Eating Disorders Therapists in Oakland, CA
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.
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.
My practice is LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent affirming, culturally attuned, and trauma-responsive, with specialized training in trauma, eating disorders, and relationship challenges.
My approach blends psychodynamic therapy with experiential and somatic modalities, including EMDR, KAP, KA-EMDR, trauma-informed yoga, and Ecotherapy. I stay deeply engaged, ask thoughtful questions, and compassionately challenge, while trusting you as the expert on your own experience. I bring an existential lens to unearth what’s been overlooked.
My practice is LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent affirming, culturally attuned, and trauma-responsive, with specialized training in trauma, eating disorders, and relationship challenges.
My approach blends psychodynamic therapy with experiential and somatic modalities, including EMDR, KAP, KA-EMDR, trauma-informed yoga, and Ecotherapy. I stay deeply engaged, ask thoughtful questions, and compassionately challenge, while trusting you as the expert on your own experience. I bring an existential lens to unearth what’s been overlooked.
I specialize in treating eating disorders, anxiety, depression and trauma.
I strongly believe that all of us are capable of experiencing profound well being, whatever the circumstances of our lives may be. My goal in therapy is to help you access that state within yourself. I aim to help you recognize and accept the many layers of your experience and to support you in acting skillfully and authentically in the world. My first priority is to create an atmosphere of safety and trust so that you are able to freely explore your challenges, concerns and desires. After we understand your difficulties, we can collaborate to create the desired change and growth.
I specialize in treating eating disorders, anxiety, depression and trauma.
I strongly believe that all of us are capable of experiencing profound well being, whatever the circumstances of our lives may be. My goal in therapy is to help you access that state within yourself. I aim to help you recognize and accept the many layers of your experience and to support you in acting skillfully and authentically in the world. My first priority is to create an atmosphere of safety and trust so that you are able to freely explore your challenges, concerns and desires. After we understand your difficulties, we can collaborate to create the desired change and growth.
As a clinician with over 4 years of experience in eating disorder treatment I have developed a passion for helping clients heal their relationships with food and their bodies.
As a postmodern therapist I hold the belief that every client is the expert of their own story. Sometimes we need space to deconstruct these stories we hold, challenge narratives that keep us stuck, and identify where we want change. If you say "I don't know what this means" or "I want to change but I'm not sure how" I'm here to say "let's figure it out together" and walk down that road with you. I take a collaborative approach with my clients and encourage them to recognize their own strengths, while also exploring more effective ways to cope and offering tools as needed.
As a clinician with over 4 years of experience in eating disorder treatment I have developed a passion for helping clients heal their relationships with food and their bodies.
As a postmodern therapist I hold the belief that every client is the expert of their own story. Sometimes we need space to deconstruct these stories we hold, challenge narratives that keep us stuck, and identify where we want change. If you say "I don't know what this means" or "I want to change but I'm not sure how" I'm here to say "let's figure it out together" and walk down that road with you. I take a collaborative approach with my clients and encourage them to recognize their own strengths, while also exploring more effective ways to cope and offering tools as needed.
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 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.
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.
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.
In our fast-paced society that rarely affords us the opportunity for introspection, I believe that therapy becomes the space in our lives where we can slow down, reflect, and tune into the wisdom residing within our bodies and our hearts. I am committed to co-creating this space where you may understand yourself more lovingly, connect with what you truly want and need, and create lasting change and peace in your life. We will celebrate your strengths as well as locate the fears, obstacles, and outgrown narratives keeping you from embodying your most authentic self.
In our fast-paced society that rarely affords us the opportunity for introspection, I believe that therapy becomes the space in our lives where we can slow down, reflect, and tune into the wisdom residing within our bodies and our hearts. I am committed to co-creating this space where you may understand yourself more lovingly, connect with what you truly want and need, and create lasting change and peace in your life. We will celebrate your strengths as well as locate the fears, obstacles, and outgrown narratives keeping you from embodying your most authentic self.
I also have specialized training in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and trauma-related disorders, and enjoy working with folks who are seeking to "take back" control from the ways disordered eating and/or trauma has impacted their lives.
In attunement with your values and unique lived experiences, I use evidence-informed approaches to help you move toward your therapy goals. I take an active, warm and collaborative stance, and believe that a sense of trust and safety in the therapy relationship is foundational to the therapy process.
I also have specialized training in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and trauma-related disorders, and enjoy working with folks who are seeking to "take back" control from the ways disordered eating and/or trauma has impacted their lives.
In attunement with your values and unique lived experiences, I use evidence-informed approaches to help you move toward your therapy goals. I take an active, warm and collaborative stance, and believe that a sense of trust and safety in the therapy relationship is foundational to the therapy process.
My practice focuses on working with folks with intersecting identities as well as folks navigating complex trauma, eating disorders and body image struggles, and young people experiencing life transitions.
I work with teens and adults who are still finding themselves. The ones feeling unseen, lost, or overwhelmed. They're wanting to better understand their pasts, families, identities, or systems they've been swimming in. Often, they're ready to let go of old patterns or beliefs that have been burdening them and build more authentic, meaningful lives. Many of my clients are new to therapy or have had prior experiences that left them feeling misunderstood or unheard. With curiosity and flexibility, I make room for all that is you today. And as a soft-spoken Scorpio, I bring an attuned and openhearted energy to the space.
My practice focuses on working with folks with intersecting identities as well as folks navigating complex trauma, eating disorders and body image struggles, and young people experiencing life transitions.
I work with teens and adults who are still finding themselves. The ones feeling unseen, lost, or overwhelmed. They're wanting to better understand their pasts, families, identities, or systems they've been swimming in. Often, they're ready to let go of old patterns or beliefs that have been burdening them and build more authentic, meaningful lives. Many of my clients are new to therapy or have had prior experiences that left them feeling misunderstood or unheard. With curiosity and flexibility, I make room for all that is you today. And as a soft-spoken Scorpio, I bring an attuned and openhearted energy to the space.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
” I work with adults who are ready for meaningful, lasting change, but feel stuck in painful patterns with past trauma, self-worth, relationships, or disordered eating/ eating disorders.
Using somatic therapy and other depth-oriented approaches, we’ll pay attention not only to what you think, but to what your body is holding onto. Together, we’ll build greater self-trust, resilience, and awareness so you can move through life with more clarity, choice, and a stronger connection to yourself.
” I work with adults who are ready for meaningful, lasting change, but feel stuck in painful patterns with past trauma, self-worth, relationships, or disordered eating/ eating disorders.
Using somatic therapy and other depth-oriented approaches, we’ll pay attention not only to what you think, but to what your body is holding onto. Together, we’ll build greater self-trust, resilience, and awareness so you can move through life with more clarity, choice, and a stronger connection to yourself.
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.
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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.