Are you or someone you love showing signs of an eating disorder?
Maybe you’ve noticed restrictive eating, binge eating, purging, or obsessive calorie counting. Perhaps a loved one has become preoccupied with weight, body image, or rigid food rules. Whether it’s a teenager, college student, athlete, or adult, eating disorders can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, or background.

Common Eating Disorder Symptoms to Watch For

• Skipping meals or eating extremely small portions

• Frequent binge eating or overeating followed by guilt or purging

• Intense fear of weight gain or obsession with the number on the scale

• Avoiding social events that involve food

• Rapid weight loss or gain

• Compulsive exercising, even when injured or unwell

• Extreme self-criticism and negative body image

• Secretive behavior around food or eating habits

• Obsessive thoughts about “clean” or “safe” foods

If you notice these behaviors in yourself, your child, partner, or teen, it’s time to seek support.

Disordered Eating Is Often a Coping Strategy

Eating disorders and disordered eating patterns often emerge as a way to cope with stress, trauma, anxiety, or life transitions. You or your loved one may not even be focused on weight, but rather, trying to regain control in an overwhelming time. Food becomes a way to self-soothe, manage emotions, or create a sense of structure.

Maybe you’ve tried countless diets hoping they’ll finally make you feel confident. Or maybe you feel stuck in a cycle of shame, restriction, and guilt. Whether it’s anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, or an unspecified eating disorder, help is available, and healing is possible.

Eating Disorders Are Medical Conditions

Eating disorders are serious mental health and medical conditions that affect physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. According to recent studies, 1 in 4 college students struggles with an eating-related disorder. Many others live with disordered eating that doesn’t meet full diagnostic criteria but still severely impacts their quality of life.

Early intervention can make a major difference in recovery.

Therapy for Eating Disorders in California

If you or someone you love is struggling with an eating disorder, virtual therapy in California can provide compassionate, evidence-based support. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a proven approach for treating eating disorders, I work to help you:

• Understand the root causes of disordered eating

• Identify and change harmful thought patterns

• Rebuild a healthy relationship with food and your body

• Develop emotional regulation and coping skills

• Reconnect with joy, confidence, and balance

Eating Disorder Recovery

Whether you’re in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, or anywhere in California, you can access support from the comfort and privacy of your home. I can help you recognize and work through unproductive and unhealthy patterns of behavior and develop new, practical strategies to relax and make better choices with eating and exercise. Throughout your therapeutic journey, I will work collaboratively with you to uncover and build upon your innate strengths, which you can draw from to lead a more integrated and meaningful life