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The Truth About Eating Disorders & Couples Therapy | Isabelle Tierney

1 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Isabelle Tierney, a marriage and family therapist, specializes in eating disorders and couples therapy. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate among mental health disorders, with one in ten diagnosed people dying from it. Most couples come to therapy in crisis, often with one partner reluctant to be there.

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2003

One in 10 people diagnosed with anorexia dies.

Anorexia (speaker's claim: "the highest mental health death of any mental health disease").

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So I moved to Boulder in 2003, became licensed as a marriage and family therapist and then worked with eating disorders was one of my specialties. So marriage and family therapy and eating disorders. And I don't know how much you know about eating disorders. One in 10 people who gets the diagnosis of anorexia dies. It is actually the highest mental health death of any mental health disease. And so I was literally seeing clients on the verge of death all the time. I would have hospitals calling me from all over the country to say, hey, can you take this client? Can you take this client? So that and then couples, you know, even though couples, I love couples work, you know, couples rarely come to you when they're doing well and just they just want to get better. You know, they usually come in crisis and usually one of the member of the couple has been dragged there and really doesn't want to be there.