Eating Disorder Interventions

How the work actually goes.

Eating disorders are different. The behaviors are often hidden, the medical risks accumulate quietly, and the typical addiction-intervention playbook needs adjustment. The right intervention often looks more like a long, careful family conversation supported by a specialty treatment team than a single dramatic meeting.

I have worked with families across the eating-disorder spectrum — anorexia nervosa, bulimia, ARFID, binge-eating disorder, and the many co-occurring conditions that come with them. Treatment placement is a critical piece of the work; not all programs are equipped to treat eating disorders well, and the wrong placement can do real harm.

This is also work where the family's role is enormous and often confusing. We will spend real time on what to say at meals, how to hold structure without becoming the food police, and how to support recovery without becoming the recovery.