Therapy for Eating Disorders
and Body Image Issues

In-person and virtual

You feel like food, eating, or your body takes up too much space in your mind and daily life.

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You spend a lot of time thinking about what you “should” or “shouldn’t” eat, or you feel disconnected from your body altogether. You might swing between feeling in control and completely out of control, or notice that how you feel about your body often dictates how your day goes. You may long to feel more at peace in your body and trust yourself with food again.

Can you relate?

  • Preoccupied with food or body image

  • Feeling out of control with food

  • Having "good" or "bad" foods

  • Having food rules or rituals

  • Hiding food

  • Over-exercising

  • Skipping meals

  • Experiencing guilt or shame after eating

  • Mirror or body checking

  • Obsessiveness with weighing self

  • Weighing or measuring food

  • Calorie counting

  • "Picky" eating

  • Fear around eating in front of others

  • Specific rules when eating around others

  • Purging by self-induced vomiting or by use of laxatives

  • Avoiding viewing yourself in the mirror or avoiding buying clothes that touch your body

I know that struggling with food or body image can feel overwhelming.
Trust me, I've got you.

Therapy for an eating disorder or body image can help you:

Reconnect with your body’s signals.

Build self-compassion.

Develop a relationship with food that feels flexible and nourishing rather than rigid or punishing.

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What To Expect

Our sessions together are collaborative. We’ll explore your current patterns with eating and body image, what they’ve helped you manage, and what you’d like to feel differently. We will focus on identifying triggers and building coping tools and we’ll work toward healing the deeper emotional wounds that fuel disordered eating and body image issues.

Together, we’ll work to understand the role that food and body image have played in your life, and begin to loosen the grip they have on your sense of self. Over time, my hope is that your thoughts about food or appearance take up less space, giving you the opportunity to be more present in the world around you.

Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs)

  • If you feel like food or your body image prevents you from living a fulfilled life, then you are in the right place. No matter how big or small your struggles feel, we can tackle them together.

  • Absolutely. Collaboration is key for recovery from an eating disorder. I'm more than happy to collaborate with your dietitian, physician, psychiatrist, or any other provider on your team.

  • While I don’t create meal plans, we’ll absolutely talk about food — what it represents, how it feels, and how you relate to it.

We can start wherever you are.

One of my favorite things about therapy is taking really small steps together.
One day you will look back and see how far those small steps have taken you to become the best version of yourself.

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