CBT-E focuses on the present-day factors that maintain the eating disorder rather than its historical causes. Treatment is highly individualised and follows a structured progression:
Key Focus Areas:
- Challenging negative body image and rigid beliefs around weight, shape, and control
- Interrupting restrictive, binge, or purge behaviours
- Reducing body checking, avoidance, and perfectionism
- Building balanced eating routines and healthier coping mechanisms
- Identifying triggers and emotional links to eating patterns
- Developing alternative strategies for managing stress, shame, or distress
Depending on the severity and chronicity of the eating disorder. The process includes:
1. Engagement & Psychoeducation
- Understand how your eating problem is maintained
2. Behavioural Change
- Establish regular, balanced eating
- Address avoidance behaviours and reduce dietary rules
3. Cognitive Restructuring
- Identify distorted thoughts related to food, weight, and self-worth
- Learn to evaluate and replace them with more realistic, compassionate beliefs
4. Relapse Prevention & Maintenance
- Develop tools to manage setbacks and life stressors
- Solidify long-term recovery strategies and self-monitoring skills
Adolescents, teens and adults experiencing:
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Binge Eating Disorder
- OSFED (Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders)
- Co-occurring anxiety, perfectionism, depression, or body dysmorphia
It is especially helpful for individuals who:
- Feel trapped in cycles of restriction, bingeing, or purging
- Have intense body dissatisfaction or fear of weight gain
- Struggle with rigid thinking or “all-or-nothing” food rules
- Want an action-focused, skills-based path toward recovery
Empower yourself in understanding the eating disorder, take action to change it, and build a more peaceful, balanced relationship with food and your body. We provide guidance, structure, and unwavering support every step of the way. Enquire with us confidentially.
