FBT is the gold-standard treatment for adolescent eating disorders because it empowers parents to do what they are uniquely equipped to do—nourish and nurture their child back to health. FBT is a team approach in which the therapist, pediatrician, and dietitian act as expert advisors, but parents are the primary facilitators of the treatment process. FBT creates a “treatment center” in the home.

FBT happens in three phases. Phase 1 focuses on refeeding, weight restoration, and medical stabilization, Phase 2 focuses on the gradual return of age-appropriate responsibility and freedom back to the adolescent, and Phase 3 builds on the self-support and recovery skills the adolescent has learned in the first two phases.

With me, Phase 1 typically involves two sessions per week—one with caregivers/family, and one individual session with the adolescent. Over the course of Phase 2, we taper caregiver/family sessions, and in Phase 3 I work mainly one on one with the adolescent. Families understandably want to know how long this will take, and I can only offer the answer that it looks different for everyone! A common estimate is 18 months for the process, but it can and often does go longer, and occasionally shorter.

As with any treatment for eating disorders, FBT is not easy, but it is lifesaving. I and the team are here to support you every step of the way.

Many adults with eating disorders only seek treatment after suffering for years. Maybe you’re restricting, or “bingeing”, or exhausted by the amount of space food-and-body obsessions take up in your life. Maybe a healthcare provider has intervened, or you’ve been in and out of treatment, or you’re considering treatment for the first time. I’m so glad you’re here.

After twelve years supporting people in their ED recovery journeys, I’m deeply at home in this work. What you can expect from me is warm, compassionate, directive, evidence-based care. We will talk, and feel, and take action. We’ll do exposures and existential exploration. We’ll go deep into your values and meaning-making around food and body. We’ll do “homework” that involves eating, resting, and other forms of nurture. We’ll incorporate intuitive approaches to eating and movement when you’re ready, and we’ll hold structure when it’s needed. We’ll build a team—usually dietitian and PCP—that meets your needs. I know the map to recovery well, but together we’ll navigate the unique terrain ahead of you (and within you).

I prioritize full refeeding and weight restoration across the size spectrum. All foods fit (especially the ones diet culture tells you don’t). I am deeply committed to fat liberation and Health at Every Size (HAES), and have spent over a decade advocating for weight-inclusive approaches to ED care.

Illness and disability can be deeply overwhelming and isolating in a society built for the able-bodied, with so many barriers to medical care. And, illness is a part of human life, and can—if we are adequately supported—put us in touch with our full humanity, and connect us to others. Living with illness and disability can be heavy tasks, and there is hope… for quality of life, for meaning, and for community. Sick and disabled folks are incredibly resourceful.

My work with chronic illness is spacious. We are on your timeline, and your body’s. We will hold what’s present, lean into it, play with it. We will explore the wilderness of embodiment and emotion. We will lament the systems that fail us, and find ways to take our power back. We’ll get really practical.

I bring my body liberation ethos to this work. I operate from the social model of disability, which is the hopeful notion that with the right supports, sick and disabled people can live fully actualized lives. I reject fatphobic, diet cultural, and other approaches that prey on the desperation of sick people. That said, I honor your bodily autonomy—your body, your choice. My goal is to support your ever-increasing expertise, skillfulness, and connectedness.

Anxiety, depression, complex trauma, and relationship and identity issues can be the cause of immense suffering in our lives, and can impair our ability to access our most vital and connected selves. These issues tend to cluster together, beginning in our formative years and influencing how we structure our lives and sense of self into adulthood. Systemic factors in our families, communities, and society don’t always support human thriving, and our adaptations to these systems may be useful for survival, but not sustainable in the long term.

We will work with your body, your emotions, your thoughts, and your actions. We will explore the wilderness of the self and existence from the secure base of the therapeutic relationship. We will work with the past as it lives in you now, and with the future as it calls to you in the present. We will face what is real.

I am honored to work with clients across many intersecting identities—racial, ethnic, religious, gender & sexual identity, body size, ability, and more—and I have a particular focus on working with Jewish clients, whether religious or secular, culturally connected or disconnected, or some combination of these. Jews grappling with the fraught times we live in, our intergenerational trauma, and Jewish history and memory, will, I hope, find a caring space to feel, think, and connect in my therapy room.