Eating Disorder Specialties
Austin Center for Eating Disorders (ACED)
Austin Center for Eating Disorders provides specialized eating disorder therapy and nutrition counseling in Austin, West Lake Hills, and virtually across Texas.
Our therapists and dietitians support children, teens, adults, and families with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, OSFED, orthorexia, compulsive exercise, body image distress, and related concerns.
ACED offers outpatient eating disorder treatment through therapy, nutrition counseling, and collaborative support tailored to each client’s needs.
Anorexia
ACED provides eating disorder therapy and nutrition counseling for anorexia, including support for restriction, fear of weight gain, body image distress, medical risk, compulsive exercise, and recovery from rigid food rules.
Orthorexia
ACED supports clients struggling with orthorexia, including rigid “healthy eating” rules, fear of certain foods, anxiety around ingredients, moralized food beliefs, social restriction, and loss of flexibility with eating.
Bulimia
Our therapists and dietitians support clients struggling with bingeing, purging, compensatory behaviors, food rules, shame, body distress, and the emotional patterns that often maintain bulimia.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
ACED provides therapy for body dysmorphic disorder and body dysmorphia, including support for appearance-related intrusive thoughts, checking, reassurance seeking, avoidance, shame, and overlap with eating disorders or OCD.
Binge Eating Disorder
ACED provides weight-inclusive therapy and nutrition counseling for binge eating disorder, including support for binge episodes, food guilt, shame, restriction-binge cycles, body distress, and emotional regulation.
OSFED
OSFED can include serious eating disorder symptoms that do not fit neatly into one diagnosis. ACED supports clients with restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, body distress, food anxiety, and mixed eating disorder patterns.
Body Image
ACED provides body image therapy for body shame, body checking, avoidance, comparison, disconnection, body dysmorphia concerns, and distress related to weight, shape, appearance, or eating disorder recovery.
Compulsive Exercise
ACED provides therapy and nutrition counseling for compulsive exercise, overexercise, and movement-related distress, including support for exercise guilt, rigidity, injury risk, rest avoidance, and eating disorder recovery.
ARFID
ACED provides therapy and nutrition counseling for ARFID, including support for sensory sensitivity, fear of choking or vomiting, low appetite, limited food variety, nutritional adequacy, and anxiety around eating.
Additional Eating Disorder and Body Image Concerns We Treat
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ACED helps clients understand emotional eating with compassion, supporting nervous system regulation, attunement, food flexibility, coping skills, and a less shame-based relationship with food.
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ACED supports clients recovering from chronic dieting, weight cycling, food rules, restriction, body dissatisfaction, and the exhausting pursuit of control through food, weight, or shape.
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ACED supports clients with diabetes and eating disorder symptoms, including insulin restriction or manipulation, fear of weight gain, food anxiety, medical risk, and the need for coordinated care with medical providers.
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Purging disorder involves purging behaviors without objectively large binge episodes. ACED supports clients with vomiting, laxative misuse, compensatory behaviors, shame, secrecy, medical risk, and recovery from purging patterns.
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ACED supports clients with anorexia athletica and exercise-driven eating disorder patterns, including compulsive exercise, rigid training rules, under-fueling, rest avoidance, injury risk, performance anxiety, and body distress.
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ACED treats atypical anorexia with the same clinical seriousness as anorexia, supporting clients with restriction, malnutrition, body distress, fear of weight gain, and eating disorder behaviors that may be missed because of body size.
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ACED provides therapy and nutrition counseling for night eating syndrome, including support for disrupted eating patterns, evening or nighttime eating distress, sleep-related routines, restriction during the day, shame, and food anxiety.
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ACED provides eating disorder therapy and nutrition counseling for boys and men, including support for restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, muscle dysmorphia, body image distress, shame, and under-recognized eating disorder symptoms.
Eating Disorder Treatment FAQs
Read our eating disorder treatment FAQs to learn more about outpatient care at ACED, therapy and nutrition counseling, working with a therapist and dietitian, fees, scheduling, virtual care across Texas, and what to expect when starting treatment.
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