Anyone can recover with perseverance, insight, and support

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Practicing for 20 years

Certified eating disorder treatment

Carmel, California

Services

Support for eating, weight and body image concerns

I welcome to my practice any person who struggles with issues related to eating, weight or body image.

Individual Psychotherapy

Outpatient psychotherapy for adolescents and adults living with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and disordered eating.

Family Therapy

Work with families who want to understand an eating disorder, respond to it well, and support recovery at home.

Work with Schools

Twenty years of collaboration with individuals, families and schools across the Monterey Peninsula.

Consultation

A first conversation to talk through your questions, review resources, and decide together what kind of care fits.

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About the practice

I have faith that anyone can recover with perseverance, insight, and support

I welcome to my practice any person who struggles with issues related to eating, weight or body image. I am devoted to helping my clients understand and re-evaluate their relationship to food, their bodies and their lives through a more thorough understanding of who they are as physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual beings. I explore my client's world, offer hope, and identify resources for sustained recovery from the detrimental effects of eating disorder behaviors.

Together we work to understand the client's puzzle of personal eating issues and restore a positive relationship with food. Disordered eating is seen as a destructive voice, determined to sabotage the voice of health we knew as young children. I help my clients put food and this voice in perspective — a part of life, not the whole of it.

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How therapy works

A steady process, one honest conversation at a time

Therapy here is collaborative outpatient psychotherapy. We move at a pace that respects how much courage it takes to talk about food, weight and the body.

Reaching out

We begin with a call or a short consultation so you can ask questions, describe what is happening, and decide whether we are a good fit.

Understanding the puzzle

Together we work to understand the client's puzzle of personal eating issues — the history, the patterns, and the meaning behind the behaviors.

Re-evaluating the relationship with food

Disordered eating is seen as a destructive voice, determined to sabotage the voice of health we knew as young children. We put food and that voice in perspective — a part of life, not the whole of it.

Sustaining recovery

I explore my client's world, offer hope, and identify resources for sustained recovery from the detrimental effects of eating disorder behaviors, including work with families and schools when that helps.

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Meet Kirstin

Kirstin Lyon, LMFT, MFC33530

Kirstin Lyon, LMFT, MFC33530, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specially trained and certified to treat eating disorders. She is currently a board member of the Monterey chapter of the California Association of Marriage Family Therapists and has been working with individuals, families and schools on the Monterey Peninsula for 20 years.

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My Recovery

Never Die Young

I spent a few months of my early recovery at the Renfrew Center of Philadelphia. I was 26 years old, working in New York City, and Renfrew had just opened a recovery facility for eating disorders in this neighboring state. James Taylor's album, Never Die Young, had just been released. It became a favorite, and a fitting title for me, given that I was inpatient for an eating disorder that, left untreated, could have killed me.

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