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Specialized eating disorder therapy and treatment in-person in Denver, CO and virtually for all of Colorado and California.

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What is an Eating Disorder?

Eating disorders come in a variety of shapes and sizes. While every eating disorder often serves a similar purpose, how it achieves that purpose can look very different from person to person.

  • Characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, distorted or obsessive thoughts and beliefs about food, bodies, and self-worth and frequent and consistent engagement in restrictive behaviors to control one’s weight or shape.

  • An unhealthy, obsessive fixation on "pure," "clean," or "perfect" eating that severely restricts daily life, creates intense anxiety around food choices, and damages physical and emotional well-being.

  • The same cognitions in anorexia, but involves frequent and consistent engagement in consuming larger amounts of food (bingeing) accompanied by behaviors meant to compensate for the bingeing to prevent weight gain and regain control.

  • A dangerous behavior where individuals with Type 1 Diabetes intentionally withhold or decrease necessary insulin doses for the primary purpose of losing weight or controlling body shape.

  • Involves frequent, distressing episodes of eating significantly more food in a short period than most people would, accompanied by deep shame and a lack of control, without compensatory purging behaviors. These episodes are often accompanied with restriction.

  • Restriction of food intake by limiting the volume or variety of food consumed due to sensory sensitivities (textures, smells), fear of distressing consequences (choking, vomiting), or a general lack of interest in eating, rather than body image distress.

Common Symptoms of Eating Disorders:

Eating disorders don’t only exist on your plate. Their influence spreads to your emotional bandwidth, your nervous system, and your relationships. You might be experiencing an eating disorder if you recognize these patterns in yourself:

Constant Brain Noise: Spending hours every day calculating calories, planning meals, or agonizing over what you ate (or didn't eat).

Body Hyper-Fixation: Constantly checking your reflection, pinching your skin, measuring body parts, or avoiding mirrors entirely.

Rules and Rigidity: Feeling intense anxiety or panic if a meal plan changes, if you can't control the ingredients, or if you miss a scheduled workout.

Social Isolation: Canceling plans, avoiding dinners out, or withdrawing from loved ones because food will be involved.

Swings in Control: Moving between strict, perfectionistic restriction and feeling completely out of control around food.

Physical Fatigue & Brain Fog: Feeling physically drained, freezing cold, lightheaded, or unable to focus on work or conversations.

Deep Shame & Guilt: Feeling like a failure after eating, or believing that your worth as a human being is directly tied to a number on the scale.

If any of these sound familiar, you aren’t alone and you don’t have to navigate this yourself.

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What does therapy for eating disorders look like?

The recovery process can feel overwhelming when you’re seeking support for your relationship with food and your body. Knowing what your process could look like often makes that first step a little less painful. Our collaborative process breaks down into clear, intentional phases:

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  • We start by thoroughly evaluating your relationship with food, movement, and your body, honoring your unique story without judgment.

  • We pinpoint the exact behaviors keeping you stuck and define what true freedom looks like for your specific life.

  • We build a structured, personalized roadmap tailored to your needs, bringing in a multidisciplinary team (dietitians, medical providers) if needed for medical safety.

  • We gently dig underneath the eating disorder to understand the root causes—uncovering the trauma, emotional pain, or perfectionism the eating disorder was trying to protect you from.

  • We practice real-time coping mechanisms and somatic tools to help you tolerate distress, challenge the inner eating disorder voice, and step toward fear foods.

  • As your emotional safety grows, you systematically let go of eating disorder rituals, restoring balance to your eating patterns and body image.

  • We construct a sustainable, long-term blueprint so you can navigate life's future stressors without turning back to food or body control.

How We Treat Eating Disorders:

Our practice was built on years of high-tier clinical experience—including intensive higher levels of care like residential, Partial Hospitalization (PHP), and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programs at national leaders like the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center and the Eating Recovery Center of Denver.

We know that eating disorder symptoms don't exist because you are "broken" or "vain." They developed as an adaptive, survival mechanism to keep you safe when the world felt overwhelming.

Our philosophy centers on intentionality, deep relational safety, and clinical excellence. We bridge the gap between high-level institutional expertise and warm, personalized outpatient care. We don't view recovery as "fixing a flaw," but as helping you cultivate the self-compassion, resilience, and emotional capacity to feel at home in your body and at peace in your life.

Specific Theories and Interventions

We bring a robust, evidence-based clinical toolkit directly to your sessions. Rather than forcing you into a rigid model, we integrate:

  • Used to identify and unravel destructive thought loops surrounding food, body rules, and perfectionism.

  • Used to help you disentangle from intrusive thoughts and build a rich, meaningful life aligned with your actual values—not the eating disorder's demands.

  • Utilizing trauma modalities built on prioritizing safety and trust in yourself to help you safely re-inhabit your body and process unresolved trauma.

  • Eating disorders impact family dynamics. EFFT is utilized to repair family dynamics, involve support systems, and heal the relational wounds that often fuel body dissatisfaction.

FAQs

  • No, absolutely not. This is one of the most dangerous myths in mental health, and it keeps so many people suffering in silence.. Eating disorders exist in bodies of all shapes, sizes, weights, genders, and racial backgrounds. You cannot tell if someone has an eating disorder simply by looking at them.

    If your thoughts about food, calories, or your body take up a huge chunk of your daily mental space—or if you constantly feel shame around what you eat—you are struggling. That struggle is real, and you don't have to wait until things get "worse" to deserve help, no matter what the scale says.

  • No. I don't make abrupt demands or issue ultimatums. You are in the driver's seat of your life and your care.

    Our goal is safety, autonomy, and collaboration—not control. We work with you at a pace your nervous system can handle. While physical stabilization and restoring balance are essential parts of health, we don't issue abrupt demands. We explore why movement and control feel necessary, helping you shift toward intuitive, joyful movement and a nourished body over time.

  • This isn't a willpower problem—it's a biological and emotional safety problem. Eating disorders and disordered eating patterns aren't caused by a lack of discipline. Whether your instinct is to restrict, purge, binge, compulsively exercise, or follow hyper-rigid food rules, these behaviors show up as your nervous system's way of trying to manage overwhelming stress, self-criticism, or unmet physical needs.

    When you try to "fix" your relationship with food through sheer willpower, strict discipline, or harder rules, your brain and body actually feel more threatened—which inevitably triggers the exact behaviors you're trying to stop.

  • Yes, absolutely. Whether we meet in person at my Denver office or virtually across Colorado and California, we use the exact same evidence-based approaches.

    For many clients, doing therapy from the comfort of their own home—sitting on their own couch in comfortable clothes—actually lowers their anxiety and makes it easier to be vulnerable and open during sessions.

  • Sometimes, yes. Because eating disorders affect both your mental and physical health, recovery often works best with a small, trusted team.

    If you already have a Health at Every Size (HAES)-aligned dietitian or primary care doctor, I will coordinate directly with them so we are all on the same page. If you don't have a team yet, don't worry—I can connect you with compassionate, vetted medical and nutritional specialists across Colorado and California who treat you with the same warmth and respect you get in my office.

  • It can be hard to spot because eating disorders thrive in secrecy and perfectionism. You might notice subtle signs before anything obvious happens: withdrawing from group dinners, making excuses not to eat around others, intense anxiety when meal plans change, disappearing to the bathroom right after eating, or an obsessive shift toward "clean" eating and rigid exercise routines.

    If you suspect someone you love is hurting, you don't need to have all the answers. Reaching out to a specialist is often the best first step to learning how to support them gently without driving them deeper into isolation.

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