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I currently offer individual and family counseling in my comfortable and private office at 1000 Centrepark Drive in Asheville, North Carolina. I also provide psychotherapy remotely using the HIPAA-compliant site Doxy.me.
Who I Serve
My strengths as a counselor are with adults, adolescents and families.
Specialties
Some of my specialties include helping individuals recover from eating disorders and improve their relationship with food and body. If you are sick of obsessing about your weight or your body or exhausted from overexercise, I want to help you make peace with yourself, your body and with food. Some of the disorders and challenges I treat are:
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Binge Eating Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- compulsive overeating and emotional eating
- frequent weight fluctuations
- obsessive thoughts about weight, body and food
- athletes with eating disorders or disordered eating
- help for family members when a child or loved one has an eating disorder
Eating disorders can take a devastating toll on the mind and body, and worst case scenario can lead to serious medical complications. It may therefore be necessary for you or your loved one work with other professionals in addition to myself, including a medical doctor and/or a dietitian. If this is something that is needed I will walk you through the process of setting up a “treatment team” that will best meet you or your loved one’s needs.
Additional Services
I also work with individuals who find themselves going through major life transitions, are feeling overwhelmed or unfulfilled, or are struggling with other mental health challenges.
- anxiety, depression and other mood challenges
- trauma, death and grief
- addictions
- personality Disorders and difficulty regulating emotions
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- psychosis
- challenges in career and school
- difficulty coping with stress
- relationship challenges
- failure to launch
Most commonly used interventions include:
I approach each therapeutic interaction from a person-centered, recovery-oriented perspective. I pull from my diverse education, training and experience, utilizing multiple evidence-based approaches, depending on your needs. Some of the approaches and interventions we may use include:
- acceptance and commitment therapy
- mindfulness approaches
- cognitive behavioral therapy
- dialectical behavior therapy
- intuitive eating
- family-based treatment of eating disorders
- mealtime and snack time support
- interpersonal psychotherapy