Eating Disorder treatment

Eating Disorder Therapy

Compassionate, evidence-based care for eating, body image, and emotional regulation challenges

You don’t have to struggle with food, your body, or self-worth alone. I provide specialized treatment for adolescents and adults navigating eating disorders and disordered eating patterns. My approach is warm, collaborative, and rooted in evidence-based care.

Extensive Experience in Eating Disorder Treatment

For seven years, I worked as a primary therapist at a residential treatment center for eating disorders, providing individual, family, and group therapy to teens and adults with:

  • Anorexia nervosa

  • Bulimia nervosa

  • Binge eating disorder

  • ARFID

  • OSFED

  • Co-occurring trauma, anxiety, depression, and personality disorders

This background allows me to understand both the clinical complexity and the hope in recovery.

A Collaborative, Team-Based Approach

Eating disorders often require a coordinated treatment team.
I work collaboratively with:

  • Pediatricians and PCPs

  • Psychiatrists

  • Dietitians

  • School counselors

  • Treatment centers (for step-up or step-down care)

  • Other therapists involved in family support

This ensures you or your teen is receiving comprehensive, medically-informed, and emotionally-grounded care.
I communicate regularly (with permission) to keep treatment aligned, consistent, and safe.

How I Work

Trauma-informed & evidence-based

I integrate modalities including:

  • EMDR Therapy (certified through the EMDR Institute; EMDRIA member)

  • Emotion Regulation & Distress Tolerance skills (DBT)

  • CBT & CBT-E–informed strategies

  • Family-based approaches (especially for teens)

  • Mind-body awareness and nervous system regulation

My goal is to help clients reconnect with their bodies, reduce shame, and build sustainable, more flexible relationships with food.

What You Can Expect in Therapy

A safe, non-judgmental space

Eating disorders thrive in secrecy and shame. I provide a calm, understanding environment where clients feel genuinely seen and supported.

Treatment that meets you where you are

Whether symptoms are new or you’re stepping down from residential/PHP/IOP, therapy is paced around your readiness—not pressure.

Whole-person healing

Together we explore the emotional, relational, and physiological layers of the eating disorder, helping you build healthier coping strategies and a more compassionate relationship with yourself.

Support for Parents & Families

When working with teens, I actively involve and guide parents to help them:

  • Understand eating disorder behaviors

  • Respond skillfully to food-related distress

  • Set boundaries that support recovery

  • Navigate conflicts and communication challenges

  • Create a home environment that feels safe and regulated

I also offer family sessions when helpful to the healing process.

When to Seek Help

You or your teen may benefit from support if you notice:

  • Restricting or skipping meals

  • Bingeing or purging

  • Feeling “out of control” around food

  • Obsessive thoughts about weight, shape, or exercise

  • Body image distress

  • Rigid food rules or fear foods

  • Emotional eating

  • Returning symptoms after treatment

  • Secretive behaviors around food

No formal diagnosis is required.