Emotional Eating

Food is essential for life! It's also delicious, nourishing and can serve many purposes. For a lot of us, we find comfort in food, especially when we are anxious, bored, alone and the list can go on. Sometimes , we may just find that we are always hungry! My question is, what are you hungry for, food or something else? Together, we will take a deeper look into your emotional eating and I will assist you in connecting with your body to eat in what we call a more self attuned way.

Emotional eating is something likely everyone has experienced at some time in their lives. The causes of emotional eating are far and wide, and are best served with an in-depth exploration. Using compassion and understanding, we can help you better understand your behavior.

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

Food is essentail for life! It's also delicious, nurishing and can serve many purposes. For a lot of us, we find comfort in food, especially when we are anxious, bored, alone and the list can go on. Sometimes , we may just find that we are always hungry! My question is, what are you hungry for, emotional attention or actual food? Together, we will take a deeper look into your emotional eating and I will assist you in connecting with your body to eat in what we call a more self attuned way.

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

If you struggle with emotional eating, you are not alone. And you don't have to suffer alone. There are tools and skills that can help. Depending upon your unique needs, I can help you learn how to identify and process through emotions instead of eating them. I can teach you how to form new thought patterns using CBT to reduce anxiety and depression that are often related to emotional eating. I can help you change habits and behaviors that contribute to emotional eating. Contact me today!

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

Emotional eating is a passion of mine. I love helping my clients to understand their relationship to food and the reasons why those relationships can be so difficult to navigate. My approach is to help my clients come to appreciate the comfort that they have needed so much and adaptively learned to find through food, rather than making food the enemy. Once that need for comfort has surfaced, then we can together find alternative options for getting that same comfort.

I have worked with many clients over my years in practice with issues related to emotional/disordered eating. Disordered eating is a metaphor for what is unspoken.Together we will look at the purpose the emotional eating serves for you and what is going on in your life that the eating may be expressing. By exploring the stressors in your life we can look at those underlying causes, give them a voice and help you work toward resolving them in a healthy manner.

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

You think you won't but again you look back & ask yourself, "How did I let yourself consume all those calories?" or "How could I have just let myself go? You compensate by berating yourself or compulsive behavior. Regardless of how you make up for what you believe you did or didn't do to meet your expectations, it all leads to the same destination, GUILT & SHAME! You aren't alone! Guilt & shame do not need to be your destiny. Find out why you do why you do & what you can do about it!

Often times if we struggle with managing our weight, we also struggle with feelings of depression, anxiety, or lower self-esteem. We often use food as a way to cope and deal with emotions that we struggle with, and we can also essentially become addicted to foods. One common method that I frequently use to help heal a relationship with food is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or CBT). This technique has a great deal of evidence behind it as being effective in healing our relationship with food.

Unlike other "addictions," I believe it is in many ways harder with food or eating issues, as you have to eat to survive. I offer an intuitive eating approach to give you tools to listen to your body, while at the same time we address the underlying trauma or reasons for the emotional eating. In addition, we will work together to build your repertoire of stress reduction skills. With self-compassion, self-love, persistence and a little support, you can be free from emotional eating for good!

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.

If you struggle with emotional eating, you are not alone. And you don't have to suffer alone. There are tools and skills that can help. Depending upon your unique needs, I can help you learn how to identify and process through emotions instead of eating them. I can teach you how to form new thought patterns using CBT to reduce anxiety and depression that are often related to emotional eating. I can help you change habits and behaviors that contribute to emotional eating.

I am also in the process of working on my health coaching certification, but I have specialized in emotional eating for years.

I work with individuals who are experiencing stress-related/emotional eating and the negative consequences of overweight or obesity. I have training in the most current, evidenced-based methods for promoting healthy lifestyle changes. My approach is behavioral, and I also incorporate mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies. I also work with individuals pre- and post- bariatric surgery. I am accepting of people of all weights and sizes in my approach.

As a CBT therapist, I explain to the client that their binge eating is based on emotional reasoning, and, although eating might make them feel temporarily comforted, would not help them feel better about themselves. In fact, overeating usually has the opposite effect and actually makes them feel worse about themselves. Together, you and I will plan a different approach to handling disappointment. With practice, you will be able to interpret people’s responses more realistically, so you are not constantly feeling inadequate. We will also work on improving your self-esteem. As your self-esteem improves, you became more able to refrain from snacking and binging and began to eat more nutritious food.