Therapy for Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating

Professional care to help you live a nourishing life

Has food taken over your brain?

You go to bed stressing about what you ate that day, aching with fear, guilt, and shame. You spend dinner with friends only half-listening to what they’re saying, furiously calculating the nutrition facts of the chips and salsa on the table. You count down the minutes until your kids and partner go to bed, then end up secretly eating snack after snack, hiding the evidence. You purge, exercise, or abuse medications in a panic to try and “get rid of” your last meal.

You are in a never-ending quest to get smaller and smaller, but find the only thing shrinking is your life.

Recovery Swing

There is a way out

Here’s what eating disorder recovery can look like:

  • Feeling free from the tyranny of the scale.

  • Eating tasty food that sounds satisfying in the moment, and then forgetting about it a few hours later.

  • Your body size stabilizing so you can finally buy clothes that fit (and that will continue to fit!)

  • Exercising in a way that feels fun and energizing to you - not based on some external measurement.

  • Having enough energy to get through your day again.

But that’s the obvious stuff. Here’s what else recovery can look like:

  • Being able to feel your feelings and tolerate the uncomfortable ones.

  • Feeling honest and trustworthy again.

  • Having real, vulnerable, “lean-on-me” kinds of relationships.

  • Feeling confident in your own skin.

  • Reconnecting with joy, pleasure, and fun!

So how do we get there?

Honestly, through a lot of hard and probably quite painful work.

BUT

You can do hard things

(and you won’t be alone)

Here is what to expect in our work together. We will:

  • Explore underlying issues surrounding your food concerns (hint, it’s never just about the food!)

  • Practice new tools to manage difficult emotions that don’t involve food, purging, or exercise.

  • Explore what healthy relationships look like and how to build them for yourself.

  • Uncover what you really value in life, and start to take steps to bring your life more in line with these values.