Recovery coaching is a non-clinical relationship that helps bridge the gap between recovery and real life to create sustainable and meaningful change. Coaching with me can support you with the practical parts of recovery by offering compassionate support, guidance, and feedback while also helping you cultivate a life and relationship with yourself that sustains recovery.

Therapy diagnoses and treats mental health symptoms as well as provides deeper emotional processing and trauma healing. Coaching has a different scope of practice. As a coach, I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions or process underlying trauma. I highly recommend working with a therapist alongside recovery coaching to address the deeper issues and trauma that can be maintaining an eating disorder. Coaching helps you reconnect to what truly matters to you and put insight, skills, and goals into action in everyday life.

In coaching we will talk food and eating because it’s an important part of recovery, but I am not trained to provide meal plans or nutritional guidance to address specific concerns and medical issues like a dietitian is.

Coaching focuses on the how and the here and now of recovery. Think: How do we support you in moving towards something different in your everyday life? How do we help you through this next moment?

• How can we help you figure out what is working, where you are getting stuck, and how you can problem-solve and adjust?

• How can we identify your strengths and resources that you can use and build upon for recovery?

• How can you approach yourself and situations differently during the challenging moments in daily life?

• How can we help you identify the obstacles you are facing, the resources you need, and how to work through them?

• How can you work with yourself when the same patterns inevitably arise in your everyday life?

• How can you respond differently when your eating disorder is present?

• How can you problem-solve from a recovery perspective?

• How can you support yourself through the urges rather than act on them?

• How do you work with the part of you that feels scared or resistant in the moment while still moving towards what you want?

There is an overlap between therapy and coaching because some therapists will utilize coaching techniques and interventions. Many people work with a therapist, dietitian, psychiatrist, and physician while receiving coaching.

Recovery coaching with me may be a good fit for you if you are looking compassionate, non-clinical support, guidance, and feedback with the day-to-day aspects of recovery.

You do not need to feel fully ready for recovery to begin working together (no one is ever fully ready for recovery!), but coaching with me is often a good fit when there is some motivation for recovery, a desire to learn and grow, and a willingness to experiment with supported action.

Coaching with me might be a good fit if you are

• Wanting a non-clinical, supportive relationship

• Wanting to move towards something different

• Looking for practical support, recovery skills, feedback, and encouragement during the recovery process

• Wanting to learn about and reflect on the broader, societal context that shapes eating disorders and impacts our relationship with ourselves

• Looking for additional accountability with your recovery goals that is rooted in compassion not shame

• Are already working with a therapist to address the deeper issues maintaining an eating disorder and the psychological barriers to recovery

• Already working with a dietitian but looking for support and guidance with putting nutrition goals into action in your everyday life

• Medically stable enough to participate in an outpatient coaching relationship

Sessions are individualized and collaborative, and we can support you with all kinds of things! Sometimes we're focused on specific recovery challenges, and other times we're looking at helping you cultivate a sustaining, authentic life and relationship with yourself in your everyday life.

We will collaborate to create an individualized coaching structure for you rather than plugging you into a pre-planned curriculum or a one-size-fits-all program.

What you can expect from me:

• Warmth, curiosity, and a willingness to listen

• Collaboration with you

• Practical support with recovery strategies you can use: I will first take the time to get to know you and together we explore with what strategies are going to be right for you

• Compassionate support and accountability

• Challenging you from a place of thoughtfulness and care

• Incorporation of the broader, societal messaging that shapes eating disorders and impacts our relationship with ourselves
  

In a session we might talk about:

• Navigating recovery in everyday life 

• Reflecting on something that happened during the week and learning from it

• Problem-solving together 

• Preparing for an upcoming challenge 

• Breaking larger goals into manageable steps 

• Creating routines and exploring strategies that actually work for your life 

• Noticing what pulls you back into certain patterns and how to approach those moments differently

• Making sense out of mixed feelings about recovery and ambivalence

• Exploring motivation

• Working with fear, self-criticism, and ambivalence as they show up in recovery

• Finding balance between recovery and life

• Exploring your authentic values and what matters most to you 

• Reconnecting with who you are outside of an ED; getting to know yourself in a new way

• Cultivating a fulfilling and meaningful life that supports recovery

• Celebrating progress

Trauma-informed coaching means I prioritize safety, choice, collaboration, transparency, and respect for your autonomy.

It does not mean we process trauma in coaching. Coaching is not therapy, and we won’t use coaching sessions to dig into the past or treat trauma. Instead, trauma-informed coaching means I structure our work in a way that reduces harm, promotes healing, and supports agency.

In practice, this means we talk openly and transparently, honor your capacity, and avoid using shame, pressure, or force as tools for change.

Eating disorders are often connected to individual, relational, collective, cultural, and historical trauma. Because of this, I believe recovery support needs to be consent-based, non-pathologizing, and attentive to power dynamics, identity, body autonomy, and your lived experience.

References

• Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care. (n.d). What is Trauma-Informed Care? University at Buffalo.https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/social-research/institutes-centers/institute-on-trauma-and-trauma-informed-care/what-is-trauma-informed-care.html

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2014). SAMHSA's concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach. https://ncsacw.acf.hhs.gov/userfiles/files/SAMHSA_Trauma.pdf

Yes. I believe full recovery from an eating disorder is possible!

I also know recovery is rarely simple. We are complex humans living in a complex world, and recovery is shaped by many things: access to support, access to medical care and nutrition, social support, trauma, identity, culture, oppression, and lived experience.

I hold hope for full recovery while also meeting each person compassionately where they are today.

You can read more about my beliefs HERE.

Yes. I believe reducing the negative consequences of eating disorder behaviors is ethical care.

To me, harm reduction is a compassionate approach that aims to reduce suffering and increase quality of life no matter where someone is in their process. It honors autonomy, current capacity, and the reality that change often happens gradually.

Harm reduction does not mean giving up on change or healing. It means approaching change with compassion, realism, and respect rather than rigid thinking.

I have learned a lot in this area from the work of Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride.

I emphasize this because 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.

When the body and brain are undernourished, change can feel SO much harder. Undernourishment impacts every system in our body (even if bloodwork is fine because our bodies are amazing at adapting). Undereating puts us into survival mode and impact emotions, rigidity, anxiety, urges, body image distress, digestion, sleep, concentration, and the capacity to be flexible and take risks.

We also 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.

Meeting frequency is individualized based on your needs, goals, and where you are in your recovery.

At the beginning, I often recommend meeting consistently, at least weekly, because regular support helps us build momentum, troubleshoot challenges as they arise, and strengthen our working relationship.

Most people meet with me weekly, some meet biweekly, and some use messaging support for feedback, encouragement, and guidance between sessions. We can talk together about what is right for you!

Recovery Support Package: $150/week

Includes:

• Up to 50-minutes of weekly session time 

• Between-session messaging access Mon–Sat

I offer additional sessions beyond the included weekly 50-minutes for a fee.

I do! I reserve a set number of spaces of reduced cost spots on my caseload to increase accessibility to coaching.

At this time, all reduced-cost spots are full, and I can’t predict when one will open up. If you would like to reach out, I can add you to the waitlist and contact you when a reduced-cost spot becomes available.

No. Coaching is not currently covered by most insurance plans or out-of-network benefits.

The first step is a free 25-minute call to ask questions, share what kind of support you are looking for, and for us to see if coaching and working together is a good fit.

If we both feel it could be a good fit, we will schedule our first session, and I will send over forms to review and sign before we begin!