Eating Disorder Therapist Temecula
You've been managing this for a long time. Maybe years. And most of the time, nobody around you even knows.
I work with adults who are ready to stop managing it alone. Not because someone told them to, but because they’re tired of the mental space it takes up, tired of the way it follows them through the day, tired of how it gets between them and the life they want to be living. If that’s where you are, I’m glad you’re here.
This is for you if food and your body take up more mental space than you'd like to admit.
Maybe you’ve developed rules around eating that started as something manageable and have become harder to live without.Maybe there are cycles you keep trying to break but keep coming back to.
Maybe it’s not dramatic enough to feel like it “counts,” but it affects how you feel about yourself, how you move through the world, and how present you can actually be.
You might have tried to talk yourself out of it. You’ve probably tried willpower. You may have researched it privately, read about it, told yourself you have it under control. And some days you do. Other days, not so much.
You don’t have to have a diagnosis to deserve support. If your relationship with food and your body is causing you pain, that’s enough.
What Therapy Looks Like
Not a program. Not a protocol. A conversation.
A therapist who specializes in eating disorders knows very well about the complexities. We understand words and language to avoid and the complex details many therapists who don’t specialize understand.
Eating disorders are almost always connected to something else. Anxiety, perfectionism, a need for control, family dynamics, identity, self-worth. My approach is to understand what’s underneath, not just address what’s visible.
That means we move at your pace. I won’t push you somewhere you’re not ready to go. But I will ask honest questions, share what I’m noticing, and help you build a clearer picture of what’s actually driving this and what it would take to change it.
I draw from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic approaches. I also work with the body, not just the mind. Somatic awareness is often an important part of this work, because so much of what clients experience lives in the body, not just in thought.
It's not about achieving a perfect relationship with food.
This work is slow. That’s not a warning; it’s just honest.
But over time, clients notice things starting to loosen. The mental noise gets quieter. The rules feel less rigid. You start to notice the difference between what you actually feel and what you’ve been telling yourself you feel. You have more capacity for the things that matter: relationships, work, rest, showing up to your own life.
It’s not about achieving a perfect relationship with food. It’s about getting your attention back from something that’s been quietly taking up too much of it.
Experienced across the full range of presentations..
I’ve worked with eating disorders across individual, family, and couples contexts. I’m experienced with the full range of presentations, from restrictive patterns and binge-purge cycles to the subtler, high-functioning forms that are easy to minimize or miss.
I also understand the complexity that often comes with this work. Anxiety, depression, and trauma frequently run alongside disordered eating. I don’t treat the eating disorder in isolation from everything else that’s happening.
I worked in treatment centers for addictions and eating disorders. I work closely with dietitians who specialize in eating disorders and other adjunct specialists as part of a treatment team.
My background in education also shapes this work. Many of my clients who struggle with eating disorders are high achievers, people who hold themselves to impossible standards and have been doing so for a long time. I understand that profile deeply, and I know how to work with it.
Reaching out about this is hard, Most people wait longer than they need to.
You don’t need to have it figured out before you contact me. You don’t need to know what to call it or how to explain it. Just send a message and tell me a little about what’s going on. We’ll take it from there, at whatever pace feels right. In-person sessions available in Temecula, CA. Online therapy available throughout California and Arizona.