Services & Specialties

Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating

Our relationships with food and our bodies are deeply personal, cultural, emotional, practical, and embedded with so much meaning from the social environments we live in and messages we have received growing up. Your relationship with food isn't wrong. Your relationship with your body isn't wrong. You may feel otherwise for a whole host of reasons, but the work we do is to better understand your relationship to yourself, your needs for nourishment, and how you would like to relate to your body. We often have complicated relationships with food and our bodies for complex reasons such as trauma, living in chronic diet culture, growing up in restrictive food environments, grief, aging, medical reasons, and so much more.

What you need to know: This isn't your fault.

Breathe that in once more: This. Isn't. Your. Fault.

This might sound confusing as you may have thought your body or your eating patterns have been the problem all along. The great news is that we can slowly unpack food rules, our nuanced relationship with body image, and begin to explore what an embodied relationship with ourselves looks and feels like.

Gender Identity & Sexuality

Trying to understand and navigate the nuances of identity can be a complex and confusing process, full of questions and uncertainty. Therapy is a place where we can dig deep into questions regarding the vast spectrum of gender and sexuality so that you can better know yourself and live a life that is authentic to you. We are LGBTQIA+ affirming and knowledgeable. You are welcome to share your full lived experience and contemplations into this space.

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

If you’re one of the many individuals struggling with PCOS, it is likely you have been dealing with symptoms that often make you feel like a relationship with your body is difficult. You may be asking yourself how you can intimately befriend your body when you feel like it’s a battle zone filled with betrayal. I want you to know that as an individual with PCOS, I intimately know your struggles. The intersections of eating disorders, disordered eating, gender, fertility, weight stigma, body image distress, and mental health symptoms are at times incomprehensible and too much to deal with. I know your struggles with medical providers who are not up to date on their research for PCOS treatment and how it has harmed your relationship with your body, food, and feelings. Because PCOS is a lifelong disorder, unfortunately we cannot make it go away; however, together we can begin to explore ways to live with this condition, grieve, and begin to transform our relationship to our bodies and to symptoms of PCOS.

Together in therapy we can:

Grief

The world seems to stop when someone we love dies. Daily tasks that once seemed so simple have suddenly become mountainous. The outside world seems to somehow unfairly chime on while your internal world and entire living experience has changed. Where do we go from here? How do we cope and adjust to life among death? How do we move through spiritual changes that might happen in the process?

Grief is also not an emotion and experience reserved only for when a loved one dies. We can grieve our beloved pets. We can grieve the ending of relationships with partners or family members. We can also grieve parts of our own selves, states of being, childhood, life before becoming a parent, ideas, and the relationships we have to our bodies. We can also experience grief regarding illness, complex diagnoses, or our own complicated identities. There is no wrong way to grieve. There is no timeline for grief. Your grief is welcome here.

Together in therapy we can: