Eating Disorders & Intuitive Eating Therapy
Move beyond patterns with food and your body—and rediscover your appetite for life.
Through Somatic Therapy and Intuitive Eating, reconnect with your body’s wisdom and capacity for nourishment. In person Atlanta, GA, online across Georgia
You’re tired of the ongoing battles with food, exercise, and your body—and it may be time to reach for support.
When your days feel weighed down by thoughts about food, your body, and exercise—deciding what to eat, avoiding certain foods, fantasizing about meals, being ruled by the scale, counting every bite or step, searching for new diets, or feeling anxious if you don’t exercise—it can start to take over your life.
You might feel frozen at the thought of moving your body, constantly compare yourself to others, or find your body image shaping your mood and decisions throughout the day. At some point, it may begin to feel like it’s time to explore support.
Maybe you feel powerless over longstanding eating patterns and wonder if you need treatment again. You might question whether you’re “sick enough,” or feel confused when others don’t recognize your struggle. Past experiences in treatment may have left you feeling shamed, misunderstood, or unable to meet expectations.
You may also feel scared—about what these patterns are doing to your body, how they impact your life, or what this means for your future.
Healing from disordered eating is complex, in part because eating is necessary for life. This isn’t about eliminating emotional eating, achieving a certain weight, or forcing yourself into control.
Instead, this work invites you to explore what these patterns have been trying to do for you—and begin moving toward a more connected, nourishing way of relating to food, your body, and your life.
Areas of Expertise
M-Bodied® Therapy offers a trauma-sensitive, relational approach supporting:
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Your unique ways of thinking, feeling, and engaging with the world are welcomed and honored as strengths. This work is invitational—supporting you in discovering paths to healing and growth that align with your needs and preferences.
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HAES® is a research-informed framework grounded in weight inclusivity, respectful care, and life-enhancing movement. This approach aligns with M-Bodied Therapy’s values of curiosity, compassion, and non-shaming support.
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You may have—or wonder if you have—a diagnosable eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia, ARFID, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, or OSFED. Together, we can explore your needs and determine whether outpatient care, a higher level of support, or a collaborative treatment team is the best fit.
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Healing often benefits from a team-based approach. This may include coordination with physicians, psychiatrists, dietitians, or other providers. Your care is tailored to your unique needs, with collaboration and communication as appropriate.
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Family-Based Treatment (FBT) and Emotion-Focused Family Treatment (EFFT) are evidence-informed approaches that support families in the healing process of eating disorders.
Every individual and family system is unique. Together, we can create a plan that integrates these approaches in a way that feels supportive, flexible, and aligned with your family’s needs—while also coordinating with other members of your treatment team as needed.
All of this work is grounded in a relational, body-based approach that supports lasting change—from the inside out.
Imagine going to the grocery store without the angst of a strict list—no need to read every label or avoid certain aisles.
What if you could attune to your body’s needs for rest and restoration, or for movement that feels energizing, rhythmic, or even creative?
What if getting dressed felt like an expression of yourself—choosing colors and fabrics that allow your body to move freely and comfortably?
Beyond finding more ease with food, healing from disordered eating can expand your life in meaningful ways. You begin to recognize and respond to deeper needs—needs for care, connection, rest, expression, and support.
Instead of feeling limited by food and body struggles, this work can open the door to fuller relationships, creative possibilities, and a more compassionate, connected relationship with yourself.
Why the body’s intelligence matters…
Healing your relationship with food isn’t just about changing behaviors—it’s about understanding the patterns that live in the body.
Many of the struggles around food, movement, and body image are shaped by nervous system patterns, relational experiences, and the ways your body has learned to cope over time. When we begin to work with the body—rather than against it—new possibilities for regulation, choice, and nourishment can emerge.
Many of the patterns that shape your relationship with food, your body, and movement don’t live only in your thoughts—they live in your body.
Long before you had words, your nervous system was learning how to respond to stress, comfort, connection, and need. Over time, these early experiences shape how you relate to hunger, fullness, control, pleasure, and safety.
When your system becomes overwhelmed, it adapts. Bingeing, restricting, emotional eating, or rigid control around food are not random—they are patterns your body has learned in an effort to cope, regulate, or protect.
While insight and education can be helpful, they don’t always reach these deeper patterns—and sometimes they can suggest there’s a “right” way to recover or nourish yourself.
From a relational and developmental perspective, healing happens not just through understanding, but through new experiences—especially within a supportive therapeutic relationship. As your nervous system begins to feel safer, your body can start to shift. You may begin to recognize your own unique cues and rhythms, and support your body’s natural processes—including digestion, regulation, and restoration.
You may notice more flexibility in how you respond to food, more awareness of your needs, and a growing capacity to move through urges, emotions, and patterns with greater steadiness, flexibility, and care.
Over time, you begin to discover your own relationship with Intuitive Eating—one that reflects your body, your needs, and your life.
The Relational, Body-based Work Behind this Approach
Many people come to this work feeling stuck in patterns with food—whether that looks like bingeing, restricting, purging, chronic emotional eating, or feeling consumed by thoughts about food and body image.
While these patterns can feel frustrating or even self-defeating, they often reflect something deeper. Your relationship with food is not just about food—it’s shaped by your nervous system, your life experiences, and the ways your body has learned to cope, regulate, and protect.
My work is grounded in Chi for Two®, a mindful embodiment method for trauma healing that I helped co-develop and now teach as an ISMETA-Approved Training Program.
Chi for Two is a relational, somatic method that supports the body in rediscovering early relational patterns of safety, connection, play and individuation. In the context of disordered eating patterns, this means gently exploring how your relationship to food, hunger, fullness, and movement has been shaped—and how it can begin to shift.
Rather than approaching food and body struggles through control or correction, this work invites curiosity. Together, we explore how patterns like restriction, bingeing, or rigidity may have served important roles in your system—and how new, more nourishing patterns can emerge over time.
Within my practice, I bring this work to life through M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®, an approach I created that explores how early developmental shapes and patterns, relational attunement, and nervous system awareness can support healing and nourishment.
Here, “mothering” is understood as a verb—the human capacity to nurture, attune, and respond to needs with care. In this way, healing your relationship with food becomes not just about what you eat, but about how you relate to your body, your needs, and yourself.
As this work unfolds, many people begin to experience not just more ease with food, but a deeper sense of vitality—in their body, their relationships, and their overall capacity to engage with life.
Eating Disorder Therapy & Intuitive Eating Counseling can help you…
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Receive individualized, compassionate support to meet your biological, psychological and social-emotional needs while feeling cared for in your healing process.
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Move away from bingeing, restricting, or emotional eating as mindfulness begins to soften old patterns over time.
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Learn to recognize your hunger—for food and for life—and respond with greater awareness, patience, and care.
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A safe, attuned therapeutic relationship helps your nervous system move toward greater regulation, trust, and ease.
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As you build nervous system awareness and support, you’re better able to stay connected—to yourself and to the people you love.
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Rediscover food as a source of nourishment, enjoyment, and energy for living a more present and empowered life.
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Your relationship with food and your body can become a pathway toward deeper connection, vitality, and aliveness.
As your relationship with food and exercise begins to shift, your life can expand in meaningful ways.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A: Intuitive Eating is a process of getting to know your body—your cues, your hunger (both physical and emotional), and your unique needs for nourishment and support.
Rather than a “hunger/fullness” diet, it’s a deeper process of self-discovery and reconnection. While it began as a non-diet framework, in this work it becomes a way of learning how to care for yourself more fully—physically, emotionally, and relationally.
For those in eating disorder recovery, especially when structure or refeeding support is needed, we can gently integrate principles of Intuitive Eating in a way that supports stability while also building trust in your body and your appetite for life.
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A: I work with individuals across the lifespan, while strongly encouraging parental or family involvement for younger clients.
Parents and caregivers are an essential source of relational support as children and teens move through refeeding, stabilization, and the emotional challenges that come with growth and development.
While nutrition and feeding strategies can be learned cognitively, much of what supports healing happens nonverbally—through co-regulation, presence, and attunement. When caregivers receive support as well, they are better able to create a grounded, responsive environment at home.
In this work, parents are not expected to have all the answers—they are supported in developing the capacity to respond with steadiness, care, and connection.
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A: Many people feel stuck in patterns with food—bingeing, restricting, emotional eating, or feeling consumed by thoughts about food and body image.
From a somatic perspective, these patterns are not just behavioral—they are shaped by the nervous system and the body’s attempts to cope, regulate, and protect.
While cognitive and behavioral approaches can be helpful, a relational, trauma-informed somatic approach works more directly with these underlying patterns. This can support shifts in nervous system regulation, digestion, and the body’s capacity for flexibility and responsiveness over time.
This work also draws from early developmental experiences around feeding and connection. When these patterns are revisited in a safe, supportive environment, the body can begin to reorganize—allowing for more regulated responses, more sustainable nourishment, and a greater sense of ease with food and movement.
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A: One of the most overlooked aspects of healing is understanding behavior as communication rather than something to control or eliminate.
Patterns with food and movement often develop as ways to cope with overwhelming emotions or sensations. When these patterns are met with curiosity instead of shame, new possibilities for healing can emerge.
This work also makes space for the parts of you that may have been suppressed, dismissed, or pushed aside. With the right support, these experiences can be expressed, understood, and integrated—rather than managed or avoided.
Healing becomes less about compliance and more about connection, responsiveness, and care.
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A: Interoceptive awareness—recognizing internal cues like hunger, fullness, or emotional states—can vary widely from person to person.
Rather than assuming there is one “right” way to experience or respond to these cues, this work centers on understanding your unique way of processing and relating to your body.
Together, we explore what nourishment, regulation, and self-expression look like for you. This may include adapting approaches, normalizing different ways of meeting needs, and supporting you in advocating for what works best in your daily life.
This process is relational, flexible, and rooted in curiosity—not prescription.
