Eating Disorder Therapy in Houston
In person and online eating disorder therapy to meet your needs.
Are thoughts about food, your body, and exercise consuming your life?
You’re exhausted from constantly worrying about food, your body, and how much you weigh. These thoughts may feel all-consuming, leaving little room for anything else in your life. It can feel draining to be trapped in a cycle of self-criticism and fear around eating, appearance, and exercise.
Finding a therapist for eating disorders is essential to your well-being and recovery. As a Houston eating disorder specialist, I’m here to offer compassionate eating disorder treatment and provide the tools you need for recovery. Therapy for eating disorders will help you cultivate a freer, more enjoyable relationship with food. Through our sessions, we’ll work together to dismantle beliefs about food and your body and help you find new ways to relate to both.
Specialized Eating Disorder Treatment Tailored to You!
Do I have an eating Disorder?
Signs of an Eating Disorder
If you experience any of these symptoms, connecting with a therapist specializing in eating disorders can be the first step to healing:
Restricting food/ Calorie restriction
Binging or feeling out of control with food
Purging or use of laxatives
Body dysmorphia
Thinking about food constantly
Desire to change the size or shape of your body
Yo-yo dieting
Guilt or shame around eating choices
Rigidity or black-and-white thinking with food or exercise
Over Exercising
Obsession around health
Anxiety around weight gain
Medical complications
Eating disorder counseling is a safe place to explore these feelings, leading to a better relationship with food and yourself. As a specialist for eating disorders, I help teens and adults find healing and balance through personalized eating disorder treatment.
Empowering Lives Through Effective Eating Disorder Treatment in Houston, TX
Work with a Disordered Eating Therapist
Yamilet Molina, LPC
Eating Disorder Therapist
You are looking for an eating disorder therapist who gets it and can help support you in your recovery. As an ED therapist, I help clients reconnect with their bodies, identify hunger and fullness cues, and process emotions that may drive disordered eating patterns. My goal as an eating disorder counselor is to support your journey to self-compassion, resilience, and a balanced, fulfilling life.
A Therapist Specializing in Eating Disorders Can Help You:
Gain clarity on the underlying emotions and triggers fueling your thoughts about food, body image, and exercise.
Develop healthier coping strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and difficult emotions without turning to food or restriction.
Challenge harmful beliefs and negative self-talk, replacing them with self-compassion and body acceptance.
Build confidence in who you are, beyond your appearance or food-related behaviors.
Eating Disorder Treatment Specialties
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Anorexia
It's characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, leading to severe restrictions in food intake and extreme efforts to achieve excessive thinness. Individuals with anorexia often have a distorted body image, perceiving themselves as overweight despite being underweight. Therapy for eating disorders can help individuals work through fears around food and weight, aiming for healthier habits.
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Bulimia
Bulimia is characterized by cycles of binging and compensatory actions. These actions can include purging, over-exercising, or misuse of laxatives or other drugs. Common warning signs include frequent shifts in weight (both loss and gain), fixation around weight or control of food intake, evidence of purging, or discomfort eating around others.
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Binge Eating
Characterized by recurrent episodes of eating to excess, this disorder often results in high levels of shame and guilt following eating without the use of compensatory behaviors to counter the eating. Signs of this disorder include hoarding or storing food, discomfort eating with others, food related rituals, and more. I offer counseling for eating disorders to help clients break this cycle and develop a healthier relationship with food.
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Orthorexia
Characterized by an intense obsession or preoccupation with “healthy” food and ingredients. Symptoms include checking ingredients and menus to determine “safety” of food, distorted body image, preoccupation with what other people are eating, and an increased focus on certain food groups.
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Compulsive Exercise
Compulsive exercise occurs when an individual exercises so much that it negatively affects their mental and physical health and disturbs their social functioning. The need to exercise feels uncontrollable. Sometimes referred to as the “healthy addiction”, compulsive exercise often co-occurs with eating disorders.
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Body Image
Body image refers to an individual’s emotional attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of their own body. Body image can change over time and is influenced by a number of factors including social media, friends and family, culture, and societal expectations.
