My Specialties
Every woman I work with is different. These are the areas I work with most often. If you don't see your struggle listed here, please reach out anyway. If I can't help, I'll point you in the right direction.
Body Image & Disordered Eating
For the woman who is done letting what she ate yesterday decide how she feels today
You are tired of your life revolving around what you have eaten, how you look, and what you weigh. Food takes up so much space in your head that sometimes you wonder what you would even think about if it wasn't there.
Avoiding social events because of what might be served
Feeling out of control around food and then drowning in guilt afterward
Criticizing your body every time you pass a mirror
Fixating on how your body looks rather than paying attention to how it actually feels
Telling yourself it is not bad enough to be a real problem
You do not need a diagnosis for your struggle to be real and worth addressing. If thoughts about food, your body, or your weight are taking up significant space in your mind and getting in the way of your life, that is enough.
What this can look like:
What You Learned Growing Up
So much of how we relate to food and our bodies was shaped long before we had any say in it. A mom who was always on a diet. A family that labeled foods as good or bad. Comments about your body at the dinner table that were probably meant kindly but landed differently. Growing up watching the women around you hate their own bodies and quietly learning that this was just what women did. And then social media handed you an endless stream of before and afters and other people's bodies to compare yourself to.
You absorbed all of it. That is not a character flaw. That is just what happens when you pay attention.
What Our Work Together Looks Like
In our work together, we use a Health at Every Size (HAES) approach and work towards body neutrality. Not body positivity, because being told to just “love your body” can feel completely out of reach when you have spent years at war with it. Body neutrality is simpler than that. It is about loosening the grip that your body's appearance has over your worth and your choices. Good days and bad days, just like any relationship, but no longer letting the number on the scale decide how the whole day goes.