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About My Clients
I work with women and teens who are quietly exhausted by their relationship with food. Many have cycled through treatments — residential programs, outpatient care, meal plans — without lasting change. They're self-aware and ready to go deeper than behavior. I specialize in binge eating, emotional eating, restriction, orthorexia, and body image distress — often connected to trauma, ADHD, or both. My approach is trauma-informed, expressive arts-based, and focused on root causes, not more rules.
My Background and Approach
I was trained in expressive arts therapy and clinical mental health counseling at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Before becoming a therapist, I spent nearly 20 years in the cosmetology field — teaching, serving clients, and witnessing firsthand how deeply people's relationships with their bodies and appearance shape their sense of worth. That experience lives in my work every day. I specialize in eating disorders, trauma, ADHD in women, and body image. My approach integrates expressive arts therapy, somatic body-based work, IFS, and CBT — because healing rarely happens through insight alone. I believe in doing the work alongside my clients, not above them. If I'm asking you to be vulnerable, I bring that same willingness to our work together.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Change happens when someone feels safe enough to stop surviving and start healing. That looks different for everyone. My belief is that healing is a fundamental human right — not something you have to earn by being sick enough, ready enough, or strong enough. I aim to be a steady, non-judgmental presence where all parts of you are welcome — including the parts that have been coping the only way they knew how. You don't have to have it figured out before you walk in. That's what we do together.