You Don't Have to Walk This Road Alone.
When a parent finds steadiness, the whole family begins to shift. Daily accompaniment for mothers navigating a child's eating disorder.
Your Child Spends One Hour a Week with a Therapist. You Walk Beside Them Through the Other 167.
The eating disorder doesn't wait for the next appointment. It shows up at breakfast, after practice. In the quiet moments at dinner, and at 2 AM when you're lying awake wondering if you're doing the right thing.
Most parents are carrying this weight alone and in isolation. You were never meant to walk this without steady, daily support.
This is not therapy. It is not a support group. It is daily accompaniment, integrating psychological insight and faith-informed wisdom to help you respond with calm, clarity, and confidence rather than fear.
Healing Begins When the Parent Gets Support
Mentorship for parents navigating eating disorders, disordered exercise, and anxiety. Helping families find steadiness and connection again.
"Every meal is a battle. I'm dreading dinner."
Return to Your Role as the Secure Base
When you can show up calm at the dinner table, something shifts. Your child feels it. Daily mentorship helps you find that steadiness before every hard conversation, so you can be the safe place your family needs.
"I don't know what to do. Everything I try makes it worse."
It's Not a Behavior Problem. It's a Fear Problem.
Beneath the restriction and the meltdowns, there is usually something quieter. Anxiety. Perfectionism. A need for control. We help you move past managing behaviors and start seeing the whole person underneath the disorder.
"I blame myself. What did I do wrong?"
Reclaiming Your Identity & Dignity
When a child struggles, the whole family feels it. Not just for your child's sake, but for your own, we walk through the healing needed to let go of the guilt and move from a life driven by fear back to one grounded in peace.
"Our home has become a battleground."
Recovery Doesn't Happen in Isolation
The marriage strain, the siblings who feel invisible, the extended family who doesn't understand. Healing has to include the whole family. We help you restore connection where the disorder has created distance.
Eating disorders rarely affect just one person.
Families heal in relationship.
As parents grow in steadiness, understanding, and support,
the atmosphere begins to change. And that is often where healing begins.
"When your child is struggling, support can't be occasional. It needs to be steady, relational, and grounded in something deeper than a weekly appointment."
The 167 hours between therapy sessions. That's where most of family life unfolds.
Steph Strick
Partner & Certified Mentor, CatholicPsych
Founder of AccompanyMe | Walking with parents navigating eating and exercise disorders
I've Sat at That Table Too. I Know What 6PM Feels Like.
One of my children walked through a season of disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and the anxiety that often lives beneath those struggles. I didn't just read about this. I lived the tense breakfasts, the post-practice worry, and the 2 AM moments when a parent lies awake wondering if they're doing everything wrong.
That experience led me to seek deeper understanding. Not only for my child, but for myself and our whole family.
I later completed professional formation through the CatholicPsych Institute in a rigorous program integrating psychological science, human formation, and faith-informed wisdom.
Today I am a Partner and Certified Mentor (IDDM™) with CatholicPsych, accompanying individuals through many different forms of suffering and life challenges.
Alongside that work, I founded AccompanyMe, offering parents the steady, daily support I once needed myself.
Because when parents grow in steadiness, families begin to heal.
Not Therapy. Not a Support Group. Daily Accompaniment.
A Free Call
A 20-minute conversation to hear where you are, understand what your family is facing, and discern whether daily mentorship is the right next step.
Daily Dialogue Begins
Through Voxer, a private voice-message app, you share what's happening in real time. I respond within 24 hours with grounded insight, practical guidance, and steady presence. Monday through Friday.
Lasting Transformation
Over time, you build new patterns. Responding from calm instead of fear, seeing beneath behaviors, and restoring peace in your home. Your exchanges are recorded, so breakthroughs stay with you.
You Don't Have to Do This Alone
Schedule a Free CallNo commitment. Just a conversation about where you are.
Questions Parents Are Asking
What do I do between my child's eating disorder therapy sessions?
This is the question most parents are asking, and the one with the fewest good answers. Your child's therapist provides the clinical framework, but the disorder lives in the 167 hours between appointments. Daily mentorship gives you steady guidance for mealtimes, emotional regulation, and the moments when you don't know what to say. It's the between-session support that most treatment plans assume but don't provide.
What is eating disorder mentorship, and how is it different from coaching or therapy?
Therapy is clinical treatment for the child. Coaching is often about advice and toolsets. Accompaniment is something different: it is about steady, calm presence. It focuses on the parent as the safe place. By walking alongside you day by day, we help you move from a home shaped by fear to one where restoration can begin.
Is it my fault my child has an eating disorder?
No. You did not cause this. Eating disorders are complex, shaped by biology, temperament, social pressure, and often anxiety or perfectionism that predates any parenting decision. But here's what the research does show: when the parent heals, the whole family begins to shift. Your guilt is understandable. Your healing matters. And you don't have to carry either one alone.
Is there daily support available for parents of children with eating disorders?
Until now, the answer was effectively no. Treatment centers focus on the child. Peer support groups meet weekly at best. Therapists have full caseloads. AccompanyMe was built specifically to fill this gap with daily, personalized mentorship through voice messaging, designed for mothers who need steady guidance between clinical appointments.
The 167-Hour Guide
What to do between your child's therapy sessions, from the morning wake-up to the midnight worry. A daily framework for mothers navigating eating disorders.
The 167-Hour Guide
PDF Guide. Morning grounding, mealtime scripts, afternoon calm, evening debrief, and what to do when the guilt hits.