S P E C I A L T I E S
Eating Disorders
Living with food and body image struggles can feel like being stuck on an endless, exhausting merry-go-round. In your mind, there's this CONSTANT chatter about food, weight, and how you look. These thoughts aren't just occasional worries - they're like a really loud radio that you can't turn off. They pop up when you're trying to hang out with friends, when you're at work, or even when you're just trying to relax. They often occupy too much space in your brain and can make you feel really bad about yourself.
Many individuals report challenges such as limiting food intake or feeling preoccupied with food, calories, or nutrition. They may avoid specific foods or entire food groups, exercise rigid control over food choices and eating patterns, or engage in excessive exercise. Some struggle with overeating or feeling out of control while eating, while others eat in secret or cycle between periods of restriction and binge eating.
Feelings of guilt, shame, or anxiety after eating are common, as are behaviors like purging through vomiting, laxatives, or other methods. Intense fear of weight gain, frequent or obsessive weighing, and body-checking behaviors (such as pinching, measuring, or fixating on body parts) can also be significant challenges.
Some individuals compare their bodies or eating habits to others, use exercise as punishment for eating, or experience physical symptoms from disordered eating, such as fatigue, dizziness, or digestive issues. Additionally, many struggle with feeling like their worth is tied to their weight, shape, or size
Remember: these patterns exist on a spectrum, and your experience is unique to you. Whether you're grappling with occasional disordered eating thoughts or managing a diagnosed eating disorder, support is available. Together, we can work to understand these patterns, develop new coping strategies, and help you rebuild a more peaceful relationship with food and your body.
The path to healing is possible, and you don't have to walk it alone. Let's explore how we can work together to help you find freedom from these struggles and reconnect with what truly matters in your life.
Anxiety & Depression
Living with anxiety and depression can feel overwhelming. While distinct conditions, they can occur together, creating a complex interplay of symptoms that can impact every aspect of daily life.
Anxiety and depression can create a challenging cycle - persistent worry and stress may lead to exhaustion and hopelessness, while depressive symptoms can trigger anxious thoughts about the future. Common experiences include:
Persistent worry and racing thoughts
Physical and emotional exhaustion
Feeling on edge and super worked up or shutdown and “distant” from things & people
Compulsive behaviors and thought patterns
Diminished self-worth and confidence
Social withdrawal and relationship challenges
Sleep disturbances and nighttime rumination
Trauma
Trauma is an inner wound; it’s an experience that changes how we think and act.
Maybe you know you’ve experienced trauma. Maybe you don’t. Either way, trauma’s presence in your body creates dysregulation in your nervous system. Together, we’ll identify and reprocess your trauma in a safe, evidenced-based approach that feels good for you. Some indicators of trauma are -
You come off as really capable to others but inside, you feel like things are falling apart.
You’re having intrusive thoughts or flashbacks or out-of-body sensations.
You have overwhelming emotions and reactions that don’t seem to fit the situation, or you’re not feeling emotions at all
You stopped going certain places, doing certain things, and seeing friends, but you’re not entirely sure why
You feel amped up, on guard, or have unexplained nightmares or physical symptoms
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is a highly effective intervention for addressing treatment resistant depression, PTSD and specific anxiety disorders. It combines a short-term medical treatment with super targeted psychotherapy in order to combat mental health disorders that have been keeping people stuck and extremely limited in their lives.
If you have received Ketamine treatments and are looking for therapeutic support with the integration & understanding of your experience, if you are looking for a therapist to assist you in locating a medical provider to prescribe ketamine, or if you know nothing about this treatment but are intrested in learning more - I am able to help.
