Eating Disorder Therapy for Adolescents and their Families across Ontario & New Brunswick
Teens experiencing an eating disorder is a serious situation. Specialized help is a starting place to enter the journey to recovery.
Feeling lost as to what to do next when your child has an eating disorder.
You have already scoured the internet for resources, and you found ideas of how to help your teen Which one do you choose? They all seem daunting. Fear of challenging your teen may even set in, because then conflict shows up. Now what do you do?
Eating disorder treatment has options, and it’s important to seek the right help by building a team of supports to individualize a treatment plan for your teen and the family.
You may have already talked to your doctor about the seriousness of this situation, It’s a lot to worry about and try to navigate the system to get the help that feels right for your family.
The fear of what to do next starts to ruminate in your mind. You want to help your teen, you are just unsure what to do. Your teen may minimize the situation, and feel “fine,”while everything else is presenting a concern.
As a parent feeling helpless, watching your child suffer, it will consume ALL OF YOU.
Feeling connected, having clarity in how to support your teen helps to transform helplessness into actionable steps towards healing.
Parent Involvement supports the teen to overcome the eating disorder as well as supporting the family with healing.
How to help your teen beat an eating disorder
Disordered Eating to Eating Disorders: Help starts with parental involvement.
Parents are able to provide direct support with shifting beliefs about body image, interrupting eating disorder behaviors, and role modeling how to fully engage in your individual family food culture in your home.
Teens need supportive adults close by. It takes a village to raise empowered and confident youth.
Although professional support is needed and often helpful, the long term goal of any mental health therapy, and eating disorder recovery is to repair and/or build new supportive connections with those available in a youth’s life.
Parents are impacted by the eating disorder, and so are siblings in the home. All family benefits from support.
By supporting parents as well as the individual teen who has the eating disorder, it helps the entire family to heal together.
Eating Disorders Have Treatment Options
YOUR FIRST SHOT AT TREATMENT IS YOUR BEST SHOT AT RECOVERY.
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Eating Disorder Treatment
Support with normalizing eating patterns. Improving Body Image Thoughts, and Decreasing Anxiety around food amongst general anxiety reduction as well.
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Family Meals & Parent Support for kids with eating disorders.
Consistent exposure and supervision of meals supports your loved one with exposure to their fear of eating, and with your coaching to overcome it. Parents receive support too about how to coach their child through big emotions, body image thoughts, and treatment steps.
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A Team of Support
Eating Disorder Treatment includes ongoing medical monitoring, dietitian support, and seeing a therapist who specializes in mental health and eating disorders.
Recovery is a journey, and all support is beneficial along that pathway.
Research has shown that if we start family based treatment in the first 3 years of the eating disorder starting, a child or teenager has a best shot of recovery. However, if it's beyond that, not to worry- a full recovery is still possible!
By working with Shelley as a therapist, your medical provider for monitoring, and a dietitian for nutrition support, treatment is valuable. Eating disorder therapist sessions, focus on support, goal setting, individual emotional and mental health support, and family problem solving.
