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Disordered Eating Therapy

Restore your relationship with food, exercise, and your body

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Disordered Eating

You’re wondering if everyone feels this way about food. Maybe you’re just starting to feel like something is off or you’ve been trying to recover from your eating disorder for years — we can work on this together. It can feel so isolating trying to heal your relationship with food in a culture that offers a new diet daily. Between my experience working in an intensive eating disorder treatment program and private practice, I’m comfortable meeting folks at any point of their healing process. I can help you escape diet culture, embrace food freedom, and bring some joy back into eating.

What if you could:

  • Eat without food rules or restrictions

  • Enjoy cooking, baking or trying new restaurants again

  • Step off the diet conveyor belt

  • Trust your cravings, hunger or fullness cues

  • Free up some brain space consumed by food obsessions

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Are you a former athlete trying to figure out how people exercise without the motivation of a team, coach, or games? Maybe you’re currently in your sport and feeling like something has changed with your love of the game. Maybe you’re noticing some obsessive thoughts about exercise or you can’t find movement you enjoy since you’ve always thought exercise had to feel like punishment. You might entirely avoid exercise spaces because you’re worried you’ll be judged.

It’s possible to:

  • Enjoy exercise in whatever form that takes for you

  • Get the mental health benefits of movement without all the diet culture noise

  • Embrace rest without feeling like you’re doing something wrong

  • Feel empowered & connected to your body

  • Stop associating exercise with “earning” food

Disordered Exercise

Body Image

Do you think about your body constantly? It’s hard getting dressed in the morning, you avoid being in pictures, and you can’t stop comparing yourself to everyone around you. You probably grew up hearing people criticize their bodies and maybe inherited some anti-fat bias that feels horribly misaligned with your values. You don't want to think this way and would love to feel more accepting of your body so it didn’t take up so much brain space. The relationship you have with your body is the longest one you’ll ever be in — it’s time to work on it.

Let’s work towards:

  • Untangling anti-fat bias so you can understand and challenge your beliefs about bodies

  • Treating your body with respect, even while you’re working through judgments

  • Learning how to trust your body

  • Bringing back things you’ve been avoiding because of negative body image

  • Creating distance from diet culture through opting out of toxic conversations or content

  • It’s something we could figure out together. I see folks who are just starting to wonder if something isn’t working with food or exercise all the way to people who have been working on healing from their eating disorder for years. I can explain all the different ways eating disorders show up and determine together whether that might be going on for you.

    Quick note about diagnoses: A diagnosis can help with self-understanding and it’s required for insurance purposes, but my treatment approach doesn’t change whether you have disordered eating or an eating disorder.

  • We first understand when and how behaviors started to develop. We look’ll at the impact of diet culture, family/friends/cultural influences, and explore any moments that changed how you felt about your body, exercise or food. We will figure out what’s keeping you stuck now and slowly work towards changing how you nourish and treat your body.

    You can read more about therapy approaches I’d incorporate here.

  • Probably not but sometimes that’s key for figuring out what you want your relationship with exercise to be like long-term. When someone is struggling with an eating disorder, I work closely with other providers on the team (dietitians, psychiatrists, physicians), and I look to their guidance for exercise recommendations because they’re the experts on what’s safe.

    I believe movement can be healing for anyone who wants it in their life but sometimes we need space to understand how it’s helping or hurting us.

  • You can contact me here to schedule a free consult. We’ll chat for about 15 minutes about your therapy needs and ensure we’re a good fit before scheduling. Item description

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