Now Accepting All Major Connecticut Insurance

Initial Inquiry Call

Now Accepting All Major Connecticut Insurance Affordable, accessible, effective nutrition care—covered by your health plan. No referrals needed* (some plan exceptions apply).
Initial Inquiry Call
Patient Portal

Relationship With Food

Why It Matters

75% of women report disordered eating behaviors at some point in their life.

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in the U.S., affecting more people than anorexia and bulimia combined.

Emotional eating can feel like a coping mechanism but often perpetuates cycles of guilt and shame.

Restrictive eating patterns increase the risk of overeating, creating a cycle of control and loss of control.

Food fear and guilt can erode body trust and disrupt intuitive eating, affecting overall well-being.

Could This Be You?

Feel caught in cycles of restricting and overeating, never finding a sustainable middle ground

Experience unwanted thoughts around food, constantly questioning what to eat, how much, and what’s “good” or “bad”

Judge yourself based on food choices (e.g., “I was good yesterday, so I can be bad today”)

Avoid certain foods only to binge on them later, feeling out of control

Feel guilt, shame, or anxiety after eating, especially with specific foods

Use food as a way to cope with stress, boredom, or sadness

Have been on and off diets for years without lasting changes

Struggle with body image concerns that dictate eating patterns

Want to rebuild trust in your body’s cues but feel lost on where to start

Seek to find health independent of weight, moving away from the diet cycle

How We Help

Uncover Food Triggers

Identify patterns of restriction, overeating, and emotional eating to understand why they happen.

Rebuild Hunger & Fullness Cues

Develop structured meals that help you reconnect with your body’s natural signals.

Break the Restrict-Binge Cycle

Create balanced, consistent meals to prevent deprivation and reduce the urge to overeat.

Mindful Eating Techniques

Teach tools that promote presence, satisfaction, and reduced guilt around eating.

Emotional Eating Support

Explore the emotional drivers behind eating and discover non-food coping strategies.

Body Trust & Neutrality

Shift focus from control and restriction to respect, care, and self-compassion.

Boundary Setting

Develop language to navigate food-related comments or pressure from others.

Identify Satisfaction Meals

Explore foods that are physically and psychologically satisfying to reduce overcontrol and obsession.

Discover Psychological vs. Physiological Eating

Learn to differentiate between hunger, cravings, and emotional triggers.

Neutralize Food

Reframe food as neutral — not a reward, punishment, or moral decision.

Find Joy in Movement

Reconnect with movement as a form of self-care, not punishment or calorie burning.

Eating Patterns We Support

  • Restrict-Binge Cycles

  • Restrict-Binge Cycles

    Patterns of avoiding certain foods only to overeat them later, leading to guilt and a sense of loss of control.

    How We Help

    • Establish consistent, balanced meals to stabilize hunger and reduce binge urges.
    • Reframe food as neutral and accessible, not a reward or punishment.
    • Develop strategies to respond to cravings without guilt or overcontrol.
    •  

  • Emotional Eating

  • Emotional Eating

    Eating in response to stress, boredom, or emotional discomfort rather than hunger.

    How We Help

    • Identify the emotions driving eating patterns and alternative coping tools.
    • Develop simple, satisfying meals that prevent chaotic eating.
    • Shift focus to emotional regulation without food as the primary outlet.

  • Fear Foods & Food Guilt

  • Fear Foods & Food Guilt

    Foods you avoid out of fear of losing control or “ruining progress.”

    How We Help

    • Challenge food rules that reinforce deprivation and guilt.
    • Reintroduce foods in a supportive, structured way to reduce fear and overcontrol.
    • Focus on pleasure, satisfaction, and balance — not just control.

  • Body Image & Self-Compassion

  • Body Image & Self-Compassion

    Struggles with body image that impact eating patterns, food choices, or self-worth.

    How We Help

    • Promote body neutrality and self-compassion, moving away from weight-centric goals.
    • Focus on what your body needs, not just how it looks.
    • Develop boundaries to navigate body-related comments and unsolicited advice.

  • Diet Cycles & Yo-Yo Dieting

  • Diet Cycles & Yo-Yo Dieting

    Repeated attempts at weight loss through restrictive diets that lead to weight regain and metabolic distress.

    How We Help

    • Identify the behaviors that perpetuate diet cycles and reframe them.
    • Shift focus to sustainable health practices rather than quick fixes.
    • Help you find health independent of weight, prioritizing consistency and balance.

Restrict-Binge Cycles

Patterns of avoiding certain foods only to overeat them later, leading to guilt and a sense of loss of control.

How We Help

  • Establish consistent, balanced meals to stabilize hunger and reduce binge urges.
  • Reframe food as neutral and accessible, not a reward or punishment.
  • Develop strategies to respond to cravings without guilt or overcontrol.
  •  

Emotional Eating

Eating in response to stress, boredom, or emotional discomfort rather than hunger.

How We Help

  • Identify the emotions driving eating patterns and alternative coping tools.
  • Develop simple, satisfying meals that prevent chaotic eating.
  • Shift focus to emotional regulation without food as the primary outlet.

Fear Foods & Food Guilt

Foods you avoid out of fear of losing control or “ruining progress.”

How We Help

  • Challenge food rules that reinforce deprivation and guilt.
  • Reintroduce foods in a supportive, structured way to reduce fear and overcontrol.
  • Focus on pleasure, satisfaction, and balance — not just control.

Body Image & Self-Compassion

Struggles with body image that impact eating patterns, food choices, or self-worth.

How We Help

  • Promote body neutrality and self-compassion, moving away from weight-centric goals.
  • Focus on what your body needs, not just how it looks.
  • Develop boundaries to navigate body-related comments and unsolicited advice.

Diet Cycles & Yo-Yo Dieting

Repeated attempts at weight loss through restrictive diets that lead to weight regain and metabolic distress.

How We Help

  • Identify the behaviors that perpetuate diet cycles and reframe them.
  • Shift focus to sustainable health practices rather than quick fixes.
  • Help you find health independent of weight, prioritizing consistency and balance.

Session Topics & Timeline

  • Conduct comprehensive assessment:
    • Weight history
    • Diet history (yo-yo dieting, food rules, eating disorders)
    • Relationship with food and body
    • Hunger/fullness awareness
    • Emotional eating patterns
  • Use IE assessment in Practice Better
  • Explore readiness for intuitive eating:
    • Fears, misconceptions, hopes
  • Set patient-centered goals for working through the principles
  • Introduce overall IE roadmap without overwhelming detail
  • Intuitive Eating Assessment (incorporated into each initial visit)
  • Outline the Care Plan: What to Expect from Your Sessions
    • No large scale interventions conducted in this session
    • Explain the goal/purpose of intuitive eating
  • Identify diet mentality thoughts
  • Work on grieving the loss of the “ideal body” fantasy
  • Reframe health and success beyond weight
  • Challenge cognitive distortions around dieting
  • Discuss diet history and review pros/cons of diets in the past
  • Teach body attunement
  • Use Hunger/Fullness Scale for awareness
  • Normalize eating before extreme hunger
  • Build early hunger response strategies
  • Create meal and snack ideas to prevent extreme hunger
  • Introduce unconditional permission to eat
  • Begin exposure to feared foods
  • Process emotional responses during exposure
  • De-mystify food addiction and beliefs around food addictions
  • Evaluate food beliefs
  • Discover how beliefs effect thoughts
  • Identify internal and external food policing voices
  • Reframe self-talk
  • Create affirmations for body trust and food neutrality
  • Teach mindful fullness recognition
  • Practice “pause points” during meals
  • Explore tolerance of fullness sensations
  • Discover barriers to fullness
  • Discuss “clean plate club” → perform clean plate assessment
  • Practice saying no 
  • Discuss characteristics of fullness vs. satisfaction
  • Explore satisfaction as an essential part of eating
  • Teach meal planning around taste, texture, temperature, craving
  • Debrief how restriction diminishes satisfaction
  • Normalize emotional eating without shame
  • Expand emotional coping toolbox
  • Discuss nutritional coping skills and non-nutritional coping skills
  • Differentiate types of hunger
  • Counseling/therapist referral
  • Deepen body image healing
  • Review health vs. weight
  • Counseling/therapist referral
  • Introduce body respect practices
  • Redefine exercise
  • Discuss benefits and barriers to exercise (subjective vs. objective)
  • Discover enjoyable exercises → thinking outside of the box
  • Begin gentle nutrition education
  • Reframe nutrition as additive, not restrictive
Patient Portal
Initial Inquiry Call