Honoring the Mind, Integrating the Body
You may already understand the "why" behind your eating patterns. You’ve read the books, unlearned diet culture myths, and can name the triggers that prompt anxiety around meals. Yet when you sit down to eat or look in the mirror, your nervous system still reacts with fear, tension, or a urge to control.
Eating disorders and chronic body distress are rarely just about food; they are deeply rooted survival strategies created by a nervous system seeking safety. By taking your cognitive awareness and connecting it with body-based regulation, somatic eating disorder therapy builds upon your existing strengths. We help bring your physical body into harmony with your mind, allowing real peace and flexibility to catch up to what you intellectually know.
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Somatic Experiencing & Interoception
Reconnecting safely with bodily sensations. We help you increase your window of tolerance for physical discomfort, distress, and sensory input so you can feel grounded and regulated in your skin.
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Brainspotting &
Trauma Reprocessing
Locating and releasing the neurophysiological roots of food anxiety, body dysmorphia, and underlying trauma. Brainspotting bypasses conscious defense mechanisms to process stored survival stress where words fall short.
Cultivating tools to navigate overwhelming feelings without resorting to food rules or body control. We integrate Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills: like distress tolerance and radical acceptance with somatic grounding. This helps you build capacity to tolerate difficult emotional waves, drop the internal struggle with uncomfortable reality, and respond to your body with grounded compassion.
Radical Acceptance & Emotional Regulation
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Integrated Modalities for Eating Disorder Recovery
Unpacking systemic anti-fatness, dismantling perfectionism, and stripping away food rules. We guide you back toward internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction without shame or performance.
Intuitive Eating & Non-Diet Therapy
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Specialized Eating Disorder Care Rooted in East Dallas
Located in East Dallas near White Rock Lake (1151 N. Buckner Blvd), AP + Co Collective provides an inclusive, weight-neutral sanctuary away from the pressure of diet culture. Whether you are navigating Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, or Chronic Dieting, our in-person sessions offer the comforting, regulatory presence of an expert care team.
Looking for virtual support across Texas? We offer secure online eating disorder therapy and telehealth consultation, allowing you to build food peace and nervous system safety from the comfort of your home.
Is Our Eating Disorder Practice Right for You?
You are exhausted by chronic dieting, food rules, body checking, and constant meal anxiety.
You are seeking a Health at Every Size (HAES®) aligned, weight-inclusive space that does not praise weight loss or judge body size.
You want support navigating ARFID, sensory sensitivities around food, or fear of GI distress.
You want to integrate somatic tools and nervous system regulation into your eating disorder recovery journey.
Meet Your Eating Disorder Specialists
angela Prior
LCSW-S, ERYT, Brainspotting
Clinical Team
Eating Disorders, Trauma, Anxiety
REbecca Reilly
LPC, MS
Clinical Team
Depression, Eating Disorders, virtual only
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorder Therapy in Dallas
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Weight-inclusive care operates from the belief that health and well-being exist across a full spectrum of body sizes and shapes. We do not prescribe weight loss, track body weight as a metric of success, or promote diet culture. We focus on honoring your body, building somatic regulation, and cultivating a peaceful relationship with food.
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorder Therapy in Dallas
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
Somatic therapy is an overarching, body-centered approach that encompasses several specialized modalities. At AP + Co Collective, our somatic tools include Somatic Experiencing (SE) (tracking physical sensations to complete trapped stress cycles), Brainspotting (using visual focal points to process neurophysiological trauma), and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TSY) (choice-driven movement to rebuild bodily agency). We also integrate somatic parts work and somatic tracking to help you tune into internal sensations safely, without judgment or overwhelm.
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorder Therapy in Dallas
Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorder Therapy in Dallas
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Because somatic therapy works directly with the autonomic nervous system, it is exceptionally effective for symptoms that feel "stuck" in the body. It offers profound support for chronic trauma, PTSD, anxiety, panic disorders, and burnout, as well as eating disorder recovery and body image distress. Additionally, clients navigating chronic pain, physical tension, grief, neurodivergent burnout (ADHD/Autism), and medical trauma often find that somatic practices provide a level of relief and grounding that traditional cognitive approaches alone cannot reach.
Absolutely. Eating disorder recovery and somatic healing thrive within a collaborative, multidisciplinary care team. We routinely partner with outside providers: including non-diet registered dietitians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and GI specialists to ensure every aspect of your physical and emotional well-being is supported. If you already have a team, we seamlessly integrate with them.
Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorder Therapy in Dallas
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorder Therapy in Dallas
Do I have to do both Yoga and Therapy?
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
Weight-inclusive care operates from the belief that health and well-being exist across a full spectrum of body sizes and shapes. We do not prescribe weight loss, track body weight as a metric of success, or promote diet culture. We focus on honoring your body, building somatic regulation, and cultivating a peaceful relationship with food.
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
Traditional talk therapy helps you reframe negative thoughts about your body, but somatic therapy helps your nervous system feel safe inside your body. By tracking physical sensations and gently processing underlying shame, somatic tools help you move from self-critique to embodied self-compassion.
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
Yes. We provide specialized therapy for ARFID and restrictive eating patterns tied to sensory processing concerns, anxiety, or fears of GI distress. Our approach integrates sensory desensitization, gentle somatic grounding, and distress-tolerance skills to rebuild safety around eating.
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
Absolutely. Eating disorder recovery and somatic healing thrive within a collaborative, multidisciplinary care team. We routinely partner with outside providers including: non-diet registered dietitians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and GI specialists to ensure every aspect of your physical and emotional well-being is supported. If you already have a team, we seamlessly integrate with them.
What does "weight-inclusive" and "HAES®-aligned" mean?
How does somatic therapy help with body image distress?
Do you collaborate with outside providers like dietitians or medical doctors?
Do you treat Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)?
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