FAQS

No, you don’t need a formal diagnosis to benefit from eating disorder therapy. If you’re struggling with food, body image, or eating patterns that feel distressing or consuming, therapy can help you understand what’s going on and begin the recovery process.

I support individuals experiencing a range of eating disorders and disordered eating patterns, including binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, and chronic dieting. Therapy is tailored to your unique experience, whether or not you identify with a specific label.

Binge eating is often connected to restriction, emotional stress, or unmet needs. Therapy focuses on reducing shame, understanding triggers, and building more supportive coping strategies. Over time, this helps decrease the intensity and frequency of binge episodes.

Intuitive eating is a non-diet, evidence-based approach that helps you rebuild trust with your body by listening to hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues. If you struggle with chronic dieting, or feeling out of control around food, intuitive eating therapy can help you reconnect with yourself so that you can develop a more balanced, peaceful relationship with food.

Yes. Many people who seek intuitive eating therapy have spent years dieting or experiencing binge eating. These patterns are often rooted in restriction; physical or emotional. Therapy helps you understand those patterns, reduce food guilt, and gradually rebuild a sense of trust and stability with eating.

Everyone can start to adopt some of the principles of intuitive eating right away, however if you have symptoms of an eating disorder you may need to create more safety and stability both mentally and physically before diving right in.

Stability can be achieved through more structured and predictable eating approaches and deeper emotional work tailored for you by your therapist.  Then after a period of stability is reached and ED symptoms have decreased, intuitive eating can be a great option.

 It is more complex than that. While intuitive eating removes rigid food rules, it also emphasizes attunement to your body, emotional awareness, and self-care. Over time, this leads to more connected choices that allow you to life a full life without all the food noise.

Attachment-based therapy explores how early relationships shape the way you connect with others and yourself. If you find yourself struggling with trust, boundaries, or emotional closeness, this approach helps you understand those patterns and develop more secure, fulfilling relationships.

For many people, eating behaviors are closely tied to emotional regulation and relationships. Difficult attachment patterns can contribute to using food for comfort, control, or coping. Addressing these underlying patterns can be a key part of long-term healing.

If you feel preoccupied with food, experience guilt after eating, cycle between restriction and overeating, or struggle with body image, therapy can help. You don’t need to wait until things feel severe. Early support can make a meaningful difference.