--- title: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work description: Stories and discussions about the process and experience of eating disorder recovery treatment. canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-6 language: en-GB date: 2012-09-11T05:13:52Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-6. markdown-tokens: 1263 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/page-6. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Psychotherapy and eating disorder recovery work take many forms. In this extensive grouping you'll find articles, links and discussions that include stories of individuals working through their healing process and descriptions of different treatment approaches. Issues include trust, bingeing, starving, sexuality, fear, anxiety, triumphs, abuse, shame, dream work, journal keeping and more. Discussions regarding insurance and finances are here as well. Reading these articles and participating in discussions will give you deep and varied windows into eating disorder recovery treatment. Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![Guarantee in psychotherapy](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/authenticityroad-924566__480.jpg) Guarantee? My informed consent form that clients sign before working with me states that no guarantee comes with psychotherapy. Yet psychotherapists and clients strive together for healing and recovery. Five phases of the work create the strongest possibility for success. Despite the lack of a guarantee, clients have hope and willingness to work as do psychotherapists. The client puts energy and commitment into her work because she wants health, freedom and happiness. The psychotherapist puts energy into the work because she’s seen healing and recovery in others and has a growing framework of what makes recovery possible. When the psychotherapist sees the commitment of the client's energy, the psychotherapist’s commitment and energy for the client’s well-being grows and vice versa. Therapy is a partnership on the healing journey. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/what-guarantees-recovery-in-psychotherapy) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) [![Belvoir secret passage](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Belvoir_secret_passage.JPG)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Belvoir_secret_passage.JPG)*Belvoir Fortress Secret Passage* Suppose I said, "Stop looking for eating disorder recovery." I'm a therapist in Los Angeles who's been specializing in eating disorder recovery for decades. Would you think I've given up or lost my mind? Or would you perhaps think that maybe I've discovered something? Are you curious and even ready to explore a mystery that could surprise you by giving you the life you've yearned for? [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/stop-looking-for-eating-disorder-recovery) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![question 4612922 480](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/question-4612922__480.jpg) An eating disorder forces a person into the body. The sensations of eating, starving, purging, exercising, and chewing on sweets or salt pull a person away from internal experiences of emotion and thought. The person plunges into raw sensation or keeps that plunge in reserve, always knowing the plunge will take her away from what she can’t bear to experience. Choices of how she will use her time are based on the sensational needs of the body to thwart awareness. Yet she will despair over her behavior, her body and the quality of her life. She wants happiness. Facts based on reality, not preferred reality, but actual reality, become difficult to grasp. Happiness is fleeting, sporadic and often not recognized when it occurs. Recognizing what is meaningful grounds her in reality and can provide satisfaction throughout her life. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/meaning-sensation-powers-life) Details Category: [Psychotherapy and Recovery Work](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/) ![reading to a child](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/reading_to_a_child.jpg) ***"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."*** [Carl Jung](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/carl-jung-quotes) If, when, you look back at a stressful time in your life, check to see where even only moments of warmth and kindness touched you. If you find those moments, remember and build on those gifts to your soul that helped you survive. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/psychotherapy-and-recovery-work/power-of-warmth-and-kindness-in-healing)