Specialties
Eating Disorders
If food, movement, or your body has taken up more of your head than you want it to, you are in the right place.
What this actually looks like from the inside
It rarely announces itself. More often it looks like rules that keep multiplying, a running tally you never agreed to keep, and a growing list of foods, places, or situations that have quietly become complicated.
It can look like being praised for discipline while feeling secretly out of control. It can look like eating normally in front of people and not at all when you are alone. It can look like exercise that started as joy and became an obligation you are afraid to miss.
None of that requires a diagnosis to be worth taking seriously. Most people who come to me have spent a long time deciding they were not sick enough to ask for help, which is one of the more reliable symptoms of the thing itself.
You might recognize
Some of the quieter signs
You do not need to check every box. Most people check a few, and hesitate over the rest.
- Thinking about food or your body most of the day
- Rules about what, when, or how much is allowed
- Guilt or panic after eating
- Exercising to earn or undo food
- Avoiding meals with other people
- Weighing or body checking repeatedly
- Feeling out of control around certain foods
- Fatigue, feeling cold, missed periods, or injuries that will not heal
What I want you to know
It is not your fault, and it is not permanent
Why it happened
Life is hard, and our minds do the very best they can to cope with it. A disordered pattern with food or movement is a strategy that made sense at some point, not a personal failing.
Eating disorders do not discriminate by gender, age, socioeconomic status, ability, race, or ethnicity. They are also not a choice or a lifestyle, whatever anyone has implied to you.
Where we start
I believe in health at every size, that all foods fit into a balanced life, and that movement should bring joy rather than feel like a chore. That is the ground we begin from, not a destination you have to reach first.
Recovery is not comfortable and it is not linear, but it is real, and it is worth the discomfort of starting.
At your pace
Nothing here happens faster than you can bear
Recovery is nuanced and personal. It moves at the speed your nervous system can tolerate, and pushing past that is what makes people quit.
Where to next
The clinical detail, if you want it
Eating Disorder Therapy
What treatment involves, the diagnoses I work with, and how I approach the work.
Eating Disorder Therapy for Athletes
If sport is part of the picture, including RED-S, underfueling, and return to competition.
Body Image Therapy
If the body part of this is the loudest part, with or without the eating.
Trusted Resources
Books, podcasts, and organizations I recommend, whether or not we ever work together.
For the people around you
If you are here about someone else
Lead with what you have noticed and what you are worried about, not with food or weight. Then listen non-judgmentally and with an open mind, so you can support them the way they need rather than the way you assume they need. That last part is where most well-meaning conversations go wrong.
You do not have to be sure before you reach out
A free 15 minute consultation costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.
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