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Eating disorder therapy · Chelsea & online
It was never really just about the food.
The rules, numbers, bargaining, secrecy, and shame can take up far more of your life than anyone else sees. Eating-disorder behaviors often provide relief, control, protection, or distance from something difficult, even as they create serious costs of their own.
At CAP, we approach eating disorders with curiosity, clinical care, and respect for your body. Weight change is never a treatment goal here.
Does this sound like you?
You don't have to be "sick enough" to deserve help.
Eating disorders don't have one look, one body, or one behavior. It might sound like:
Food and eating take up far more of your mind than you'd ever admit
Rules, rituals, or a running commentary shape what and how you eat
Eating feels tangled up with control, comfort, punishment, or numbing
"Healthy" eating has quietly taken over your life and freedom
You binge, purge, restrict, compensate, or move compulsively and feel unable to interrupt the cycle.
Your body image drives how you feel about yourself day to day
You've been dieting or at war with food for so long it feels normal
Why this is different
The eating disorder is managing something. We start there.
Disordered eating is rarely just about food, weight, or control.
Eating-disorder behaviors can create temporary structure, numb an emotion, communicate distress, manage sensory needs, or offer an illusion of certainty. Understanding that function does not romanticize the disorder. It helps us identify what must be supported for change to become sustainable.
Medical and nutritional care can be essential. Psychotherapy addresses the emotional, relational, sensory, and psychological experiences intertwined with the eating disorder. Depending on your needs, effective care may involve coordination with a physician, registered dietitian, prescriber, or a higher level of treatment.
The behavior is the symptom. The need underneath is the work.
How we help
We work with the behavior and what sits around it
We help you notice the sequence surrounding eating-disorder behaviors: what happens beforehand, what the behavior provides in the moment, and what follows. Art therapy may help externalize the eating-disorder voice or explore body experience without reducing it to appearance. Somatic work may support awareness of cues, activation, shutdown, or disconnection. Relational and Gestalt work can address shame, control, identity, and the ways the disorder affects closeness.
Who this is for
We work with the full range — including the "in-between."
You don't have to be "sick enough" or in crisis to deserve support. It's a fit if food, eating, or your body takes up more space in your head than you'd like — whatever your size, diagnosis, or history. You don't need a formal diagnosis to start; if it's taking up real space in your life, that's reason enough.
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Anorexia / restrictive eating
Bulimia
Binge eating disorder
Compulsive exercise
ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food intake)
Orthorexia and disordered "healthy" eating
Chronic dieting and diet-culture distress
Body dysmorphia and painful body image
A quick, important note: Eating disorders can carry real medical risk. If your health is in danger — or you're medically unstable — a physician's evaluation comes first, and some situations need a higher level of care than outpatient therapy. We'll always put your safety first, coordinate with your medical team, and help you find the right level of support if we're not the right fit.
Approaches may include: Art therapy, somatic therapy, Gestalt therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and coordination with medical and nutritional providers.
What happens next
Starting is simpler than it feels.
There's no long intake to dread and nothing you need to sort out beforehand. Getting started is three simple steps:
Book a free 15-minute consult
Tell us what's going on — no judgment, no pressure, no commitment.
Get matched
A real person replies within one business day and pairs you with the right clinician (and helps coordinate medical or nutrition care if you need it).
Begin, at your pace
Meet in Chelsea or online, and start the work underneath the food.
FAQ
Common questions about eating disorder therapy.
Still unsure? The free consult exists exactly for this — ask us anything, no commitment.
Do you take insurance?
Do I need to be a certain weight or diagnosis to get help?
Is this really an eating disorder if I'm not underweight?
Do you work with my dietitian or doctor?
Do you offer eating disorder therapy in person or online?
What approaches do you use?