Create a Healthier Relationship With Food & Your Body
We live in a food- and body-obsessed culture. Messages about what we should eat, how we should look, and what our appearance says about our worth are difficult to avoid. Over time, these messages can influence how we see ourselves and turn eating, movement, or getting dressed into a source of stress and self-judgment.
You don’t need to meet every criterion for an eating disorder—or wait until food and body concerns take over your life—to benefit from support. Therapy can help you understand the beliefs and patterns affecting your relationship with food and your body and begin building one guided by greater flexibility, trust, and self-respect.
What You Look Like and How You See Yourself Are Not One and the Same.
Is Food or Body Image Taking Up Too Much Space?
Support may be helpful if you:
- Spend significant time thinking about food, weight, exercise, or appearance
- Judge foods—or yourself—as “good” or “bad”
- Move between restriction, overeating, binge eating, or feeling out of control around food
- Avoid meals, social situations, photographs, or activities because of body concerns
- Feel guilt, shame, anxiety, or depression related to eating or your body
- Rely on dieting or exercise to feel acceptable or in control
- Struggle to trust your hunger, fullness, or other physical cues
- Suspect that you have an eating disorder
You don’t need to recognize yourself in every item for these concerns to deserve attention.
How Therapy Can Help
- Understand the thoughts, emotions, and experiences influencing your relationship with food and your body
- Recognize patterns involving restriction, binge eating, emotional eating, or feeling out of control
- Develop ways to manage difficult emotions without relying on food or body-focused behaviors
- Reconnect with physical cues and build greater trust in your body
- Question rigid rules about eating, exercise, weight, and appearance
- Separate your worth from your weight, shape, or appearance
- Make choices guided by your health and values rather than shame or fear
- Begin treating your body like it belongs to someone you love
When Changes in Weight Bring Unexpected Challenges
Changes in weight can affect much more than appearance. Whether your body changes through eating disorder recovery, changes in health, intentional weight loss, or another life transition, the experience can shift how you see yourself, relate to your body, and respond to attention from others.
Therapy can help with fear of weight gain or regain, difficulty adjusting to a changing body, changes in identity, or concerns that remain even after your weight has changed. It can also provide support when recovery requires accepting changes that feel necessary and difficult at the same time.
We help you explore these experiences without shame and develop a more sustainable relationship with food, your body, and yourself.
Outpatient Treatment & Coordinated Care
We provide outpatient therapy for eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns when this level of care is clinically appropriate. Our clinicians consider emotional, behavioral, and physical health when developing treatment.
Eating disorder treatment often involves more than one provider. With your permission, we are happy to coordinate with physicians, dietitians, and other members of your treatment team. If your needs require more intensive or specialized support, we can also help you explore options for a higher level of care.