Eating Concerns | Body Image
At our practice, we use intuitive eating, an evidence-based method that helps individuals reconnect with natural hunger and fullness cues. This approach emphasizes self-trust, food freedom, and lasting well-being—not dieting or weight loss. We offer compassionate, trauma-informed support for eating disorders and intuitive eating, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, chronic dieting, and emotional eating.
Evidence-Based Intuitive Eating Therapy
Our practice incorporates the principles of intuitive eating, an evidence-based approach that helps clients reconnect with their natural hunger and fullness cues. This method is not about dieting or weight loss—it focuses on self-trust, food freedom, and long-term emotional and physical well-being. Intuitive eating has been shown to reduce disordered eating behaviors, improve body image, and support recovery from eating disorders. During therapy, we guide clients through the 10 principles of intuitive eating, helping to unlearn harmful diet culture messages and embrace nourishment and self-care without guilt.
Tailored Therapeutic Support
Each client’s journey is unique. Our treatment approach combines intuitive eating with mindfulness, self-compassion, and evidence-based therapies such as CBT and DBT. We address the emotional and psychological roots of disordered eating, including trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, and societal pressures. As a size-inclusive, weight-neutral practice aligned with the Health at Every Size (HAES®) framework, we focus on holistic healing—physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Who We Help
We provide secure online therapy sessions for teens, college students, and adults across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. We provide a safe space to address food, body image, and self-worth. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or quietly struggling with disordered eating or body image concerns, our team is here to guide you toward lasting recovery.
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Specialties and Approaches
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Health at Every Size & Size Inclusive Health
We are weight-inclusive and body-accepting, which means we accept you, in your body, as it is today, and believe that health is available at every size. HAES® is an evidenced-based, size-affirmative, weight-neutral approach to health and acceptance for all.
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Intuitive Eating
We treat a range of disordered eating with a compassionate and empathetic approach. Principles of intuitive eating have been shown to dramatically change a patient’s relationship with body image, eating, and nutrition.
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Self Confidence & Body Image
Your relationship with your body is important, and self esteem and confidence require a delicate balance. We specialize in working on self compassion and body neutrality, knowing that no two journeys are the same. Contact us to start your journey today!
What is Disordered Eating?
Disordered eating is a range of eating, feeding, and body image concerns. It can span from a general sense of worry and pressure, to severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and distressing thoughts and emotions.
Signs and Symptoms of Disordered Eating
Disordered eating may include restrictive, compulsive, irregular, or inflexible eating. It can also be associated with a lack of self esteem, and/or preoccupation with one’s body, shape, or weight.
Causes of Disordered Eating
Many patients struggle with perfectionism and dissatisfaction with their bodies. Societal pressure and a desire to look a certain way can be challenging. Eating disorders are often associated with underlying causes, such as substance use, low self esteem, trauma history, and other mental health concerns.
How we Treat Disordered Eating
We use Intuitive Eating, which focuses on the body’s natural response to hunger and satisfaction. The goal is to make peace with all food, and reject a diet mentality. Our treatment is focused in body neutrality, Size Inclusive Health, and Health at Every Size .
Expected Outcomes
We treat a wide range of body image and disordered eating concerns. Some can be treated relatively quickly and simply, while severe eating disorders often require working with a professional team, including a nutritionist, PCP, therapist, medication management, etc.
Disordered Eating vs. Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders are categorized by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, and include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, ARFID, pica, and more. We not only treat these disorders, but also general eating and body image concerns.