Therapy for Eating Disorders
Learn to Nourish Yourself
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.
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
About Me
Licensed clinician · 25 years of experience
In person: Providence, RI
Telehealth: RI, NY, WI, and ME
I know firsthand how draining and frustrating relationships can be, even with the people I love dearly. That’s part of why I do this work — I’m not standing outside the problem.
I’m a licensed counselor in Rhode Island, New York, Wisconsin, and Maine, and I’ve worked as a psychotherapist for 25 years, primarily in the area of relational trauma
Before that, I was an actor. I fell in love with the stage as a child because it let me step into someone else’s experience and live there for a while. This work is a continuation of that same reach.
Common Questions
I’m out of network, and I provide a superbill you can submit to your insurance for reimbursement. Many plans cover a portion of out-of-network mental health care once your deductible is met.
$250 for couples, $200 for individuals. Sessions are a full 60 minutes.
What does a session cost?
Do you take insurance?
Do you see clients in person or online?
In person in Providence and Rhode Island, or by video if that’s easier for you. I’m also licensed in New York, Wisconsin, and Maine, and see clients by video in those states.
All sessions are a FULL hour. Initially I request that you attend weekly so that we can get momentum going. I am also happy to flex to your schedule needs.
How long is a session, and how often do we come?
Book a free 20-minute call. We’ll talk about what’s going on and whether I’m the right fit — no obligation. I respond to all inquiries within