Eating Disorder Issues
Eating issues can affect children and adults, females and males. Names for and symptoms of common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, body image distortion, obsessive fear of gaining weight, excessive exercise, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, purging or compulsive eating. Given social, family and peer pressures, it is easy to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. Thus, it is of utmost importance to seek help, when eating issues gain control of your life or the life of a loved one.
I offer a team approach to eating disorders, which provides the optimal therapeutic outcome. In collaboration with the University of Chicago Hospitals’ Eating Disorders Program, I am dedicated to helping families and individuals formulate a comprehensive treatment plan. This approach includes assessment, feedback, psychotherapy and referrals, if necessary, to a team of medical physicians and psychiatrists. Together we can achieve a high quality of life.
If you experience symptoms of an eating disorder, please call to schedule an appointment.
If you are experiencing any of the following behaviors or notice them in a friend or family member, seeking treatment may be advised: 
- Excessive and/or compulsive exercising
- Obsessed with calorie counting
- Thinking that you are overweight even though that is not the case
- Binge eating behaviors
- Purging behaviors
- Eliminating meals
- Change in eating habits
- Restrictive eating
- Weighing yourself more than once a day
- Childhood/adolescent obesity: unable to maintain control of eating habits of your child/adolescent