Reclaiming Beauty, PLLC, provides body-centered, trauma-informed psychotherapy for individuals looking to find lasting healing from disordered eating, eating disorders and negative body image. We are inclusive, fully aligned with Health at Every Size®, and believe that all bodies deserve respect, nourishment and compassion. Our body-centered, integrated approach focuses on addressing attachment wounds and healing unresolved trauma to help clients develop self-regulation skills. This enables clients to handle challenges, discomfort and painful emotions so they can show up in life fully and wholeheartedly.

Private Practice psychotherapist specializing in working with clients addressing body image, self-image, life transitions, eating disorders, trauma, attachment, relationship and intimacy issues using a body-centered, trauma-informed approach. Trained in Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, Internal Family Systems and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Therapeutic approach informed by studies in expressive arts and yoga. Currently enrolled in the Body Trust Certification program to increase understanding and awareness of liberatory frameworks and the social justice interweavings of eating disorders and body image. Offer clinical supervision, consultation and group consultation for professionals looking to increase their skills in trauma-informed, relationally oriented, somatically integrated approaches to treating eating disorders and trauma. Offer licensure supervision for LCMHCA in North Carolina, and for people seeking their Certified Eating Disorder Speciliast certification. Self-published author of the Reclaiming Beauty Journal & Wisdom Deck, a practical hands on tool for shifting inner dialogue from self-criticism to self-compassion. Facilitate Reclaiming Beauty body image/self-image groups for girls and women at various programs including residential treatment centers for middle school girls, substance abuse and eating disorder intensive outpatient programs.Frequently speak on the subject of healing body image and self-image at conferences and as a podcast guest. Offer series : The Reclaiming Beauty Playshop - an opportunity to explore beauty and what it means to you through yoga, embodied movement, expressive arts and ritual. Participants explore personal body image identity, develop positive, self-honoring body practices, create a more loving relationship to their body and are inspired to share the reclaiming beauty message with the women in their lives.

Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) is 3-phase professional training program that is trauma-informed, relationally oriented, and neurobiologically supported. The ERED training weaves together the latest in cutting-edge approaches to understand and treat all forms of disordered eating.

Provide eating disorder specific supervision to clinical staff and interns. Facilitate body image groups for adults and adolescents in Intensive Outpatient/Partial Hospitalization eating disorder treatment program for women. Lead weekly interdisciplinary treatment team meeting. Train new and existing clinical staff on eating disorder informed treatment.