Specialized Eating Disorder Therapy for Teens

Personalized, Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Therapy
with Collaborative and Comprehensive Care

Watching your teen struggle with an eating disorder can feel terrifying, and the tension around food, meals, and body image can dominate your family’s life. You’re left feeling helpless, overwhelmed, and unsure how to make things better.

At Creative Healing, we offer specialized eating disorder therapy designed to help your teen restore a healthy relationship with food, body, and self, allowing them to fully engage in life with confidence, emotional stability, and improved mental health. 

Our approach embraces Health at Every Size (HAES) and Intuitive Eating, offering teens a path to healing that focuses on self-compassion and body acceptance, rather than rigid control or dieting.

Overcoming Common Challenges for Parents of Teens with Eating Disorders

You are not alone. Many families experience:

• Fear that the eating disorder is worsening and feeling powerless to help.

• Guilt, shame, and confusion—after years of following diets like Weight Watchers, cutting out carbs, or trying the latest trends, you’re left wondering if you’ve unintentionally modeled behaviors that pushed your teen to take extreme measures with their own eating habits.

• Constant tension at meals and around body image discussions, creating family strain.

• Uncertainty about how to support recovery without overstepping or becoming controlling.

• Fear of relapse and concern about the long-term success of any treatment.

If your teen is showing symptoms like . . .

• Extreme focus on food

• Binge-Eating

• Purging

• Severely restricting calorie intake

• Distorted body image

• Difficulty eating in public

• Excessive exercise

• Intense fear of gaining weight

. . . these behaviors can deeply impact their physical health, emotional well-being, and overall self-esteem. They may withdraw from relationships, feel increasingly isolated, and find it overwhelming to engage in daily life, deeply impacting their overall happiness and well-being.

Achieve Lasting Recovery: Results for Teens with Eating Disorders

With our comprehensive, evidence-based approach, your teen can expect:

✔️ A restored, healthy relationship with food, body, and self.
✔️ The ability to fully engage in life, free from the limitations of disordered eating.
✔️ A focus on body acceptance through the Health at Every Size model, removing the pressure of dieting or achieving a specific weight.
✔️ Learning Intuitive Eating to help them understand their body’s signals and build trust in their own inner wisdom.
✔️ Emotional stability and resilience—key factors in maintaining long-term recovery.
✔️ Ongoing collaboration with their medical team, ensuring all aspects of their health are being supported.

A Comprehensive Approach to Teen Eating Disorder Recovery

Our teen eating disorder therapists provide a wraparound, collaborative approach, working closely with your teen’s dietitian and primary care doctor to create a holistic and highly personalized treatment plan. This ensures your teen’s physical, emotional, and mental health are supported at every step.

Our therapy approach integrates the principles of Health at Every Size (HAES), supporting a non-diet, weight-neutral approach to recovery that helps your teen focus on self-acceptance and emotional well-being. By teaching Intuitive Eating, we help your teen reconnect with their body’s natural signals, reducing stress and anxiety around food.

What to Expect from Teen Eating Disorder Therapy

1. Comprehensive Initial Assessment: We begin with an in-depth intake assessment to fully understand your teen’s unique challenges. This allows us to create a personalized treatment plan that aligns with your teen’s needs.

2. Collaborative Treatment Plan: We don’t just treat the emotional side of the eating disorder. We work closely with a dietitian and primary care doctor to ensure your teen’s nutritional and medical needs are supported. This wraparound approach helps address all aspects of your teen’s recovery, ensuring nothing is overlooked.

3. Personalized Therapy Sessions: Our evidence-based therapies—including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)—are tailored to help your teen uncover the emotional triggers driving their eating disorder, build resilience, and develop healthy coping strategies.

4. Ongoing Progress Tracking: Recovery isn’t linear, but with our data-driven treatment approach, we’ll track your teen’s progress every step of the way. This ensures that their therapy is working effectively and allows us to adjust the plan as needed to keep them moving toward long-term healing.

5. Relapse Prevention and Long-Term Support: Preventing relapse is just as important as initial recovery. We’ll equip your teen and your family with a relapse prevention plan that helps identify triggers and provides practical strategies for ongoing success. This long-term support is essential for lasting change.

6. Support for Parents: Healing from an eating disorder involves the whole family. You’ll receive guidance and resources to understand how to best support your teen through their recovery journey, without feeling like you’re either over-controlling or stepping too far back.

Take the Next Step in Your Teen’s Eating Disorder Recovery

It’s time to stop living in fear and uncertainty. Our specialized eating disorder therapy is here to help your teen restore their relationship with food and their body, and for you to feel confident in their recovery. With a personalized, evidence-based approach, we’re committed to providing your teen with the tools they need for lasting recovery.

Support your teen in building a healthy relationship with food and their body.