Therapy for Women Navigating Body Image, Relationship with Food, & Change

Health Without Shame. Change Without Self-Rejection.

There is a lot of conflicting messaging about women's bodies.

Accept yourself exactly as you are.

Lose weight for your health.

Stop dieting.

Track everything.

Love your body.

Change your body.

It can leave you wondering what you are actually allowed to want.

I believe there is room for more nuance.

You can work toward better health and still respect the body you have today. You can pursue weight loss without making your worth dependent on it. You can use a GLP-1 medication and still need support with habits, emotions, identity, and body image. You can accept that your body is changing while also grieving those changes.

Therapy is not about deciding what your body should look like.

It is about helping you feel more grounded, confident, and connected to yourself as you decide what caring for your body means to you.

Body Image & Emotional Eating

If thoughts about food, weight, or your appearance take up too much space, you are not alone.

You may find yourself cycling between trying to be “good,” feeling restricted, overeating, starting over, and criticizing yourself for not having more discipline.

Or perhaps your relationship with food looks fine from the outside while internally you are constantly evaluating what you ate, what you weigh, or whether your body is acceptable.

Our work can help you understand the patterns underneath emotional eating, challenge rigid food rules, reduce body shame, and develop a more flexible relationship with food and yourself.

The goal is not perfect eating.

The goal is greater freedom.

Perimenopause, Midlife & Changing Bodies

Sometimes the body you have known for years begins to feel unfamiliar.

Hormonal changes, shifts in weight distribution, sleep disruption, mood changes, lower energy, and changes in how clothing fits can affect much more than your appearance.

They can affect confidence, identity, sexuality, motivation, and the way you see yourself.

For many women, midlife also brings a painful realization that strategies that once worked no longer work the same way.

Therapy can give you a place to process those changes without minimizing them or turning your body into a problem that needs to be solved.

You can learn to care for your changing body while also making room for grief, frustration, acceptance, and growth.

GLP-1 & Weight Change Support

Medication can change appetite and weight.

It does not automatically change your relationship with yourself.

If you are using a GLP-1 medication as part of medically supervised care, therapy can support the emotional and behavioral side of the experience.

You may be adjusting to rapid changes in your body, navigating comments from other people, rebuilding routines around food and movement, or noticing old body-image struggles resurfacing in unexpected ways.

You may also wonder what happens if your weight changes again in the future.

My role is not to tell you whether you should take a medication or to replace guidance from your medical provider.

My role is to help you navigate the thoughts, emotions, habits, and identity changes that can come alongside it.

Anxiety, Perfectionism & Self-Worth

For many of the women I work with, concerns about food and body image are only one part of a much larger pattern.

You may hold yourself to extremely high standards.

You may be dependable, capable, and successful while privately questioning whether you are doing enough.

You may overthink decisions, struggle to rest, feel guilty when you slow down, or believe that being hard on yourself is what keeps you motivated.

Eventually, that pressure becomes exhausting.

Therapy can help you develop a different kind of motivation, one based less on fear and self-criticism and more on trust, flexibility, and self-respect.

More Than 20 Years in Health, Wellness & Behavior Change

Before becoming a therapist, I spent many years working in health, wellness, fitness, and behavior change.

That experience shaped the way I approach therapy today.

I understand that changing habits is rarely as simple as knowing what you are “supposed” to do.

We are influenced by stress, emotions, nervous system patterns, beliefs, relationships, environment, hormones, past experiences, and the way we talk to ourselves when things do not go according to plan.

I also understand that conversations about weight and health can become overly simplistic.

I am not here to tell you that wanting to change your body is wrong.

I am also not here to tell you that changing your body will finally make you worthy.

Instead, we look at the whole picture.

Your health.

Your emotions.

Your habits.

Your history.

Your relationship with food.

Your relationship with your body.

And, most importantly, your relationship with yourself.

My Approach

I am an active, collaborative therapist.

I am not the kind of therapist who simply sits back and nods while you try to figure everything out on your own.

We will slow things down enough to understand what is happening, but we will also work toward meaningful change.

My approach integrates evidence-based therapy with a strong understanding of behavior change, the mind-body connection, and nervous system regulation.

Depending on what you need, our work may draw from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, solution-focused approaches, somatic strategies, and practical behavior-change tools.

There is no perfect formula.

We figure out what helps you build a life that feels healthier, more flexible, and more like your own.

You Do Not Have to Choose Between Accepting Yourself and Wanting Change

You are allowed to want better health.

You are allowed to want to feel differently in your body.

You are allowed to pursue weight loss.

You are allowed to stop pursuing weight loss.

You are allowed to use medication.

You are allowed to change your mind.

Your worth does not have to rise and fall with any of those decisions.

Therapy can help you move away from the constant question of whether you are doing your body “right” and toward something much more sustainable:

Learning how to care for yourself from a place of respect.

Individual Therapy in Colorado

I provide individual telehealth therapy for adults located in Colorado and coaching for those outside Colorado.

Sessions are $175.

If you are wondering whether we might be a good fit, I offer a complimentary consultation where we can talk about what you are looking for and answer any questions you have about working together.

You do not need to hate or discipline yourself into becoming healthier.

You can create change while learning to trust yourself along the way.

Schedule a Complimentary Consultation Today.