Therapy for Eating Disorders in San Antonio, TX

Eating Disorders Are More Common Than People Think

Eating disorders are a group of conditions that affect how a person relates to food, hunger, fullness, body image, and self-worth. They are not a phase. They are not a choice. They are not limited to one body size, age, gender, or income level. People living with eating disorders often spend years feeling like the patterns are private, embarrassing, or not serious enough to bring up. They are serious enough. They are also treatable.

At Bariatric Counseling Center, our licensed therapists and registered dietitians work together to provide eating disorder treatment for adults across San Antonio. We treat the full range of eating disorders, not only the ones that get the most attention in the media.

The Eating Disorders BCC Treats

Our team treats binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, emotional eating, food addiction, night eating syndrome, restrictive eating, and the broad category clinicians call other specified feeding or eating disorder. Many of our clients describe their relationship with food as disordered without yet having a diagnosis. That is a reason to come in, not a reason to wait.

If your eating disorder requires a higher level of care than outpatient counseling — inpatient hospitalization, residential treatment, or partial hospitalization — our team will help you find the right setting and continue care with you when you step back down.

What Eating Disorder Treatment Looks Like at BCC

Treatment is integrated and individualized. A licensed therapist works with you on the thoughts, emotions, and patterns that drive eating behavior — often using cognitive behavioral therapy for eating disorders (CBT-E), acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and trauma-informed approaches. A registered dietitian works with you on a sustainable, satisfying eating pattern that does not rely on rigid rules. Our chef-led cooking instruction and movement specialists round out the care plan when useful.

Sessions are weekly or biweekly to start. Many clients pair individual therapy with our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) when symptoms are heavier or step down to maintenance therapy as recovery stabilizes.

An Approach That Does Not Start With Shame

Eating disorders thrive on shame. The way you have been talked to about your body, by family, doctors, fitness culture, or yourself, has often been part of what fed the disorder. Our therapists work in a weight-neutral, people-first, trauma-informed way. We do not use before-and-after framing. We do not measure progress in pounds. We measure it in steady eating, calmer thoughts, kinder self-talk, and a relationship with food that no longer crowds out the rest of your life.

If you have tried general therapy and felt like the eating piece was misunderstood or skipped over, a specialty practice will feel different.