Current Group Offerings
Group support is so valuable in healing and growing. Find community and connection with peers and experienced clinicians as you navigate your recovery journey. Here are groups currently being offered. To express interest and set up a screening call, click on the applicable link below or reach out to our Group Coordinator.
Virtual iMove Group for Compulsive Exercise
Compulsive exercise is a common feature of many eating disorders. Contrast to beneficial exercise and healthy athleticism which is passion-driven, compulsive exercise is punishment-driven and leads to significant health consequences as the body’s limits (and even injuries) are ignored.
Often, exercise is lumped in with eating disorder behaviors and prohibited during eating disorder treatment. The iMove Method explores how healing the relationship with exercise can allow movement to be safely and beneficially incorporated in eating disorder recovery.
Is this Group Right For Me?
Do you …
- Wish exercise took up less space in your life?
- Plan your life around exercise?
- Feel like you can’t take a day off of exercise?
- Feel extremely anxious if you don’t get to exercise?
- Miss out on social events and/or other things you enjoy in order to exercise
- Use exercise as punishment (i.e. for eating “too much”)?
- Exercise through injury or despite incredible physical discomfort?
- Struggle to add movement back into your life because of how compulsive it was in the past?
- Wish you could enjoy movement?
- Feel unclear on how to navigate exercise during eating disorder recovery?
If you answered yes to many of these questions, this group is for you. This is a space where you can connect with others who also struggle (or have struggled) with compulsive exercise and want to find a way to integrate it into your life in a recover-aligned way.
What is the iMove Group?
The iMove groups provides a structured and supportive environment for participants to safely explore their relationship with exercise in community with others who also struggle with compulsive exercise. Groups meet weekly via zoom and are made up of 6-10 adult participants.
Integrating principles of polyvagal theory, mindfulness, sensory integration, yoga, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), groups combine education, experiential activities, self-reflection and group process to help individuals move from a disordered relationship with exercise to an embodied one.
Amy Gardner is a certified eating disorder specialist, registered dietitian and yoga teacher. She combines 23 years of clinical experience and personal recovery with psychology, mindfulness, sensory motor and yoga training to help her clients move into full recovery. She is the owner of our practice and author of the book, ‘iMove, Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise’. Through the iMove program based on her book, Amy leads movement groups and trains other clinicians how to use the iMove method in their own work.
Details about the fall 2025 group
Time: Wednesday evenings 7-8:30pm October 22nd – December 10th (6 sessions)
Group Dates: 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 12/3, 12/10 (NOTE: No group on 11/19 or 11/26)
Location: Zoom
Facilitator: Amy Gardner, MS, RD, CEDS-C, RYT
Cost: $390 for 6 sessions (one or two payment options available
Size: 6-10 participants
To express interest, complete this form and Amy will reach out to you to set up a screening.