Eating Disorder Therapy in Orange County
In-person in Tustin, CA · Online throughout California
When you're inside it, a life that isn't organized around food and your body is genuinely hard to picture.
Full recovery is possible. Not "management." Not white-knuckling it forever. Recovery — where food is just food and your body is just the thing you live in.
We can help get you there.
What we treat:
Anorexia nervosa
Restriction, food rules that keep multiplying, and a level of control that everyone else calls discipline while it quietly takes over your life.
Bulimia nervosa
The cycle of bingeing and purging, and the shame that keeps it hidden and keeps it going.
Binge eating disorder
Eating past fullness, past wanting, often alone. The most common eating disorder there is, and the one people are most ashamed to name.
Body dysmorphia and body image distress
Where what you see and what's there don't match. Or all you can think about is how wrong your body is. It’s constant preoccupation and so distressing.
Chronic dieting and orthorexia
When it started as health and became a full-time job. Sometimes the most praised version, which makes it the hardest to question.
Compulsive exercise
When rest feels unearned and missing a workout costs you the whole day.
Atypical anorexia
All the restriction, all the medical risk, without the extreme weight loss that people “expect.” Frequently missed. Just as serious.
How we work:
Recovery isn't a matter of deciding to eat. You know that already, and you've probably had someone imply otherwise.
Your therapist gets to know you as a person first and the eating disorder second. From there we work on two tracks at once: getting the most harmful behaviors under control, and understanding what the eating disorder is doing for you — because it's doing something, or you would have stopped.
Your eating disorder is not a choice, not a failure of discipline, and not your fault. It's very often a coping strategy that worked, for a while, for something that was genuinely hard.
The goal isn't only to take it away. It's to build a life you want enough that you don't need it.
We draw on CBT and DBT, Internal Family Systems, narrative therapy, and — where trauma is part of the picture — EMDR.
When we'll refer out:
Outpatient therapy is the right level of care for many people and the wrong one for some. If you need medical monitoring, a dietitian, an IOP, or residential treatment, we'll say so and help you find it. We'd rather lose a client than keep someone at a level of care that won’t serve them.