Therapy & Consultation for Therapists

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

Therapists and helping professionals are not immune to struggles with food, body image, or eating disorders — even those who spend their days supporting others through healing. Many of us are drawn to this work through our own journeys. Personal experience can deepen empathy and clinical insight, but it can also make the work feel more personally complex at times.

The responsibility of caring for others, holding space for pain, and maintaining a professional identity can make it difficult to acknowledge when something inside isn’t okay. You might find yourself supporting clients through recovery while privately feeling stuck in patterns around food, control, or self-criticism.

When working with eating disorders, our own bodies and relationships with food are often present in the room, even when unspoken. Clients may project their fears or beliefs about food and bodies onto the therapist, and holding these dynamics can carry a quiet emotional weight over time. At times, you might notice yourself feeling triggered, revisiting old beliefs, or encountering areas of recovery that deserve deeper attention.

Many therapists quietly carry shame or self-doubt when parts of their own experience feel unresolved. The isolation that can accompany this can be profound.

I work with therapists and helping professionals who want space to explore their own relationship with food, their body, or their experiences with an eating disorder. Here, you don’t have to be the professional in the room. Your experience will be met with the same care, respect, and compassion you offer your clients.

Your humanity does not disqualify you from this work — it is often part of what allows you to do it with such depth and care.