Eating Disorders Archives

EMDR Therapy, Eating Disorders and Sexual Abuse

Patty Cabot met EMDR Certified Therapist Leah Leatherbee, LCSW-R to help with her eating disorder, which was driven by years of sexual abuse.

Efficacy of EMDR in Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Associated Cognitive-Emotional Features (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Efficacy of EMDR in body dysmorphic disorder symptoms and features like appearance-based rejection sensitivity, body shame, & self-compassion.

EMDR Therapy for Eating Disorders

EMDR-certified therapist Marnie Davis, MA, LMHC discusses her experience with clients who have eating disorders and how EMDR therapy heals.

EMDR Therapy and Eating Disorders GWT Issue

We invited several authors to write about EMDR Therapy and Eating Disorders in the Fall 2023 Go With That Magazine issue.

Internalized Sexual Shame in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Understand shame and eating disorders to allows for better history-taking, case conceptualization, and client success in EMDR therapy.

Resilience: The Intersection of Eating Disorders and EMDR

Resilience is a competency that can be learned and developed through treating trauma and in the context of eating disorder (ED) recovery.

EMDR Therapy & Eating Disorders (Go With That Magazine Issue)

Eating disorders affect at least 9 percent of the population worldwide. With so many people suffering, how can EMDR therapists help?

BIPOC Perspective on Eating Disorders

Examples of how a client’s culture/race was significant in the use of EMDR therapy for eating disorders or disordered eating.

Eating Disorders: What Are EMDR Therapists Missing?

Even if you are not an eating disorder specialist, you will likely see clients with disordered eating as an EMDR therapist.

An AIP Approach to Disordered Eating

EMDR therapy offers an adjunctive approach to disordered eating treatment that heals at the root of maladaptively stored experiences.

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing as add-on treatment to enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with anorexia nervosa reporting childhood maltreatment: A quasi-experimental multicenter study (European Eating Disorders Review)

This study reports reduced eating disorder (ED) symptoms and dissociative symptoms and improved outcomes for patients with anorexia nervosa and childhood maltreatment when EMDR therapy was added to enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E).

EMDR Therapy and Eating Disorders

EMDRIA member and eating disorder specialist, Marnie Davis, LMHC discusses using EMDR therapy with clients with eating disorders.

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