This work may be a good fit if the strategies that once helped you survive are no longer helping you live.

• Perhaps self-criticism became a way of motivating yourself.

• Perhaps disconnection became a way of protecting yourself.

• Perhaps controlling your body became a way of creating safety.

Sometimes people seek this work because they want to feel better about their bodies. Sometimes they seek it because they are tired of organizing their entire lives around managing them.

You may be carrying the impact of body shame, weight stigma, chronic pain, illness, disability, dysphoria, or the long-term impacts of dieting and disordered eating. Or perhaps you simply know you want a relationship with your body that has more room for ease, pleasure, and connection.

Together, we can get curious about what these strategies have done for you, what they may be costing you now, and whether they are still the only options available.

No.

For some people, loving their body becomes part of the journey. For others, it doesn't. And that's okay.

Rather than trying to force positive feelings, we'll get curious about the relationship you currently have with your body and the relationship you'd like to create.

I'm not here to convince you that everything about your body is wonderful. Let's be realistic—you likely wouldn't believe me if I tried. The goal is to create a relationship with your body that fits you, that allows more room for connection, self-trust, pleasure, possibility, and living in ways that are meaningful for you in the body you live in now.

Perhaps this looks like more compassion, neutrality, less fighting, or a different kind of respect for what your body offers you. Sometimes it looks like acceptance of your body. Sometimes it looks like acceptance of your feelings and care for them. Sometimes it looks like a new sort of falling in love with yourself.

One is not better than another. What we are aiming for is what fits you.

There is no single formula for changing the relationship you have with your body.

Together, we may explore how that relationship was shaped, the parts of you that have been caught in battle with it, and the ways trauma, stress, illness, disability, dysphoria, and family, cultural, and societal messages can influence how you experience yourself.

We'll pay attention to what your body is communicating and explore ways of relating to it with greater curiosity and less force, while supporting your nervous system in accessing greater ease.

If it feels aligned for you, we may also experiment with creating opportunities outside of therapy for movement, creativity, pleasure, rest, play, voice, self-touch, or other experiences that help you discover new ways of relating to your body in everyday life.

The struggle may not entirely disappear. Most of us find it hard to live in the bodies we have sometimes, and that doesn't mean we are doing it wrong. What changing your relationship with your body can offer is the possibility that what is difficult no longer has the loudest voice in the room. Your body can also become a place of connection, pleasure, creativity, rest, and possibility.

Understanding something and experiencing it differently are not the same thing.

Many people know exactly where their body shame, self-criticism, fear, or disconnection came from. They may have spent years reading, reflecting, journaling, or talking about it in therapy. Yet the struggle remains.

This doesn't mean you are failing. It often means that the patterns you are working with live deeper than conscious understanding alone. They may be woven through your nervous system, your relationships, and the ways you've learned to protect yourself.

Insight is valuable. It can help us understand what is happening and why. Lasting change, however, often requires new experiences along with supportive understanding.

Part of our work together may involve creating opportunities for your body, nervous system, and different parts of yourself to experience something new. Over time, those experiences can begin to shift what feels possible.

Many people come to therapy feeling disconnected from their bodies.

Sometimes that disconnection develops in response to trauma, stress, illness, disability, dysphoria, body shame, weight stigma, diet culture, chronic self-criticism, or simply years of living in a culture that teaches us to monitor and judge ourselves. Often, disconnection is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is a sign that your nervous system found ways to protect you.

The goal is not to force yourself to feel more than you are ready for.

Instead, we can move at a pace that feels manageable, exploring what connection means for you and finding pathways that feel supportive rather than overwhelming.

For some people that begins with noticing sensations. For others it begins with movement, creativity, rest, pleasure, nature, or learning to listen to the body's signals with curiosity rather than fear.

Connection doesn't have to happen all at once. Small moments of contact can create change.

Many people don't, and for good reasons.

Sometimes trust is disrupted by illness, pain, disability, dysphoria, trauma, anxiety, or experiences where the body felt unsafe, unpredictable, or overwhelming. Sometimes it develops after years of being taught to ignore, override, criticize, or distrust what the body is communicating.

Sometimes developing self-trust has very little to do with your body's predictability or your ability to meet all of its needs.

You can have self-trust and still feel surprised by your body, overwhelmed, or knocked down. Sometimes trust means accepting that these experiences happen to all of us, and some of us more than others. It may be about trusting yourself to navigate as best you can as things change, imperfectly and at the pace you can move, finding your way back to yourself even if that looks different than you hoped or different than it used to.

Yes.

Many people come to this work carrying very real challenges in their bodies and in their relationships with their bodies. Chronic pain, illness, disability, dysphoria, body shame, weight stigma, and a history of dieting or disordered eating can bring grief, frustration, fear, anger, exhaustion, and loss.

We can explore how these experiences affect your relationship with your body and yourself. We can care for the grief, anger, uncertainty, and the realities of living in a body that does not always feel okay or do what you want, need, or wish it could.

The work is supporting a relationship with your body that makes room for your reality while also making room for connection, pleasure, agency, and possibility.

Note: If you are currently struggling with an active eating disorder, I am not the best fit. I recommend working with a therapist or treatment team with specialized training in eating disorder treatment.

Not as a primary area of practice.

I can support people in exploring the impact that body shame, weight stigma, dieting, and past experiences of disordered eating have had on their relationship with their bodies.

If you are currently struggling with an active eating disorder, I am not the best fit. I recommend working with a therapist or treatment team with specialized training in eating disorder treatment.