Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching

Virtual Worldwide Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching

Overview

Recovery coaching is a present- and future-focused service designed to support individuals navigating eating disorder recovery, OCD challenges, and body image struggles in real time. Unlike therapy, which often focuses on deep processing, underlying trauma and diagnosis, recovery coaching is action-oriented, goal-based, and flexible — offering support where you need it most: at home, in the grocery store, during meals, or online. Recovery coaching can help you implement coping strategies in real time. Many of our clients like this option so that they can focus on processing work with their therapist, but still have a space to practice new skills that are essential to Eating Disorder and/or OCD recovery. Whether you're seeking eating disorder recovery coaching in San Diego or virtual recovery coaching worldwide, we’re here to walk beside you.

Recovery coaching is ideal for:

  • Clients in eating disorder recovery needing practical, hands-on support

  • People managing OCD and looking for help resisting compulsions in daily life

  • Those feeling stuck in body image work and needing extra accountability to implement new coping strategies 

  • Clients who already have a therapist but want additional between session support to reinforce therapeutic goals.

  • Clients seeking real time support with meals and/or challenge foods.

  • Anyone around the globe (coaching is available internationally)

Note: Coaching is not a replacement for therapy and does not include trauma processing or diagnosis. Coaching is not available for insurance reimbursement.

Eating Disorder recovery coaching client sitting on couch in San Diego

Coaching Approach

While recovery coaching is not therapy, our approach is informed by clinical knowledge, lived experience, and anti-oppression principles. Coaching emphasizes:

  • Present-moment support for eating disorder and OCD recovery

  • Collaborative goal-setting

  • Behavioral support for exposures and meal challenges

  • Creative, embodied strategies that build confidence

  • Non-pathologizing care — we see you as a whole person, not a diagnosis

  • All of our coaches have backgrounds as therapists and are qualified mental health professionals.

  • All of our coaches have lived experience with recovery from Eating Disorders or OCD

Eating disorder coaching client writing down goals in San Diego office

Common Client Goals

  • Reduce ED behaviors and resist compulsions in the moment

  • Build confidence in food exposures, meals, or shopping challenges

  • Heal negative body image and build self-trust

  • Practice coping skills in real-world situations

  • Develop sustainable routines around eating and self-care

  • Strengthen motivation, accountability, and recovery momentum

  • Have accountability for reaching recovery oriented goals

Session Structure

Coaching sessions are flexible and adapted to your needs. They may include:

  • Virtual coaching from anywhere in the world

  • In-person coaching (Southern California only)

  • Support during:

    • Meal times

    • Grocery shopping

    • Cooking

    • Clothing shopping

    • Food exposures

    • Body image exercises

  • 1:1 coaching sessions are 50 minutes long (unless otherwise agreed upon with provider), with frequency tailored to your recovery needs and goals

Special Features

  • Available worldwide

  • Meal and exposure support (virtual or in-person in Southern CA)

  • FaceTime-style coaching for real-time activities

  • Coaching can complement therapy or act as a stand-alone resource (depending on client severity and medical clearance) 

  • Grounded in lived experience and Health at Every Size® principles

  • Anti-diet, anti-oppression, inclusive of race, gender, sexuality and disability.

  • All of our coaches have backgrounds as therapists

  • All of our coaches have lived experience of either their own Eating Disorder or OCD

Collaborative Process

In recovery coaching, you lead. We co-create goals that feel achievable and meaningful — then we work together to implement them with support and accountability. If you're working with a therapist, dietitian, or treatment team, we’re happy to collaborate. If you're working solo, we’ll help you build your own structure for healing.

Client Experience

Clients describe recovery coaching as empowering, practical, and validating. Whether it's eating a fear food, navigating a triggering situation, or learning to “unlearn” diet culture in real time, coaching helps you take brave action in the here and now. You’ll feel seen, supported, and never alone in your recovery — especially during the hardest moments.

Long-Term Benefits

  • Increased capacity to resist Eating Disorder (or OCD) urges and behaviors in daily life

  • Greater confidence using coping skills in real-world settings

  • Improved relationship with food, body, and routine

  • Reduced fear and avoidance around food, movement, or social situations

  • Ongoing accountability without judgment or pressure

  • An empowered recovery journey, less isolating

  • Improved connection to self and others

  • More brain space to pursue your truest passions (not an ED!)

Two young adults cooking in eating disorder recovery
Allyson, Georgia & Parisa stand in front of water fountain in Balboa Park

Ready to start therapy?

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At Eating Disorder OCD Therapy, we offer compassionate, relational, and individualized care, rooted in the belief that healing is not one-size-fits-all. Honoring client autonomy, collaboration, and anti-oppressive, neurodivergent-affirming practices, we walk alongside you as the expert in your own life. We provide therapy for Eating Disorders, OCD, Body Image, Trauma, Maternal Mental Health, Anxiety, and offer Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Group Therapy (globally), Recovery Coaching (globally), and Clinical Consultation and Supervision for clinicians. We are currently accepting new clients for in-person therapy in San Diego and virtual services in California, Washington, Utah, and Florida.