E A T I N G D I S O R D E R T H E R A P Y
For the part of your life no one sees.
I recognize the patterns, I understand how complicated they are, and I know where to begin.
For adults navigating eating disorders and the anxiety, OCD, trauma, and mood concerns that often accompany them.
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O N L I N E T H E R A P Y C O, W Y, M N, V A
B R Y N N D Y A S, L P C · 17 Y E A R S T R E A T I N G E A T I N G D I S O R D E R S
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You’re laughing along and, you’re still counting
Nobody around you can tell. You're good company, good at your job, the one people call. Or maybe everyone can tell, and no one knows what to say.
Either way, you know the numbers:
What you ate. The labels you read twice. The portions you measure by eye. How much you moved. What you weigh, and what the scale will say tomorrow. How you look from the side, in this light, in that photo. You could recite them in your sleep, and some nights you do.
You know the rules, too. The ones you can bend, the ones you can't, and a few you made up so long ago you can't remember making them.
Knowing was never the problem. Every day ends with a verdict: too much, or not enough.
There's always something to resist, undo, or make up for.
You’re exhausted and, you can’t stop.
It’s loud in there.
None of it started as a problem. It started as a solution, and it’s still trying to be one.
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Most people find me in the middle of something. Maybe that’s where you are: a few painful things you never got to put down, an overwhelming stretch that only gets longer, a body that has become part of the problem, a family that is part of the story, a season of life where the old plan quit working. And underneath it all, a mind that hasn’t had a day off in a long time. What you want is simple, even if the path isn’t: to move through the day carrying less.
I’m Brynn Dyas, a licensed professional counselor, and I’ve spent seventeen years sitting in rooms where things are hard. Most of them were inpatient and residential eating disorder programs, where I’ve worked as a therapist, a clinical manager, and a clinical supervisor. It’s work where the medical, psychiatric, and behavioral threads all pull on one another and someone has to hold the whole picture at once. Eating disorders are my specialty. I know where people get stuck, and what gets them moving again.
Whatever
you’d call it
Some people arrive with a diagnosis. Others arrive knowing something is wrong, and asking whether they’re sick enough, whether it’s bad enough. Eating disorders don’t look the way we’ve been told they look, and neither do the people who have them. You don’t have to get worse to deserve help.
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* I also treat trauma, anxiety, OCD, and mood concerns.
Experience changes what you notice
I stopped looking for the one thing to blame a long time ago. There isn’t one. There’s a conversation: the body, the history, the family, the brain, the thoughts and beliefs, the stress, the sleep, each one shaping the others, and all of it shaping you. When things are on fire, I stabilize. Then I get curious about why it kept catching.
I don’t start with a protocol. I start with you. What is actually going on? What can we address right away, and what needs time? Then I build the plan around you, using more than one approach, because settling the body and changing the mind both matter.
Eating disorders rarely travel alone. The panic and the restriction, the rituals and the rules, the old injury and the numbness are usually one story told in different languages. I’m good at translating.
Most people come wanting relief, and have decided it’s for other people. I’m annoyingly committed to proving that wrong. I’m just as committed to telling you the truth about how we get there.
Questions people are afraid to ask
Do you only treat disorderd eating ?
No. Eating disorders are my specialty, and they rarely arrive alone, so I also treat the anxiety, OCD, trauma, and mood concerns that come with them. I also work with these on their own, with no eating disorder in the picture.
Have you worked with someone like me?
Almost certainly. Seventeen years across inpatient, residential, and outpatient care means I’ve worked with adults of every gender, age, and body, and plenty whose histories never fit a standard plan. If I haven’t seen something quite like yours, I’ll tell you, and we’ll work it out from there.
How long will this take?
It depends, and anyone who gives you a number before they know you is guessing. Some things shift in weeks. Others need real time and attention. What you can count on is that we’ll map it early and check in on it regularly, so you’re never left wondering where this is going.
My last therapist didn’t work out. What are you like?
It happens more often than people say, and it usually says more about fit than about you. I’m conversational and candid. Warm, direct, and steady when things get hard. I’ll tell you what I’m seeing, ask what’s helping and what isn’t, and I’d rather hear “this isn’t working” in the third session than have you quietly leave. The first call is there so you can find out before you commit to anything.
If your story is complicated, you’re in the right place.