In a culture that constantly tells us our bodies aren't good enough, developing a positive body image can feel like an uphill battle. Body image therapy helps you challenge internalized beliefs about appearance, cultivate self-acceptance, and build a relationship with your body rooted in respect and care rather than criticism.

What Is Body Image?

Body image is how you perceive, think about, and feel in your body. It's influenced by cultural messages, family dynamics, personal experiences, and social media. Negative body image can contribute to eating disorders, depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, and diminished quality of life. Body image concerns affect people of all genders, ages, body sizes, and backgrounds. You don't need to have an eating disorder to benefit from body image therapy.

My Approach to Body Image Work

I use a weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size (HAES) informed approach that focuses on challenging diet culture and appearance ideals, developing body neutrality and self-compassion, reducing body checking and avoidance behaviors, building a more balanced relationship with exercise and movement, processing past experiences that shaped your body image, and cultivating a sense of identity beyond appearance. I also incorporate Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help you cope effectively with bad body image days — so that a difficult moment doesn't derail your entire day or your life. Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we'll work on building a life that is aligned with your values beyond appearance, so that how you look no longer dictates how you live. Your body will inevitably change and flow throughout different life stages — and that's okay. In therapy, you will learn how to accept and be kind to your body through every season of life, rather than fighting against its natural evolution.

Breaking Free from Diet Culture

Diet culture teaches us that our worth is tied to our appearance and that we must constantly control our bodies. This messaging is pervasive and harmful. Body image therapy helps you recognize and resist these messages, reconnect with your body's wisdom, and build a life that's guided by your values — not by the scale.

Body Image Therapy & Treatment in Florida

What Is Body Image?

My Approach to Body Image Work

Breaking Free from Diet Culture

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