Counseling Services ~ Individual Counseling, Group Counseling, Relationship Counseling, Emotional Eating

The food we eat,
how we eat and
how we feel about
food are a reflection
of who we are.

—Shelley

Emotional Eating

If your relationship with food and your body includes one or more of the following:

Feeling out of control around food, focusing on binging, restricting, dieting, purging or judging
Eating when you are not physically hungry
Spending a good deal of time and energy thinking and worrying about food, fatness, thinness, or body shape
Eating secretly
Searching for the solution to your distress in the latest diet and fitness information
Feeling awful about yourself as someone who is out of control
Feeling awful about your body

there is a process whereby you can make peace with food and your body. You can follow a path of freedom through your body and food issues. This is a lasting approach to stop out-of-control eating and restricting.

We can work together to transform hurtful eating into nurturing eating. You can move from body loathing to body trust. You can live your right life at your right size!

Take the Emotional Eating Self-Test
to see if this counseling can be helpful for you.
Do not go on another diet!

You never have to diet again. The focus of your life does not have to be on what you ate, what you should eat, what you want to eat, and how you need to change your body in order to be happy.

When you eat for your body’s physical hunger, your body will naturally move to your right size. It is that simple, but not always that easy. You turned to emotional eating in order to take care of yourself. In counseling, I want to help you find better ways to care for yourself.

The healing process decodes “fat talk” to reveal your real concerns — find out what is being expressed in the desire for and fear of thinness, in the desire to be “fat,” in the fear of “fat,” and in the wish to fill or starve oneself. “I feel fat” translates to “Something is wrong with me.” At the same time, I use direct interventions so that you can break out of the diet/binge cycle. Underlying issues need to be exposed and separated, though not necessarily worked through in order for your eating to change.

If you are eating and feeling this way, please call me at 949.922.7800. I want to help you improve your life so that your relationship with food and your body is not painful.