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About My Clients
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Eating disorders and addiction, especially for QTBIPOC, often begin as a survival strategy. Your addiction and/or disordered eating may have been your first coping mechanism against racism, homophobia, classism, sexism or other forms of trauma/abuse. Do you feel disconnected from your body/yourself? Do you feel incapable of facing life without the "help" of these behaviors or have they helped your escape and/or became your safe place? Let's chat.
My Background and Approach
We explore what's hidden beneath your addiction, eating disorder and/or disordered eating. Using somatic practices and parts work; we safely dive deep into the issue/s that may have caused your eating behaviors and addiction/s to occur in the first place. We use tools like breathwork and tapping to regulate the body while holding space for your lived experienced to be felt and expressed. During the process of working through what may have created the dependence on substance/s, food or lack of food, we learn how to map your nervous systems survival responses and patterns. What survival response do you most live in when faced with life stressor or past/present traumas.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Your world might feel scary right now, but you don't have to bear it alone. It takes courage to reach out for support and declare "I've had enough!" Despite how challenging it might feel right now I believe you can grow, change and evolve. Together, we will find practical and/or creative solutions to those persistent issues. I'm not just saying this because it sounds nice. I've lived it myself. I come to this work with professional and personal experience. I struggled with addition and an eating disorder during my 20's and early 30's. {Point of Information: I'm 44 now :) } I've spent years in therapy addressing the trauma/s that lead to my eating disorder and addiction issues. I know it seems impossible now but there is freedom on the other side of these behaviors and you don't have to go it alone. We heal in community. I believe people can move past deep attachment wounding and trauma. I believe this because I've seen it in myself, the folks I work with, colleagues and friends.