Eating disorder therapy in Denver
Support for eating concerns, body image distress, restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, and the shame that can surround food and body.
Eating disorder therapy offers a compassionate space to understand the patterns around food, body, control, emotions, identity, and stress while building safer, more supportive ways to care for yourself.
Eating disorder therapy may help when you are navigating:
- Restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, or rigid food rules
- Body image distress, shame, comparison, perfectionism, or fear of weight/body changes
- Anxiety, trauma, depression, identity stress, family pressure, or control patterns connected to food
- Recovery support, relapse concerns, medical coordination, or wanting a less painful relationship with your body
Eating disorder support
A careful space for food, body, control, and shame to be understood.
Eating disorders and disordered eating are not only about food. They can be connected to anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, control, grief, identity, family systems, body image, culture, sport, shame, sensory needs, and trying to cope with emotions that feel too much.
Therapy can help you understand what the eating disorder or food/body pattern has been doing for you while also supporting recovery, safety, self-compassion, emotional regulation, and a more flexible relationship with yourself.
When needed, therapy may be part of a broader care team that includes medical, nutrition, or higher-level support.
Common reasons people seek eating disorder therapy
Support can help whether you have a diagnosis or simply know your relationship with food and body is painful.
People often reach out when food, body image, control, shame, or eating patterns are taking up too much space in daily life.
Restriction or rigid rules
Food rules, avoidance, tracking, guilt, or control has become hard to interrupt.
Bingeing or loss of control
Eating episodes feel distressing, secretive, shame-filled, or disconnected from hunger.
Purging or compensation
Vomiting, laxatives, over-exercise, fasting, or other compensatory behaviours are present.
Body image distress
Body checking, comparison, shame, fear, or dysphoria affects mood and daily life.
Perfectionism and control
Food, exercise, or body becomes a way to manage anxiety or feel in control.
Trauma and emotions
Eating patterns are connected to trauma, stress, grief, numbness, or emotional overwhelm.
Recovery support
You want help maintaining recovery, preventing relapse, or rebuilding trust with yourself.
Family or cultural pressure
Messages around body, food, achievement, sport, culture, or family expectations are affecting you.
How therapy can help
Therapy can help you move toward safety, flexibility, and self-compassion.
A therapist can support emotional awareness, coping, shame reduction, body image work, relationship patterns, and coordination with other care when needed.
Understand the pattern
Explore what food, body, and control patterns are trying to manage.
Build coping
Develop tools for emotions, urges, shame, anxiety, and relationship stress.
Support recovery
Work toward safer patterns, more flexibility, and appropriate levels of care.
Our approach
Compassionate, trauma-informed eating disorder support.
Eating disorder therapy at Denver Mental Health Collective may include CBT-informed support, DBT skills, ACT, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, body image work, relational therapy, and coordination with nutrition or medical providers when appropriate.
Your therapist can help you approach recovery without shame, pressure, or oversimplifying the complexity of eating concerns.
Non-shaming
We approach food and body concerns with compassion rather than blame.
Safety-aware
Therapy can help identify when additional medical, nutritional, or higher-level support is needed.
Trauma-informed
We understand eating concerns may be connected to trauma, control, identity, and nervous system responses.
Whole-person
Support considers mood, anxiety, relationships, culture, body image, identity, and daily life.
Meet Our Denver Eating Disorder Therapists
Our Denver therapists support clients navigating eating concerns, body image distress, shame, anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, recovery, and a more compassionate relationship with self.
Rachel Greear
Licensed Provisional Counselor Candidate
Supports adolescents and adults with anxiety, identity, relationships, school stress, and emotional growth.
Amanda Giltz
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate
Supports adolescents, adults, and older adults navigating burnout, anxiety, life transitions, relationships, and stress.
Sarah Hall
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Offers collaborative, empowerment-based therapy for healing, resilience, trauma recovery, and meaningful change.
Jamie Golden
Licensed Professional Counselor
Offers grounded support for clients navigating emotions, relationships, identity, and personal growth.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A grounded process for starting eating disorders-focused care
Starting eating disorders-focused therapy does not require you to have everything figured out. The first step is a conversation about what you need, what feels difficult, and which therapist may be the right fit.
Start with a consultation
Use the free consultation to ask questions, share what brings you in, and see whether this support may fit.
Clarify the focus
Your therapist helps you identify goals, patterns, strengths, and the kind of support that feels useful.
Begin with support
Together, you build a steady process that can include insight, skills, practice, and reflection between sessions.
Questions
Common questions about eating disorder therapy.
Do I need an eating disorder diagnosis to start therapy?
No. You can seek support for disordered eating, body image distress, food anxiety, or recovery concerns even without a formal diagnosis.
Will therapy focus only on food?
Not usually. Therapy may also explore emotions, anxiety, trauma, identity, relationships, control, shame, and body image.
What if I need a higher level of care?
Your therapist can help you think carefully about safety and whether medical, nutrition, intensive outpatient, residential, or other support may be appropriate.
Can therapy help with body image?
Yes. Body image work can include shame, comparison, checking, avoidance, self-worth, culture, identity, and embodiment.
Can eating disorders affect all body sizes and identities?
Yes. Eating disorders and disordered eating can affect people across body sizes, genders, ages, cultures, and identities.
How do I start?
A free consultation can help you share what is happening and explore which therapist may be a good fit.
Related support
You may also be interested in
If this focus area is not the exact fit, these related services may also support your next step in therapy.
Individual Counseling
One-on-one support for anxiety, depression, trauma, identity, transitions, and stress.
Family Counseling
Support for families navigating communication, conflict, parenting stress, transitions, or repair.
Teen Therapy
Support for adolescents navigating emotions, identity, school stress, family dynamics, and mental health concerns.
EMDR Treatment
Structured support for trauma, distressing memories, anxiety, and experiences that feel hard to process.
You do not have to keep battling food and body concerns alone. Support can help you take the next step with care.