Therapists

Katie Peterman, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist who specializes in working with adolescents and adults recovering from eating disorders, as well as those who have suffered from chronic dieting and body shame and are seeking to feel more at peace with food and in their bodies. When working with teens, Katie has advanced training in Adolescent-Focused Therapy for eating disorders and is certified in Family-Based Therapy for Anorexia.

I am a HAES and anti-diet focused treatment provider of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for eating disorders (CBT-E), Family Based Treatment for adolescents with eating disorders (FBT) & Body-positive parenting. I also co-host a weekly podcast about body-positive parenting routed in HAES for the whole family. .

I provide client-centered care that helps individuals engage in their lives in a way that feels authentic and whole. I value creating therapeutic spaces in which my clients feel that all of them is welcome – the good, the bad, the healing, the trying, and everything in-between. My goal for my clients is to help them live a life of value and to feel they have the tools and skills they need to “live a life worth living,” as DBT founder Marsha Linahan would say. I want my clients to know their worth, their value, and their brave, so they can live lives full of love, belonging, and acceptance.

Systemic, collaborative, holistic care utilizing the HAES philosophy; Existential, empowerment-focused healing in a safe and supportive counseling experience; Utilizing the creative arts, music, and informed consumerism and advocacy.

Three Birds Counseling & Clinical Supervision provides Fat Positive, Queer Affirming, Faith Affirming and Trauma-Informed therapy and Clinical Supervision in English and Spanish. All providers specialize in eating disorders and body image concerns, are trained in a trauma protocol (i.e., EMDR, Brainspotting, TFCBT, IFS, DBT, DCT), and operate from a Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating approach. We provide hardship evaluations in English and Spanish for loved ones of individuals facing deportation or seeking asylum and gestational carrier/donor candidate evaluations and consultation. We also help those walking the scary and painful path of infertility and pregnancy loss, and the exhausting experience of anxiety and trauma, both of which often overlap body and food concerns.

Navigating parenthood can be an extremely difficult in many areas, but navigating a healthy relationship with food and body in yourself and your children often proves to be overwhelming in our culture. My role would be to support you as a parent in finding food and body freedom from rules, restriction, and harm associated with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image issues. I primarily utilize a systems approach and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in helping those in individual, parenting, and group sessions.

I utilize a strengths-based, eating disorder and Health at Every Size informed approach to therapy and parent coaching. I am certified to lead the Confident Body Confident Child program, which is evidence-based to help parents guide their child in developing a healthy relationship with food without negatively affecting their child's body image. I am also a certified trainer and leader of The Body Project, which helps teenage girls challenge the "appearance ideal" by developing cognitive dissonance between societal ideals of beauty and the girl's own values. I use these trainings and my experience working in the eating disorder field to help support parents who are trying to raise their children to be body confident and have a healthy, flexible relationship to food.

I believe parents can be the strongest ally in a child's recovery from an eating disorder and I provide therapeutic services to the entire family system.