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Monday, January 21, 2008

PsychFit Combats Eating Disorders

For the past two years, psychotherapist Jane Baxter Cibel, Ph.D. has been treating patients with eating disorders, addictions and depression using an innovative approach called PsychFit. PsychFit combines psychological counseling with mild exercise such as walking on a treadmill.
"By conducting traditional psychotherapy during exercise and physical fitness coaching, PsychFit improves cognitive functioning at the same time it builds muscle, said Baxter Cibel. 'It repairs habitual negative and self-sabotaging thinking, which feeds depression and drives self-destructive behaviors.'"
Baxter Cibel believes that PsychFit works, in part, because physical activity is known to improve a person's mood and self-esteem.

Labels: treatment, therapy, exercise

Posted By: Aspen Education Group

Comments:

Anonymous on 1/24/2008
i think that the work you are trying to acheive is good but having experienced anorexia myself,not a lot of people are going to admit they have the problem.