Disordered Eating & Body Image
Recently, you might’ve been told to get on a GLP-1, and now you’re stuck in that spiral of “should I?” or “should I not?” (After all, everyone’s doing it. What the hell, right?)
And underneath all of this, there’s something you might not want to admit: it’s hard to separate your worth from how you look.
My role isn’t to tell you what you should do with your body—that’s not helpful, and it’s not the point. I’m here to help you understand where the beliefs about your body came from and support you in making choices that actually feel aligned with you and your values. Most people have been taught to override or ignore their body’s innate wisdom and signals. Therapy is an opportunity to relearn how to actually listen—to your hunger, your needs, your limits, your internal cues—and respond with a more compassionate voice instead of constant criticism, shame, and judgment.
Step one is just showing up. If you can do that, we move to step two: staying open to being challenged (continuing to show up) and getting curious about what’s coming up for you outside of session. That’s where we can start to go deeper.
We’ll begin by looking at your body story: when you first became aware of your body, when comparison started, or when you learned your body wasn’t good enough as it is—and how all of that has shaped your self-worth, confidence, and how you see yourself today.
This work is intentional and honest. There will be parts of you that do not want to let things go—and instead of pushing past that, we get curious about it and work with it. My role is to be there with you in all of the complicated feelings and challenge you when you need it, because both are part of what creates real, lasting change.
Over time, you can build something different: a relationship with your body that feels like you are working with it instead of always fighting it.
- Get relief from constantly thinking about how you look, how you take up space, and what you’re eating all day
- Identify your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions about your body—and understand where they actually came from (like family, society, religion, or past experiences)
- Start exploring and challenging the narratives you’ve been carrying about your body and your worth. And decide what narratives actually align with you and your values
- Recognize and unpack internalized fatphobia—and grieve the impact it’s had on how you see yourself and move through the world
- Stop waiting to live your life until you lose weight and start showing up for things that matter to you now, like dating, friendships, hobbies, and travel
- Learn how to trust your body’s cues again—hunger, fullness, needs, and boundaries—instead of constantly overriding or fighting them
- Start dressing your body in clothes that actually fit your current body and make you feel good
- Build confidence and identity that isn’t tied to the size of your body and how you look—so your life isn’t constantly centered around trying to “fix” or change yourself
That’s completely okay and honestly, very normal. We’re not jumping straight to “love your body.” That’s not realistic when there have been years or decades of body shame and judgment. First, we focus on building awareness of our body and attuning to it, reducing shame, and moving toward body neutrality so your body doesn’t feel like something you’re constantly at war with.
This work includes confidence—but it doesn’t stop there. True confidence isn’t just about how you think; it’s about how you relate to your body, your emotions, and your sense of self as a whole. We’re looking at your relationship with your body, your identity, your beliefs about worth, and how all of that has been shaped over time. The goal isn’t just to feel better about your body—it’s to feel more grounded, more connected, and less consumed by it.
Yes—food and body image are often deeply connected. Many clients don’t even realize they have disordered eating tendencies because it’s just something they’ve been doing forever, or it’s been reinforced as normal by society, family, or even sometimes medical providers. We’ll look at your patterns with food, your beliefs about food, and thoughts around eating, and how those connect to your emotions and your relationship with your body. If eating disorder-specific support is needed, you can learn more about my eating disorder therapy work here.
Yes, it can. For many people, their relationship with their body and food is connected to deeper emotional experiences. Things like control, shame, disconnection from your body, or feeling unsafe can all play a role. That’s why I believe in going beyond the surface—we look at how your experiences may be influencing what’s showing up now.
If you want to learn more, you can also learn more about my trauma work here.
I’ve worked extensively with clients struggling with body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders. I bring a weight-inclusive, trauma-informed approach into this work—because this isn’t just about feeling better in a surface-level way. It’s about feeling better at a core level, where your mind and body feel more connected and less like they’re constantly working against each other.
I seek to understand—and help you understand—the deeper patterns, beliefs, and experiences that have shaped how you relate to yourself and your body, and how that shows up in your relationship with food.
This is work I’m deeply experienced in—and I tailor it to each client and where you are in your own body journey, because no two experiences are the same. I also bring my own lived experience with body image, eating disorder recovery, and living in a larger body into this work in a thoughtful, relational way. You won’t be working with someone who hasn’t walked this path. I continue to do this work myself so I can stay grounded in it alongside you.
Yes! I work with people of all sizes, genders, and identities—and working with clients in larger bodies is definitely a core part of my work. I understand how often people in larger bodies are dismissed, misunderstood, or told to “just lose weight,” whether that’s in healthcare spaces, relationships, or even past therapy experiences.
This is a space where your experiences are taken seriously, independent of your body size. We focus on your relationship with your body, food, and overall well-being—not trying to shrink you.
Eating disorders are clinical diagnoses—like anorexia, bulimia, ARFID, or binge eating disorder—that meet specific criteria according to the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual). Disordered eating, on the other hand, includes many of the same patterns present in eating disorders, including restriction, binging, food anxiety, or obsession with weight, but may not meet full diagnostic criteria. That said, the impact can feel just as overwhelming. You don’t need a diagnosis for your relationship with food or your body to deserve support.
If you’re wondering whether your experience might fall more into an eating disorder, you can learn more about my work with eating disorders here.
My work is grounded in a weight-inclusive, intuitive eating, and Health at Every Size® (HAES®)-aligned approach. That means instead of asking, “How do we change your body?” we’re asking, “How do we support your health, your relationship with food, and your quality of life—right now, in the body you have?”
In practice, that can look like exploring where your beliefs about your body came from, challenging internalized narratives (including fatphobia), rebuilding trust in your body’s cues and your body’s abilities to handle the food, and learning how to make choices with food and movement that feel aligned with you (ones that aren’t driven by shame, fear, or pressure anymore).
And because this work often connects to deeper emotional experiences, we don’t ignore that. If trauma or nervous system patterns are part of what’s showing up, I may incorporate somatic work or Brainspotting to help you process what’s underneath so you’re not just thinking your way through it. You can learn more about my approach to working with trauma here.
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