Eating Disorders
Anue
Nutrition and therapy are an integral part of the eating disorder treatment and recovery process. At Anue, our Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Licensed Professional Counselors specialize in the field of eating disorders. Our team’s expertise comes from their extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in the field of outpatient treatment facilities, as well as their own personal experiences with recovery and eating disorders.
Anue’s approach to treatment is to provide an atmosphere of unity with clients so they can work together as a team to meet individual needs. Our goal is to assist clients in having a balanced and sustainable relationship with food, free from negative or distorted thoughts about oneself. We realize that eating disorders are complex issues, and supporting clients with their struggles goes beyond just nutrition intervention; it takes patience, skill, and collaboration with clients and their loved ones, as well as their treatment team.
Anue’s goals for treatment are to assist the client in eating adequately to meet the body’s daily nutritional needs, while learning to listen to and trust one’s body’s internal cues, and working on changing negative cognitions that impact their lives. Clients learn to interpret hunger and fullness, while dealing with underlying thoughts and emotions that remain at the core of a person’s illness and recovery. Eating and nutrition can play a major role in inhibiting or promoting the recovery process. At Anue, we help clients move toward a practice of mindful and intuitive eating.
Eating disorder symptoms and behaviors can vary from person to person and between different eating disorder diagnoses, including an unhealthy focus on food, disordered eating, eating and/or body preoccupation, distorted body image, and body hate and disassociation. If you or a loved one are experiencing any of the following symptoms, the team at Anue can help:
- Chronic/severe dieting/fasting
- Eliminating specific food items, entire food groups or categories of foods
- Obsessive calorie counting, monitoring of nutrition labels or precise measuring of foods
- Labeling foods as good vs. bad, clean vs. dirty, or relying on safe foods vs. fear foods
- Difficulty eating around other people or in social situations/increased isolation from others
- Extreme difficulty making decisions about food, e.g., ordering off a menu at a restaurant
- Refusal to eat and denial of hunger
- An intense fear of gaining weight
- Preoccupation with food
- Eating until the point of discomfort or pain, often with high-fat or sweet foods
- Self-induced vomiting
- Laxative use to assist in losing weight
- Excessive exercise
- Often consuming large amounts of food over short periods of time
- Feeling that eating behavior is out of control
- Feeling depressed, disgusted or upset over the amount eaten
- Excessively preoccupied with your body
- Obsessively looking at your body and feeling unhappy
- Difficulty leaving the house due to not being happy with your body image
- Struggling with avoidant/restrictive food disorder (ARFID)
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At Anue, we provide a nonjudgmental space to have a healthier relationship with food and your body, both mentally and physically.
