Therapy for Eating Disorders
Behind your eating disorder is a deeply protective part that believes it’s helping, not hurting you.
Most likely your struggles with food developed as strategies for self-preservation—a way to cope with trauma, relationship pain or sensory overwhelm. Your relationship with food became a stand-in for the connection and attunement you were missing. It helped you emotionally regulate when your insides were a storm.
Now you’re stuck. You understand these strategies are harmful and unsustainable but it’s hard to let them go. The protection your eating disorder promised created barriers to internal nourishment, limiting your capacity to connect with those you love.
You can learn to nourish yourself.
How I Help:
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Finding Peace
I work with clients who use their relationship with eating, food, and nourishment to cope with historical trauma, attachment wounds, and sensory overwhelm. Your eating disorder is not you—it’s a protective part that stepped in when relationships failed to provide the safety and acceptance you needed. My hope is to offer a space for curiosity, clarity and compassion to your eating disordered part as we work.
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An Embodied Approach
My approach draws from the Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) model, bringing the body back into treatment and honoring relational context. We’ll befriend your body as a tool in treatment, honoring the wisdom in your movements, breath, and sensations. This is about body justice—recognizing that your body deserves compassion and holds vital information about what you need in relationships.
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Self-energy as Healer
You already have what it takes to recover. Self-energy is healing energy. Using IFS concepts, we’ll get curious about your relationship with food, your body, and your history of relationships, familial and otherwise. As you strengthen your relationship with yourself, you’ll find it easier to show up authentically with others. We’ll unburden the belief that obeying your eating disorder is the only way to stay safe in relationships.
After our work together, clients often experience:
Greater understanding about self-nourishment as a tool in recovery
The ability to challenge set stories and rules around their eating disorder and sense of self-worth
Deeper, more authentic connection to self and others
The capacity to express needs and emotions in relationships rather than through food
Development of a neutral or confident sense of their body as an integrated part of self
The ability to nourish both body and mind as a unified whole, accessing inner wisdom versus rigid external rules