Adult
Binge Eating Therapy for Adults

Treatment

Because emotional eating so often becomes a habit, rather than a conscious choice, psychotherapy involves examining and helping to change the entire cycle of emotional eating: using food to feed emotional hunger, guilt and pain, efforts to stop, and failure to do so.

Dr. Zackson brings a fresh perspective to the understanding and treatment of emotional eating. She can help you identify why you turn to food, and to make sense of behaviors that may otherwise seem irrational. The goal is to break out of the cycle. In therapy, there is no “right” or “wrong,” or “good” or “bad.” We work together to see the world as you see it, to understand how you have been trying to help yourself, and find ways to help you feel nourished and not starved. Through a holistic approach that takes into account psychological, hormonal, physical, and cultural issues, we will try to understand how your emotional eating patterns came to be, and how to replace them with healthier patterns. This is the key to genuine and long-lasting recovery.

Dr. Zackson is passionate about this issue and brings a fresh perspective to understanding and treating emotional eating. Her personal experience with disordered eating gives her a unique understanding of what it’s like to struggle with this issue, and she knows that recovery is possible. She offers empathy and understanding, as well as professional and clinical expertise.