Eating Disorder Therapy in St. Louis

Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating

Eating disorders involve extreme disturbances in a person’s relationship with food, weight, body image, and/or exercise. These disorders can take an enormous toll on someone’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being, and they often have an impact that reverberates throughout the individual’s life and relationships. Disordered eating can encompass many of the same behaviors seen in diagnosable eating disorders—restricting, bingeing, purging, and compulsive exercise; however, they are not yet as severe or encompassing as a full-blown eating disorder. Disordered eating behaviors can develop into eating disorders when left unaddressed.

These disorders require the care of a team of professionals, including a therapist, dietitian, psychiatrist, and physician. At Greenway Therapy, we assist clients to develop their care team, as we recognize the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach for such complex and life-threatening disorders.

Recovery is Possible

Although many who experience eating disorders may, at times, feel consumed with their behaviors and trapped in a rigid mindset related to food, weight, and body, recovery and freedom from the eating disorder is possible. Greenway’s approach to eating disorder recovery focuses on helping clients develop new skills to use instead of harmful behaviors with food or exercise, while also facilitating client awareness and healing related to underlying emotional causes. We help clients build upon their strengths and resources to find hope and meaning for life in recovery.

Eating disorders take many forms. We are here to help for any of the following disorders and behaviors:

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bingeing and compulsive eating behaviors
• Body Dysmorphia
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Compulsive exercise
• Orthorexia
• Pica
• Purging
• Restriction
• Rumination Disorder
• Other disordered eating behaviors

If you are ready to pursue help, the first step will be to call or e-mail the office to get an appointment set up. We truly look forward to speaking with you.