Compassionate support for healing your relationship with food

Nutrition Counseling for Eating Disorder Recovery

eating disorder recovery in New England

If food feels stressful, eating feels confusing, or recovery feels overwhelming, you do not have to navigate it alone.

Our registered dietitians support clients in healing their relationship with food, body, and nourishment while working toward greater stability, flexibility, and trust.

Whether you are newly recognizing that something feels off, actively pursuing recovery, returning to recovery after a relapse, or looking for more specialized support, we meet you where you are. Recovery does not have to look perfect to be worthy of care.

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Eating disorder nutrition counseling is specialized support with a registered dietitian who understands the medical, emotional, and practical complexities of recovery.

This work is about far more than being told what to eat. It may involve rebuilding consistent nourishment, reducing food fear, challenging rigid rules, supporting medical stability, exploring body image distress, and helping eating feel safer and more manageable again.

We know eating disorders are not choices, and they do not have a certain look. They can affect people of all body sizes, genders, ages, identities, and backgrounds. Nutrition counseling can be an important part of recovery by helping you reconnect with your body’s needs in a way that is supportive rather than shaming.

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Who We Support

We work with adolescents, teens, and adults navigating eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, and complicated relationships with food and body. This may include support for:

  • Anorexia nervosa

  • Bulimia nervosa

  • Binge eating disorder

  • ARFID

  • OSFED

  • Chronic dieting and disordered eating

  • Compulsive exercise patterns

  • Food fear and food avoidance

  • Body image distress

  • Meal support and recovery structure

  • Returning to recovery after relapse

Some clients come to us with a diagnosis. Others simply know that food, body image, exercise, or eating patterns are taking up too much space in their life. You do not need to have everything figured out before reaching out.

Our Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery

Our work is rooted in compassion, collaboration, and respect for your lived experience. We understand that eating disorders are complex and often intertwined with anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, other diagnoses, family dynamics, medical concerns, identity, and life stress. That is why our approach is never rigid or one-size-fits-all. When you work with a CV Wellbeing dietitian, support may include:

Re-establishing consistent nourishment

Recovery often starts with helping the body feel safer. We support clients in building more regular, adequate nourishment in ways that feel approachable and realistic.

Rebuilding trust with your body

Disconnection from hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and body signals is common in recovery. We help clients reconnect with those cues slowly and without judgment.

Challenging food rules and fear

We help you identify the beliefs, rituals, and fears that may be keeping you stuck, then work gently to loosen their hold.

Supporting medical and nutritional needs

Eating disorder recovery can affect energy, concentration, digestion, hunger cues, labs, movement, and daily functioning. We provide nutrition care that is grounded in both compassion and clinical knowledge.

  • "The best dietitian that I have ever worked with."

    “Because of Carolyn, this is the first time in my 15-year battle with anorexia nervosa that I’ve decided to truly work on recovery.”

  • "Carolyn is amazing."

    “She has changed my worldview. I am indebted to her for her patience, constant encouragement, and grace. Thank you for being so amazing!”

  • "I can't say enough good things about the care I have received."

    “I never feel judged and leave every session with a renewed determination to stay committed to recovery. I am so grateful for the help I have received!”

  • "I am beyond grateful for the time I have been able to work with this team."

    “CV Wellbeing is a fantastic, body and weight inclusive, business that strives to better their clients with a compassionate and knowledgeable nutritionist.”

  • "Absolutely thrilled with CV Wellbeing's responsiveness and professionalism."

    “Especially Janet’s approach, expertise, and communication style. I look forward to our meetings and find the work insightful and impactful far beyond any number on the scale. Working with CV Wellbeing is one of the best and most important decisions I made this year.”

  • "There are no words to express my gratitude towards this group of women."

    “If you are even just considering recovery from an eating disorder or just darn sick of diet culture and silly food ‘rules’ you hear about in the media, these women have got your back. I work with Carolyn, who is one of the sweetest and strongest humans on this earth. After 15 years of struggle, she has been the only healthcare provider that has been able to help me put my whole heart into recovery.”

  • "Carolyn, Kristin, and the CV Wellbeing team are lifesavers!"

    “Their kindness, gentleness, and caring are unmatched. They are Health at Every Size, Trauma, and Eating Disorder informed, and their collective knowledge abounds. As providers, they go the extra mile while also empowering the individual. They provide the full supportive experience. Don't look any further - you have found the right place!”

  • "This program was very helpful."

    “I’m learning to love myself and make healthier and more positive changes in order to feel better.”

Our dietitians serve multiple states in New England.

Our registered dietitian nutritionists are available in-person in Gorham, South Portland, and Portsmouth, and via telehealth across Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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Why Work with a Registered Dietitian for Eating Disorder Care

Eating disorder recovery is nuanced. Generic nutrition advice, wellness culture messaging, and even well-meaning support from others can sometimes make things feel more confusing.

Working with a registered dietitian who understands eating disorders can help you receive care that is more individualized, more informed, and more supportive. Our dietitians bring together evidence-based nutrition counseling with a weight-inclusive, non-diet philosophy so care feels grounded, respectful, and humane.

We can help with the practical side of recovery while also understanding the emotional complexity that often comes with it.

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Looking for support with something else?

Eating disorder recovery is one of the many ways we support clients at CV Wellbeing. Our dietitians also work with intuitive eating, body image concerns, GI conditions, diabetes, sports nutrition, pediatric nutrition, and more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • An eating disorder dietitian provides specialized nutrition counseling to support recovery. This may include helping with meal structure, adequacy, food fears, body image concerns, recovery education, and coordination with the rest of your treatment team.

  • No. You do not need a formal diagnosis to benefit from counseling. If eating feels stressful, rigid, overwhelming, or consuming, support may still be appropriate.

  • Yes. Many people come in feeling unsure, ambivalent, or scared. You do not have to feel fully ready to deserve support. We can meet you where you are and work at a pace that feels manageable.

  • No. We support clients with many different eating disorders and disordered eating experiences, including bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, OSFED, chronic dieting, and complicated relationships with food and body.

  • Yes, when appropriate and with your permission. Eating disorder care often works best when providers are communicating and supporting you as a team.

Wherever you are in your journey, we’ll meet you there.

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