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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders

f you’re feeling stuck in the exhausting cycle of food rules, guilt after eating, or the constant pressure to change your body, CBT-E might offer the support and structure you need to move toward recovery.

What Is CBT-E?

CBT-E stands for Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. It’s a specialised, evidence-based therapy developed specifically for treating eating disorders, including:

  • Anorexia nervosa

  • Bulimia nervosa

  • Binge eating disorder

  • OSFED (Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders)

Unlike general CBT, CBT-E is tailored to the unique challenges of eating disorders, with a focus on building practical tools, understanding patterns, and gently exploring what’s keeping you stuck.

How CBT-E Works

CBT-E isn’t about being told what to do. It’s about working together to:

  • Understand how eating difficulties developed and what keeps them going

  • Explore unhelpful thoughts around food, weight, shape, and self-worth

  • Build new coping skills and routines that feel more sustainable

  • Reconnect with what matters to you beyond the eating disorder

This approach is collaborative and flexible. We go at your pace, and your voice is central to the process.

What Is CBT-E?

CBT-E stands for Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. It’s a specialised, evidence-based therapy developed specifically for treating eating disorders, including:

  • Anorexia nervosa

  • Bulimia nervosa

  • Binge eating disorder

  • OSFED (Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders)

Unlike general CBT, CBT-E is tailored to the unique challenges of eating disorders, with a focus on building practical tools, understanding patterns, and gently exploring what’s keeping you stuck.

What Can CBT-E Help With?

CBT-E is effective for people who:

  • Feel overwhelmed by food choices or stuck in rigid rules

  • Experience guilt, anxiety, or distress after eating

  • Struggle with bingeing, purging, or restricting

  • Feel their self-worth is tied to weight, size, or control

  • Want support that is structured but also compassionate and responsive

What to Expect in CBT-E Therapy

  • CBT-E is typically delivered over 20-40 sessions, depending on your needs. The process usually includes:

  • Getting started: We spend time understanding your experience and setting shared goals

  • Making sense of patterns: We gently map out the thoughts and behaviours that keep things stuck

  • Practical changes: We begin building routines around eating and explore tools to manage anxiety, perfectionism, or emotional overwhelm

  • Going deeper: If you’re ready, we can explore how early experiences or beliefs about yourself are influencing the present

  • Maintaining progress: You’ll learn how to navigate setbacks, prevent relapse, and stay connected to the things that matter to you

Support That Meets You Where You’re

At Everyone’s experience with an eating disorder is different. CBT-E can be adapted to your needs—whether that means slowing things down, offering extra structure, or working alongside other approaches like EMDR or Schema Therapy.

You don’t need to wait until things feel “bad enough” to reach out. Recovery isn’t about doing it perfectly—it’s about having support that honours your pace, your voice, and your values.

Get in Touch

Level 1 Building 6 Bluestone Way Suite 101, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057

0477 367 168

monique@kindmyndpsychology.com

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