Therapists

As a therapist treating Eating Disorders for over a decade at multiple levels of care, I have seen the challenges of feeding a child, self, or loved one in a nutritious yet flexible manner. Body acceptance and positive home environment are keys to success but I also treat the clinical components of Eating Disorders and mood disorders that trigger misuse of food. I am an advocate for body acceptance, intuitive eating, and viewing food as self-care. I utilize multiple treatment components including traditional CBT/DBT but more eclectic art therapy, book studies, and games to help teenage clients break free from maladaptive eating patterns.

Our world is filled with the intense pressures of diet culture and societal expectations, our relationship with food and our bodies often become deeply entangled with judgment, self-criticism, and compliance to these ideals. Often these hurdles obstruct our paths to self-fulfillment and inner peace.

I hold a firm belief: the power to heal and reconnect with our bodies in a kind and nurturing manner resides within us all. It's my purpose to guide you through this process of rediscovery and restoration, as we navigate the paths toward self-acceptance and genuine connection. I believe in working in a collaborative approach, we'll work toward dismantling harmful patterns, fostering a resilient relationship with nourishment, and working toward emotional and mental wholeness that honors both your uniqueness and your goals.

My goal is to empower my clients to reach their goals through evidenced-based practices and using the Health At Every Size approach to meet my clients with compassion and understanding. I believe in meeting my clients where they are in life and in their recovery journey.

I don’t subscribe to a universal treatment approach. That's why my intake process is more extensive compared to other sessions. My aim is to gain a thorough comprehension of each person's objectives, obstacles, disconnects, and connections. We work together in our treatment approach, ensuring we harness all evidence-based interventions and coping mechanisms that uniquely assist each individual on their personal journey.

I am a Health at Every Size, weight-neutral therapist who has a special interest in working with those suffering from eating disorders. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for eating disorders, and skills-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy. I work with clients of all ages to practice intuitive eating, body neutrality, and unlearn diet-culture rules. If one of your loved ones is suffering from an eating disorder, therapy can help you gain the skills and knowledge to best support them, as well as a place to discuss and manage the difficult emotions that may come up as you support their recovery.

My practice is grounded in a relational, feminist, and social justice framework. As a Health At Every Size practitioner, I bring an attuned lens to the ways that weight stigma disrupts all of our abilities to care for and live comfortably in our bodies. Working from an anti-diet and intuitive eating approach, I support individuals in exploring their relationship to food, eating and the body with curiosity and compassion.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor specialized in eating disorders and have worked at higher level of care for 8 years. I seek to foster personal empowerment toward values-driven action through counseling and psycho-education in both secular and church-related settings. My Christian faith is foundational to my personal and professional life, and my passion is to build on the bridge between psychology and Christian theology.

I see counseling as an opportunity for growth and healing which everyone deserves and can benefit from, no matter the issue. I view my role as a compassionate presence to come along-side and guide you in your own unique healing journey. I help my clients feel deeply understood and safe to make courageous change. While I draw from a variety of methods in order to provide individualize care, I primarily utilize a blend of ACT and CBT approaches: I love to assist clients in finding clarity, identify personal values, build motivation, and take the next step toward wholeness.

I am experienced working with individuals, groups, and families. In addition to specializing in eating disorders of all types, I am also trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy for trauma, Trauma-focused CBT, Exposure Therapy for OCD, Radically Open DBT, Emotion-focused Family Therapy, and Gender and Religious Identity Therapy.

I work with women who struggle with disordered eating and body image. I subscribe to HAES and strongly support intuitive eating as part of a framework for developing a healthy relationship with food and body. This work involves self-compassion, developing an internal awareness of behaviors, thoughts and emotions, through mindfulness, and unlearning food rules (among other things). I want to help you develop an overall sense of self awareness and strength to believe in yourself and assert your needs.

I am an anti-diet provider and believe in using a client-centered approach to meet individual needs. I am trained as a psychoanalyst and utilize analytic theories to help clients uncover lost standing beliefs that may need to be examined in order to create a more positive relationship to food and their bodies. I work with older adolescents and adults.