Eating Disorders

Eating Disorder Treatment in Center City Philadelphia: Do you, or someone you know, suffer from anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating? Have you tried to take recommendations from others in order to make healthier choices, but have found it futile? Perhaps you've tried to help a friend and noticed that their health is not improving. This section includes a collection of strategies that one can implement to try to affect a positive change, as well as necessary information on healthy dieting and weight loss.

Summer Body Image Anxiety

As summer approaches and trips to the pool or beach become more common, it is easy to think that you must start doing 1000 sit-ups a day or skip meals to perfect your “beach continue reading

Treating Gender Dysphoria

Gender dysphoria is a complex and deeply personal experience that affects individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Understanding this condition, its treatment options, and strategies for managing continue reading

Practicing Body Neutrality: A Path to Self-Acceptance

Practicing Body Neutrality: A Path to Self-Acceptance

What is Body Neutrality?

In a world saturated with images of unattainable beauty standards and societal pressures to achieve the "perfect" body, many individuals continue reading

Talking about your Eating Disorder with your Mom

9% of the population is affected by eating disorders. You are not alone. It is common for eating disorders to develop in teenage years through young adulthood. After realizing you may have an continue reading

The Harm of Food Morality in Orthorexia

Defining Food Morality

Every food serves a different nutritional purpose for us. Foods fuel our bodies through different nutrients. Eating a wide range of foods helps us naturally get many nutrients that continue reading

Changing Your Social Media for a Better Relationship with Your Body Image

Social Media and Body Image (Body Image Therapy in Philadelphia)

Getting on any social media platform these days will inundate you with information. Dance trends, fun facts, advocacy, social justice, art, interior design continue reading

Body Avoidance: What it is and How to Combat it

Body Avoidance (Body Dysmorphia Therapy in Philadelphia)

Summer is in full swing now, so the temperatures are rising! With this hot weather, we can often find ourselves by the pool, playing sports, or continue reading

Are You Minding Your Food

Are You Minding Your Food? Mindfulness seems to be one of the new buzz words. If you google it or search in YouTube you’ll find tons of corresponding sites. Most people attribute it to continue reading

Coping with Goodbyes

There are so many things that happen over the course of life that teach us that goodbyes are inevitable. From sad experiences like losing a job, your car, financial security, a continue reading

Slowing Down Eating Binges

For many people, sitting with an uncomfortable feeling such as anxiety, shame, sadness or anger can be intolerable. Behaviors like drinking, exercising, watching netflix and binge eating are all things our brains have developed to continue reading

End Binge Eating with the Hunger Scale

Many people who struggle with binge eating have successfully disconnected from their bodies and their ability to sense hunger. This is because binges are triggered by uncomfortable emotions such as shame, sadness, anger or fear continue reading

Resolving Shame

Resolving Shame: Shame Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, Santa Fe

What exactly is shame? Shame is the feeling that results from how we negatively judge ourselves about an action we did. Actions that continue reading

Food Journal

How to Keep a Food Journal for People Struggling with Binge and Over-Eating: Anyone who has ever kept a personal journal or diary knows how therapeutic it can be to write down your innermost continue reading

Benefits of Your Wise Mind

In the late 1980’s, Dr. Marsha Linehan created a cognitive behavioral treatment known as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for chronic suicidal, self-injurious individuals who struggled with emotion regulation. A key component of DBT includes mindfulness continue reading

Sensate Focus Touching for Body Image

Do you struggle with your body image? Do you feel out of touch with your sexuality? These concerns are common for women throughout their lifespan. Body image is defined as one's thoughts and feelings about continue reading