Whole-Person Approach to Making Peace with Food and Your Body
Learn to optimize your well-being by focusing on two important areas of your health: food and your body. You’ll be inspired to stop living on autopilot and be empowered to change.
Therapy
You don’t have to walk the path of intentional living alone
For the past two decades, I’ve had the privilege of helping thousands of adolescents and adults develop more insight and effective coping skills, so they can pursue a healthy, happy life.
Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Feeling anxious, worried, or sad is a natural part of life. But when these emotions become overwhelming or long-lasting—and interfere with daily tasks—it’s time to assess what’s going on and get your life back on track.
Eating Disorders
If your thoughts or actions about food, body image, or fitness are interfering with your daily life, relationships, or well-being, you may have an eating disorder—a serious and treatable illness that requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach.
Binge Eating and Compulsive Eating
Are eating behaviors getting in the way of your happiness? Binge eating, obsessive eating, and compulsive eating can impact self-esteem and health, interfere with how you live your life, and even lead to a disorder. Fortunately, you can learn to apply effective strategies to address causes and build healthy eating habits.
Healthy Eating, Intentional Eating, Mindful Eating, and Intuitive Eating
Diets don’t work—not because you’re failing to follow the rules but because diets are failing you. Learn a healthier way of relating to food: Intentional eating combines the principles and practices of intuitive eating and mindfulness.
Relationships
Everyone struggles in their relationships at some point. With relationship counseling you (and perhaps your partner) can learn how to skillfully assess and end toxic relationship patterns, repair broken bonds, and cultivate meaningful and lasting connections with others.
Life Transitions and Coping
Change is hard. But you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. With coping mechanisms designed to use your unique strengths, you can manage a life transition in a flexible, healthy manner.
Personal Development and Integrative Health
An integrative health approach—which combines psychological science, meditation practices, nutrition science, and aspects of integrative medicine—can help you grow, change, and experience more joy.
Intentional Living
Intentional living is a mindset, an action, and a way of being. It’s an opportunity to apply personal, values-based changes in your life that lead to empowerment and well-being.
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HIPAA-compliant telehealth services available.
Taking an integrative approach
My compassionate, holistic approach to therapy is integrative, drawing from various treatment modalities. I also welcome the opportunity to work as part of a team. Depending on your concerns and strengths, we may incorporate the following:
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
Family-based therapy (FBT)
Mentalization-based therapy (MBT)
Positive psychology
Compassion-focused therapy (CFT)
Mindfulness-based eating awareness training (MB-EAT)
Sport psychology
Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy (TD-CBT)
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
Continuing Education & Webinars
Webinars for intentional eating
Do you choose food based on whether it’s “good” or “bad”? Does eating lead to feelings of guilt or shame? Has your relationship to food, weight, or your body led you to isolate yourself? If so, it’s time to transform your relationship to food and your body. These 90-minute webinars offer a compassionate, science-backed approach to change. And, if you’re a therapist, you can earn continuing education credits while you learn.
How to Stop Binge Eating:
6 Steps to Freedom
In this solutions-driven webinar, understand how overeating, cheat meals, and binge eating differ, along with why dieting failures are not your fault. You’ll develop research-backed skills to change your habits.
How they helped others
“I really got a lot from the content. The speaker clearly explained all the content well. It was 4:30 a.m. here in Adelaide, South Australia, so to keep my attention at that time was quite a skill. Well done and thank you!”
“I appreciated the webinar’s less-shaming approach to overeating, the decreased focus on diet, and the greater focus on wholesome living and mindfulness.”
“I was highly skeptical that a one-minute meditation would work—but it did. Great mindful eating tips. I also liked the ‘whole person’ approach—that good health includes sleep and waking up feeling rested.”
CONSULTATIONS
I’m pleased to provide a range of short- and long-term consultations:
Media interviews and consultations for print, television, and film programming
Suicide prevention training for groups in QPR, an empirically validated program
Program development
Postgraduate clinical supervision for licensure
Trainings
Assessments to determine level of care for intensive treatment
Short-term eating disorders treatment consultations for licensed professionals
Referrals to therapists, registered dietitians, psychiatrists, and other physicians
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Based on my work helping thousands of people find ease with food and recover from eating disorders, this mini-workbook shares techniques that are proven to help you jump-start a healthy approach to eating. With intentional eating, you will learn to combat the diet mentality, stop obsessing about food, and move away from mindless eating. Get your copy today!
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