Body Image & Food · Ohio

Making peace with a changing body.

Support for anyone whose relationship with food or their body has gotten complicated — including those navigating GLP-1 medications and the feelings no prescriber warned them about. This is not eating disorder treatment. It’s a place to sort out what’s changing, with someone who understands the nervous system underneath it.

What Does This Work Look Like?

Your relationship with your body is a relationship — and like any relationship, it carries history. Diet cycles that started in adolescence. Comments you never forgot. The quiet math of every meal. When your body changes — through medication, age, illness, or life — all of that history gets stirred up at once.

In this work we slow that down. Drawing on NARM® and the principles and methods of Somatic Experiencing®, we look at where food and body became tangled up with safety, worth, and control — and we help your nervous system find a steadier way to live in the body you have, as it is and as it changes. I’m also an affiliated therapist with Peace with Food, which shapes how I approach eating: with curiosity and compassion, never rules and shame.

The GLP-1 Conversation Nobody Prepared You For

GLP-1 medications change bodies quickly — often faster than the mind can keep up. People describe strange grief for a body they spent years wanting to change, identity whiplash when the mirror stops matching the self-image, food losing its old role as comfort or reward, and complicated reactions from partners, friends, and family. None of that means something is wrong with you. It means a major change happened and the feelings part was never part of the prescription. That’s the part we work on.

An Honest Boundary

This is not eating disorder treatment. If you’re in active anorexia, bulimia, or another eating disorder that needs specialized or medical care, the right first step is an eating disorder program — and I’m glad to help point you toward good resources in the Cleveland area. If you’re medically stable and working on the relationship side — body image, food guilt, the feelings underneath the patterns — that’s exactly what this is for.

Common Questions

Is this therapy for eating disorders?

No. Active eating disorders need specialized, often medical, treatment — and Kate will help you find the right program if that’s what you need. This work is for the relationship side: body image, food guilt, and the feelings that come with a changing body.

I'm on a GLP-1 medication. How can therapy help?

Rapid body change stirs up identity, grief, food habits, and relationships in ways few prescribers discuss. Therapy gives the feelings side of the process the same attention the medical side gets — so the change you’re making physically is one you can actually live in.

Do I need to be trying to change my body to work with Kate?

Not at all. Some people come while losing weight, some while gaining, some while recovering from years of dieting, and some simply want to stop thinking about food this much. The goal is a steadier relationship with the body you have — whatever it’s doing.

Your body isn't the enemy. Let's start there.

A complimentary 30-minute call — by phone or secure video — to talk about what’s changing and whether this work fits.

Consultations happen by phone or secure video · In-person sessions in Beachwood · Telehealth across Ohio