Conditions We Treat
Our Approach
Questions about therapy or getting started? Let's connect — call or text me at (503) 984-2926.
Conditions We Treat
Our Approach
Questions about therapy or getting started? Let's connect — call or text me at (503) 984-2926.
Make peace with food. Rediscover the joy of eating and trust your body's wisdom.
Letting go of the diet mentality and food rules.
Respecting your hunger and fullness cues.
Treating your body with kindness and dignity.
"You are the expert of your own body."
Intuitive Eating moves away from the diet mentality and helps you reconnect with your body's natural hunger and fullness cues. It's about learning to trust and honor your body, building a more peaceful relationship with food.
"You are the expert of your own body."
Created by dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995, Intuitive Eating arose as an evidence-based alternative to the cycle of chronic dieting. It shifts the focus from weight loss to physical and emotional health.
Studies link Intuitive Eating to lower body mass index, better psychological health, and improved dietary intake. It is associated with higher self-esteem and lower rates of disordered eating behaviors compared to restrictive dieting.
Our Framework
We reject the diet mentality and work to rebuild your innate hunger cues. These shifts help you move from fighting your body to partnering with it, allowing you to rediscover nourishment without shame.
Neutralizing the moral value we place on eating.
Finding ways to comfort yourself that don't center on food.
Honoring the body you have, not the one you've been told to want.
These principles guide our approach to all food and body image related concerns, helping you rebuild a partnership with your body.
Recurring episodes of eating large amounts of food with a sense of loss of control, often rapidly and to the point of discomfort—accompanied by intense feelings of shame, guilt, or distress.
A serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a cycle of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors—such as self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, or laxative misuse—driven by a need to undo the effects of bingeing.
Persistent, distressing preoccupation with perceived flaws in physical appearance that may be minor or unnoticeable to others—significantly impacting mood, self-worth, and daily functioning.
A serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by restrictive eating, an intense fear of weight gain, and a distorted relationship with body image. It can affect people of all ages, genders, and body types.
An unhealthy fixation on eating "pure" or "clean" foods that becomes rigid and all-consuming—leading to social isolation, anxiety around eating, and potential nutritional imbalance.
When movement becomes compulsive rather than restorative—continuing despite injury, illness, or significant consequences to relationships, work, and daily life. Often co-occurs with other eating disorders.
Clinically significant eating disorders that don't fit neatly into the criteria for anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder—but are equally serious and deserving of care. OSFED is the most commonly diagnosed eating disorder.
Your body has wisdom. Let's learn to listen to it together.