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Overcome Binge Eating and Bulimia Nervosa

Do you have a binge eating problem or know someone who does?

For individuals seeking outpatient treatment for binge eating problems or bulimia, Turning Point Psychotherapy offers a 16 week recovery program.

Using the most advanced clinical research and application clients will learn to:

Overcome the urge to binge
Establish stable, healthy eating habits
Get control of eating behavior
Reduce the risk of relapse

With your commitment to this highly structured program, you may replace dysfunctional thinking and behavior with a skillful approach to health based eating. This is a hands on program and you can expect to benefit from the use of textbooks and homework throughout the course of treatment. Based On Science

If you are suffering with binge eating, chances are you have become perplexed and discouraged, torn by conflicting information and options. Rather than gaining an understanding of the mechanisms that keep an eating disorder in place, you may have resigned yourself to living with a problem that increasingly erodes your quality of life.

This program is organized to address two basic goals: To present the most current scientifically based facts about what creates and maintains a binge eating problem. Secondly, use the most well researched and tested clinical applications for effective treatment.

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Christine Hassell, LMFT is licensed psychotherapist specializing in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and EMDR.

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For more detailed information on ED programs please visit www.santacruzeatingdisordersclinic.com

After an initial assessment, if it is deemed that this program is appropriate for you, you will have the option to pay in full or to pay in installments. A 15% discount is given for payment in full.

Payment In Full: $2400

Initial assessement is not included in the cost of the program.

Call Now To Schedule An Appointment: 831-295-0268 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Insurance is no longer accepted.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is a scientifically studied and applied form of psychotherapy that is effective in treating anxiety, panic attacks, depression, bipolar mood swings, ptsd and much much more.

CBT is characterized as depth-oriented and brief compared to most other forms of psychotherapy. It aims to identify the behaviors, emotional processes and patterns of thinking that are causing you pain, discomfort. It is hands on and collaborative; you join with your therapist in devising an appropriate treatment strategy tailored to you desired treatment goals and yes, you will have homework!

How is your overall quality of life? Are your relationships with others peaceful and satisfying? Do you sleep and eat well? Are you motivated to exercise? Do you engage in meaningful work? Do you have joy in your life? Do you communicate effectively? How do you deal with stress?

While childhood influences may have created many of the challenges you may be presently dealing with, CBT focuses on remedying them by teaching you to change what's happening now.

Learn more about CBT here.

EMDR

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and is used to heal a range of psychological problems including anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress and panic.

EMDR works to reduce a persons sensitivity to conscious and unconscious memories, associations, and even belief systems that may result from a spectrum of life experiences ranging from difficult to traumatic.

This sensitivity often expresses itself in a variety of symptoms and or subsequent disorders which may include:

nightmares
panic attacks
substance abuse
addictive behavior
exaggerated startle response
avoidant behavior
depression
heart palpitations
flashbacks
generalized anxiety disorder
social anxiety
agoraphobia
Shyness
performance anxiety
fear of public speaking
phobias

EMDR helps a person process information that was so disturbing it could only be taken in as pieces and fragments of data.

For example, a person who survives a car accident may have difficulty returning to the scene of the accident or may have difficulty recalling the events preceding, during or even shortly after the accident. The event unfolded in a flood of stress hormones and other neurochemicals worked to pre-empt thinking in favor of moving/fleeing.

EMDR effectively desensitizes frightening fragments of thought in the form of vivid or even vague memories, flashbacks, disturbing reflections and stressful associations. As a result, optimal cognitive processing can take place and help the client develop an appropriate sense of mastery over the disturbing material.

Effects on Episodic Memory

To understand better how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing works, lets think of post traumatic stress as an inability to fully process episodic memory to the degree that a cohesive ego narrative or, well put- together story of "I" is formed. Episodic memory is the memory of events, times, places, emotions and knowledge of a difficult or traumatic experience.

A study in the journal Neuropsychology (17 (2): 221-9) tested the effects of eye movement therapy on episodic memory and found that bilateral eye movements such as those in EMDR produced better recall compared to no eye movement or a vertical eye movement process. It is thought that the transfer of information across the brain’s hemispheres improves the processing of episodic memories because visual impulses in bilateral form stimulate otherwise latent information processing resources that require a dialogue of sorts with one another.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy Santa Cruz

There is plenty of good cognitive behavioral therapy in Santa Cruz. Those of us who live here are privileged in this way because across the nation, access is not so easy while the demand for cbt remains consistently high.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is growing exponentially as a treatment of choice for a wide range of mental, emotional and behavioral health issues. Anxiety, depression, co-dependence, panic and trauma are just a few. Why? Because it is systematic, active versus passive, repetitive and collaborative. It can also be brief and in the long run cost you less to arrive at your desired treatment outcome.

When you go shopping for cognitive behavioral therapy in Santa Cruz, I suggest you ask to what extent the therapist uses cbt in his or her practice. Some therapists might "inform" a more generalized approach with the principles of cbt but don't use it in a structured way involving in-session worksheets and homework. Other therapists may strictly limit their therapeutic techniques to those which are based in cbt. This might unnecessarily limit your options.

With the exception of being too much of a generalist, there is no harm in having more tools in ones belt to expand the possibilities for therapeutic intervention. A treatment modality that is compatible with cbt, yet distinctly different, like EMDR or hypnotherapy or NLP can add depth and synergy to your treatment experience. Simply put, you might get more bang for your buck.

Santa Cruz Counseling for Co-Dependency

What Is Co-Dependency?

It is a paradigm.

It is an informal diagnosis.

It is a means of coping.

Co-dependency is like being Ski Patrol on a crowded mountain without knowing how to ski: you're there to rescue people, the pressure is on, you don't know what you're doing and you're not going to admit it.

Co-dependency is keeping boundaries up when they needs to come down and letting them crumble when they need to be true.

How do you know when which way is best: to mend or, to let go? With honest reflection, if your days are colored by anxiety, depression, fear, avoidance, denial, anger, addiction, and the like, the simple fact is that if you keep doing what you've been doing you'll keep getting what you've been getting.

For a deeper understanding of the co-dependency paradigm, take theco-dependency self test. If you're ready for change, I'm here to help.Santa Cruz counseling for co-dependency is available in the office or online via skype.

There are many techniques that can be usede to help you overcome co-dependent thinking and behavior. Cognitive behavior therapy, EMDR, even hypnotherapy are all effective ways to start making the changes you need now. Have you reached your turningp point?