Specialties

Weight-Neutral Healing: Disordered Eating & Intuitive Eating Therapy in Nashville, TN

In a world that profits from your disconnection, coming home to your body is a radical act.

Certified Intuitive Eating Counseling and body autonomy for all of Tennessee, New York, Florida, Colorado, Delaware, and Vermont virtually.

Traditional tools were built primarily for neurotypical brains. If you experience sensory sensitivities or executive dysfunction, standard advice like "just listen to your body" can feel incredibly frustrating. Our work bridges that exact gap. As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, I adapt the core principles of Intuitive Eating to honor your unique wiring. We step away from standard expectations to build gentle, non-restrictive frameworks that support your brain, focus on genuine food freedom, and improve your interoception. This work is about true self-determination and creating mental space for what actually matters to you.

If you are here, you are likely exhausted from the daily, quiet warfare of managing your body, weary of chronic dieting and movement twisted into a chore. It is incredibly common to feel caught in an intellectual tug-of-war: you know diet culture is toxic, yet you still find yourself fighting deep body shame because you cannot just think your way out of it. I provide a specialized, weight-neutral Nashville safe harbor to help you step off this exhausting roller coaster and finally reclaim your peace.

You are not alone

This might sound familiar

  • You feel caught in a constant mental calculation, tracking what you've eaten, balancing it against how much you've moved, and feeling like you have to earn nourishment.
  • You struggle with the dictate of the "perfect meal." Because of sensory needs, executive dysfunction, or dopamine drops, you feel a meal has to be exactly right—otherwise, you skip it or overeat searching for satisfaction.
  • You are trapped by arbitrary internal scripts telling you that you cannot eat too early or too late, or that certain foods are inherently "bad."
  • Movement feels like a sentence rather than connection, leaving you stuck between forcing rigid exercise routines or feeling deep guilt when your body needs rest.
  • You experience cycles of dopamine eating and binging, feeling deep shame without realizing your neurodivergent brain might just be hunting for stimulation or comfort.
  • You feel completely disconnected from your physical self, living entirely in your head while your body feels like an uncooperative or unsafe place to inhabit.
  • You have been trying to survive inside a society that has weaponized your relationship with your body.
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What's possible

What becomes possible when you reclaim body autonomy

Instead of adding new restrictions, we offer an environment where the need to perform is stripped away. When you stop fighting your wiring and start collaborating with your body, food stops taking up all your mental real estate. You can finally log off the internal calculator and redirect that stolen energy into a life that actually fulfills you.

Meals shift from sources of anxiety to experiences that are functional, satisfying, and tailored to honor your unique sensory preferences. Movement ceases to be a punishment and becomes a genuine choice. You regain the freedom to engage with your physical self for grounding, or to choose deep, restorative rest completely guilt-free.

Ultimately, you drop the mask of the perfect eater and stop trying to intellectually think your way out of body shame. Instead, you build a steady, somatic alliance where your body finally feels like a safe, cooperative place to inhabit, drawing a hard line between your personal worth and a culture that profits from your disconnection.

Our approach

How we weave the path forward

We begin by prioritizing your immediate physical sensations and lived reality. Whether your difficulties with nutrition and activity are a new development or a long-standing struggle, we purposefully avoid the stress of clinical protocols or drastic lifestyle changes. Since many individuals are drained by perfectionism and constant self-scrutiny, we start with a gentle investigation into your current mental narratives to understand how they impact your well-being.

In session

What this looks like in practice

  • Deconstructing the Internal Rulebook: We actively talk through the specific food codes, exercise requirements, and body checks that consume your mental energy, making room for the immense frustration, grief, and exhaustion that come with chronic dieting.
  • Neuro-Inclusive Intuitive Eating Counseling: We modify traditional intuitive eating principles to honor your actual wiring. This means mapping out your sensory desires, building gentle scaffolding for executive dysfunction, and working with your brain's dopamine needs.
  • Somatic and Nervous System Mapping: We pay attention to how anxiety and stress influence your appetite and your physical comfort, gently building tools to help you feel more at home in your own skin.
  • Relational and Systemic Depth Work: We explore how family trauma, emotionally immature parenting, and broader societal power structures have influenced your relationship with your size, helping you separate your core worth from a culture that demands you stay small. This overlaps with our narrative & identity work.
  • Earth Integration & Body Grief Rituals: For clients holding deep body grief, we pull in nature-based practices to assist in re-anchoring the physical senses. This looks like using forest bathing to ground hyper-vigilance, and creating somatic rituals that honor your body's necessity for restorative rest, letting go of the systemic demands for endless physical optimization.

Ready when you are

If you are ready to stop fighting your body…

You do not have to keep carrying the weight of chronic dieting and body shame on your own. Living at this pace can shape your entire life in ways that are hard to untangle alone. Having a dedicated space to pause and sort through what your system has been holding can begin to ease the weight.

If you would like to explore what healing looks like for your specific lifestyle, we can start with an unhurried, no-pressure conversation. You are welcome to ask questions, get a sense of how my approach feels, and decide whether this is the right fit for you.

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