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Eating Disorder Support Group

Eating Disorder Support Group

A 4-session support group to talk about disordered eating patterns, understand emotional triggers, and build a more balanced, compassionate relationship with food, body, and self. No diagnosis needed.

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Rs. 3,000.00
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Who is the Group for?

  • Anyone Struggling with Disordered Eating Patterns

    For people who notice patterns like restricting, bingeing, guilt after eating, emotional eating, or over-control around food - with or without a diagnosis.

  • Those Feeling Stuck in Food-Body Cycles

    If your relationship with food or your body feels like it takes too much space in your life and head, this space is for you.

  • Individuals Seeking Awareness and Support, Not Judgment

    For those who want to understand why they eat or restrict the way they do - and talk about it safely with others who get it.

  • People Ready to Explore Balance and Self-Kindness

    If you’re looking for small, practical ways to move toward peace with food and your body, this group offers tools, reflection, and shared support.

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Goal of the Group

• Understand emotional and psychological triggers behind eating patterns.
• Recognize restrictive, binge, or compensatory behaviors without shame.
• Explore how control, stress, or self-image influence eating habits.
• Learn grounding and regulation tools for urges and cravings.
• Develop awareness of hunger, fullness, and body cues.
• Reflect on body image, comparison, and internalized pressure.
• Practice self-compassion and build a kinder inner voice.
• Share and connect with others facing similar struggles.
• Leave with small, practical tools to bring balance and awareness to daily life.

Glimpse of the regime

Session 1: Food Relationship + Narrative Foundations

• Introduce group norms
• Ice breaker: what's your most vivid story around Food?
• Explore how food can be both comforting and triggering: explore social narratives
• Explore how to be emotionally mindful about eating patterns"

Activity:
• Body mapping: Gingerbread man- marking emotions and feelings around the body. / if they don't struggle with body image .
• write a little story - what was a story, rules, feelings about food growing up.
• Depict your childhood kitchen explore meanings.

Skills:
1. CBT: Thought recording
2. Black and white thinking, what permissions can you give yourself?

Homework:
ACT: value mapping with food and permissions around food.
DBT: STOP skill

• Shift from body shame to body neutrality
• explore body criticism through body checking/ rules about body/ eating
• Distress tolerance skills
• Feelings are not Facts"

Activity:
• Explore your inner critic: thought diffusion
• Can you compare your voice to a Disney villain or any popular villain? How is the voice? Write down what it is saying to you? Have you Heard this in real life before? Does it strike a resemblance?- this could be for both body image and disorder eating.

Skills:
1. CBT: Thought Challenging
2. Fact checking
3. ACT: Urge surfing
4. DBT: TIPP

Homework: Mirror exposure- 30 seconds
for fold not struggling with body image: try a new meal while using distraction/ distress tolerance skill

• Emotional eating/ Disordered behaviors- intentionality
• what is nourishing
• Identifying triggers and finding healthy coping mechanisms"

Activity:
• Baby Animal - soul spirit and day to day care and nourishment; draw/ find images- projective technique.
• How do you nourish the baby animal and would/could you deprive it of nourishment?
• Followed by Ted Talk: discussion.

Skills:
1. CBT: ABC
2. ACT: Willingness/ avoidance- when we lack motivation- routine
3. DBT: ACCEPTS
4. Opposite action
5. Radical acceptance

Homework:
Acts of Kindness towards self: record it (to share with the group alone)
make tiny coping cards/ value deck/ collage for self.
Journal prompt: If you did not have disorder eating what would life look like?

• What was this group like?
• what are the potential triggers in the future to impact their nourishment?
• Potential traps for lapse and relapse. Coping skills for support.

Activity:
• Write a goodbye letter to your ED. Thanking it for all it has done but why it needs to be replaced.
• A discussion on what they perceive as potential triggers for their ED getting worse and what can they do to identify between a lapse and relapse.
• Red flags identification

Skills:
1. CBT: Safety Plan
2. ACT: Act of empathy to self
3. DBT: WiseMind
4. Mindfulness
5. DEAR MAN with self
6. Ride the wave

Homework:
DBT Skill workbook

Meet your Facilitator

Siddhika Lakshmipathi

Siddhika Lakshmipathi is a Clinical Mental Health Practitioner and LPCC with extensive experience across India and the U.S., including her work as a Program Therapist at the Eating Recovery Center in Denver. With dual master’s degrees in Counseling Psychology and Clinical Mental Health Counseling, she integrates Gestalt principles, DBT, CBT, ACT, trauma-informed care, and culturally responsive practice. She has facilitated both individual therapy and therapeutic group sessions, helping clients reimagine their relationship with food and body through structured support, compassionate enquiry, and evidence-based interventions.
She has guided clients in cultivating nourishment, challenging harmful body narratives, managing ruminations around food, weight, and shape, and developing practical coping strategies for urges, anxiety, and fear foods. Siddhika integrates CBT, DBT, ACT, and trauma-informed care to help clients create a sacred, healthy, and flexible relationship with food, while building personalized relapse-prevention plans for long-term recovery.
Her work is shaped by warmth, clinical depth, and a deep respect for each person’s lived experience. Siddhika has worked in diverse settings—from schools to multidisciplinary clinics—supporting clients with anxiety, trauma, and other mood disorders. She brings compassionate enquiry, curiosity, and evidence-based practice to every session. Outside work, she enjoys cooking, singing, and being a proud cat mom.

Customer Reviews

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Deepika
Not what I expected

Okay experience overall. Appreciated the safe space but expected more depth.

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Divya
Felt better but still working

It gave me a new perspective, though I still feel I need more professional help alongside.

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Meera
Eye-opening discussions

Met such genuine people. We shared laughter, tears, and healing together.

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Amit
Supportive and real

Very thoughtful group. Helped me reconnect with myself and practice self-kindness.

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Chirag
Felt less alone

Very thoughtful group. Helped me reconnect with myself and practice self-kindness.

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