Counseling Specialties
Eating disorders
I work with the spectrum of eating disorders and disordered eating. This includes anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, emotional eating, orthorexia, and ARFID.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
OCD can present in a variety of forms - more internally focused or externally visible. I treat OCD with ERP and ACT. OCD often presents concurrently with other mental health struggles.
Body Dysmorphia
Body hatred and body obsession is exhausting, expensive, and painful. I will help you interrupt obsessing about your appearance, body focused rituals, and regain your confidence.
Compulsive Exercise
Compulsive and obligatory movement can significantly interfere with your quality of life and physical health. We will create a plan to interrupt and recalibrate movement patterns.
Anxiety
I support individuals with general anxiety, social anxiety, and panic attacks. Many clients with eating disorders experience clinically significant anxiety disorders.
Mood Disorders and Depression
Depression can leave you feeling hopeless, sad, isolated, and self-critical. Simple tasks seem impossible. We will work on improving your mood as well as increasing values-oriented action.
Moms & Soon to be Moms
Being a Mom is challenging as it is! Being a mom in recovery, or having ongoing mental health struggles requires more support. I can help you navigate these multifaceted challenges.
Emerging Adults/Young Adults
The transition to adulthood can pose unique challenges as you gain more independence and navigate many life transitions. It is also a vulnerable time for mental health symptoms to increase.
Athletes
I support competitive and recreational athletes with eating disorders and body image concerns. I understand the complex interplay between these struggles and sport/performance.
Trauma
Experiencing trauma can have lasting impacts on your sense of self, safety, meaning, relationships, and ways of being. I support individuals with trauma histories with or without PTSD.
Caregivers
Being a caregiver to a loved one with severe mental health struggles doesn't come with a handbook. I work with caregivers as you support yourself and your loved one's recovery.
Teens
I work with adolescents seeking help for a variety of mental health challenges. We will work to build skills and resilience as you navigate an increasingly complex world.
My Approach
Recovery is Possible
My practice is rooted in evidenced-based practice, tailored to your unique context
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based approach to therapy that helps people live more meaningful, values-driven lives — even in the presence of pain, fear, or self-doubt. Rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts or feelings, ACT guides us in learning how to make space for them while still taking action in the direction of what truly matters.
At the core of ACT is the understanding that suffering often stems not from our pain itself, but from the ways we struggle against it. This might look like harsh self-criticism, avoidance, perfectionism, or coping strategies that ultimately make things harder — responses that often reinforce shame, isolation, and disconnection from ourselves and others. ACT helps us shift our relationship to these internal experiences so that we're no longer stuck or defined by them.
I believe that healing comes from developing a compassionate and flexible relationship with yourself — acknowledging pain rather than avoiding it, staying present, and gently choosing new responses rooted in your deepest values. When we can say, "This is hard, and I'm still here," or "That really hurt, how can I care for myself?" we begin to change the patterns that keep us stuck.
In our work together, we'll focus on:
- Cultivating self-compassion and gentleness in place of harsh self-judgment
- Recognizing and changing unhelpful habits or behaviors that bring you to therapy
- Increasing your psychological flexibility so that you can respond more adaptively to life's challenges
- Processing emotions skillfully
- Untangling difficult beliefs and attitudes toward yourself
- Clarifying your values and moving toward what truly matters to you, even when life feels messy or overwhelming
Whether you're navigating recovery from an eating disorder, managing OCD, or struggling with anxiety, depression, or self-worth, ACT provides powerful tools to help you reclaim your sense of agency, meaning, and connection. It's not about eliminating pain — it's about building a life that's rich, full, and guided by what you care about most.
Because each person's story, needs, and background are unique — and because what matters most looks different for every person and every culture — I take an integrative approach rooted in ACT while also drawing from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Enhanced (CBT-E), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Family Based Treatment (FBT) for adolescents experiencing an eating disorder. My approach is flexible, responsive, and collaborative — centered around your goals and your healing.
For adolescents, family involvement is often a critical part of recovery, and I welcome and support caregivers as active partners in the process.
Healing rarely happens in isolation. I value a collaborative approach and work closely with your broader care team — including your doctor, dietitian, and psychiatric prescriber — to ensure your support is coordinated and cohesive.
Eating Disorder Therapy
Implementing Behavior Change
Recovering from an eating disorder is tough. I will work with you to implement values oriented behavior change to interrupt your eating disorder symptoms. We will identify behaviors that maintain and reinforce your symptoms. We also explore how the eating disorder functions for you and to identify more skillful ways of meeting your needs. I value working collaboratively with your team of providers (Dietitian, Physician, Psychiatrist, etc) to fully support your recovery. I offer Family Based Therapy (FBT) for teens to empower caregivers to assist in behavior change.
Healing Body Shame
How you feel in your body shapes nearly every moment of your life. Body image distress is complex and causes significant pain and suffering. The experience of your body is influenced by many intersecting forces — sociocultural pressures, life experiences, interoceptive sensations, environment, and deeply held beliefs about yourself and the world.
In our work together, we will explore the history of your body image and the systems of oppression — including diet culture, weight stigma, racism, and unrealistic beauty standards — that contribute to distress and self-rejection. We will also examine the behaviors and thoughts that maintain a harmful relationship with yourself and your body.
Body image struggles are also shaped by racial and cultural identity, and I am committed to holding space for the ways your background and lived experience inform your relationship with your body. No matter where you come from or what you have been told about your body, you deserve care that sees and affirms you fully.
I am firmly rooted in pursuing recovery through a non-diet and weight inclusive paradigm — an approach that rejects the pursuit of weight loss as a measure of health or healing — and work toward body liberation with each client. Learning to treat your body with respect and dignity, and lessening the mental real estate your body takes up, are key components of recovery. All bodies belong and deserve respect.
Together, we work toward a relationship with your body rooted in respect, curiosity, and care — not as a destination, but as an ongoing practice.
Working with the inner critic
Most clients I work with who have an eating disorder carry a very loud inner critic — that relentless inner voice that says "you're not good enough," "I'll never get better," or "I don't deserve help." This voice is painful, exhausting, and often feels like the truth. It isn't.
For many clients, the inner critic carries voices from beyond themselves — family messages, cultural expectations around perfectionism, or a world that has sent harmful messages about who they should be and what their body should look like. Developing awareness of these unhelpful stories and increasing self-compassion can help you untangle from painful feelings of never being enough.
As the grip of the inner critic loosens, clients often find they have more space to make choices rooted in care rather than fear — and to begin to hear their own voice more clearly.
Improving Emotion regulation
Eating disorder behaviors often develop as a way to cope with overwhelming emotions — they make sense as a response to pain, even when they ultimately cause more of it. This is not a character flaw or a lack of willpower. It is a understandable response to difficult internal experiences that were too much to hold alone.
In our work together, I draw on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based interventions to help you build a richer set of tools for managing difficult emotions — so that over time, you rely less on behaviors that harm you and more on responses that genuinely support your wellbeing.