Eating Recovery Center

Approach to Treatment

Emmett R. Bishop, Jr., MD

If you have had treatment with other mental health professionals, therapy is likely to have a different feel.  Founded on 25 years of working with eating disorders, especially more difficult cases, I use a more directed, psycho-educational approach.  This is blended with experiential techniques to increase awareness of your emotional life. The methods of examining thinking errors which have been employed successfully over the past thirty years in treating eating disorders are frequently useful.  However, understanding the role of feelings is essential to recovery.

The recovery from an eating disorder is can be conceptualized like the hub and spokes of a wheel.  Each spoke represents an element of the recovery process that must be in place to get the recovery rolling. There are spokes that deal with feelings, nutrition, interpersonal relations, mindful eating, social influences, and body image among others.  We spend much of our time in therapy getting the spokes in place.