Affirming therapy for people navigating eating disorders, disordered eating, trauma, burnout, and identity stress without being asked to minimize, perform, or prove their pain.
Move away from constant food rules, body monitoring, and shame. Learn how to relate to your body with trust.
Make sense of anxiety, shutdown, or spirals so your responses feel intentional instead of overwhelming.
Learn how to show up as your full self, and build connections that feel safer and are more sustainable.
We’ve heard it before. Clients come to us saying, “It’s really not that bad,” or sharing that they’ve reached out for help in the past and were told they weren’t sick enough to receive care.
Many of the people we work with can still function. They go to school, show up at work, and take care of the people around them. From the outside, things may look fine. They may be high-performing or achieving, holding everything together for others. On the inside, they’re exhausted, constantly managing food, thoughts, emotions, or the pressure to hold it all together.
Therapy isn’t about waiting until things fall apart. It’s about recognizing when coping is costing you more than you want to keep paying.
Noticing yourself here doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. It means doing this alone has become exhausting and support might help things feel more workable.
Individual therapy is a space to slow down and make sense of what you are experiencing without judgment or pressure to minimize your needs. Many people seek therapy while still functioning on the outside but feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected on the inside. Therapy helps bring clarity to those experiences and offers support that fits who you actually are.
The first session is focused on getting to know each other. We talk about what has been bringing you in, what you have tried before, and what you are hoping to change. Sessions are 50 minutes and held virtually, so you can meet from a space where you feel more comfortable.
You are not expected to sit still, make eye contact, or communicate in any particular way. You can move, stim, take breaks, or show up exactly as you are. Therapy here adapts to your nervous system, not the other way around.
Ongoing work is collaborative and flexible. Some sessions focus on current stressors and patterns, while others use approaches like EMDR, somatic therapy, parts work, or practical tools to support healing at a pace that feels manageable.
At the core of this work is a simple belief. Your identity, body, and ways of coping are not problems to be fixed. Therapy is about support, understanding, and creating more space to live in ways that feel sustainable and true to you.
Food takes up more space in your life than you want it to. You might be restricting, binging, overeating at night, or thinking about food and your body most of the day. Part of you knows something is off and another part keeps saying it is not “bad enough” to count.
Your mind rarely feels quiet. You replay conversations, plan for every possible outcome, and feel like you can never fully relax. Even on “good” days, your body feels tense or on edge, like you are waiting for something to go wrong.
Sometimes everything feels like too much. Other times you feel detached or foggy, like you are watching your life from the outside. You get through the day, but it feels like you are surviving rather than really living.
Maybe you have gotten the message that your body, identity, or way of thinking is “wrong.” You might hide parts of yourself, apologize for your needs, or worry you are too much. A big part of you wants to feel proud of who you are and is tired of carrying this shame.
You are the one who keeps it together. You perform, achieve, show up, and often no one sees how much work that takes. Afterward you feel drained, overstimulated, or shut down, and it is starting to feel harder and harder to bounce back.
Your therapy journey is tailored to you. It is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Techniques are chosen based on your nervous system, goals, and lived experience.
If you are autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent, we work with your brain, not against it. You get to stim, move, info dump, take breaks, and communicate in ways that fit you. We look at how to support your sensory needs, executive functioning, and energy without trying to make you “more neurotypical.”
Your gender and sexuality are not problems to fix. This is a space where we respect your identity, your pronouns, and where you are in your process, whether you are out or not. We explore family, relationships, and community with the understanding that queerness is valid and valuable.
Trauma informed care means I always consider how past experiences may be affecting you now. We go at a pace that feels as safe as possible, build in grounding and choice, and never push you to share details you are not ready to talk about. Your nervous system gets a say in how we work.
Your struggles do not exist in a vacuum. We name and talk about the impact of fatphobia, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and other systems on your body and mental health. I will never ask you to become more “acceptable” to oppressive systems in order to be well.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured way of working with memories and beliefs that still feel stuck. We use things like eye movements or gentle tapping while you briefly notice parts of a memory. The goal is to help your brain and body file it away so it feels less overwhelming now. We move slowly and check in often.
Somatic means we include your body in therapy. Attachment looks at how your early relationships shaped the way you connect with people now. Together, we pay attention to sensations, tension, and cues in your body as we talk, and we work on building a felt sense of safety in your relationships and in yourself.
HAES separates health from moral worth and from weight. Your body size is not a measure of your value or how “sick” you are. We focus on supporting your overall well being, not on changing your weight to fit someone else’s chart.
CBT helps us notice the links between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT-E is a version of CBT made for eating disorders. Together we look at patterns like “rules” around food, body checking, or avoidance, and we experiment with new ways of responding that create more flexibility and care.
ACT is about making room for your inner experience instead of fighting it all the time. We notice painful thoughts and feelings, then come back to what actually matters to you. From there, we take small, doable steps toward the life you want, even when discomfort is present.
DBT skills are practical tools for big feelings. Together we can practice grounding, calming your body, riding out intense waves of emotion, and communicating your needs more clearly. You get to pick and choose what actually works for you.
I do not expect overnight change or “perfect” behavior. Harm reduction means we look for steps that make things a little safer and softer, rather than all or nothing. This might mean shifting patterns with food, self harm, or other coping in ways that respect your nervous system and your reality.
Intuitive eating is about rebuilding trust with your body’s cues instead of following rigid food rules. We explore hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and emotional eating with curiosity, not shame. You do not have to give up structure all at once. We move at your pace.
We work with people who have spent years adapting to systems that were never built for them. Many of our clients are queer, neurodivergent, high-masking, and deeply tired of being misunderstood.
Therapy with us is relational, collaborative, and grounded in respect for your coping and lived experience. You won’t be asked to earn care, perform progress, explain your identity, or push yourself faster than feels safe.
Healing here is allowed to take up space.
Healing here is not determined by insurance requirements, BMI cutoffs, or diagnostic thresholds. You do not need to prove your suffering to receive meaningful support.
Queerness, neurodivergence, and difference are not things to be corrected. Therapy here affirms identity and works with your nervous system rather than against it.
Many coping strategies once served an important purpose. We take time to understand them with care before exploring what you are ready to shift.
We start by building a sense of safety in the therapy space and in your body. This includes understanding what helps you feel grounded, how stress shows up, and what support you need when things feel overwhelming.
Together, we make sense of patterns in your thoughts, emotions, and body responses. This step helps things feel less confusing and reduces self-blame by understanding why your reactions make sense.
Once there is clarity and stability, we work on healing what still feels stuck or distressing. The approach is chosen together and moves at a pace that feels supportive, not forced.
You are not broken because people around you do not fully get what you are going through. Most of us were never taught how to talk about eating disorders, trauma, queerness, or neurodivergence, so loved ones often default to advice, fixes, or silence. In therapy, you get a place where you do not have to convince anyone that your experience is real. We can build language for what you are going through, make a plan for what you want to share and with whom, and practice boundaries that protect your energy. If it feels supportive, we can also bring parents or other support people into a session so you are not carrying the education piece by yourself.
Feeling lost is a very human response to living in systems that were not built for your body, brain, or identities. If you are queer, neurodivergent, navigating trauma, or stuck in cycles with food and your body, of course you feel confused about who you are supposed to be. That does not mean there is something wrong with you. In our work, we treat your reactions as understandable responses to long term stress and oppression, not as character flaws. Together we slow down, get curious about your story, and help you reclaim a sense of safety and identity in your body and relationships.
There is no one right timeline, and we will not promise a quick fix. Most people start with weekly 50 minute sessions so we can build trust and stay connected to the work. Over time, many clients first notice small shifts, like feeling more understood, having a bit more compassion for themselves, or feeling slightly less alone with food and body thoughts. Deeper changes with trauma, eating disorders, and long term masking usually take longer and move in waves. We will keep checking in about what you are noticing and decide together how therapy is working for you and whether the pace still feels right.
It makes sense to be cautious if you have had to educate past providers, been misdiagnosed, or left sessions feeling more ashamed than when you arrived. This practice is built specifically for people who have been told they are “too much,” given every label without feeling seen, or asked to make themselves more palatable to systems that harmed them. We specialize in eating disorders, trauma, LGBTQIA+ care, and neurodivergent affirming therapy, and our approach is rooted in anti-oppression, body liberation, and harm reduction. We start with a consult so you can get a feel for me, ask direct questions about fit, and decide whether this space feels different in your body before you commit. You always get to choose whether we keep working together.
Yes. A big part of our work is untangling years of masking, perfectionism, and “being the one who has it together.” We go at the pace of your nervous system, not at the pace of a checklist. Therapy becomes a place where you do not have to perform or translate your identity, and where your queerness, neurodivergence, and coping are taken seriously. Over time, we practice what it is like to take up a little more space, to listen to your body cues, and to be more honest in relationships that feel safe enough. The goal is not to erase fear completely, but to build enough safety and self trust that you do not have to pretend as often just to get through the day.
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