Individualized eating disorder recovery coaching for wherever you are in your process.
Helping you move towards a more unrestricted life by working with yourself instead of against yourself.
Hi, I’m Kate!
I’m so glad you are here! I offer individualized, trauma-informed eating disorder recovery coaching rooted in compassion, neurobiology, and respect for you as a whole person. My approach is grounded in a weight-inclusive, anti-diet, and Health at Every Size® perspective.
I believe full recovery from an eating disorder is possible when we harness our innate capacity for change. I also understand recovery is complex and that eating disorders develop for reasons that make sense. Eating disorders are not a personal failure or a choice: they are learned adaptations shaped by biology, lived experience, trauma, oppression, culture, and our best attempts to survive.
Many people trying to recover get stuck in a cycle of trying harder, criticizing themselves, or forcing change only to feel exhausted and wondering why recovery still feels so out of reach. Instead of relying on shame, force, or fighting yourself, coaching with me offers compassionate support, guidance, and feedback to help you work with yourself rather than against yourself to take lasting steps towards change.
I partner with you—wherever you are in your process—and together we help you move towards the life you want for yourself. Working with me is a space away from the cultural messages that promote self-denial, say we are never enough, and tell us we just need to work harder. I’ll meet you where you are while holding hope for all that is possible.
I have a Master’s in Social Work and am a CCI Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach.
Ways We Can Work Together
Working together helps bridge the gap between recovery and real life by helping you increase your capacity for change and move towards unrestricted and unconditional nourishment in your everyday life. Sometimes you need consistent, steady support throughout the week. Other times, a weekly focused space for reflection, problem-solving, or a supported meal feels like the right fit.
Together, we’ll determine what level of support best fits your current needs.
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1:1 coaching sessions provide a space to better understand what is keeping you stuck, build momentum, and move toward meaningful change in recovery. Together, we explore what’s challenging, build resources, navigate barriers with compassion, and identify realistic next steps that align with your goals and values.
Available weekly or biweekly as sessions only or combined with messaging support
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Recovery doesn’t only happen in sessions and difficult moments don’t happen on a schedule!
Messaging support provides a space to pause and slow down to help you notice patterns and shift out of automatic ways of being.
Messaging with me provides encouragement, guidance, feedback, and collaborative problem-solving as you move towards change.
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Sometimes recovery is not about knowing what to do—it is about having support while doing something that feels difficult or that a part of us wants to avoid. Research shows that we feel more capable and less pain when we sense we are accompanied by another.
Supported eating sessions with me offer compassionate, real-time support to help you move from intention and action. Together we create new experiences that help the your system build greater safety, flexibility, and self-trust over time.
My Coaching Approach
When we work together, it’s not a rigid program or someone who claims to have all the answers. Instead you’ll get a collaborative partnership rooted in respect for you as a whole person. My approach to eating disorder recovery coaching is grounded in the belief that full recovery is possible and that eating disorders make sense. I do not see recovery as a process of shaming, forcing, or fighting yourself into change. Instead, I help you work with the different parts of yourself, your brain, and your nervous system to create new experiences that make moving towards the life you want more possible.
Coaching with me is collaborative, individualized, and centers your autonomy and choice. I’ll support you with the practical parts of recovery by offering compassionate and caring guidance and feedback while also helping you cultivate a sustaining life and relationship with yourself. My approach is grounded in a weight-inclusive, anti-diet, intuitive eating, and Health at Every Size® perspective. Together we will work toward unrestricted and unconditional nourishment and making choices from a place of self-care rather than self-control or denial.
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My work is trauma-informed, weight-inclusive, neurodiversity-affirming, and highly individualized to your needs. There is no one-size-fits-all method for recovery. We adapt our work together to the unique person you are.
Our work together centers around safety, consent, transparency, and respect for your autonomy. We collaborate and move at a pace that honors where you are while still supporting meaningful steps toward change. -
I believe full recovery from an eating disorder is possible when we harness our innate capacity for change. Recovery is not a straightforward process, and it’s normal to feel ambivalent, confused, and uncertain. I don’t know anyone who has ever felt fully ready to recover!
I believe lasting freedom from an eating disorder happens not through shame, force, or fighting yourself, but through support that works with your brain, nervous system, and lived experiences.
You do not need to feel fully ready for recovery to begin working together, but coaching with me is a good fit when there is motivation for recovery, a desire to learn and grow, and a willingness to experiment with supported action. -
Eating disorders are not a personal failure or choice. I validate the ways an eating disorder makes sense and has been a survival strategy—an attempt at a solution by a part of us to deal with our lived experience, painful learnings, chronic dysregulation, trauma, oppression, and failures in the environment. Some part of our brain actually believes an eating disorder is the lesser of two sufferings and is predicting not having it would be a worse suffering!
Recovery asks us to honor our eating disorder’s attempts to help us survive while also acknowledging the harm it has caused in our life. I believe we must compassionately hold space for both of these truths without judgement.
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Eating disorders are partly biological. When the brain and body are undernourished and stuck in survival mode, eating disorder thoughts, body image difficulties, compulsions, urges, rigidity, and anxiety all intensify.
Adequate and consistent nourishment is foundational to recovery, and I support nutritional rehabilitation in a way that is respectful of each person’s lived experience.
We live in a culture where under-eating has become normalized. Working with me is a space where you have unconditional permission to eat unrestricted and without conditions. I support you in moving away from diet, wellness, and hustle culture and challenge larger shame-based cultural belief systems. -
Eating disorders are not simply thoughts or behaviors; they are deeply learned patterns rooted in the brain and nervous system’s attempts to create a perceived sense of safety and survival. This is one reason recovery is rarely about simply trying harder and lasting change does not happen through shame, force, or criticizing yourself.
Instead, recovery happens through creating new experiences that specifically help the brain update its learned predictions and begin to experience greater well-being.
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Recovery doesn’t only happen in sessions; it happens in real life—in the small decisions that happen throughout the day. Those small decisions are what will add up to recovery!
Coaching with me is here to help you integrate recovery into your life. I’ll support you with the practical parts of recovery and offer supportive guidance and feedback.
I’m here to support you and thoughtfully challenge you as you bump up against your eating disorder, diet culture, cultural messages that promote self-denial and control, and other recovery-related challenges.
Schedule a Free Discovery Call
Finding support that feels right for you matters. I offer a free 25-minute discovery call so you can ask questions, share a little about what you are looking for, and get a sense of whether coaching with me feels like the right fit.
Please fill out the form below, and I will be in touch within 2 business days!
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