Eating Disorder Therapist in Delaware County, PA
If you’re looking for an eating disorder therapist in Delaware County, PA, you may be feeling overwhelmed, scared, or unsure where to start. Maybe you’ve been stuck in patterns with food, exercise, or body image for a long time. Maybe things have just started to feel “off,” and you’re wondering if it’s serious enough to count. No matter where you are on that spectrum, you deserve support.
At Recovered & Restored Eating Disorder Therapy Center, we believe everyone deserves access to compassionate, specialized care - without shame, judgment, or stereotypes about what an eating disorder “should” look like. Our team works with teens, college students, and adults who are ready for something different: real connection, evidence-based treatment, and a recovery plan that honors your whole story, not just your symptoms.
We offer virtual eating disorder therapy in Delaware County, PA, so you can get high-quality, specialized care from the comfort of your home in Media, Havertown, Springfield, Broomall, Newtown Square, Upper Darby, and beyond.
About Recovered & Restored
Recovered & Restored was founded by Gabrielle Morreale, LPC, a licensed therapist who is herself recovered from a long battle with an eating disorder. Her lived experience, advanced clinical training, and deep passion for this work shaped the entire vision of the practice: to be a place where people feel truly seen, understood, and supported in healing.
Our clinicians are highly trained in eating disorders, trauma, OCD, and anxiety. Many have pursued additional certifications and advanced trainings in modalities such as CBT, DBT, EMDR, and trauma-informed care to better serve clients whose struggles run deeper than food alone. We understand that an eating disorder is often a coping mechanism - and that real healing means addressing both the behaviors and the underlying pain.
Our Therapy Approaches: Relational, HAES-Aligned, & Flexible
At Recovered & Restored, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all treatment. Every client’s story is unique, and therapy should reflect that. Our approach is:
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Relational and attachment-informed – We know that healing happens in the context of safe, trusting relationships. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a place to practice vulnerability, self-compassion, and new ways of being.
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Health at Every Size (HAES)-aligned and weight-inclusive – We do not use weight as a measure of worth or recovery. We support clients in building a peaceful relationship with food and body at any size.
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Trauma-informed and compassion-focused – Many clients have histories of trauma, medical trauma, bullying, religious harm, or long-term shame. We move gently, at your pace, with safety at the center.
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We integrate a variety of evidence-based tools - CBT-E, DBT skills, ACT, body image work, and exposure-based strategies within a compassionate, realistic framework. For clients in Delaware County, our virtual therapy model offers flexibility around school, work, caregiving, and commuting, making it more sustainable to stay in treatment consistently.
EMDR for Eating Disorders, Trauma, OCD, & Anxiety
For many people, talk therapy alone isn’t enough to fully shift long-held patterns. That’s where EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can be a powerful tool.
Our EMDR-trained clinicians describe EMDR in simple terms: it’s an eight-phase, trauma-focused therapy used to help the brain reprocess distressing or traumatic experiences that have gotten “stuck.” When painful memories or experiences aren’t fully processed, your nervous system can keep reacting as if the threat is still happening now - triggering intense fight, flight, or freeze responses, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, or avoidance in day-to-day life.
EMDR uses something called bilateral stimulation (BLS) - such as alternating taps, buzzers, or visual cues to engage both sides of the brain while you safely revisit and process those memories. One clinician explains that it’s similar to what happens during REM sleep, when your eyes move back and forth, and your brain naturally processes information. This process helps move painful material from a “stuck” place into a more integrated, less reactive place.
EMDR is not about erasing memories. Instead, clients often find that the memories lose their intense charge. The emotional, physical, and behavioral reactions become less overwhelming. Over time, they can remember what happened without feeling hijacked by panic, shame, or the urge to use eating disorder behaviors to cope. As one of our therapists described it, EMDR is “really hard, intense work but so powerful” because it helps you move through, not around, what your body and brain have been carrying.
How EMDR Helps in Eating Disorder Recovery
An eating disorder itself can be traumatic. For some clients, disordered behaviors began after a specific event - a comment, bullying, medical event, relationship rupture, or loss. For others, it developed slowly in response to chronic stress, perfectionism, or never feeling “good enough.” EMDR can help target both the big, obvious traumas and the smaller, chronic experiences that shaped how you feel about food, your body, and yourself.
By reprocessing those experiences, clients often notice they feel less pulled toward restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, or rigid food rituals. EMDR helps address the root of why the eating disorder became necessary in the first place, so that over time, those behaviors don’t feel as needed to survive.
We also use EMDR with OCD and anxiety, which frequently show up alongside eating disorders. EMDR can target obsessive fears, intrusive thoughts, and the “what if” scenarios that drive compulsions and rituals. Treatment looks at triggers, beliefs, and sensations that fuel the cycle, then helps your brain learn a new way of responding.
Safety, Consent, and Control in EMDR
Many people worry that trauma work will feel out of control. Our clinicians emphasize that in EMDR, you are always in control. Before reprocessing begins, we spend time building coping skills, explaining each phase, and creating a clear “stop sign” so you can pause or end at any time. EMDR is structured, but it is never meant to bulldoze your boundaries.
Clients often find it empowering to know they can say, “I need to stop,” and that will be honored. For trauma survivors and people with eating disorders - who often have histories of not being believed, respected, or heard this sense of control is a vital part of the healing process.
Other Services We Offer in Delaware County
In addition to EMDR and individual eating disorder therapy, Recovered & Restored offers:
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Nutrition counseling with a HAES-aligned Registered Dietitian for meal support, exposures, and food freedom work
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Family therapy and parent coaching to help loved ones support recovery without enabling the eating disorder
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Christian eating disorder therapy for clients who want to integrate their faith into the healing process
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Therapy for anxiety, OCD, trauma, and body image concerns, which often travel alongside eating disorders
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Free resources and guides on topics like body image, food rules, binge eating, and navigating recovery during the holidays
We provide virtual eating disorder therapy in Delaware County, PA, serving clients in Media, Havertown, Springfield, Broomall, Newtown Square, Glen Mills, Swarthmore, Ridley Park, Drexel Hill, Upper Darby, and along the I-476/Blue Route and Route 1 corridor.
Begin Your Healing Journey Today
If you’ve been searching for an eating disorder therapist in Delaware County, PA, you don’t have to figure this out on your own. Help is available, and healing is possible.
Reach out to Recovered & Restored Eating Disorder Therapy Center to schedule a consultation, learn more about our EMDR services, or explore which type of therapy might be right for you. Your story matters. Your recovery matters. And we would be honored to walk alongside you.