Body Image & Disordered Eating

Maybe you aren’t sure if you have disordered eating habits, but find you are spending too much time and emotional energy being critical and picking apart your body. You desperately want to feel more comfortable in your own skin, but trying positive affirmations just isn’t cutting it.

Living in a culture where image can seem to be everything at times, I help you challenge the ingrained tendency to compare to others, learn how to mute your self-critical voice, and move through other barriers impacting body image.

Whether it's “just negative body image”, an eating disorder, disordered eating, or chronic dieting, I want you to know it's more than just a “control issue” (either having too much or not enough control). I help you understand how your biology, personality traits, challenging or traumatic events in your life, family and cultural messages come together to impact your unhealthy relationship with food and body.

I believe in empowering and helping you practice compassion with yourself in this process as you learn new ways of dealing with what perpetuates your toxic relationship to your body, food, and/or exercise.

Even when you doubt it you can get better, I promise to be there with you.

Based on your needs, I work closely with dietitians, doctors, and psychiatrists to provide a multi-faceted and comprehensive team approach to your overall health.

Having worked outpatient to inpatient levels of care for eating disorder treatment in the Dallas area allows me to understand what is needed at each stage of recovery.  

I have clinical expertise in treating the following:

• anorexia nervosa

• atypical anorexia

• bulimia nervosa

• binge eating

• body image concerns

• chronic dieting

• compulsive eating

• compulsive exercising

• emotional eating

• disordered eating (concerns with body image, food, and exercise are less severe or pervasive)

• diabulimia

• orthorexia

• overexercising

• post-bariatric recovery