Dialectical Behavior Therapy
for Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder

DBT-BED is an expansive treatment for individuals who have complex mental health issues and co-occurring Binge Eating Disorder and wish to reduce their problem eating behaviors. These are adaptations to the DBT program specific to individuals struggling with Binge-Eating Disorder and other mental illness diagnosis.

Goals of this program include:

• Building a Life Worth Living without reliance on problem eating behaviors.

• Increasing motivation to reduce or stop binge eating.

• Increasing awareness of urges to binge and learning skills to tolerate and reduce them.

• Increasing awareness of emotional relationship with food and the problematic eating responses.

• Structuring the environment to support a life of recovery from BED.

• Reduce mental health symptoms that compound BED.