Support for Therapist & Helping Professionals

When you're holding space for others while navigating your own relationship with food and body.

Therapists and helping professionals struggle with food, body image, and eating disorders too. Sometimes our own experiences are even part of what drew us to this work in the first place. That lived experience can bring a lot of empathy and understanding to the work we do, while also making certain parts of it more complicated.

When you spend your days caring for other people, it can be hard to make room for the parts of you that are struggling. You may be supporting clients in their recovery while privately noticing old patterns around food, control, exercise, or body image showing up again. Or you may be doing well overall but realizing there are still places in your own relationship with food and your body that need some attention.

Eating disorder work can make this especially complicated because our own bodies are in the room with us. Clients notice them. They may have thoughts or feelings about our size, what we eat, or what our bodies represent to them. Even when none of this is spoken aloud, it can stir things up. You might notice yourself feeling more self-conscious, getting pulled back into old beliefs, or realizing that something you thought you had worked through still has some tenderness around it.

And then there can be the shame of thinking, I’m a therapist. I work with this. Shouldn’t I have this figured out by now?That can make an already difficult experience feel even more isolating.

I work with therapists and helping professionals who want a place to explore their own relationship with food and their body, whether you are actively struggling with an eating disorder, have a history of one, or simply recognize that something is coming up that deserves attention.