This style of treatment focuses on the eating disorder’s actions, ideas, and feelings. It teaches how to recognise and correct skewed ideas that contribute to eating disorder behaviours after it has helped you develop healthy eating habits.

During this therapy, family members will learn how to assist patients in reestablishing appropriate eating habits and maintaining a healthy weight until they are able to do it on their own. Parents learning how to help a patient with an eating disorder may benefit from this form of counselling.

Meetings with a psychologist or other mental health professional, as well as others who have been diagnosed with an eating disorder, are part of this sort of therapy. It can assist you in addressing eating disorder-related thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours, as well as learning symptom management techniques and resuming healthy eating habits.

IPT is a type of therapy used to treat eating disorders such as bulimia and binge eating disorders. IPT examines your eating disorder in the context of your social and interpersonal connections.

In IPT, four separate “problem areas” are used. These are some of them:

• Feelings of isolation or a lack of close, fulfilling relationships are common interpersonal deficits. The relationships in question don’t have to be romantic; they could be with friends or family members.
• Role conflicts: This is when you and one or more key individuals in your life, such as your parents, friends, or boss, have different expectations.
• Role transitions: This refers to major life changes like being on your own for the first time, starting a new job, or entering a new relationship.
• Grief can be defined as feelings of bereavement brought on by the death of a loved one or the end of a relationship.