When so much of your day becomes organized around food, your body, exercise, or trying to "get it right," it can begin to feel like the eating disorder is making every decision for you.
Maybe you're exhausted by constantly thinking about food. Maybe eating feels filled with anxiety, guilt, or rules. Maybe your body feels like something you're always trying to change, control, or avoid, or maybe you’ve become disconnected from hunger, fullness, or even trusting yourself around food.
Eating disorders and disordered eating are rarely just about food. They often influence relationships, work or school, identity, self-worth, and the way you move through daily life. Even when part of you desperately wants freedom, another part may feel terrified to let go of the very behaviors that have helped you feel safe, in control, or protected.
Therapy for Eating Disorders & Body Image
I believe eating disorders often develop for reasons that make sense within the context of a person's life. While the behaviors may no longer be serving you in the ways they once did, they may have developed as an attempt to create safety, manage overwhelming emotions, establish predictability, cope with uncertainty, or navigate experiences that once felt too difficult to hold.
Rather than only asking, "How do we make this stop?" we'll also become curious about questions like:
What has the eating disorder been helping you manage?
How might it have attempted to protect you?
What needs has it been trying to meet?
What makes the idea of letting go feel so difficult?
Looking beyond the behaviors
Recovery that makes sense
Recovery isn't about forcing yourself to abandon something that has, in many ways, helped you survive.
It's about gradually building new ways of finding safety, navigating emotions, tolerating uncertainty, and learning how to communicate your needs without the need for the eating disorder to help you in these ways.
You may find yourself:
thinking about food, eating, exercise, or your body for much of the day.
feeling anxious, guilty, or overwhelmed around eating.
following food or exercise rules that feel increasingly difficult to break.
constantly negotiating with yourself about what, when, or how much to eat.
feeling like your mood depends on your weight, shape, appearance, or sense of control.
avoiding social situations because food feels stressful or unpredictable.
feeling disconnected from your body's hunger, fullness, or internal cues.
feeling exhausted by how much mental energy these struggles require.
wanting recovery while another part of you feels afraid to let go.
missing the freedom to be fully present in your relationships, work, school, or daily life.
You don't need to identify with every experience on this list to deserve support.
You may recognize yourself here
My approach
My work is collaborative, relational, warm, and grounded in evidence-based eating disorder treatment while remaining individualized to your unique experiences, values, and goals.
As a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant (CEDS-C), I've worked across outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, residential, and inpatient settings, supporting individuals throughout recovery while also training clinicians and strengthening eating disorder treatment programs.
That experience has reinforced something I believe deeply: no two eating disorders are exactly alike.
Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach, we'll work together to understand your story, your patterns, your emotions, and your relationship with food, your body, and yourself.
My goal isn't simply to help you stop eating disorder behaviors in the immediate, but it's to help you understand why they became necessary, so that we can build something that no longer requires them.
Begin your recovery
Seeking support can feel overwhelming, especially if a part of you isn't sure you're ready. You don't have to be completely certain and you don't have to feel "sick enough." If you're ready to begin understanding your relationship with food, your body, and yourself in a deeper way, I'd be honored to begin exploring this together.