Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Nutrition Support in Gainesville
When Eating and Weight Take Up Too Much of Your Life
You may find yourself restricting, bingeing, purging, following rigid food rules, exercising compulsively, chronically dieting, or spending far more time thinking about food and weight than you want to.
Eating disorders and disordered eating exist along a continuum. Wherever you fall on that continuum, it is possible to move beyond these struggles.
What Disordered Eating Can Look Like
Disordered eating can take many forms. Sometimes it is obvious. Other times it can look like simply trying to “eat healthy,” control your weight, or be more disciplined with food.
It may include:
Restricting food or not eating enough
Binge eating or feeling out of control with food
Purging or compensating for eating
Rigid food rules or fear of certain foods
Increasingly narrow ideas about what is “healthy,” “clean,” or safe to eat
Constant thoughts about food, eating, weight, or your body
Eating emotionally
Exercising in ways that feel driven or difficult to stop
Avoiding situations because of food or body concerns
Feeling guilt, anxiety, or shame after eating
Some of these patterns may be part of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, ARFID, or other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED). Others may involve orthorexia or disordered eating without a formal diagnosis.
What matters is not whether your experience has a particular label. What matters is how much it is affecting your eating, your health, and your life.
Different Eating Disorders Need Different Care
Eating disorders are not all the same, and neither is treatment.
Someone recovering from anorexia may need very different nutrition support from someone struggling with binge eating or ARFID. The amount and type of support needed can also change over time.
That is where our experience matters.
Experienced Care That Meets You Where You Are
Together, Dr. Karin Kratina and Dr. Hannah Allen bring more than 50 years of combined experience working with eating disorders and disordered eating.
We provide outpatient nutrition therapy and collaborate with therapists, physicians, and other members of a treatment team when appropriate.
Because we've served the Gainesville community for more than three decades, we've built longstanding relationships with skilled therapists, physicians, and other providers in the area and can help guide you toward additional support when needed. If a higher level of care is needed, we can help you understand your options and connect with appropriate resources.
How Nutrition Therapy Can Help
Nutrition therapy is about more than knowing what to eat.
We look at what is happening beneath the eating struggle as well as what your body needs nutritionally. Depending on your situation, our work may include restoring adequate nourishment, reducing food fears and rigid rules, reconnecting with hunger and fullness, decreasing food preoccupation, and building a more stable and trusting relationship with food and your body.
We work with children, adolescents, and adults, tailoring nutrition therapy to age, developmental stage, family involvement, sensory sensitivities, and individual circumstances.
Your Experience Matters, Too
Treatment is highly individualized. We bring our expertise in eating disorders and recovery, and you bring lived knowledge of yourself and what you're experiencing. Your input matters throughout the process, and together we shape the work in a way that supports where you are and where you want to go.
Our Areas of Specialty
We devote our practice to this work. That focused expertise allows us to understand the complexity of eating struggles and tailor care to your particular needs.
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More About Treatment and Recovery
[Learn more about What to Expect from Nutrition Therapy]
[Learn more about Levels of Care for Eating Disorders]
You Don't Have to Wait Until It Gets Worse
If food, eating, weight, or body concerns are taking up too much space in your life, you do not have to wait until things become “bad enough” or fit a particular diagnosis to reach out for help.
We offer a free phone consult to help you figure out if we’re the right fit for you.
