Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a therapy that targets the need to control painful emotions, psychological experiences and suppression of feelings that ultimately lead to more distress. ACT aims to help clients create a rich and meaningful life and to develop mindfulness skills alongside the existence of pain and suffering.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most commonly used treatment approaches of mental health diagnoses, while Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) is a highly individualized approach to eating disorder treatments. They are helpful when treating adolescents and adults suffering from Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, and other mental health conditions. These treatments are designed for clients to understand the relationship between thoughts and behavioral patterns that impact behaviors and replace them with more effective ones.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) combines the power of CBT tools aimed at changing feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, with mindfulness therapy and skills designed to foster an attitude of acceptance as well as the ability to cope with emotional pain. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) approaches healing from the perspective that emotions are linked to identity. EFT focuses on helping clients identify, label, and validate emotions by increasing awareness. It helps people understand, regulate, and accept feelings. A core principle of EFT is the importance of emotion when it comes to healing and learning about ourselves. In EFT, emotions are the primary indicator of what people need and find meaningful and, as such, they are a crucial aspect of how people make decisions and develop their identities.

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative psychotherapy approach intended to treat psychological disorders, to alleviate human suffering and to assist individuals to fulfill their potential for development, while minimizing risks of harm in its application. For the client, EMDR treatment aims to achieve comprehensive treatment safely, effectively and efficiently, while maintaining client stability. The client is empowered to find healing within their own brains and bodies.

Exposure and Response Prevention (EXRP) is the evidence-based treatment for learning to manage obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders. This treatment aims to improve functioning and quality of life by reducing the intensity, frequency, and duration of obsessions and compulsions clients experience in their daily lives. This treatment has also been effective in patients with eating disorders who report high anxiety in irrational food-related fears, avoidance behaviors, eating rituals, and other maladaptive behaviors.

Family Based Treatment (FBT) is the leading treatment for child and adolescent eating disorders. Research indicates that parental involvement is more effective than transitional individual based therapy in restoring an adolescent to healthy weight and eating patterns. FBT is structured in three distinct phases: (1) weight restoration; (2) restoring control of eating to young person; and (3) returning to normal adolescent development. This is achieved in three phases ranging between 6 and 12 months.

The process of behaviour change involves resolving the push and pull of the change (Clark 2019, Miller, 2012). Becoming ambivalent is the first step in developing motivation to change. Motivational Interviewing (MI) offers an alternative response to ambivalence, as it recognizes that ambivalence is normal, and it defines readiness to change as a dynamic and not a static factor (Miller, 2012).