Finding the right therapist is crucial in recovery since you cannot recover on your own or just by having friends and family help you, especially if they have no training in Eating Disorders therapy. A therapist should be professional but casual enough that you or someone you know that has an eating disorder can feel comfortable in their prescence. It usually helps if the therapist has had a past experience with an eating disorder, so they understand more and don't merely regurgitate whatever they have been fed about EDs from textbooks.

Therapists can also be expensive but there are many that work on a sliding scale basis. That means they charge based on your income and also take into consideration whether or not you have insurance that will cover eating disorders therapy. Another lower-cost method of obtaining help is by going to group therapy.

Note: At this point in time, I am only listing Eating Disorder Organizations. I cannot list individual states and providence treatment centers, as there are so many.

• Academy for Eating Disorders (AED)
  6728 Old McLean Village Drive
  McLean, VA 22101
  (703) 556-9222

• ANAB Quebec
  114 Donegani Boulevard
  Pointe Claire, Quebec H9R 2V4
  (514) 630-0907

• Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc. (ANRED)

• Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa Foundation of Victoria
  1513 High Street
  Glen Iris Vic 3146 AUSTRALIA
  (03) 9885 0318

• Asociacion civil de Lucha contra Desordenes Alimentarios (en español)
  +54 627 22580/24290/24291 Int 211
  Sector Desórdenes Alimentarios
  5600 - San Rafael (Mendoza)
  República Argentina
  e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• The Body Image Coalition of Peel, Ontario, Canada
  Mary Turfryer, Peel Health
  180B Sandalwood Parkway E., Suite 200
  Brampton, Ontario, CANADA L6Z 4N1
  (905) 791-7800 ext.7694

• British Columbia Eating Disorders Association
  841 Fairfield Road
  Victoria BC Canada
  (250) 383-2755

• Bulimia Anorexia Self Help Inc.
  6125 Clayton Avenue
  Suite 215
  St. Louis, MO 63139
  (314) 567-4080 OR (314)567-4040

• The Center, Inc.
  (888) 771-5166
  The Center Inc.
  PO Box 700
  547 Dayton
  Edmonds, WA 98020
  The process of treatment planning includes identifying your main concerns and issues to be worked on, treatment goals and estimated length of time it will take to move through these issues toward resolution. Your counselor will be sensitive in working at your pace while still challenging you to new ways of thinking, feeling and living.

• Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia
  (212) 595-3449
  Administrator
  1 West 91st Street
  New York, , NY 10024