Eating Disorder Individual Therapy in Newport Beach, CA and New York

Courtney Westin, LMFT, provides individualized therapy specializing in eating disorder treatment for teens and adults. Using evidence-based approaches, she offers compassionate, structured care for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other disordered eating patterns. Treatment focuses on restoring healthy eating behaviors, improving body image, reducing shame and avoidance, and strengthening emotion regulation and interpersonal functioning.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for eating disorders emphasizes skills training to manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive behaviors like bingeing and purging. DBT combines individual therapy with skills coaching in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to help clients tolerate urges, replace harmful coping strategies, and build a life worth living.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT‑E) is a transdiagnostic, evidence-based program that targets the thoughts and behaviors that maintain disordered eating. CBT‑E uses focused self-monitoring, regular eating schedules, cognitive restructuring around shape and weight concerns, and behavioral experiments to break the cycle of restriction and bingeing and support lasting recovery.

Individual therapy is tailored to each person’s needs, integrating DBT and CBT‑E techniques as appropriate. Sessions include collaborative goal-setting, symptom monitoring, skill-building, and relapse prevention to promote sustainable recovery and improved quality of life.