Eating is a basic, physiological need and is essential to healthy development from childhood to adulthood.
Unfortunately, there are many socio-cultural pressures that promote an unhealthy relationship to food and body image. You may engage in restrictive dieting (chaotic eating and/or) behavior to be or maintain a certain weight and/or to manage difficult feelings. This may occupy an unwanted and considerable amount of your time and energy and may be harming you.
Our work together will explore underlying issues, as well as support your development of healthy coping skills.
Body image is a complex, multi-layered relationship to self. It is influenced by familial, social and cultural expectations and interactions.
Your body image reflects your basic feelings and thoughts about yourself and may change as these change.
External and developmental changes such as adolescence, illness, pregnancy, motherhood, middle and older age, effect shifts in self/body image, as well.
Our therapeutic work around body image is based upon acceptance, embodied mindfulness practices, self-compassion and fostering respectful and healthy attitudes and self-care behaviors.
I work with clients who are open to taking steps to transform their relationship to their bodies and food and who are willing to partner with a medical provider, if needed. I may support folks in assessing whether they need to see an outside provider/ or more intensive work that my private practice is not set up for. I also consult with clients and families who may need outside referrals.