EATING DISORDERS FOR TEENS & ADULTS
Counseling For Eating Disorders in Teens and Adults in Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Woodland HIlls, CA.
Watching your teen disappear before your eyes is one of the hardest things any parent can experience. Your once vibrant, funny, smart kid is now spaced out, irritable, and isolating. Instead of being interested in friends, school and hobby’s, all they care about is what they eat, how much they eat, what time they eat and how they look. If you see them look at their reflection in the mirror one more time you could scream. You can’t force them to eat, you can’t stop them from staring in the mirror, and you can’t make the obsession and guilt go away. It’s the absolute worst.
I know eating disorders. I personally recovered from one when I was a teenager, and I have been helping people recover for the past 15 years. Helping others break free from the shakles of an eating disorder and experience freedom again is one of my greatest joys. As a mom of three daughters, I especially get how torturous it to helplessly watch your teen suffer, and am especially good at guiding families and teens through this process.
Getting help for your teen with an eating disorder as quickly as possible is the best thing you can do for them. Research shows that the longer somebody has an eating disorder, the harder it is to make a full recovery without relapses. Eating disorders also have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.
I work with a group of trusted dieticians to build a team to best support your loved one. We will help them understand how the eating disorder is hurting them in the ways they actually care about, and connect to the reasons they have to recover. We will help them heal their relationship with food and their body one step at a time until they no longer see food as the enemy but as the vehicle to get their life back. Watching your loved one come back to life, like a zombie waking from the dead will give you and them the relief you are longing for. I love nothing more than helping make this happen for my clients and their families.