SPECIALTY · DISORDERED EATING
You don't need a diagnosis to deserve support.
Maybe you don't identify with a specific label, but you know that food, eating, or your body is taking up more space in your mind than you would like. It may be showing up in quiet ways like skipping meals, feeling out of control around food, or never quite feeling at peace with what you eat. Whether you are here for yourself or someone you love, that awareness alone is enough of a reason to reach out.
YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE THIS
What disordered eating feels like from the inside.
Maybe you don't fit neatly into a category, but food still takes up more mental space than you would like. It doesn't feel serious enough to call it a problem. And yet it is affecting your life.
You think about food, your weight, or your body more than feels comfortable, often throughout the day.
You have a complicated history with dieting, restriction, or emotional eating that has never fully been resolved.
Food feels like it carries a moral weight such as "good foods", "bad foods," "foods you should not have eaten."
You eat differently when you are stressed, lonely, bored, or overwhelmed, and feel worse about yourself afterward.
You have tried to change your relationship with food before, but it always drifts back to the same patterns.
UNDERSTANDING DISORDERED EATING
What is Disordered Eating?
Disordered eating refers to a range of irregular or unhealthy eating behaviors that cause distress or impairment but do not meet the full criteria for a diagnosed eating disorder. This includes chronic dieting, emotional eating, significant food preoccupation, and a troubled relationship with food that quietly diminishes your quality of life.
It is estimated that far more people struggle with disordered eating than with clinically diagnosed eating disorders. These quieter struggles receive less attention, but they cause real suffering and they respond to treatment.
SYMPTOMS
Some Common Signs of Disordered Eating:
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Chronic dieting or yo-yo dieting
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Significant food preoccupation
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Guilt or shame after eating
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Skipping meals or restricting
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Emotional or stress eating
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Rigid "good food/bad food" thinking
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Eating past fullness regularly
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Using food to manage emotions
TREATMENT
How I approach disordered eating.
This work is exploratory and compassionate. We look at what role food has been playing in your emotional life, where those patterns came from, and what a more peaceful relationship with eating might look like for you.
Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E)
We identify the thought patterns and behavioral cycles that maintain disordered eating and work systematically to build more flexible, compassionate responses to food and your body.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
We explore the emotional roots of your relationship with food. We look at what it soothes, what it manages, and how those patterns developed over time. Understanding the function of disordered eating is an important step to changing it.
Intuitive Eating Principles
Informed by intuitive eating, we work toward rebuilding trust with your body. I will help you begin recognizing hunger and fullness cues, making peace with food, and releasing the rules that have kept you stuck in a cycle of restriction and reaction.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked
Questions
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Is disordered eating serious enough to go to therapy for?
Yes. You do not need to be in crisis or have a formal diagnosis to benefit from therapy. If your relationship with food is affecting your quality of life, your mood, or your sense of self, that is enough reason to seek support.
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That is exactly the kind of question we can explore together. In our first sessions, we will do a thorough assessment to understand your history and what is going on. Whatever we find, the work is worthwhile.
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Will you put me on a meal plan or tell me what to eat?
No. Prescribing what or how much to eat is the role of a registered dietitian, not a therapist. My work focuses on your emotional and psychological relationship with food. I can refer you to a dietitian if that would be a helpful part of your care.
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Do you take insurance?
I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. A superbill is provided, which you can submit to your insurance for possible out-of-network reimbursement. I recommend contacting your insurance provider to understand your out-of-network benefits before we begin.
SESSION LENGTH
SESSION FEE
PAYMENT
INSURANCE
45 minutes
$250
Credit & debit
Out-of-Network
per session
cards accepted
Superbill provided