Eating Disorder Recovery Seattle: Your Path to Food Freedom Through Personalized Treatment
Why Your Eating Disorder Recovery Seattle Journey Begins with Understanding
If you're struggling with binge eating, anxiety around meals, or the damage from years of diet culture, there are pathways to genuine healing right here in the Seattle area. Eating disorders can take many common forms—anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and other eating disorders—each with unique challenges that deserve personalized treatment approaches that honor your individual needs.
The journey to food freedom isn't about willpower; it's about understanding the root causes of why these disordered eating patterns developed in the first place. Perhaps food became a way to cope with overwhelming feelings, or you learned to be the "good girl" who never took up space. Maybe you've been running on empty for so long that you don't even remember what it feels like to trust your body's wisdom around healthy eating and maintaining a healthy weight.
True eating disorder treatment addresses the whole person—not just the symptoms. This means exploring how anxiety disorders, past trauma, or other mental illnesses have shaped your relationship with food and your body. Recovery looks different for everyone, which is why I believe in creating a completely personalized treatment plan tailored to your unique story, needs, and goals for healing.
I'm Brooke Brandeberry, and at Ebb & Flow Seattle, I provide eating disorder treatment in the Lynnwood area. I help sensitive women stop abandoning themselves and start coming home to who they truly are. My approach combines evidence-based modalities with a deep understanding of feeling lost and finding your way back to authentic living.
Understanding Your Options for Eating Disorder Treatment in Seattle
When you're ready to begin your healing journey, you'll find hope through compassionate care and therapeutic approaches designed specifically for your needs. My practice focuses on outpatient treatment, which offers the perfect balance of intensive support while allowing you to integrate healing into your real life.
Unlike more restrictive treatment programs, outpatient treatment lets you practice new skills in your actual environment. You're not stepping away from everything; you're learning to navigate your world with new tools and deeper self-understanding through consistent weekly individual therapy sessions. This treatment approach recognizes that lasting change happens when you can apply what you're learning to your daily experiences with eating, relationships, and self-care.
Long-term support and relationship-building form the foundation of my eating disorder treatment program. Real disorder recovery requires time, patience, and a safe, supportive environment where you can finally stop performing and start healing. To create this consistency, I schedule treatment sessions three months at a time—providing a reliable anchor in your week that's just for you and your healing, without the scramble to find appointments.
What sets my treatment approach apart is the belief that helping you reclaim your life is sacred work. I don't just sit back and ask "how does that make you feel?" I'm fully engaged, present, and committed to giving my all to every treatment session. This work is my calling, and I believe that shows in how I show up for the individuals I work with.
Accessibility is crucial to healing from eating disorders. I offer both in-person sessions in Lynnwood and online sessions throughout Washington state. Whether you're in downtown Seattle or having a day where leaving the house feels impossible, you can access the eating disorder treatment you need. Your healing shouldn't be limited by geography or a rough day.
My work centers on helping sensitive women slow down and listen to what their hearts have been trying to tell them. Disorder recovery often means learning that you don't have to earn your worth through productivity or control your body weight to feel safe. Sometimes the peace you've been chasing through food rules is actually waiting for you in stillness and self-acceptance.
Specialized Therapeutic Approaches for Deep Healing from Eating Disorders
I believe in holistic healing that goes far deeper than just changing what's on your plate. Your relationship with food is intricately connected to your emotions, past experiences, and the stories you've learned to tell yourself about your worth. To create lasting disorder recovery, we must address the root causes driving these disordered eating patterns with comprehensive, evidence-based treatment.
The mind-body connection is incredibly powerful—your body holds onto experiences and emotions in ways that your conscious mind might not even recognize. That's why I use therapeutic approaches that help us heal on multiple levels, honoring both your psychological and somatic experience in eating disorder treatment.
Brainspotting for Trauma Processing in Eating Disorder Treatment
One of the specialized approaches I use is Brainspotting, which has proven incredibly effective for processing trauma that often underlies eating disorders. This innovative technique uses specific eye positions to help your nervous system access and release what it's been holding onto. Many people I work with find this approach particularly helpful because it doesn't require extensive talking about traumatic experiences—your body's wisdom guides the healing process in eating disorder recovery.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Mental Health
I also work extensively with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build psychological flexibility in eating disorder treatment. Instead of spending endless energy fighting difficult thoughts and feelings about food, body weight, or self-worth, ACT helps you make space for them while choosing actions that align with your deepest values. This is a game-changer in disorder recovery, where so much mental energy typically gets consumed trying to control uncomfortable emotions or food-related anxiety.
Person-Centered Therapy Foundation
Person-Centered therapy forms the foundation of everything I do in eating disorder treatment. I trust that you have the wisdom to heal—my job is to help you access that wisdom in a space where you feel completely seen and accepted. This isn't about me having all the answers; it's about creating conditions where your own knowing can emerge through compassionate care.
Intuitive Eating Therapy for Healthy Eating Patterns
My Intuitive Eating Therapy approach helps you reconnect with your body's natural wisdom around food and healthy eating. This means learning to honor hunger and fullness cues, making peace with all types of food, and ditching the internal food police that's been running your life. The goal is to find satisfaction in eating, develop non-food coping strategies for emotions, and build a positive relationship with your body that isn't based on body weight or appearance.
It's important to understand that eating disorders rarely exist in isolation. You might also be dealing with anxiety disorders, substance use, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or the aftermath of narcissistic abuse. These aren't separate issues—they're interconnected ways you've learned to survive in a world that hasn't always felt safe. My eating disorder treatment addresses these connections, helping you build a completely new relationship with yourself, your emotions, and your life.
For those struggling with restrictive food intake disorder or avoidant restrictive food intake patterns, I address sensory issues and food aversions that can make it difficult to maintain a healthy weight or eat a variety of foods. My personalized treatment plan is tailored to address these specific challenges while building a more trusting relationship with food and eating.
Beyond the Scale: Embracing Body Trust and Food Freedom in Eating Disorder Recovery
The most liberating part of eating disorder recovery often happens when you finally reject diet culture and start trusting your body again. Diet culture is a system designed to keep you feeling broken, constantly telling you that your body weight is wrong and that your worth depends on your size. It's time to call that narrative out for what it really is—complete bullshit.
I'm passionate about Health at Every Size (HAES) principles, which fundamentally shift the focus from body weight to actual well-being in eating disorder treatment. HAES recognizes that health and happiness come in all shapes and sizes, promoting compassionate care for every body. It's about honoring your body's wisdom and finding movement that feels genuinely good, without any pressure to achieve weight gain or weight loss goals that aren't aligned with your body's natural needs.
Moving Toward Body Neutrality in Eating Disorder Treatment
When it comes to body image work in eating disorder recovery, I often guide clients toward body neutrality rather than forced body positivity. While loving your body sounds nice, trying to feel positive about your body weight and appearance every single day can feel like yet another impossible standard to meet. Body neutrality offers a gentler treatment approach—it's about appreciating your body for what it does and learning to exist peacefully in your skin without constant commentary about appearance or body weight.
Dismantling Harmful Messages About Body Weight and Eating
In my eating disorder treatment, we systematically dismantle the harmful messages you've internalized about worth, beauty, and acceptability. We build a foundation of self-esteem that has absolutely nothing to do with how you look, what you weigh, or your eating patterns. This process involves challenging societal pressures, questioning the voices in your head that sound suspiciously like diet culture, and learning to trust your own experience over external expectations about healthy weight or "perfect" eating.
The ultimate goal of eating disorder recovery is building enough body trust so that a difficult body image day doesn't completely derail your life. When you're not constantly worried about food, eating, or body weight, you free up enormous amounts of mental and emotional energy for what truly matters to you. This is where real life begins.
Building Your Support System for Sustainable Eating Disorder Recovery
Creating a strong support system is essential for sustainable eating disorder recovery. Think of it like tending a garden—healing from eating disorders needs the right conditions and consistent compassionate care to flourish.
Individual Therapy as Foundation for Eating Disorder Treatment
Individual therapy forms the foundation of my eating disorder treatment approach. In our one-on-one sessions, you receive my complete, engaged attention as we work on your personalized treatment plan. I'm not a therapist who just nods along politely—I'll challenge you when it serves your growth, celebrate your wins authentically, and lovingly call you out on patterns that keep you stuck. This directness comes from caring enough to venture into the messy, complicated stuff alongside you in your eating disorder recovery journey.
My therapeutic style is what I call "strong back, soft front, wild heart." I bring deep compassion and empathy to eating disorder treatment, but I also have enough backbone to speak truth when you need to hear it. I take my role as a mental health provider as seriously as I take my role as a mother, and that commitment shows up in every treatment session.
Group Therapy Options for Eating Disorder Recovery
Group therapy offers a different but equally powerful form of healing in eating disorder treatment. There's genuine magic in realizing you're not alone in your struggles with disordered eating. I facilitate several group therapy options as part of my eating disorder treatment program:
Binge Eating Group: Specifically designed for women who understand the exhausting cycle of restriction, bingeing, and shame around food and eating. In this space, we explore the underlying emotions and triggers while building practical skills for breaking free from binge eating disorder patterns.
Women's Group Therapy: A broader space to explore common coping mechanisms like people-pleasing, over-functioning, and the pressure to be the "good girl" in every situation. This group therapy addresses how these patterns show up not just with food and eating, but in relationships, work, and self-care.
12-Week Health Group: A structured treatment program that integrates nutrition and mental health approaches for comprehensive healing from eating disorders.
In group therapy settings, you witness others making real changes in their eating disorder recovery, which gives you permission to change too. You'll practice new skills, gain fresh perspectives, and experience the healing power of authentic community with others who understand the challenges of eating disorders.
Creating Your Personal Support Network for Eating Disorder Recovery
Building support extends beyond therapy into your personal life. This means having honest conversations with families and loved ones about what you need during eating disorder recovery. It might involve setting boundaries with people who make comments about food, eating, or body weight, finding movement communities that celebrate strength over appearance, or connecting with others who share your values around body acceptance and eating disorder recovery.
Addressing Complex Trauma and Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions
My eating disorder treatment approach recognizes that eating disorders often develop as intelligent responses to overwhelming experiences. If you've experienced narcissistic abuse, you might have learned to disconnect from your body's signals around food and eating as a way to survive. If anxiety disorders have been your constant companion, food might have become a way to self-soothe or regain control when life feels chaotic.
Trauma-Informed Healing in Eating Disorder Treatment
Using trauma-informed approaches like Brainspotting in eating disorder treatment, I help you process experiences that your body has been carrying. This isn't about reliving traumatic events—it's about helping your nervous system release what it's been holding and develop new patterns of safety and regulation around food, eating, and life in general.
Addressing Multiple Mental Health Conditions
Many women I work with in eating disorder treatment have used substances as another form of coping alongside disordered eating patterns. Both represent attempts to manage overwhelming emotions or numb pain that felt unbearable. My treatment approach addresses these interconnected patterns without judgment, helping you develop healthier ways to cope with life's inevitable challenges while maintaining your eating disorder recovery.
Anxiety Disorders and Eating Disorders
Anxiety disorders and eating disorders often feed each other in complicated ways. Food restriction might temporarily quiet anxious thoughts, while binge eating might provide momentary relief from overwhelming feelings. In eating disorder treatment, I help you understand these connections and develop new tools for managing anxiety disorders that don't involve controlling food, eating, or your body weight.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Eating Behaviors
Obsessive-compulsive disorder often co-occurs with eating disorders, creating rigid patterns around food, eating, and body rituals. My treatment approach helps you understand how obsessive-compulsive disorder may be influencing your relationship with food while developing flexibility and self-compassion in your eating disorder recovery journey.
Therapeutic Intensives for Accelerated Eating Disorder Recovery
For people ready for deeper work in eating disorder treatment, I offer therapeutic intensives—concentrated sessions that allow for breakthrough moments and accelerated healing. These longer treatment sessions create space for processing that isn't possible in traditional weekly therapy.
Intensives are particularly effective for working through specific traumas, breaking through persistent patterns of disordered eating, or making significant shifts in your relationship with food and body weight. The extended time allows your nervous system to settle and your deeper wisdom to emerge in eating disorder recovery.
I also offer specialized intensives for mental health providers who want to do their own healing work around food, body image, and the ways these issues might impact their clinical practice with eating disorders.
Practical Aspects of Your Eating Disorder Recovery Journey
Getting Started with Eating Disorder Treatment
Your eating disorder recovery journey begins with a free consultation where we explore whether my treatment approach feels like a good fit for your needs. I believe in transparent communication from the start—eating disorder treatment requires genuine connection and trust, so it's important that you feel comfortable with my style and approach to disorder recovery.
After our consultation, I'll guide you through a simple onboarding process using my client portal system. Your first full treatment session will be longer than typical weekly sessions, giving us time to get comfortable with each other, set meaningful goals for your eating disorder recovery, and begin building the therapeutic relationship that will support your healing journey.
Session Structure and Consistency in Eating Disorder Treatment
I provide consistency through regular scheduling—your treatment sessions happen at the same day and time each week, scheduled three months in advance. This removes the stress of finding appointments and creates a reliable anchor in your week that's dedicated entirely to your eating disorder recovery and overall mental health.
Treatment sessions may include homework or between-session practices when those feel useful and supportive rather than burdensome. Everything I suggest in eating disorder treatment is designed to support your healing process, never to create additional pressure or stress around food, eating, or your recovery journey.
Accessibility and Flexibility in Eating Disorder Recovery
I understand that life happens, and eating disorder recovery isn't always linear. While I maintain clear boundaries around treatment session consistency, I also recognize that flexibility is sometimes necessary for sustainable disorder recovery. My goal is to provide structure that supports your healing while remaining responsive to your human needs as you navigate eating disorder recovery.
Both in-person sessions in Lynnwood and online sessions throughout Washington state are available, ensuring that geography or difficult days don't become barriers to getting the eating disorder treatment you need when you need it most.
Your Path Forward: Taking the First Brave Step in Eating Disorder Recovery
Starting your eating disorder recovery journey requires incredible courage. You're choosing to challenge disordered eating patterns that have felt necessary for survival, often for years or decades. Please know that eating disorder recovery isn't linear—there will be good days and difficult days, and both are normal parts of the healing process from eating disorders.
Like a wildflower growing through concrete, your eating disorder recovery will find its way. My role as your mental health provider is to provide the conditions where that growth can happen: safety, acceptance, challenge when appropriate, and unwavering belief in your capacity to heal from eating disorders.
There's also a spiritual dimension to my eating disorder treatment that honors your inner wisdom and intuition. This healing journey is about reclaiming your power and stepping fully into the authentic life you deserve. Eating disorder recovery means learning that true peace comes from within, not from controlling your body weight, your eating, or your food intake.
If you're ready to heal your relationship with food and your body, if you're tired of feeling disconnected from yourself, if you're ready to stop abandoning who you are in favor of who you think you should be—I'm here to support your eating disorder recovery journey.
This work is my calling as a mental health provider, and I approach eating disorder treatment with the same fierce love and commitment I bring to motherhood. You deserve to feel at home in your own body, to trust your inner wisdom around food and eating, and to live a life that feels authentically yours.
Your healing from eating disorders matters. Your story matters. You matter.
Contact me to learn more about how I can support your eating disorder recovery journey toward food freedom and authentic living. Together, we'll help you come home to yourself through compassionate, personalized eating disorder treatment that honors your unique needs and goals.