eating disorders
Helping You Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self
It may sound surprising, but eating disorders aren’t truly about food. They’re often ways of coping with emotional pain, trauma, stress, or low self-worth. While the behaviors may focus on food, the root issues run much deeper. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder, disordered eating, or feel like food and body image are taking over your life, you are not alone—and you don’t have to face it by yourself.
As a licensed therapist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, I help clients uncover the emotional roots behind eating behaviors and work toward full recovery—not just symptom management.
Eating Disorders: It’s Not Really About the Food
While eating disorders may appear to be about food, weight, or exercise, they’re often deeply rooted in emotional pain, trauma, perfectionism, or low self-worth. People may say, “Just eat,” or “Just stop,” but you know it’s not that simple.
Eating disorders are protective responses—a part of you trying to help you cope. They may use food restriction, bingeing, purging, or overexercising to shield you from deeper pain. In therapy, we’ll explore the “why” behind these patterns and begin to heal from the inside out. By healing the roots the part of you that uses the eating disorder won’t need to anymore.
Types of Eating Disorders I Treat
- Anorexia Nervosa – extreme food restriction, intense fear of gaining weight, body image distortion
- Bulimia Nervosa – cycles of binge eating followed by purging behaviors (vomiting, laxatives, over-exercising)
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED) – frequent episodes of overeating, often tied to emotional pain and followed by shame
- ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) – restrictive eating not related to weight concerns, often due to sensory sensitivities, choking fears, or lack of interest in food
Unlike other eating disorders, ARFID isn’t about weight or shape. It can show up as extreme pickiness, fear of certain textures or foods, or anxiety about eating after a negative food-related experience. It often leads to nutritional deficiencies, weight loss, and social struggles. ARFID is real, serious, and treatable with specialized care.
Eating disorders are protective responses—a part of you trying to help you cope. They may use food restriction, bingeing, purging, or overexercising to shield you from deeper pain. In therapy, we’ll explore the “why” behind these patterns and begin to heal from the inside out. By healing the roots the part of you that uses the eating disorder won’t need to anymore.
NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE & DISORDERED EATING
Struggling with body image or your relationship with food can be painful and exhausting. Constant self-criticism, comparison, and shame take a toll on your confidence and well-being, and what may seem like “normal” habits—chronic dieting, rigid food rules, emotional eating, or compulsive exercise—can quietly become harmful patterns and if left untreated can become full blown eating disorders. In therapy, I will help you challenge unhelpful beliefs, explore the roots of body dissatisfaction, and build a more accepting, peaceful relationship with your body and food free from shame, obsession or fear.
Christian Eating Disorder Counseling Available
As a Christian therapist, I believe you were created with purpose—including your body. In a world filled with messages that say thinner is better, it’s easy to lose sight of that truth.
If you desire, I integrate faith into our work to help you rebuild not just physical health, but spiritual connection, identity, and hope. God did not create you to live in bondage to food or body image. You can heal.
If you or a loved one is struggling with an eating disorder, help is available and recovery is possible. Whether you’re facing Anorexia, Bulimia, BED, ARFID, or disordered eating patterns, I’m here to walk alongside you with professional care and compassion.
You were not meant to live in fear. Let’s begin your journey toward freedom and recovery.
BEGIN YOUR HEALING JOURNEY wITH ME
Contact me today to schedule a therapy session or learn more about how counseling can help you feel more like yourself again. You don’t have to keep doing this alone—healing is possible.