Individual Psychotherapy
I offer psychotherapy that will help you break free of the exhausting food and body struggles. I will provide unfettered dedication to you and your journey of healing and freedom. Together, we will transform your relationship to your identity, food, and body into one of peace, trust, and self-compassion.
I absolutely believe that recovery is possible. You deserve to live without the mental chatter about appearance, food choices, and numbers.
I offer highly personalized and relational treatment for adults and teens who are ready to inhabit their bodies in a peaceful and attuned way.
Family Therapy
I provide family therapy and support for family members struggling with a loved one with BPD and/or an eating disorder. Drawing on over 10 years of experience, I help guide families in their recovery goals and processes.
Let’s start with a conversation, I offer a complimentary 20–30 minute consultation where we can connect, address your questions, and see if we’re a good fit for this important journey together. You don’t have to figure this out alone.
The Challenge
Combating body image and eating problems is strenuous, often frustrating work. Whatever your role in helping people make peace with their bodies, you’re working hard to mend disruptions in the natural, developmental process of positive embodiment. A disrupted relationship to the body can lead to poor self-care and overall life quality, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, self-harming behaviors such as cutting or suicide, substance abuse, dieting and weight cycling, and relationship violence.
“…repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defenses.”
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment designed for borderline personality disorder and related challenges such as substance use, self-harm, and eating disorders. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Mindful Self-Compassion
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teaches mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness as tools for emotional resilience. In therapy, MSC helps clients face suffering with awareness and warmth, responding to difficult emotions with empathy and understanding, and cultivating greater self-acceptance.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is a collaborative, non-pathologizing approach that views problems as separate from the person. It emphasizes the broader context of people’s lives and honors diverse experiences across culture, identity, and ability.
Feminist Psychotherapy
Feminist Psychotherapy centers the voices and experiences of those historically marginalized by dominant cultures. It views human experience through the lens of social and cultural realities, power dynamics, and systemic inequality, privileging silenced perspectives as vital sources of wisdom in the healing process.
The Body Positive
The Body Positive model is built on five core competencies: reclaiming health, practicing intuitive self-care, cultivating self-love, declaring authentic beauty, and building community. These principles empower individuals to trust their own authority as the foundation for positive change.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating present-moment awareness with openness and compassion, helping individuals respond to experiences with clarity rather than reactivity. As Pema Chödrön writes, “meditation gives us the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going on.”
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy explores the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Through self-reflection and the therapeutic relationship, it helps clients gain insight into patterns and create lasting change.
Self Psychology
Self Psychology focuses on self-image and primary relationships, examining how unmet needs shape behavior and identity. Drawing from psychoanalysis and object relations theory, it supports individuals struggling with self-image and identity challenges.