Dialectical Behavior Therapy
for Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder
DBT-BED is an expansive treatment for individuals who have complex mental health issues and co-occurring Binge Eating Disorder and wish to reduce their problem eating behaviors. These are adaptations to the DBT program specific to individuals struggling with Binge-Eating Disorder and other mental illness diagnosis.
Goals of this program include:
Building a Life Worth Living without reliance on problem eating behaviors.
Increasing motivation to reduce or stop binge eating.
Increasing awareness of urges to binge and learning skills to tolerate and reduce them.
Increasing awareness of emotional relationship with food and the problematic eating responses.
Structuring the environment to support a life of recovery from BED.
Reduce mental health symptoms that compound BED.
