Trauma-Informed Recovery Coaching

Coaching offers flexible support for navigating the daily life of recovery with a focus on taking action. I partner with you and your other providers to create goals and empower you to take courageous action in those toughest moments. Coaching is completely individualized and adapted to you as a person and your recovery needs. I work with clients online worldwide and can offer in-person support in central Pennsylvania.

I offer practical, hands-on support including:

  • Help changing behaviors that are no longer aligned with what you want for yourself

  • Compassionate accountability for recovery goals

  • Neural rewiring: shifting your relationship with food, movement, and your body

  • Divesting from our disordered culture in daily life (because it’s everywhere!)

  • Navigating ED triggers you encounter

  • Building momentum in recovery & staying committed

  • Support with meal/food challenges, cooking, and shopping

  • Practicing new skills and strategies in daily life

  • Creating routines that support recovery and increasing self-trust

  • Peer support to feel less isolated and more encouraged

  • Rebuilding identity outside of an ED

  • Texting to assist with integrating recovery into daily life

Please note: Coaching is not a replacement for therapy or clinical treatment. If you are actively struggling with an eating disorder, I do require that you also be working with a therapist or dietitian. If you need help finding a therapist or dietitian, I may be able to provide referrals.

My Approach

My approach is non-pathologizing, collaborative, and inclusive of all identities and backgrounds. I believe you are the expert of your own experience and approach every session with a willingness to listen. It’s okay to feel unsure if you are ready to recover and ambivalent. I’m willing to meet you wherever you are in your process. We hold space for ambivalence, normalize it, and empower you to take steps at a pace that feels right for you.

Eating disorders are multi-determined, biopsychosocial disorders which require a multi-pronged approach for healing. I work with eating disorders from an anti-diet, Health at Every Size, and weight-inclusive framework and believe in state not weight when it comes to recovery. I factor in the role that falling into an energy deficit—intentionally or unintentionally—plays in developing and sustaining an ED including the latest research suggesting that EDs are metabo-psychiatric disorders.

I work from a social justice lens —understanding the social and systemic inequities that contribute to eating disorders and add barriers to recovery. I incorporate harm reduction and believe we are all worthy of compassion and support regardless of where we are in our journey. I always hold hope for the possibility of full and meaningful recovery while understanding that we are all complex humans living in a complex world.

To support you in making changes, I use compassionate accountability and practices such as: setting collaborative goals, text support between sessions, meal/snack support, identifying and planning for obstacles, podcast & reading recommendations, writing prompts & activities, and peer support groups.

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Services

Recovery Coaching

Completely individualized for your needs! We will explore how you want things to be different, co-create meaningful recovery goals, and practically support you in daily life as you work towards your goals. Please read the FAQ for an idea of what a coaching session could like. Sessions can happen in real time for things like shopping, cooking, and meals/snacks.

1:1 coaching sessions are 50-minutes long and can be broken up into two 25-minute sessions. Session frequency is based on your needs and goals for recovery. Weekly coaching includes reasonable text and email support in between weekly meetings. Text support is optional; you can choose to opt out for a reduced session only rate. Biweekly or monthly coaching sessions can include texting for an additional fee.

Single Recovery Support Calls

Single support calls are designed for someone who is looking for a check-in to strengthen their commitment in their healing, get oriented in their goals, and receive peer-support/guidance from someone who has been through their own recovery.

We can prioritize anything specific you would like to discuss!

Together, we create an individualized structure to support you in your healing, whatever that looks like at this point in time.

Text and email support are not included between single support calls.

Meal & Snack Support

Are you struggling specifically with eating meals and snacks? Do you need support with consistency? Would you like to challenge fear foods but want support from someone who understands and has lived experience?

As a coach, I can join you, and we will navigate those challenges together. I can assist with offering support during a meal or snack and exploring eating disorder thoughts and urges. I offer accountability in a gentle, compassionate, and firm way that honors your choice and autonomy.

FAQ

  • Coaching is action-oriented—providing present- and future-focused, practical support to help you clarify your goals and move towards them. It focuses on the HOW of recovery.

    Coaching helps bridge the gap between recovery and real life—creating sustainable change.

    Coaches do not diagnose and treat mental health conditions, process underlying trauma, or explore patterns from the past like you would in therapy. I point clients to therapy for trauma in need of deeper processing and healing.

    Therapists often will use coaching techniques in their practice, but coaches have a much narrower scope of practice than therapists.

  • Coaching is meant for those in ED recovery wanting day-to-day support for help practicing recovery in real life.

    Coaching is a good fit for those who:

    • consider themselves actively in recovery

    • already have a therapist or dietitian and are looking for ways to strengthen commitment and accountability between their sessions

    • want a non-clinical relationship rooted in lived experience and peer support

    • are medically stable and not in acute crisis

    • want hands-on support with meals/snacks, food challenges, grocery shopping, cooking, clothing shopping

    • need help implementing new skills/strategies/routines for recovery, body image work, and divesting from diet culture in daily life

  • Coaching Sessions May Look Like:

    • Clarifying what you want for yourself and setting collaborative goals

    • Obstacle identification: What’s getting in your way?

    • Brainstorming practical and individualized strategies to work with your obstacles

    • Revitalizing and strengthening commitment to recovery

    • Compassionate accountability for tough moments

    • Help practicing and implementing skills and strategies

    • Peer support (I have lived experience)

    • Real time meal and food challenges support

    • “Reviewing the tapes”: what worked, what didn’t, where are you getting stuck, how can we adjust next time

  • I take active steps to coach in a way that reduces the likelihood of re-traumatization because eating disorders are interconnected with individual, collective, and historical trauma.

    Being trauma-informed does not mean we dive into the past; it means I create an environment that promotes healing and reduces the risk of more harm.

    The trauma-informed principles of Safety; Trust and Transparency; Peer Support; Collaboration and Mutuality, Empowerment, Voice and Choice; Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues g‍uide my approach

    Citations

  • I believe full recovery from an eating disorder is a possibility while also understanding we are complex humans living in a complex world. I do always hold hope for the possibility of full recovery for everyone.

    You can read more about my perspective HERE.

  • Yes, I believe reducing the negative consequences of eating disorder behaviors is ethical care. I see harm reduction as a compassionate approach aimed to reduce suffering and increase someone’s quality of life.

    I have learned so much in this area from the amazing Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride.

  • 1:1 coaching sessions are 50-minutes long and can be broken up into two 25-minute sessions. Session frequency is individualized based on your needs and goals for recovery.

    If you are further along in your recovery but would still like coaching support, we can work together biweekly.

  • I offer a free 20-minute call to see if working together could be a good fit and give you a chance to ask any questions about my approach.

    If it’s a good fit, then we schedule our first session, and I send over a few forms to fill out and sign beforehand.

  • Ideally we work together consistently because change takes time, but I understand financial resources can make regular coaching not feasible for some. Or maybe you are at a stable place in recovery but need a bit of a boost or guidance every so often! For these situations I offer single recovery support calls.

    In a support call, we can collaboratively create an outline of your recovery goals, obstacles you have been experiencing, and specific ways to take steps towards the direction you want to be moving in.

    You are always welcome to book another support call as needed!

  • Weekly Coaching

    • 50 minutes of weekly video/phone coaching with texting support in between - $125 per week.

    • If you are looking for biweekly or monthly coaching but you would like texting, I offer texting for $75/week for weeks we don’t have a session,

    • Text support is optional and you can choose to opt out for a reduced session-only rate.

    I offer a certain amount of sliding scale and pro-bono coaching spots. Please inquire if needed.

    Unfortunately coaching is currently not covered by most insurances at this point in time but that could change in the future. I encourage you to contact your insurance company & inquire if there are any reimbursement avenues available for coaching services.

Schedule a Free Initial Call

Have questions about coaching and want to talk about working together? I offer a free 20-minute call to see if it feels like the right fit. I believe that finding supports that are right for you is so important for recovery. I work with clients online worldwide and can offer in-person support in central Pennsylvania.

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