Eating Disorders Therapists in Oakland, CA
If you're grappling with eating disorders, I'll bring my expertise as a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist to support you.
At times, life can feel like too much. Old wounds are resurfacing, relationships to self and others may be shifting, or daily pressures are piling up. Whether it’s anxiety, depression, trauma, struggles with food and body image, or the complexities of love, connection, and separation, these experiences make it hard to feel at ease in yourself or in your life. My work focuses on helping people make sense of these experiences, find steadier ground, and grow in ways that feel authentic, lasting, and fulfilling.
If you're grappling with eating disorders, I'll bring my expertise as a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist to support you.
At times, life can feel like too much. Old wounds are resurfacing, relationships to self and others may be shifting, or daily pressures are piling up. Whether it’s anxiety, depression, trauma, struggles with food and body image, or the complexities of love, connection, and separation, these experiences make it hard to feel at ease in yourself or in your life. My work focuses on helping people make sense of these experiences, find steadier ground, and grow in ways that feel authentic, lasting, and fulfilling.
My personal vision of health includes harmony, connectivity, and balance. For true healing to take place, the entire self – physical, mental, and spiritual must be considered. Each person has a unique path and purpose, and it is my goal to accompany my clients on their journey of discovery and to offer my support and encouragement along the way.
My personal vision of health includes harmony, connectivity, and balance. For true healing to take place, the entire self – physical, mental, and spiritual must be considered. Each person has a unique path and purpose, and it is my goal to accompany my clients on their journey of discovery and to offer my support and encouragement along the way.
I am licensed in California, and have done trainings in multiple areas - eating disorders, depression, relationship issues, gender-based issues - over many years.
Hello and welcome! I love working with clients who want to understand themselves as fully as is possible. My clients tend to come to therapy for a specific reason, but often stay to explore and discover more broadly, seeing the treatment process as a tool of growth and expansion. I work well with clients of all genders, sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds, and I see the therapy relationship as a sacred container for meaningful personal healing and evolution. I find that most clients are seeking a combination of practical help and deep insight, and I really enjoy moving with flexibility and spontaneity between these goals.
I am licensed in California, and have done trainings in multiple areas - eating disorders, depression, relationship issues, gender-based issues - over many years.
Hello and welcome! I love working with clients who want to understand themselves as fully as is possible. My clients tend to come to therapy for a specific reason, but often stay to explore and discover more broadly, seeing the treatment process as a tool of growth and expansion. I work well with clients of all genders, sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds, and I see the therapy relationship as a sacred container for meaningful personal healing and evolution. I find that most clients are seeking a combination of practical help and deep insight, and I really enjoy moving with flexibility and spontaneity between these goals.
This includes building a kind inner parent voice, learning to externalize shame, healing disordered eating and body disconnection, and healing codependency in order to get better connected to yourself.
I'm weight inclusive and neuro-affirming in my approach. I help clients reconnect with themselves and re-parent themselves. I help clients learn to replace shaming cognitive patterns with messages of self compassion. I love using humor and directness in sessions. I love working with folks with histories of disordered eating.
This includes building a kind inner parent voice, learning to externalize shame, healing disordered eating and body disconnection, and healing codependency in order to get better connected to yourself.
I'm weight inclusive and neuro-affirming in my approach. I help clients reconnect with themselves and re-parent themselves. I help clients learn to replace shaming cognitive patterns with messages of self compassion. I love using humor and directness in sessions. I love working with folks with histories of disordered eating.
Anxiety can be so overwhelming and persistent that it feels like it's taking over. Sadness, grief, and depression may feel so heavy and unmanageable that the simple but vital parts of life such as sleeping, eating, and work are difficult or complicated. Your pain might be related to a recent stressful event like heartbreak or the death of someone close to you, or maybe it is less acute but feels endless. Perhaps there is an atmosphere of dread, loneliness, fear, and frustration. Relationships become conflict- ridden or devoid of real feeling. There is a sense that you're doing it wrong or always making the same mistakes.
Anxiety can be so overwhelming and persistent that it feels like it's taking over. Sadness, grief, and depression may feel so heavy and unmanageable that the simple but vital parts of life such as sleeping, eating, and work are difficult or complicated. Your pain might be related to a recent stressful event like heartbreak or the death of someone close to you, or maybe it is less acute but feels endless. Perhaps there is an atmosphere of dread, loneliness, fear, and frustration. Relationships become conflict- ridden or devoid of real feeling. There is a sense that you're doing it wrong or always making the same mistakes.
My practice specializes in helping people navigate anxiety, depression, relationships, life transitions, grief, and life stressors. Even the strongest need support to tackle life’s challenges. Everyone has hurdles, and I’d love to help you along the way. I recognize no two people are the same, so I tailor therapy to meet your unique needs. I enjoy helping clients identify what holds them back using an in-depth approach. By addressing underlying issues, clients can recognize their strengths and adjust behaviors and thoughts to see life in a healthier, more positive way.
My practice specializes in helping people navigate anxiety, depression, relationships, life transitions, grief, and life stressors. Even the strongest need support to tackle life’s challenges. Everyone has hurdles, and I’d love to help you along the way. I recognize no two people are the same, so I tailor therapy to meet your unique needs. I enjoy helping clients identify what holds them back using an in-depth approach. By addressing underlying issues, clients can recognize their strengths and adjust behaviors and thoughts to see life in a healthier, more positive way.
I have experience in helping clients with coping with addictions, family conflicts, trauma, abuse, eating disorders, motivation, & self-esteem.
My approach to therapy is uncovering the root and recovering the self. I prefer working with adults 25+. I enjoy working with individuals who want to do the work.
I have experience in helping clients with coping with addictions, family conflicts, trauma, abuse, eating disorders, motivation, & self-esteem.
My approach to therapy is uncovering the root and recovering the self. I prefer working with adults 25+. I enjoy working with individuals who want to do the work.
In addition, I have over 20 years experience in successfully treating individuals with eating disorders.
Are you looking to transform your life? Are you tired of being caught in self-destructive patterns? Are you hoping for real change? If so, I am interested in collaborating with you to create the life you want. I am dedicated to helping you achieve your therapeutic goals quickly and fully. In my practice, I see people accomplish profound change on a daily basis. My style is straightforward coupled with compassion. In individual or couples therapy, I work diligently to help you overcome barriers to contentment in intimacy, relationships, work and family life.
In addition, I have over 20 years experience in successfully treating individuals with eating disorders.
Are you looking to transform your life? Are you tired of being caught in self-destructive patterns? Are you hoping for real change? If so, I am interested in collaborating with you to create the life you want. I am dedicated to helping you achieve your therapeutic goals quickly and fully. In my practice, I see people accomplish profound change on a daily basis. My style is straightforward coupled with compassion. In individual or couples therapy, I work diligently to help you overcome barriers to contentment in intimacy, relationships, work and family life.
I specialize in helping parents strengthen their relationships with their infants, toddlers, and children; supporting eating disorder recovery with people of all ages; and changing how people carry the legacy of stress and traumatic experience in their bodies and everyday lives.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over three decades of experience serving young children, teens, adults, parents, and families affected by a broad range of life challenges. I value warmth, compassion, and collaboration, as well as concrete strategies for deep and sustainable change. I bring my full presence and attention to your unique experience and life circumstance. When people feel stuck, we work together to develop ways of coping that relieve suffering, strengthen relationships, and expand possibilities for a full life.
I specialize in helping parents strengthen their relationships with their infants, toddlers, and children; supporting eating disorder recovery with people of all ages; and changing how people carry the legacy of stress and traumatic experience in their bodies and everyday lives.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over three decades of experience serving young children, teens, adults, parents, and families affected by a broad range of life challenges. I value warmth, compassion, and collaboration, as well as concrete strategies for deep and sustainable change. I bring my full presence and attention to your unique experience and life circumstance. When people feel stuck, we work together to develop ways of coping that relieve suffering, strengthen relationships, and expand possibilities for a full life.
I provide teens and adults a non-judgmental space to work through challenging and “messy” experiences such as anxiety, panic, depression, relationship issues, and disordered eating.
I also provide therapy to clients specifically struggling with disordered eating and body image issues, which often serve as means of control amidst overwhelm. In these cases, I integrate additional cognitive and behavioral approaches, while also upholding Health At Every Size principles.
I provide teens and adults a non-judgmental space to work through challenging and “messy” experiences such as anxiety, panic, depression, relationship issues, and disordered eating.
I also provide therapy to clients specifically struggling with disordered eating and body image issues, which often serve as means of control amidst overwhelm. In these cases, I integrate additional cognitive and behavioral approaches, while also upholding Health At Every Size principles.
I want to help you explore what's true for you, listen without feeling protective/becoming defensive, and learn to feel safer in relationships (with others but also with yourself.) I have 15 years of experience in mental health treatment settings and I specialize in eating disorder recovery, healing relational trauma, and gender affirming care.
I am committed to supporting you and/or your loved one as you explore & affirm your gender identity. I am trauma-informed and will incorporate internal family systems (IFS) if that modality feels right for you. I provide surgery consultations and approval letters as needed or requested.
I want to help you explore what's true for you, listen without feeling protective/becoming defensive, and learn to feel safer in relationships (with others but also with yourself.) I have 15 years of experience in mental health treatment settings and I specialize in eating disorder recovery, healing relational trauma, and gender affirming care.
I am committed to supporting you and/or your loved one as you explore & affirm your gender identity. I am trauma-informed and will incorporate internal family systems (IFS) if that modality feels right for you. I provide surgery consultations and approval letters as needed or requested.
I love being able to combine my passions for helping others, creativity, and understanding why people think, feel, and behave as they do!
I believe therapy should be a collaborative relationship where we are working together on an issue, rather than me being The Expert. Instead, you are the expert on what it is like to be you in your life. I may share my perspective on what I believe may be going on and ask you to reflect on its accuracy and relevance to your experience.
I love being able to combine my passions for helping others, creativity, and understanding why people think, feel, and behave as they do!
I believe therapy should be a collaborative relationship where we are working together on an issue, rather than me being The Expert. Instead, you are the expert on what it is like to be you in your life. I may share my perspective on what I believe may be going on and ask you to reflect on its accuracy and relevance to your experience.
I feel the theraputic experience is a rich and exciting way for someone to reach their full potential. We all have feelings at times that "something is missing". These are real feelings and will be explored through our relationship. I believe everyone is unique. I don't have a "cookie cutter" approach to treating people. We will get to know each other and deal with the issues together. I work from a psychodynamic viewpoint.I feel everything that you have gone through as a child, young adult, and adult is connected. Our job will be to put the puzzle together.
I feel the theraputic experience is a rich and exciting way for someone to reach their full potential. We all have feelings at times that "something is missing". These are real feelings and will be explored through our relationship. I believe everyone is unique. I don't have a "cookie cutter" approach to treating people. We will get to know each other and deal with the issues together. I work from a psychodynamic viewpoint.I feel everything that you have gone through as a child, young adult, and adult is connected. Our job will be to put the puzzle together.
I also hold vast experience supporting individuals experiencing eating disorders and those struggling with a complicated relationship with food.
I believe healing happens in relationship. My work is grounded in a humanistic approach that centers compassion, collaboration, exploration of self, and practical tools for coping and healing. I aim to create a warm space where clients feel witnessed and affirmed wherever they're at in their journey. Here, each client’s unique identities and lived experiences are respected and honored. I work from a trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens and integrate evidence-based practices to support insight, agency, and meaningful change—helping clients build more compassionate and sustainable ways of relating to themselves and others.
I also hold vast experience supporting individuals experiencing eating disorders and those struggling with a complicated relationship with food.
I believe healing happens in relationship. My work is grounded in a humanistic approach that centers compassion, collaboration, exploration of self, and practical tools for coping and healing. I aim to create a warm space where clients feel witnessed and affirmed wherever they're at in their journey. Here, each client’s unique identities and lived experiences are respected and honored. I work from a trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens and integrate evidence-based practices to support insight, agency, and meaningful change—helping clients build more compassionate and sustainable ways of relating to themselves and others.
We explore a host of issues, including: emotionally rooted physiologic ailments, medical trauma, PTSD, developmental trauma, grief, energetic sensitivity, assault, boundary setting, anxiety, panic attacks, eating disorders, addiction, codependency, and transitional and relational struggles.
As humans, we are brilliantly complex, wired for connection, attachment, and survival. Our experience of joy and suffering are innately human and are connected to our physical and emotional wellness--inseparable realms. In somatic psychotherapy we hold space for the body to have a language of its own, honoring what it has to say, so that we may more clearly see what is beneath the surface. As a somatic psychotherapist, I am a collaborator, guide and mirror, supporting you in increasing your own sense of exploration of conscious and unconscious patterns of behaviors, beliefs, body signals and cues.
We explore a host of issues, including: emotionally rooted physiologic ailments, medical trauma, PTSD, developmental trauma, grief, energetic sensitivity, assault, boundary setting, anxiety, panic attacks, eating disorders, addiction, codependency, and transitional and relational struggles.
As humans, we are brilliantly complex, wired for connection, attachment, and survival. Our experience of joy and suffering are innately human and are connected to our physical and emotional wellness--inseparable realms. In somatic psychotherapy we hold space for the body to have a language of its own, honoring what it has to say, so that we may more clearly see what is beneath the surface. As a somatic psychotherapist, I am a collaborator, guide and mirror, supporting you in increasing your own sense of exploration of conscious and unconscious patterns of behaviors, beliefs, body signals and cues.
I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, and I studied at Santa Clara University for my Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology. I am a holistic mental health therapist, meaning I provide treatment that focuses on the whole person including their mind, body and spirit, or essence. I support clients in creating goals that address areas of their lives where they experience suffering and/or a desire for change.
I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, and I studied at Santa Clara University for my Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology. I am a holistic mental health therapist, meaning I provide treatment that focuses on the whole person including their mind, body and spirit, or essence. I support clients in creating goals that address areas of their lives where they experience suffering and/or a desire for change.
My areas of focus include conscious parenting, eating disorders, and postpartum/perinatal mental health.
I use family systems techniques to heal your inner child, and psychodynamic techniques to uncover patterns that are not serving you. This will help you to strengthen the authoring of your future stories. I help you move towards addressing your needs, and developing clarity and solutions using person-centered tenets with evidence-based CBT and DBT techniques.
My areas of focus include conscious parenting, eating disorders, and postpartum/perinatal mental health.
I use family systems techniques to heal your inner child, and psychodynamic techniques to uncover patterns that are not serving you. This will help you to strengthen the authoring of your future stories. I help you move towards addressing your needs, and developing clarity and solutions using person-centered tenets with evidence-based CBT and DBT techniques.
I specialize in depression, anxiety, family issues, identity development , emotion regulation, and eating disorders.
If you are ready to learn more about yourself and develop a positive path toward growth seeking assistance can help you refocus on what's most meaningful to you. People come to therapy for many reasons, including needing help in handling stressful life transitions, to reduce psychological distress, increase one's self worth and to develop a better understanding of themselves. During therapy, we will explore unhealthy patterns by looking at the interplay between your thoughts, behaviors and emotions and how they affect your daily experiences. You will learn to develop fulfilling relationships, ways to cope in healthier ways, and ultimately live a fulfilling life.
I specialize in depression, anxiety, family issues, identity development , emotion regulation, and eating disorders.
If you are ready to learn more about yourself and develop a positive path toward growth seeking assistance can help you refocus on what's most meaningful to you. People come to therapy for many reasons, including needing help in handling stressful life transitions, to reduce psychological distress, increase one's self worth and to develop a better understanding of themselves. During therapy, we will explore unhealthy patterns by looking at the interplay between your thoughts, behaviors and emotions and how they affect your daily experiences. You will learn to develop fulfilling relationships, ways to cope in healthier ways, and ultimately live a fulfilling life.
I am a culturally aware therapist who provides therapy to individuals, families and couples. As an EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and trauma-informed therapist, I have experience working with self-harm urged teens as well as individuals with complex trauma and negative self doubt. I love working with people of color, who are struggling with a sense of belonging and/or relating to their immigrant parents. In regard to couple's work, I utilize Attachment Science and Emotional Focused Therapy to create an evidence based approach to help couple's achieve better communication in their relationships.
I am a culturally aware therapist who provides therapy to individuals, families and couples. As an EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and trauma-informed therapist, I have experience working with self-harm urged teens as well as individuals with complex trauma and negative self doubt. I love working with people of color, who are struggling with a sense of belonging and/or relating to their immigrant parents. In regard to couple's work, I utilize Attachment Science and Emotional Focused Therapy to create an evidence based approach to help couple's achieve better communication in their relationships.
Spirituality is also the foundation of many of our lives, and I have experience working with clients from a faith-based approach, integrating Christian values to promote healing. My approach is client-centered, empowering clients to embrace perceived weaknesses to utilize as strengths while providing understanding, compassion, and support. I have a naturally Solution-Focused mindset, which helps me guide clients in creating and working toward sustainable and desired goals.
Spirituality is also the foundation of many of our lives, and I have experience working with clients from a faith-based approach, integrating Christian values to promote healing. My approach is client-centered, empowering clients to embrace perceived weaknesses to utilize as strengths while providing understanding, compassion, and support. I have a naturally Solution-Focused mindset, which helps me guide clients in creating and working toward sustainable and desired goals.
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Eating Disorders Therapists
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviors, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behavior affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counseling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioral disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behavior, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognize they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behavior has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.