For so many reasons, it is difficult to feel seen and heard by the people in our lives. At a minimum, therapy should be a place where you feel validated and understood. The client-therapist relationship is unlike any other relationship because it asks you to be vulnerable with someone you know very little about. That vulnerability takes an immense amount of trust and I will do my best to earn it. It is such a privilege to be welcomed into the life of a client.

This process isn’t something you observe from the sidelines. It’s not straight forward or linear. It is a full body experience; this can be scary, especially for first-timers who may not know what to expect when they sit down across from me. Whether you have a particular goal in mind or feel so overwhelmed that you don’t know where to begin, we can figure it out together. I don’t have all the answers, but I do believe that inside every one of us is the roadmap to our healing and liberation. Sometimes we just need someone to help us find where to look and to hold us compassionately while we do so. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

From the time we are small, we are inundated with messages about food and bodies. We learn to listen to others who “know” what is best for us, instead of our own bodies, leading to feelings of guilt and shame, diet cycling, disordered eating, size concerns, and obsessive thinking and confusion about food. You are not alone in this. Whatever your journey has been with food, it is not your fault. Neither food nor your body is the enemy, diet culture is. You deserve to have both a positive relationship with food and respect and trust for your body.

I’m passionate about helping you to unlearn years of diet culture and body mistrust using an intuitive eating, anti-diet, size-inclusive approach. Maybe you are on the fence about letting go of diet culture, possibly even scared, and that’s okay. Together we will work towards cultivating a deeper appreciation of food and relearn how to connect to the innate wisdom of your body.