Nick Kemp - Treating Eating Disorders

In recent times "eating disorders" have become increasingly more commonplace with extensive discussion in the media about the reason for increases in bulimia, anorexia and binging.

Many traditional approaches attempt to identify how the condition "began" searching for hidden meanings. My approach to resolving eating disorders by using behavioural therapy and Provocative Change Works, is to create greater choices in thinking and behaviours.

This means treating every client as a unique individual and exploring and identifying the triggers for the behaviour. These triggers for the unhelpful eating disorder behaviours can really vary from person to person. Sometimes the trigger for an eating disorder can be a specific set of circumstances that regularly occurs in a person's life, other times there seems (to the person involved) to be not determinable pattern. In these instances the hypnotherapy and behavioural therapy approaches can work really effectively, as the client then gains a new perspective in this more relaxed state.

Many bulimics plan in intricate detail their eating behaviours for each day and week ahead. It's important to remember that such behaviours are "learned behaviours" and by using behavioural therapy and Provocative Change Works it's quite possible to change these unhelpful eating disorder patterns to create a life that is no longer centred on the subject of food and eating. I generally advise a number of sessions for such conditions, so each client is able to see the differences in the changing eating disorder behaviours and gradually discover that they have a wider range of choices in how they feel about food. Clients with eating disorder problems are advised to read the magic wand mindset section of this site and appreciate that progress using behavioural therapy and Provocative Change Works approaches will take time and commitment, but with this time and commitment it's quite possible to achieve excellent results.