Recovery coaching is goal-oriented, practical, collaborative support for moving towards recovery and greater well-being.

Coaching with me can support you with the practical parts of recovery by offering compassionate and caring 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 and provides deeper emotional processing and trauma healing. Coaching has a narrower scope. As a recovery coach, I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions or process underlying trauma.

Of course we will also talk eating, 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 of recovery. Think: How do we support you in moving towards something different?

• How do you approach yourself differently in tough moments in daily life?

• How do you respond when your eating disorder is present?

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

• How do we support you in eating the meal?

There can be overlap between therapy and coaching, and many clients work with a therapist, dietitian, physician, or treatment team while receiving coaching.

Coaching helps you reconnect to what truly matters to you and put insight, skills, and goals into action in everyday life.

Recovery coaching may be a good fit for you if you are looking for compassionate and caring guidance and feedback as you are moving towards your recovery goals and the life you desire. 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.

Coaching with me might be a good fit if you are

• Wanting a non-clinical, mentorship-style relationship

• Wanting to move towards something different and want guidance as you take supported steps (even if it’s small) 

• Wanting to learn about and reflect on the broader, societal context that shapes eating disorders

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

• Looking for guided support and practical feedback during the recovery process

• Already working with a therapist on addressing the deeper barriers to recovery

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

• Medically stable enough to participate in a coaching relationship

Sessions are individualized and collaborative, and we can support you with all kinds of things. Sometimes we're focused on a specific recovery challenge, and other times we're looking at the bigger picture of the life you're trying to build. We will work together to create an individualized plan for you rather than plugging you into a rigid curriculum or one-size-fits-all program.

My role is not to push you through a checklist of recovery tasks or tell you what to do. It is to support you in experimenting with meaningful steps, learning from whatever happens with curiosity, and cultivating a life that is both authentic and recovery sustaining.

In a session we might talk about:

• Navigating recovery in everyday life 

• Reflecting on something that happened during the week

• Problem-solving together 

• Preparing for an upcoming challenge 

• Breaking larger goals into manageable steps 

• Creating routines that actually work for your life 

• Understanding what’s pulling you back into certain patterns and how to work with yourself differently in those moments 

• Making sense out of mixed feelings about recovery

• 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

• Building a life that supports recovery

• Celebrating progress and learning from challenges 

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 I do not use coaching sessions to dig into the past or treat trauma. Instead, trauma-informed coaching means I try to structure our work in a way that reduces harm and supports agency.

In practice, this means we move check in about what feels supportive, 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, nonpathologizing, and attentive to power, identity, body autonomy, and 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 shame, force, or rigid thinking.

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

Adequate and consistent nourishment matters in eating disorder recovery.

When the body and brain are undernourished, change can feel so much harder. Undernourishment can impact emotions, rigidity, anxiety, urges, body image distress, digestion, sleep, concentration, and the capacity to make flexible choices. Food is not just a behavior to manage; it supports the brain, body, and nervous system.

I believe full nutritional rehabilitation is a key part of recovery. I also know that moving toward nourishment can feel complicated. In coaching, we approach nourishment with compassion, curiosity, and practical support, not shame, pressure, or force.

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

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

Most clients meet weekly, some meet biweekly, and some use additional support such as messaging or supported eating when helpful. We can talk together about what is right for you!

Recovery Support Package: $145/week

Includes:

• Up to 50-minutes of weekly session time 

• Between-session messaging access Mon–Sat

Additional sessions beyond the weekly 50-minutes are billed separately at:

• $105 per 50-minute session

• $55 per 25-minute session

Messaging-Support Only: $95/week

Includes 

• Between-session messaging support only 

This option may be used during weeks when you are unable to attend a scheduled session or during periods when we are meeting biweekly. Messaging-only support does not include a scheduled session, but it still reflects ongoing access to support, responsiveness, and maintenance of the coaching relationship.

Session Only Support: $105/session

Includes: 

• One 50-minute session 

• No between-session messaging support 

Sessions can be extended to 75-minutes and 90-minutes when scheduled in advance.

Session-only support may be appropriate for:

• clients looking for meal support only

• clients who have the capacity to put what we talk about into practice on their own

• clients in more advanced stages of recovery

• clients transitioning out of coaching.

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 20-minute call to ask questions, share what kind of support you are looking for, and get a feel for whether working together feels like a supportive 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!