Binge Eating Disorder Treatment in Utah
Online therapy to help you stop the binge–restrict cycle and make peace with food
The Shame and Exhaustion of Living in the Binge Cycle
You feel so much shame about the way you eat, and the thought of anyone finding out terrifies you. Every morning starts the same; you promise yourself today will be different. Maybe you skip breakfast or eat very little, holding onto hope that this time you’ll stay in control. But by nighttime, you’re caught in another binge.
Afterward, you feel stuffed, uncomfortable, and furious with yourself. You wonder why you don’t have more self-control. You throw away binge foods, convinced that’s the solution, only to dig them back out or buy more. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to stop this cycle.
You feel gross, embarrassed, and convinced that you’re the only one who struggles like this. Deep down, you’re overwhelmed and scared that nothing will ever change.
Symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder
Binge Eating Disorder is the most common eating disorder. It’s more than occasional overeating. It often looks like:
Eating large amounts of food secretly in a relatively short period of time
Feeling a lack of control around food
Embarrassment about how you are eating
Feelings of embarrassment and guilt after eating episodes
Eating large amounts of food when you don’t feel hungry
Rapidly and quickly eating large amounts of food
Breaking the Binge–Restrict Cycle
Whether you have a diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder or just binge more often than you want, you’re probably desperate to stop. You’re tired of the shame and frustrated that weight gain feels like a spotlight on your struggles. You want to hide your body so no one can see your flaws.
Here’s what I want you to know: binging isn’t just about food. It’s about how you’ve learned to cope, survive, and numb pain. You can stop bingeing, but that means letting go of restriction, too. Diets and shame have only made things worse. Therapy offers another way: one rooted in compassion and real change. You don’t have to keep doing this to yourself. Therapy can help you break the cycle.
Related Reading: What is the Binge Cycle?
How Therapy Helps With Binge Eating
In therapy, we’ll work together to:
Understand why you turn to food as a way to cope
Break free from dieting and restriction that fuel the binge cycle
Learn new ways to handle stress, emotions, and shame
Heal body image concerns in a world that pressures women to look a certain way>body image therapy in Utah
Build self-compassion so you can stop feeling like a failure
I’m not here to tell you to lose weight or demand you change your body. I’m here to help you do the deeper work to uncover what binge eating is really about, without making you feel worse about yourself. f you’re ready to feel more at peace around food and yourself, I’d love to help.
ADHD and Binge Eating
Some women I work with notice traits of ADHD alongside binge eating. For them, bingeing sometimes feels like “medicine”, a way to focus, cope, or keep up with everything they’re expected to do.
Not everyone who binges has ADHD. But for those who do, therapy can help address both the bingeing patterns and the underlying ADHD struggles, like impulsivity or the need for stimulation.
Related reading: Does Binging Mask ADHD?
Online Eating Disorder Therapy in Utah
You may wonder if online therapy in Utah can really help with something as overwhelming as binge eating. The truth is, it often makes recovery more accessible. With online therapy, you don’t have to fight traffic, rearrange your day, or worry about bumping into someone you know in a waiting room. You can do the hard, important work of therapy from the privacy and comfort of your own home — in your pajamas, on your couch, or wherever you feel safe.
I provide online eating disorder therapy for women across Utah, including Salt Lake City, Provo, St. George, Logan, Cedar City, Heber City, and everywhere in between. No matter where you live in the state, you can get the help you need without having to travel.
If you’re ready, let’s take the first step together.
Finding Freedom From Binge Eating
You deserve more than nights filled with shame and mornings filled with promises to “do better.” You don’t have to live in the cycle of restriction, bingeing, and shame. Therapy can help you stop fighting food, stop hiding your body, and start building a life where you feel at peace with yourself.
I offer online binge eating disorder treatment across Utah, so you can start from the privacy and comfort of your own home. Recovery is possible, and you don’t have to do it alone.
Frequently Asked Questions about Binge Eating Disorder Treatmnet
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Binging eating is treated individually depending on your needs. Some people need the support of a dietitian along with a binge eating disorder therapist to help them improve their relationship with food. I recommend all of my clients read the book “Intuitive Eating” and consider learning to be more in touch and in tune with their own bodies. Therapy sessions focus on understanding your history with binging and where it started. Truthfully I don’t talk with my clients a ton about their binging behaviors but more so focus on understanding your emotions, developing skills to cope, and being able to heal from the experiences that may have led you to trust food more than you trust yourself.
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There is no easy way to answer this, and it’s not that simple. Many of the women I work with learned to binge eat as a way of taking care of themselves because that’s the only way they knew how. They learned to binge because it helped them get through painful emotions when they didn’t have anyone else they could turn to. Binge eating could have been modeled to you by someone you were close to and you learned to use it as a way of coping. Sometimes the women I have worked with have had undiagnosed ADHD and learned to binge for a hit of dopamine and didn’t realize this was why.
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Yes, there has been a researched link between ADHD and binge eating. It doesn’t mean that everyone who has ADHD binge eats, and it doesn’t mean that if you binge you automatically have ADHD. A symptom of ADHD is struggling with controlling impulses and being able to cope with strong emotions, which might lead to binge eating more often than those who don’t have ADHD. Having ADHD also means struggling with dopamine levels, which brings pleasure and reward. As a way of getting more of a dopamine hit, people with ADHD might binge eat. It’s important to get proper testing by a trained professional to find out if you meet the criteria for ADHD. Tiktok doesn’t count :).
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Overeating and binging might seem similar, but they're a bit different. Overeating is eating past your fullness levels at a particular time. Maybe it’s having a bigger portion than usual during a meal and being more full than usual. Binging, on the other hand, is when you eat a lot of food very quickly, in secret, and often it feels like you can't control it. Binging also happens in a short period of time. So, while both involve eating more food, binging usually feels more intense.
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There may be a few reasons why you are prone to binge at night. A common theme I see with the women I work with is that nighttime is the time when they can be alone. When they binge they don’t want to be judged by other people and feel so much shame about what they do that they wait until everyone else has gone to bed. Another reason why people binge late at night is because they’ve tried to restrict food all day. Maybe because they binged the night before and are trying hard to compensate for it by not eating. This leads to being overly hungry which makes you more vulnerable to binge. The biggest predictor of a binge is restriction.
