Give you & your body the compassion it deserves.
Body Image & Disordered Eating Therapy Online
Cincinnati, OH & throughout the US
When “keeping it all together” starts to fall apart
You’ve always been the capable one.
The achiever. The one who keeps going.
But under the surface, your relationship with food, your body, and yourself feels like a war zone.
You’re exhausted from the constant negotiation:
What you can eat.
When you have to “make up for it.”
How to look put together on the outside, even when you feel anything but okay inside.
You tell yourself:
“I just need to have more discipline.”
“I’ll feel better once I lose weight.”
“If I could just be better, maybe I’d finally feel enough.”
But instead of feeling in control, you’re stuck in a cycle of shame, comparison, and pressure.
No one sees how much energy it takes to function.
No one sees how loud the self-criticism is.
And it’s starting to take its toll. You feel less secure in your relationships, have trouble focusing on the work you care about, and have been missing out on the life you want to live because of food or your body isn’t “ready yet.”
Ready for a change?
Are you tired of feeling hangry? Would you like to feel more at peace with your body as it is right now?
If any of this resonates with you, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to figure it out by yourself.
I’ve walked this road too, and I know how tight the grip of it feels. Now I’m happy to walk with you on this journey as a licensed therapist in Ohio and online across the US, specializing in serving adults with body image concerns and disordered eating from Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating frameworks.
Here’s what we’ll do together
How therapy can help you with what you’re truly craving…
You want to stop obsessing over every bite and finally feel at peace with food.
You want to believe you’re enough—even when you’re not checking things off a to-do list.
You want to be kind to yourself—but you’re not sure how.
You’re not asking to love every inch of your body. You just want to stop fighting with it every day.
More than anything?
You want to feel truly healthy.
Freedom.
A little breathing room from the pressure and perfectionism.
In our work together, I help you define what healthy means for your whole self—not just your body, but your mind, your emotions, your relationships.
And then we work together to apply that definition with compassion, not pressure.
No more chasing perfection.
Just truly sustainable care for the person you already are, even if we need to explore who you are. I want to focus on what’s really important to you. Not just your looks. But your real values—the things that light you up, make you feel grounded, and give life meaning.
What begins to shift…
Over time, the mental exhaustion starts to fade.
You get things done, but without the inner beatdown.
You start noticing where your expectations came from…and we’ll begin rewriting them in a voice that’s actually yours.
Food doesn’t take up your whole day. The rest of your life does.
Rest isn’t something you feel guilty for.
Your body becomes something you take care of, not fight against.
At the end of the day, I want you to know:
You deserve better than what diet culture tells you.
Change is possible.
Let’s explore what healing can look like for you.
Questions?
FAQs
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Health at Every Size (HAES) is the framework I use to guide my work with clients struggling with body image and disordered eating. In short, the focus is less on how much you weigh and more on what healthy habits are for YOU. This often means exploring and building habits that are sustainable and enjoyable to you. So for example, you may not like to exercise when you feel like you should be running, but you will walk or dance because you actually enjoy it.
You can read more about the HAES framework here: https://asdah.org/haes/
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As part of the HAES framework, I lean more toward an anti-diet, intuitive eating approach. Diets tend to be inflexible, unsustainable, and ineffective over time. I like to focus more on what you can add to your life with food instead of what you need to restrict or eliminate. Again, what is enjoyable to you is more likely to be something you can stick to long-term.
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It’s hard to define, but once you see it and call it for what it is, you'll recognize it and it will be hard to unsee it. It’s basically all the stuff around us that tells us how we should look and that being healthy is only based on one main thing: your weight. And that you are “lesser” unless you do nothing but focus on getting to the ideal body weight/shape or keeping it that way.
Anti-Diet Dietician, author, and podcaster Christy Harrison has a great, thorough definition of diet culture where she describes it as a system of beliefs that:
Worships thinness & equates it to health & moral virtue, which means you can spend your whole life thinking you’re irreparably broken just because you don’t look like the impossibly thin “ideal.”
Promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status, which means you feel compelled to spend a massive amount of time, energy, and money trying to shrink your body, even though the research is very clear that almost no one can sustain intentional weight loss for more than a few years.
Demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others, which means you’re forced to be hyper-vigilant about your eating, ashamed of making certain food choices, and distracted from your pleasure, your purpose, and your power.
Oppresses people who don't match up with its supposed picture of “health,” which disproportionately harms women, femmes, trans folks, people in larger bodies, people of color, and people with disabilities, damaging both their mental and physical health.
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That’s fine! I feel that way a lot, too! A lot of the work I do is working toward feeling respect or appreciation for what your body can do, even if you don’t feel like you “LOVE” your body.
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Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework, which integrates instinct, emotion, and rational thought and was created by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995. Intuitive Eating is a weight-inclusive, evidence-based model with a validated assessment scale and over 100 studies to date.
It’s a personal and dynamic process, which includes 10 principles:
Reject the Diet Mentality
Honor Your Hunger
Make Peace with Food
Challenge the Food Police
Respect Your Fullness
Discover the Satisfaction Factor
Honor Your Feelings without Using Food
Respect Your Body
Exercise—Feel the Difference
Honor Your Health with Gentle Nutrition
Read more about the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating.
The principles work in two key ways:
By helping you cultivate attunement to the physical sensations that arise from within your body to get both your biological and psychological needs met and
Removing the obstacles and disruptors to attunement, which usually come from the mind in the form of rules, beliefs, and thoughts.
The process of Intuitive Eating is a practice, which honors both physical and mental health. Intuitive Eating is aligned with Health at Every Size, because the pursuit of intentional weight loss is a failed paradigm, which creates health problems: including weight stigma, weight cycling, and eating disorders. All bodies deserve dignity and respect.
Source: Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S via https://www.intuitiveeating.org/definition-of-intuitive-eating/