying.
You don’t have to accept living your life in a constant battle with your mind and body. There is help.
My Approach as a Body Image Therapist
I’m Stephanie and I’m a therapist who helps women, ages 15 and up who struggles in their relationship with their bodies. I will help you to make peace with your body and to develop a healthy relationship with yourself. We will see each other weekly and work on developing kindness, compassion and acceptance for yourself so that you can feel comfortable and confident in your body.
You deserve to feel better and your body deserves to be treated better. With the right help, you can be on your way today to feeling more comfortable in your own skin.
Ready for Online Body Image Therapy?
If you are ready to start feeling better in your body, start by setting up a FREE 15 minute phone consultation to discuss how I can help you. 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.
Body Image Therapy FAQs
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Body image therapy is designed to help people struggling to accept and feel comfortable in their own body. A body image therapist will help you to identify the core as to why you feel this way and offer tools and new thoughts to help you to become more positive about your body. The goal ultimately is to get you feeling comfortable in your own skin.
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In short, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is often used to treat body image issues. I believe in personalizing my treatment approach to the individual using different therapeutic techniques which includes CBT, DBT, mindfulness skills amongst other techniques. One of the most important components of body image therapy is having a therapist who understands body image struggles and uses appropriate techniques to help you to heal from these struggles, and not unintentionally make them worse.
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Body image therapy is incredibly helpful to heal body image. Through this process, we will identify the negative beliefs surrounding your body, examine where these thoughts originally came from and introduce alternative thoughts and beliefs to help you to heal your relationship with your body. Everyone’s individual therapy experience is unique, but these are some of the common things that we will work on together.
