Therapy for Disordered Eating &
Body Image Recovery
You may spend more time than you want thinking about food, weight, exercise, or how your body looks. Maybe you know intellectually that your worth is not determined by your appearance, but that understanding has not changed how you feel. You might find yourself caught in cycles of disordered eating, compulsive exercise, or harsh self-criticism.
Therapy can help you understand the patterns underneath these struggles and help you develop a more flexible, compassionate relationship with food, your body, and yourself.
My Approach
My approach to eating and body-image concerns is warm, collaborative, weight-inclusive, and individualized.
I work with people who are struggling with disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, chronic dieting, or an eating-disorder history, as well as those who may not identify with a diagnosis but feel that food and appearance take up too much mental space.
Together, we may explore the experiences, relationships, cultural messages, and internal rules that shaped how you learned to relate to food and your body.
Depending on your needs, our work may also include reducing rigid food rules, body checking, comparison, perfectionism, and self-criticism.
The goal is not perfect body confidence. It is greater freedom, flexibility, and trust in yourself.
Areas I Can Help With
Body Image
Develop a less critical & more flexible relationship with your body
Chronic Dieting
Step out of cycles of dieting, rules, and “starting over”
Eating Disorder Recovery
Support ongoing recovery and reduce behaviors that keep you stuck
Restriction & Food Rules
Build greater flexibility and trust around eating
Exercise & Body Image
Explore movement when it has become tied to guilt, fear, or self-worth
Life-Stage Body Changes
Navigate changes related to aging, pregnancy, postpartum, illness, or other transitions
Self-Worth & Appearance
Separating identity and value from weight, shape, or attractiveness
Body Checking & Comparison
Reducing preoccupation with appearance and comparison to others
Relationship Concerns
Navigating connection and communication during eating disorder recovery
Areas We Can Explore More Deeply
Healing Your Relationship With Your Body After Years of Dieting
You may have spent years trying to change, control, or manage your body—and feel exhausted by how much mental space it still occupies.
Therapy can help you understand the beliefs and patterns underneath chronic dieting, body dissatisfaction, comparison, and self-criticism while building a more flexible relationship with your body.
Body Image, Motherhood & Breaking the Cycle
You may want your children to grow up with a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies, while realizing that your own body-image history is still very much with you.
Therapy can help you understand what you inherited, work through the patterns you no longer want to carry forward, and create something different for yourself and your family.
Moving Forward
You do not need to feel completely ready to give up body dissatisfaction, food rules, or the wish that your body were different in order to begin this work.
Therapy can be a place to understand these struggles with curiosity rather than judgment and gradually create more room for flexibility, self-trust, and a fuller life outside of food and appearance.
If you are ready to begin, I’d be glad to support you in taking the next step.
Psychotherapy Notes: Musings from a therapist
