Eating Disorders Therapists in Braddock Road Metro, Alexandria, VA
I also have additional expertise working with mood disorders, eating disorders, LGBTQIA+, addiction, self harm, and specialty training in sex therapy, risk assessment, and sand tray therapy.
Therapy can be scary. It takes a lot of courage to seek support. As a therapist, I believe art making provides another language to communicate and process life experiences that are difficult to verbalize. Mark making represents evidence of our existence, and having a witness to your story is a powerful first step.
I also have additional expertise working with mood disorders, eating disorders, LGBTQIA+, addiction, self harm, and specialty training in sex therapy, risk assessment, and sand tray therapy.
Therapy can be scary. It takes a lot of courage to seek support. As a therapist, I believe art making provides another language to communicate and process life experiences that are difficult to verbalize. Mark making represents evidence of our existence, and having a witness to your story is a powerful first step.
I specialize in addiction (alcohol, drugs, sex) and trauma, but have extensive experience with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, family and couples issues, and low self-esteem.
If you feel like you are struggling to stay present in your life, if you are anxious or depressed, if you have an addiction or just find yourself numbing out, if you have an unhealthy relationship with food or your body, if you feel stuck when it comes to your trauma and how it's affecting you, or if you just want to improve your quality of life and you need a compassionate and dedicated professional to help you - hi, I'm Taz and I'd love to be your new therapist.
I specialize in addiction (alcohol, drugs, sex) and trauma, but have extensive experience with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, family and couples issues, and low self-esteem.
If you feel like you are struggling to stay present in your life, if you are anxious or depressed, if you have an addiction or just find yourself numbing out, if you have an unhealthy relationship with food or your body, if you feel stuck when it comes to your trauma and how it's affecting you, or if you just want to improve your quality of life and you need a compassionate and dedicated professional to help you - hi, I'm Taz and I'd love to be your new therapist.
I specialize in treating eating disorders, OCD, and relationship dynamics.
My clinical approach utilizes Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), ACT and CBT. Together, we will disrupt the behavioral loops keeping you stuck. Therapy won't feel passive, but rather an active collaboration focused on measurable change and building resilience.
I specialize in treating eating disorders, OCD, and relationship dynamics.
My clinical approach utilizes Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), ACT and CBT. Together, we will disrupt the behavioral loops keeping you stuck. Therapy won't feel passive, but rather an active collaboration focused on measurable change and building resilience.
Pennie is a compassionate, down-to-earth counselor who believes meaningful growth happens when people feel truly seen, heard, and supported. She works with adults and families to navigate life’s challenges, build resilience, and develop healthier emotional, mental, and relational patterns. Pennie brings a practical, strengths-based approach to therapy, blending empathy with real-world strategies to help clients move from feeling stuck or overwhelmed to feeling empowered and confident in their next steps.
Pennie is a compassionate, down-to-earth counselor who believes meaningful growth happens when people feel truly seen, heard, and supported. She works with adults and families to navigate life’s challenges, build resilience, and develop healthier emotional, mental, and relational patterns. Pennie brings a practical, strengths-based approach to therapy, blending empathy with real-world strategies to help clients move from feeling stuck or overwhelmed to feeling empowered and confident in their next steps.
I specialize in working with individuals struggling with eating disorders, perinatal mental health concerns, trauma and PTSD, and anxiety.
I use a trauma-informed, collaborative approach centered in safety and curiosity. I believe the patterns we struggle with often begin as ways to cope or protect ourselves, and change requires compassion rather than judgment. My approach is person-centered and attachment-based, while also drawing from CBT, DBT, & ACT to support you to meet your goals.
I specialize in working with individuals struggling with eating disorders, perinatal mental health concerns, trauma and PTSD, and anxiety.
I use a trauma-informed, collaborative approach centered in safety and curiosity. I believe the patterns we struggle with often begin as ways to cope or protect ourselves, and change requires compassion rather than judgment. My approach is person-centered and attachment-based, while also drawing from CBT, DBT, & ACT to support you to meet your goals.
I specialize in eating disorders, depression, anxiety, self-injury, suicidal ideation, trauma, and relationship concerns.
My collaborative method involves working closely with clients to identify their treatment goals while guiding them toward deeper insight into their challenges. I am committed to equipping my clients with adaptive coping skills to manage distress effectively. I combine techniques from various therapeutic approaches. I offer in-person and tele-health sessions.
I specialize in eating disorders, depression, anxiety, self-injury, suicidal ideation, trauma, and relationship concerns.
My collaborative method involves working closely with clients to identify their treatment goals while guiding them toward deeper insight into their challenges. I am committed to equipping my clients with adaptive coping skills to manage distress effectively. I combine techniques from various therapeutic approaches. I offer in-person and tele-health sessions.
You’re not too much. You’re not too sensitive. And you’re definitely not alone. If you’re tired of masking or managing it all, therapy is a great place to get real. Let’s talk.
You’re not too much. You’re not too sensitive. And you’re definitely not alone. If you’re tired of masking or managing it all, therapy is a great place to get real. Let’s talk.
I support children, adolescents, and families navigating behavioral health challenges, emotional difficulties, and complex life transitions. My clients often come to practice feeling overwhelmed by behavioral disruptions, stress, academic strain, or difficulties managing everyday emotions. I help them move forward using a collaborative, client-centered approach focused on practical coping strategies, psychoeducation, and tailored behavioral interventions. Together, we build emotional resilience, strengthen family dynamics, and foster long-term personal growth.
I support children, adolescents, and families navigating behavioral health challenges, emotional difficulties, and complex life transitions. My clients often come to practice feeling overwhelmed by behavioral disruptions, stress, academic strain, or difficulties managing everyday emotions. I help them move forward using a collaborative, client-centered approach focused on practical coping strategies, psychoeducation, and tailored behavioral interventions. Together, we build emotional resilience, strengthen family dynamics, and foster long-term personal growth.
Laura Macone
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
3 Endorsed
Braddock Road Metro, Alexandria, VA 22314
Too often, we feel we can't connect to our lives as we'd like to - anxiety, low mood, and hurts from the past can block our enjoyment of experiences and people. We can achieve so much, but still feel unsure of ourselves or wish that we could feel more grounded, more joyful, more present in the moment. We definitely benefit from talks with friends, reading, podcasts, and all the ways in which we can learn - but I believe there's no substitute for a great relationship with a therapist. If you haven't tried therapy, or tried and not clicked with the therapist, I hope you'll try or try again!
Too often, we feel we can't connect to our lives as we'd like to - anxiety, low mood, and hurts from the past can block our enjoyment of experiences and people. We can achieve so much, but still feel unsure of ourselves or wish that we could feel more grounded, more joyful, more present in the moment. We definitely benefit from talks with friends, reading, podcasts, and all the ways in which we can learn - but I believe there's no substitute for a great relationship with a therapist. If you haven't tried therapy, or tried and not clicked with the therapist, I hope you'll try or try again!
Struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or life transitions? I’m Stephanie Gagnon, LCSW, with 30 years of experience supporting individuals and couples in outpatient settings. Life stress can feel overwhelming, and my passion is helping clients restore balance, healing, and happiness. I use an integrative approach, tailoring therapy to your unique needs so together we can create meaningful, lasting change.
Struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or life transitions? I’m Stephanie Gagnon, LCSW, with 30 years of experience supporting individuals and couples in outpatient settings. Life stress can feel overwhelming, and my passion is helping clients restore balance, healing, and happiness. I use an integrative approach, tailoring therapy to your unique needs so together we can create meaningful, lasting change.
Hi, I’m Terra, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia with 8 years of experience supporting adolescents and adults. I help clients navigate anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and relationship challenges, guiding them on their path to healing and growth. I earned my undergraduate degree in Psychology from Talladega College and my graduate degree from Faulkner University. I look forward to meeting you and working together to help you achieve your goals.
Hi, I’m Terra, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia with 8 years of experience supporting adolescents and adults. I help clients navigate anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and relationship challenges, guiding them on their path to healing and growth. I earned my undergraduate degree in Psychology from Talladega College and my graduate degree from Faulkner University. I look forward to meeting you and working together to help you achieve your goals.
Healing begins with trust—and Katherine Weeks, LCSW, creates a safe, supportive space where you can explore challenges and discover your own strength. With experience in inpatient care, community mental health, and partial hospitalization, she has guided clients through depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and more, helping them build skills to live authentically.
Healing begins with trust—and Katherine Weeks, LCSW, creates a safe, supportive space where you can explore challenges and discover your own strength. With experience in inpatient care, community mental health, and partial hospitalization, she has guided clients through depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and more, helping them build skills to live authentically.
When you choose Lifebulb, you’re not just getting therapy, you’re getting a team that believes in better. We’ve built a practice where clinicians feel supported and passionate, so they can give you the best care possible. With highly trained, licensed therapists, we’re ready to help you meet your goals in person or online.
When you choose Lifebulb, you’re not just getting therapy, you’re getting a team that believes in better. We’ve built a practice where clinicians feel supported and passionate, so they can give you the best care possible. With highly trained, licensed therapists, we’re ready to help you meet your goals in person or online.
Looking to feel heard and supported in therapy? I’m Carolyn Rizza, a licensed counselor with experience working with individuals, couples, and groups both in-person and virtually. I create a safe, inclusive space where clients feel comfortable exploring challenges, building coping skills, and working toward meaningful goals to improve overall well-being.
Looking to feel heard and supported in therapy? I’m Carolyn Rizza, a licensed counselor with experience working with individuals, couples, and groups both in-person and virtually. I create a safe, inclusive space where clients feel comfortable exploring challenges, building coping skills, and working toward meaningful goals to improve overall well-being.
My specialities areas include: trauma, grief and loss, life transitions (faith transitions, graduation, going to college, engagement/marriage, separation/divorce, retirement, changes in health status, caregiving), eating disorders and negative body image, addictions, stress and anxiety, depression and sadness.
I offer in-person and virtual sessions for adults, couples, and families residing in California, and virtual sessions for residents of Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. I am trained in IFS and EMDR therapies, and I integrate both of these modalities to catalyze change for clients. These are trauma informed approaches that address the whole human experience: thoughts, emotions, beliefs, relationships, physical sensations in the body, and spirituality.
My specialities areas include: trauma, grief and loss, life transitions (faith transitions, graduation, going to college, engagement/marriage, separation/divorce, retirement, changes in health status, caregiving), eating disorders and negative body image, addictions, stress and anxiety, depression and sadness.
I offer in-person and virtual sessions for adults, couples, and families residing in California, and virtual sessions for residents of Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. I am trained in IFS and EMDR therapies, and I integrate both of these modalities to catalyze change for clients. These are trauma informed approaches that address the whole human experience: thoughts, emotions, beliefs, relationships, physical sensations in the body, and spirituality.
I currently work with teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, disordered eating, body image, grief and loss, military families, life transitions, and those seeking guidance for personal growth and empowerment.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), my approach is strength-based, client-centered, mind-body focused, and holistically grounded. All of my treatment is trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirming, bridging somatic, body-based techniques, components of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), positive psychology, expressive arts, and motivational interviewing. I strive to create a nonjudgemental therapeutic space where my clients feel safe, grounded, and empowered to engage in their healing process.
I currently work with teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, disordered eating, body image, grief and loss, military families, life transitions, and those seeking guidance for personal growth and empowerment.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), my approach is strength-based, client-centered, mind-body focused, and holistically grounded. All of my treatment is trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirming, bridging somatic, body-based techniques, components of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), positive psychology, expressive arts, and motivational interviewing. I strive to create a nonjudgemental therapeutic space where my clients feel safe, grounded, and empowered to engage in their healing process.
Struggling with life’s changes, anxiety, or past trauma? You don’t have to face it alone. I’m Loma Gulley, LPC, with 8 years of experience helping adults build healthier, more fulfilling lives. I offer a warm, judgment-free space to explore your challenges, dreams, and patterns through a supportive, psychodynamic approach. Whether in person or virtually, I’ll walk alongside you as you work toward growth and healing.
Struggling with life’s changes, anxiety, or past trauma? You don’t have to face it alone. I’m Loma Gulley, LPC, with 8 years of experience helping adults build healthier, more fulfilling lives. I offer a warm, judgment-free space to explore your challenges, dreams, and patterns through a supportive, psychodynamic approach. Whether in person or virtually, I’ll walk alongside you as you work toward growth and healing.
Looking to build resilience and navigate life’s challenges? I’m Karen, a counselor with experience supporting children, adolescents, families, and couples. I integrate grief and trauma expertise with strength-based, person-centered practices to help you develop coping skills and emotional wellness. My approach is holistic, exploring emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual aspects of each person, while fostering growth, self-acceptance, and personal empowerment in a supportive, tailored space.
Looking to build resilience and navigate life’s challenges? I’m Karen, a counselor with experience supporting children, adolescents, families, and couples. I integrate grief and trauma expertise with strength-based, person-centered practices to help you develop coping skills and emotional wellness. My approach is holistic, exploring emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual aspects of each person, while fostering growth, self-acceptance, and personal empowerment in a supportive, tailored space.
Feeling weighed down by anxiety, depression, grief, or trauma? I’m Alison Smoke, a social worker with 17+ years of experience helping adults navigate life’s challenges. I use evidence-based, strength-focused approaches like Mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and ACT. My goal is to empower you to explore solutions, build resilience, and live a more fulfilling, wholehearted life in a safe, supportive, and compassionate space.
Feeling weighed down by anxiety, depression, grief, or trauma? I’m Alison Smoke, a social worker with 17+ years of experience helping adults navigate life’s challenges. I use evidence-based, strength-focused approaches like Mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and ACT. My goal is to empower you to explore solutions, build resilience, and live a more fulfilling, wholehearted life in a safe, supportive, and compassionate space.
Using a client-centered approach, our Clinicians help Clients understand and work through problems of everyday living, including relationship issues, work-life balance and self care issues, the impact of traumatic experiences past and present, and issues which affect day-to-day living. Connecting the dots of your inner experience and your outward struggles can be a powerful motivator for change. Together, we keep close track of your goals for therapy and your satisfaction with the results.
Using a client-centered approach, our Clinicians help Clients understand and work through problems of everyday living, including relationship issues, work-life balance and self care issues, the impact of traumatic experiences past and present, and issues which affect day-to-day living. Connecting the dots of your inner experience and your outward struggles can be a powerful motivator for change. Together, we keep close track of your goals for therapy and your satisfaction with the results.
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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.