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TREating Disorders and Binge Eating
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is frequently intertwined with deeply rooted emotional and relational patterns, alongside core challenges in emotional regulation.
Overview
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is frequently intertwined with deeply rooted emotional and relational patterns, alongside core challenges in emotional regulation.
Who is this for?
- I offer targeted therapeutic treatment and clinical support for individuals experiencing challenges related to binge eating and emotional overeating.
- We work together to explore and address the underlying emotional triggers, decouple food consumption from stress and emotional regulation, and establish healthier coping mechanisms to dismantle maladaptive behavioral cycles.
How it works
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Assessment
We map eating episodes, emotions, triggers, physical factors, and risk.
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Emotion regulation
We work on other ways to meet stress and difficult emotions.
Our approach
The aim is not shame or control, but understanding, regulation, and safer coping.
When should you seek other care?
To ensure patient safety and maintain appropriate clinical boundaries within my practice, I do not accept patients diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa or advanced or severe Bulimia Nervosa. These are highly complex and potentially life-threatening conditions associated with significant medical and somatic risks, including severe emaciation, electrolyte imbalances, and cardiovascular complications. Managing these conditions necessitates a multidisciplinary team comprising a physician, a psychologist, and frequently a clinical nutritionist, alongside continuous somatic monitoring via regular medical metrics such as blood tests, weight monitoring, ECGs, and emergency medical availability. If these conditions are suspected, a clinical referral must be made through a general practitioner to specialist health services such as a DPS or BUP, or dedicated specialized eating disorder units.
Frequently asked
Who am I unable to treat?
My private practice is based on planned daytime consultations and lacks the multidisciplinary support system and emergency preparedness found in hospitals. To avoid misdirected referrals and unrealistic expectations, it is important to be transparent about whom I am unable to help in my practice.
Unfortunately, I am unable to accept patients with the following challenges:
- Active, moderate to severe substance use disorders (addiction): These conditions often require multidisciplinary specialised substance abuse treatment (TSB). Note: Patients who have had substance use challenges in the past but are now stable and substance-free and need treatment for underlying mental disorders (e.g. ADHD or affective disorders) are warmly welcome.
- Acute psychoses and unresolved schizophrenic conditions: These conditions require immediate help, close follow-up by ambulatory teams (AAT/FACT) or admission to a closed ward. A private practice does not have the emergency preparedness required for severe loss of reality. However, I can follow up patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorders who are already under medical treatment and are in a stable phase.
- Acute crises, serious suicidal thoughts, or pronounced self-harm impulses: This requires round-the-clock follow-up and a closer safety net around the patient. These patients belong in public acute psychiatry. In case of acute suicidal danger, the emergency clinic or local acute ward must be contacted immediately.
- Severe anorexia or bulimia: Conditions with critical somatic complications and medical instability require close multidisciplinary follow-up by a nutritionist, internist, and often hospitalisation.
- Deeper intellectual disability (F70–F79) with major behavioural disorders: These patients often need coordinated services from the municipality, NAV, housing, and the specialised habilitation service.
- Coercion and forensic psychiatry: All forms of coercion (compulsory mental health care) and follow-up of convicted patients require formal legal frameworks that lie exclusively within the public health system.
Which treatment method is best suited for me?
Which treatment method is best suited for you is something we figure out together during the first conversations. The choice depends on your challenges, your personality, your life situation, and what scientific research shows has the best effect on your difficulties.
As a specialist, I have training in and experience with several different treatment approaches. This allows me to adapt the method to your unique needs, rather than forcing you into one specific framework. I do not rely on a single method for everyone but often combine different treatment approaches to create change and promote the best possible improvement.
The most common approaches I use are:
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
- Mentalisation-based therapy
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
Psychoeducation (Knowledge sharing)
I use psychoeducation as an integrated part of treatment for all patients. This is a systematic and educational approach where we teach you and possibly your family about the relevant mental health challenge or diagnosis. Understanding your own condition and your own reaction patterns is often half the battle. The goal is not just to provide dry information but to equip you with knowledge that makes it easier to cope with everyday life.
Medication
As a psychiatrist (physician), I can assess whether medication can be a useful support for you during the treatment process. If medication is relevant, it is almost always used in combination with talk therapy and close medical follow-up.