If you’re struggling with disordered eating, an eating disorder, or body image distress of any kind, you are not alone. I bring both professional training and lived experience to this work. I have my own history with disordered eating, and I consider myself a proud diet culture dropout. Through my personal and professional experiences, I’ve come to understand eating disorders not as individual failures, but as deeply shaped by cultural messaging about bodies, food, worth, and belonging - messaging rooted in anti-fatness and reinforced by many intersecting systems of oppression.
Anti-fatness refers to the widespread belief system that devalues fat bodies, treats thinness as morally or medically superior, and assigns greater worth, credibility, or safety to people in smaller bodies. It shows up in both subtle and overt ways across healthcare, media, education, and interpersonal relationships, and it often operates alongside racism, ableism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression.
In this context, I use the word fat as a neutral, descriptive term rather than a judgment. I follow fat liberation frameworks that reclaim “fat” from its use as an insult and instead use it in the same way one might use “tall” or “short.” This is intentional language that resists stigma and the assumption that body size carries inherent moral or health value.
Eating disorders do not develop in a vacuum. They are often connected to experiences of patriarchy, white supremacy, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other forms of marginalization. The pressure to conform, to be acceptable, and to have the “right” kind of body impacts people differently depending on their identities and lived experiences, but it can profoundly shape the way we relate to food, movement, and ourselves. Many disordered behaviors are understandable responses to this pressure rather than signs of weakness or vanity.
My approach is rooted in fat liberation and informed by feminism, queer and trans liberation, disability justice, and anti-racism. I also strongly align with Health at Every Size (HAES), a framework developed by the Association for Size Diversity and Health that centers people’s humanity and well-being rather than their weight. HAES emphasizes compassionate, evidence-informed care that supports people in caring for themselves without making weight loss the primary goal. Rather than assuming that body size determines health, HAES recognizes that health is complex and influenced by many factors, including stress, trauma, discrimination, access to resources, disability, genetics, community support, and socioeconomic conditions.
In our work together, I strive to create a space where weight is never treated as a measure of worth, health, or eating disorder severity. Eating disorders are frequently minimized or overlooked in people whose bodies are not considered “underweight,” particularly in people in larger bodies, people of color, disabled people, queer and trans people, and others who do not fit narrow stereotypes about what an eating disorder is supposed to look like. But if your relationship with food or your body is causing pain, shame, anxiety, isolation, or distress, that experience matters.
You deserve support, compassion, and care exactly as you are. Together, we can work toward a relationship with food and your body that feels more grounded in self-trust, freedom, and peace rather than shame, control, or punishment.
Feminist therapy helps us explore how systems such as anti-fatness, patriarchy, racism, ableism, heterosexism, and cissexism shape the ways we relate to food, movement, our bodies, and ourselves. Rather than locating the problem solely within the individual, this approach recognizes the broader cultural pressures and inequities that contribute to eating disorders and body shame. Together, we will work toward building self-trust, agency, and empowerment while navigating and resisting harmful cultural messages.
Eating disorder recovery requires adequate, consistent nourishment in bodies of all sizes. Depending on your needs, our work may focus on practical support around eating patterns and daily functioning, deeper emotional and relational factors contributing to the eating disorder, or both. I strongly value collaborative, multidisciplinary care and work closely with dietitians, primary care providers, psychiatrists, and other members of your treatment team when appropriate. If you are not already connected with affirming providers, I can offer referrals to professionals who practice from weight-inclusive, compassionate frameworks.
Existential therapy creates space to explore identity, meaning, values, freedom, and purpose outside of the eating disorder. Many clients discover that their relationship with food and their body is deeply connected to questions of deservingness, self-worth, control, authenticity, and belonging. Together, we can examine and gently challenge beliefs that may have taught you that nourishment, rest, pleasure, or joy must be earned.
I incorporate skills and interventions from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in flexible, non-pathologizing ways. This may include identifying thought patterns that are contributing to shame, rigidity, anxiety, or hopelessness, while also building practical coping skills rooted in mindfulness, emotional regulation, sensory grounding, distress tolerance, and self-compassion.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a trauma-focused approach that involves processing experiences through storytelling and having those experiences witnessed in a safe, supportive therapeutic relationship. Because trauma and eating disorders are so often interconnected, this work can help clients make sense of painful experiences, reconnect with their personal narratives, and reduce the impact trauma has on their relationship with food, their body, and themselves.
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