Welcome.

I want to help you find a new way to deal with the things that trouble you - especially if the way you currently deal with issues is with food.  I help teens and adults, both male and female, who are struggling with the pain caused by a troubled relationship with food and your body.  Here are some examples:

• If you are a “chronic dieter” who has spent years struggling with your weight, you may not even realize that you may have been using food to deal with your life.  You may be frustrated because as hard as you try to keep your weight under control, nothing seems to really work. This is because diets don’t address the deeper issues of why you have difficulty controlling your weight.   
• Even if you don’t believe you have an actual eating disorder, if you use food to deal with troubling issues and feelings, you may suffer from a milder form of an eating disorder that we often refer to as “disordered eating.” 
•  It may begin as a way to lose a few pounds or get in shape but when someone’s attitudes about food, weight, and body size lead to increasingly rigid eating and/or exercise habits things can quickly get out of control and become an actual eating disorder. Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder involve extreme disturbances in eating behavior such as following rigid diets, throwing up after meals, gorging on food even when not hungry, obsessively counting calories or even excessively exercising.  These disturbances are usually characterized by distorted views of body size and the behaviors with food become increasingly obsessive and difficult to stop.

If any of these patterns sound familiar, then you know that using food (including a lack of food) to cope with your problems can cause you a lot of pain as it gets in the way of living your life the way you would like to.  It can also create long term health problems.

I am experienced in providing compassionate, effective treatment.  In addition to helping you return to a healthier relationship with food and your body, I will help you work towards understanding and dealing with the deeper issues. Ultimately, my hope and intention is that you feel good about yourself again. This is how you will achieve true long term recovery.

The work I do is not limited to eating disorders and other problems with food.  I am also experienced with a number of other (often related) issues:

• Anxiety/Stress
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Depression
• Perfectionism
• Low self esteem
• Self harming behavior (cutting)
• Compulsive shopping
• Family relationships

Call me at 425-233-2439 if you would like to take the first step and schedule an initial consultation.