Are you constantly worrying about how you look or feel that your entire sense of self seems to depend on your appearance? Do you fight your appetite or not allow yourself food? Or do find yourself eating when you are not hungry, or eating when you don’t want to? Or caught between doing both? The reality is that behavior around food can get very complicated, and unusual food behavior is often a mask for issues.Restricting food or over indulging with food changes our body chemistry, distracts us from other things that may be occurring, and can become a playground where we act out issues related to control, perfectionism, detachment, approval seeking, loneliness and all sorts of other issues.They don’t call it comfort food for no reason! Eating habits can be very difficult to break out of, and disordered eating can easily become very trapping. We will examine your feelings about yourself, your body, your reasons for eating and for not eating and environmental triggers . Through learning to separate food from emotion,Joannah will help you get to the bottom of relevant issues drivingunhealthy behavior, and build the environment and behavioral change for the healthiest and happiest you. Joannah will help you to a find the place where you will feelconfident ,comfortable in your skin, healthyand happy.
"When I started seeing Joannah, my bulimia was out of control and I
spent my days thinking about food, planning binges, and generally
obsessing about my body and weight. Working with her in private and
group sessions was the turning point for my recovery, which is an
ongoing process...."
- L.S. more...
"I was never interested in seeing a therapist, I knew I could take care of myself, and didn't want or need any "help". I was pretty much forced by my loved ones into agreeing to one session. The process of therapy with Joannah was not..."
- A.K. more...
"I had already been meeting with a divorce attorney when my husband and
I starting working with Joannah. We had already spent thousands of
dollars and hundreds of hours with other counselors, and I was feeling
like there was no possible way I could find happiness again within..."
- Mrs. G. more...
