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Life-Changing Help: Coaching for Eating Disorders and Body-Image Issues
Why Choose Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching?
- Are you working with a therapist, but feel that you would benefit from some extra support?
- Are you sick and tired of obsessing about food and your body?
- Do you struggle with restricting, binging, purging, or over-exercising?
- Are you trying to practice intuitive eating and in need of guidance?
- Are your negative thoughts about your body keeping you from enjoying life?
- Do you hate what you see when you look in the mirror?
Ways Our Eating Disorder Recovery Coaches Can Help
At The Eating Disorder Center, our recovery coaches work collaboratively with clients to help:
It is possible to live a life that's free from constant food obsession, body-shame, and self-hatred!
*Please note: Coaching is different from therapy and is not a substitute for clinical treatment. However, it can be a valuable addition to therapy or a next step in your healing journey.
**If you are actively struggling with an eating disorder, we require that you are also meeting with a therapist. We may also require a physicians note. Coaching paired with therapy for eating disorders can be highly effective for individuals with active eating disorders. If you are already working with an eating disorder treatment team, we are happy to collaborate with them.
- Practice self-compassion and body acceptance
- Challenge eating disorder thoughts and belief systems
- Build practical coping skills to use in daily life
- Challenge eating disorder behaviors
- Discover food freedom with guided support
- Clarify recovery goals and try out new approaches
- Apply strategies between therapy sessions
- Reinforce self-care and build self-confidence
- Move past limiting beliefs and live by your values
It is possible to live a life that's free from constant food obsession, body-shame, and self-hatred!
*Please note: Coaching is different from therapy and is not a substitute for clinical treatment. However, it can be a valuable addition to therapy or a next step in your healing journey.
**If you are actively struggling with an eating disorder, we require that you are also meeting with a therapist. We may also require a physicians note. Coaching paired with therapy for eating disorders can be highly effective for individuals with active eating disorders. If you are already working with an eating disorder treatment team, we are happy to collaborate with them.
How Our Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching Works
- We offer structured weekly 50-minute recovery coaching sessions via Zoom.
- Coaching sessions are available to individuals worldwide.
- Our coaches, Javoni and Sarah, are supportive and work collaboratively with you.
- We also offer coaching for parents of teens with eating disorders.
- We are happy to coordinate with your treatment team when appropriate
Get Connected to an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach
- We offer a free 15 minute consultation to explore whether recovery coaching fits your current needs.
**We are accepting a limited number of new recovery coaching clients. If we're full, we can refer you to another eating disorder professional or place you on a waitlist to help you get support as soon as possible.
Frequently Asked Questions for Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching
What is eating disorder recovery coaching?
Eating disorder recovery coaching is a hands-on, action-oriented partnership designed to help you make real, sustainable changes in your daily life. Rather than just talking about recovery, coaching focuses on actively challenging eating disorder thoughts and behaviors and building the practical skills needed to move forward.
Coaching provides concrete tools to help you cope with body image distress, navigate triggers, and respond differently when eating disorder urges show up. Sessions are highly practical and focused on implementation, including challenging eating disorder thoughts, the option for meal support, utilizing tools and strategies that help move you forward in recovery, navigating triggering situations, and increasing accountability.
Coaching helps you to bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. If you’re looking for consistent support, structure, and guidance to help you practice recovery in your everyday life, coaching can be a powerful part of your healing process.
Coaching provides concrete tools to help you cope with body image distress, navigate triggers, and respond differently when eating disorder urges show up. Sessions are highly practical and focused on implementation, including challenging eating disorder thoughts, the option for meal support, utilizing tools and strategies that help move you forward in recovery, navigating triggering situations, and increasing accountability.
Coaching helps you to bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. If you’re looking for consistent support, structure, and guidance to help you practice recovery in your everyday life, coaching can be a powerful part of your healing process.
How is eating disorder recovery coaching different from therapy?
Therapists diagnose and treat mental health conditions and often focus on trauma, mental health symptoms, and diving into the past.
Eating disorder recovery coaches do something different and for many people, incredibly powerful. Coaches do not diagnose or provide therapy. Instead, they offer hands-on, present-focused support to help you actively change eating disorder thoughts and behaviors in your day-to-day life.
Coaching is a space for practical action and momentum. You’ll work on letting go of eating disorder behaviors, building new skills, and creating structure and accountability around recovery. If appropriate, coaches can also support food exposures, meal support, and real-life challenges as they come up.
Many of our clients love coaching because it feels supportive, direct, and collaborative, with a clear focus on moving forward. Some of our coaches also offer email or text support between sessions, so you’re not left alone when things feel hard.
Eating disorder recovery coaches do something different and for many people, incredibly powerful. Coaches do not diagnose or provide therapy. Instead, they offer hands-on, present-focused support to help you actively change eating disorder thoughts and behaviors in your day-to-day life.
Coaching is a space for practical action and momentum. You’ll work on letting go of eating disorder behaviors, building new skills, and creating structure and accountability around recovery. If appropriate, coaches can also support food exposures, meal support, and real-life challenges as they come up.
Many of our clients love coaching because it feels supportive, direct, and collaborative, with a clear focus on moving forward. Some of our coaches also offer email or text support between sessions, so you’re not left alone when things feel hard.
Who is recovery coaching for?
Recovery coaching can support individuals who:
- Are newly entering recovery
- Are transitioning out of higher levels of care
- Feel “stuck” in outpatient recovery
- Want additional accountability between therapy sessions
- Need meal support or help navigating specific challenges
- It can also support caregivers seeking guidance on how to help a loved one
Who is recovery coaching not for?
- Are medically unstable or require a higher level of care
- Someone looking for medical diagnosis or trauma processing
- Prefer a purely reflective or entirely insight-based approach, rather than hands-on guidance, working to utilize tools and skills, and a partnership towards sustainable recovery
What types of eating disorders do you work with?
Recovery coaching can support individuals working through diagnoses such as:
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia nervosa
- Binge-eating disorder
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
Do I need to be in therapy to work with a recovery coach?
Coaching can be a stand-alone approach for someone with subclinical disordered eating or body image issues, or for someone further along in their recovery. However, for many individuals, we typically require eating disorder recovery coaching clients to be working with a therapist.
What does a typical coaching session look like?
Sessions may include:
Sessions are personalized to your recovery stage and needs.
- Learning skills and tools to cope with eating disorder urges.
- Planning for challenging events (holidays, travel, social meals)
- Reviewing and setting recovery goals
- Identifying triggers and creating action plans
- Meal support
- Accountability check-ins
- Skill-building around body image and coping tools
Sessions are personalized to your recovery stage and needs.
Is recovery coaching virtual or in person?
Coaching is offered virtually. Virtual coaching allows for flexibility and real-time support in your home environment.
How long does recovery coaching last?
The length of coaching varies for each individual. Some clients work with a coach short-term during a transition period, while others prefer longer-term support to strengthen recovery foundations. Progress is reviewed regularly to ensure your needs are being met.
Is eating disorder recovery possible?
Yes. Full recovery is possible. While recovery is rarely linear, many individuals go on to build peaceful relationships with food, movement, and their bodies. With consistent support, evidence-based treatment, and compassionate accountability, lasting change can happen.
How do I get started?
If you or a loved one is interested in getting connected with a coach on our team, please fill out our website contact form, call us, or email us for a free 15-minute consultation.
We provide eating disorder recovery coaching via video to folks throughout the United States and worldwide. Eating disorder recovery coaching, serving clients in all states including, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, New Jersey and Michigan.