outlet for growth Therapy LLC
Meadows
- As the therapist, I recognize each case of comorbid mood disorders with the eating disorder; such as depression, and help the patient in successfully coping with depressive moods.
- I provide patients psychoeducation on how emotions and eating can mutually influence each other; and assist patients in distinguishing physical and psychological satiety or hunger.
- I help individuals and couples in counteracting emotion-congruent modulation of eating such as emotionally-driven food choice, or eating as a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy.
- I work with my clients in decreasing features of alexithymia as a central intervention point in improving emotion-regulation. Utilizing related techniques involved in enhancing emotional awareness, labeling emotional explanations of somatic distress, and integrating symbolic elements of emotion schemas.
Therapy Services
Works with:
Infants/Toddlers, Children,Adolescents, Adults
- I work with individuals and families in helping to distinguish irrational proximity seeking, flustered, dependent interpersonal behavior in preoccupied attachment, or distrustful interpersonal isolation in avoidant attachment; and focusing on this process as essential in order for the patient and/or couple to understand their own emotional and behavioral responses. I facilitate the process of emotion-regulation by describing the patient’s or couples emotions, empathically attuning to them, then confronting the defenses against emotions, and interpreting the interpersonal response pattern.
- Furthermore, I am assisting individuals families and/or couples to acquire more effective personalized mood regulation strategies; by supporting them by consciously selecting and modifying situations, including those that trigger the symptoms; deployment of attention; change of attachment-related cognitions; and modulation of the regular responses.