No two people need the same thing. Here is what I draw on.
WHERE IT STARTS
Not really about food.
Eating disorders are not really about food. They are responses to pain, identity, attachment, and the search for safety. Understanding that takes time, and an eating disorder does not wait. So we work on both from the start: what is happening with food now, and what the eating disorder has been doing for you underneath. Each makes the other possible.
HOW I WORK
The therapeutic approaches I use
My approach is integrative, with a psychodynamic foundation. What follows is not a menu, and it is not a sequence. I draw on all of it, from the beginning, in whatever proportion each person needs.
The foundation
Everything else rests on this.
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Psychodynamic and relational therapy
Eating disorders rarely exist in isolation. This approach explores the deeper emotional roots beneath eating disorder behaviors, looking at patterns that developed over time and what the eating disorder may be communicating that words haven't been able to say yet. Together, we examine how early experiences and relationships shape the way you think and feel today, and what it might mean to relate to yourself and your body differently. The relationship between us is part of the work too. How it feels to be seen and understood here, and what happens when that goes well or falls short, tells us a great deal about how you relate to yourself and to others. This is slow, careful work that creates lasting change from the inside out.
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Attachment-informed therapy
Attachment theory helps us understand how early relationships shape a person's sense of safety, self-worth, and connection to others. In therapy, we use this lens to understand how those early patterns may be showing up now in the way you relate to food, your body, and the people around you. Eating disorders are often deeply relational, and healing frequently involves not just changing behaviors but rebuilding a more secure relationship with yourself. Understanding where these patterns came from is often the first step toward loosening their hold.
Practical tools
Understanding alone does not change what happens at dinner. These do.
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Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E)
CBT-E is the most researched treatment for eating disorders, and I draw on it from the beginning. It gives us a clear way to look at the patterns that keep an eating disorder in place and to start changing them. That includes exposure work, which means facing feared foods, situations, and body experiences in steps, with support, until they stop running the show. I do not run it as a fixed protocol. I use its structure and tools inside a therapy that stays exploratory, so the practical changes you make are connected to what they mean to you.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT provides practical, concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress without turning to harmful behaviors, and building more stable relationships. It is especially useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when the eating disorder is connected to self-harm, impulsivity, or difficulty regulating feelings. Rather than asking you to simply stop a behavior, DBT teaches you what to do instead, building a toolkit you can reach for in the hardest moments. The goal is a life that feels worth living, not just a life free of symptoms.
When families are involved
For teens especially, a parent's support is the most necessary thing there is. These approaches make that support workable.
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Family-Based Treatment (FBT)
FBT is one of the most effective, evidence-based approaches for adolescents with eating disorders. Rather than placing the burden of recovery on your teen, this model recognizes that parents are the most powerful resource in early recovery, and puts the family at the center of treatment. Together, we work to restore nourishment first, then gradually return autonomy to your teen as their health stabilizes, and finally shift focus toward the developmental work of adolescence. FBT is especially well-suited when the eating disorder is still relatively recent or when medical stabilization is a priority.
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Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
Eating disorders thrive in disconnection. EFFT is built on the understanding that when caregivers feel equipped and emotionally present, they become one of the most powerful forces in their child's recovery. This approach helps parents and loved ones move through their own fear, grief, and helplessness so they can show up with the kind of calm, attuned presence that makes it safer for their child to let go of the eating disorder. We work on emotion coaching skills, repair after difficult moments, and rebuilding the relational trust that eating disorders so often erode.
What guides all of it
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Weight-neutral, HAES-informed care
My practice is grounded in Health at Every Size principles and informed by Intuitive Eating. These are not treatments in themselves. They are the values every treatment decision runs through. I do not use weight as a measure of health or recovery, and I will not encourage restriction or dieting in any form. Instead, we work toward rebuilding trust with your body, making peace with food, and releasing the rules that have kept you stuck.
WHAT IT'S LIKE
Working together
​My sessions are exploratory and collaborative. I don't come in with a script. I follow what you bring: the things you haven't been able to say out loud, the patterns you've started to notice, the moments that surprised you. And I work alongside you to understand what they mean.
I will create space for things to unfold slowly when that's what's needed. I will also name what I'm seeing when I think it will help. If something feels important, I'll say so.
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Many people who come to eating disorder therapy are not entirely sure they want to be there. A part of them does. Another part is frightened, attached to the disorder, or not convinced that recovery is possible for them. That is not a problem. That is the work. I will not push you toward a version of recovery you haven't had a chance to want yet. We start where you actually are.​​
WORKING AS A TEAM
Eating disorders affect the body as well as the mind, so I always recommend a team: a physician for medical monitoring, a registered dietitian who specializes in eating disorders, and a psychiatrist when medication is part of the picture. I coordinate with them directly so the plan stays consistent, and if you do not have these providers yet, I will help you find them.
STARTING THERAPY
What early sessions look like
Early in treatment, I often recommend meeting more frequently. This is not about intensity for its own sake. It is about building the kind of consistency that interrupts entrenched patterns before they can reassert themselves. Research shows that early progress, even small shifts, is one of the strongest predictors of long-term recovery.
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Our first full session is a comprehensive assessment. I want to understand your history, your relationship with food, your support system, what you've tried before, and what you are hoping for. It is also a chance for you to get a sense of what working with me feels like.
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From there, we build a treatment plan together, one that reflects your goals, your pace, and where you are right now. As things become more stable, we adjust the rhythm to fit your life and support ongoing growth.
INSURANCE
Out-of-Network
Superbill provided
PAYMENT
Credit & debit​​
cards accepted
SESSION FEE
$250
per session
SESSION LENGTH
45 minutes