Eating Disorders | Disordered Eating | Body Image |
Eating Disorders | Disordered Eating | Body Image |
Eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image distress often develop within a larger context of shame, control, trauma, family dynamics, medical harm, identity, nervous system adaptation, and cultural pressure to monitor, manage, and mistrust the body.
Our work supports clients in understanding the patterns that keep them stuck, including binge-restrict cycles, rigid food rules, body surveillance, compulsive checking, avoidance, shame, dissociation from the body, and the belief that safety or self-worth depends on body change.
Eating disorders affect people across body sizes, genders, identities, and backgrounds. Our approach is weight-inclusive, clinically grounded, and attentive to the full context of who you are, including your relationship with food, your body, your history, and the systems you have had to navigate.
When appropriate, we collaborate with dietitians, physicians, psychiatrists, and higher levels of care to support treatment that is thoughtful, coordinated, and effective.
Conditions we treat:
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Body dysmorphic disorder involves persistent, intrusive distress about perceived flaws in appearance, often accompanied by compulsive checking, grooming, reassurance-seeking, comparing, avoiding mirrors, or avoiding social situations. These patterns can become painful, time-consuming, and deeply disruptive.
Treatment focuses on reducing shame, understanding the fear and distress beneath appearance-related preoccupation, and loosening the compulsive cycles that keep anxiety attached to the body. We help clients build greater flexibility, self-compassion, body neutrality, and a more stable sense of self beyond appearance.
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Disordered eating includes patterns such as restriction, deprivation, binge eating, emotional eating, food guilt, chronic dieting, weight cycling, compensatory behaviors, or fear-based rules around food and the body. These patterns can cause real distress and deserve support, even when they do not fit neatly into a formal diagnosis.
Treatment focuses on reducing shame, loosening rigid food rules, building more consistent nourishment, and understanding the emotional, relational, sensory, and cultural factors shaping your relationship with food. We help clients develop a more flexible, sustainable, and compassionate relationship with eating, body cues, and self-care.
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Anorexia nervosa involves significant restriction, intense fear around eating or body change, and patterns of control that can become physically, emotionally, and relationally consuming. It affects people across body sizes, genders, ages, and backgrounds, including those whose eating disorders have been missed because they do not appear underweight.
Treatment focuses on physical stabilization, emotional repair, and understanding the deeper function restriction has served. We support clients in softening rigid food and body rules, building tolerance for nourishment, and developing greater flexibility, embodiment, self-trust, and choice.
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Binge eating disorder involves recurrent episodes of eating that feel urgent, overwhelming, or difficult to stop, often followed by shame, distress, secrecy, or disconnection from the body. For many people, binge eating develops within a larger context of restriction, emotional overwhelm, trauma, dieting, food insecurity, weight stigma, or repeated attempts to control the body.
Treatment focuses on reducing shame, interrupting binge-restrict cycles, supporting more consistent nourishment, and understanding what binge eating has been helping the person manage. We help clients build a more flexible, compassionate, and sustainable relationship with food, body cues, and emotional distress.
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Bulimia nervosa involves cycles of binge eating and compensatory behaviors such as vomiting, compulsive exercise, laxative use, fasting, or other attempts to counteract eating. These cycles often develop alongside shame, secrecy, fear of body change, emotional overwhelm, and rigid beliefs about food and control.
Treatment focuses on reducing shame, interrupting binge-purge cycles, supporting medical stability, and understanding what the behaviors have been helping the person manage. We help clients build safer coping strategies, a more flexible relationship with food, and greater trust in their body, emotions, and needs.
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Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, involves significant food avoidance or restriction related to sensory sensitivity, fear of choking or vomiting, low appetite, limited interest in food, medical experiences, trauma, or anxiety around eating.
Treatment focuses on reducing distress around food, expanding safe and nourishing options, supporting nutritional and medical stability, and understanding the sensory, emotional, developmental, or trauma-related factors involved. We help clients build more flexibility, safety, and choice around eating at a pace that respects their nervous system.
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Body grief involves the emotional pain of living through body changes related to illness, disability, aging, mobility shifts, weight change, medical treatment, trauma, or other life experiences. These changes can affect identity, self-trust, intimacy, visibility, and the way a person feels at home in their body.
Treatment focuses on making space for grief, anger, fear, and adjustment while supporting a more compassionate relationship with the body as it is now. We help clients explore body neutrality, self-worth beyond appearance or ability, and care practices that honor both loss and lived reality.
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Orthorexia involves rigid preoccupation with “clean,” “healthy,” or morally correct eating in ways that become restrictive, anxiety-driven, or isolating. These patterns can make food feel increasingly narrow, high-stakes, and tied to control, safety, identity, or worth.
Treatment focuses on loosening rigid food rules, reducing fear and moral judgment around eating, and rebuilding flexibility with food and social connection. We help clients develop a more sustainable relationship with nourishment, body cues, health, and choice.
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Body shame and chronic dieting often develop within a culture that teaches people to monitor, shrink, compare, and judge their bodies. Over time, this can lead to restriction, weight cycling, food guilt, anxiety around eating, and a sense that worth or safety depends on appearance.
Treatment focuses on unpacking internalized fatphobia, reducing shame, loosening diet-culture rules, and building a more compassionate relationship with food and the body. We help clients move toward greater body trust, flexibility, and self-worth that is less governed by appearance.
Your relationship with food and your body has been shaped by experience, environment, culture, survival strategies, and the messages you have absorbed over time.
Many clients come to therapy carrying years of body shame, food rules, self-monitoring, and punishment that were taught, reinforced, or rewarded by the world around them. In treatment, we work to understand how those patterns developed and what they have been trying to manage, protect, or control.
Our work supports a more compassionate and grounded relationship with your body. That may include greater self-trust, more flexibility with food, less fear around embodiment, more choice in how you care for yourself, and a relationship with your body that feels less governed by shame.
Join Danielle’s Eating Disorder Process Group
This group is for people recovering from eating disorders and disordered eating who want space to process their relationship with food, body image, shame, and recovery in community with others who get it because they too live it.
Members will have the opportunity to explore the emotional side of recovery, build insight into the patterns that keep them stuck, and develop more supportive ways of relating to food and their bodies. The group is rooted in HAES and body liberation and is designed to feel thoughtful, validating, and clinically grounded rather than prescriptive or punitive.
Participants can expect connection, reflection, practical coping support, and the powerful experience of feeling less alone in recovery.