You’re a capable, responsible adult, but you’re feeling lost when it comes to your eating habits, body image, and health issues in midlife.

These aren’t the same struggles you had in your 20s. You don’t have the same insecurities, your eating patterns aren’t as extreme, but you do feel out of control.

As confident as you are in other areas of your life, right now:

You feel confused and overwhelmed by all the diets out there
You don’t like the way your appearance is changing
You worry about your long-term health.

You think you shouldn't be struggling with this. You should have this figured out by now. You should be able to just follow a healthy diet.

I’ve worked with hundreds of men and women who feel stuck in this constant battle. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Certified Nutritionist with 15 years of experience in integrative health and eating disorder recovery, I would love to help you restore confidence in how and what you eat, your body image, and caring for your physical health.

I work with clients in person in Spokane and online across Washington state and New Hampshire.

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Nutrition and Mental Health Counseling
for navigating food, body image and health in midlife.

Here's where clients often start:

1. Restoring Safety

Eating feels chaotic, anxiety-provoking, and driven by rules & guilt. Obsessive thinking about food, weight, appearance takes up most of your brain space.

Your next step: Stabilize eating and eliminate disordered behaviors.

2. Trusting Your Body

You don’t yet trust your hunger and fullness, or your body’s ability to regulate your weight.

Negative body image is a daily source of frustration and low self-esteem.

Your next step: Reconnect with intuitive eating, and find body acceptance.

3. Restoring Physical Health

Your eating disorder is in remission, (or a distant memory), but health issues have emerged. You want to make changes in your diet without triggering old patterns

Your next step: Connect with healthy motives for change, and dial-in compassionate self-care.

Hello, I'm Elizabeth

Licensed Mental Health Counselor ~ Certified Nutritionist, Master's Degree ~ Certified TEAM-CBT Therapist ~ Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor ~ Certified Integrative Health Provider

I love this work because I’ve lived it, and helped hundreds of people find joy and peace with food. I recovered from an eating disorder in my 20s, and embraced intuitive eating and body acceptance.

Now that I'm in my mid-40s, I understand midlife brings a different version of the struggle: hormonal upheaval, a shifting metabolism, and less resilience to stress. In the past few years, I've focused on fine-tuning what I eat and how I exercise (without white-knuckling it ), so I can have the best quality of life in this second half.

How I work: As both a therapist and nutritionist, I offer truly integrated care for the mind and body in one place. My approach is ED-informed and guided by the latest in nutrition research. I use CBT to help you build new patterns of thinking and behavior that actually stick, while understanding the emotional drivers behind your food and body struggles.

Depending on which path you're on, I'll take a more structured approach with prescriptive meal plan, or a more collaborative approach guided by your body's wisdom.

On a personal note, I love to play the banjo and listen to podcasts. My favorite long form podcast is "Dolly Parton's America," I highly recommend it!

What's Possible

With the right support, food can be simple, your body can feel like home, and taking care of your health won't mean reopening old wounds.

You've spent years being capable and responsible in every other part of your life. It's time you felt that way with food and your health, too.

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What to Expect

1. Free initial consultation: If you like, we can meet for about 30 minutes to give us each a chance to make sure I'm the right fit for you. I'll ask you questions about your life, your history & relationship with food, and what your goals are for counseling. I'll describe how my approach would help your specific situation. No pressure.

3. We begin sessions. I'll always start by offering you empathy, deep listening, and compassion. Once you feel fully heard and understood, then we roll up our sleeves and get to work. We'll identify a specific goal and I'll show you a roadmap for how we tackle that problem. I'll walk you through the techniques that you'll use to change your negative thoughts, feelings, motivation, and actions.

Over the next sessions we'll keep using different techniques until you arrive at the shift you're looking for. We'll stick with one problem area until we've resolved it.

2. If you want to move forward I'll have you fill out some paperwork that will give me more specific information about your current lifestyle, health habits, and mental health symptoms.

Then I'll recommend a book or podcast or my free online course (whichever you prefer) to add structure & educational elements between sessions. On average clients spend 20 minutes/day on "homework".

4. Graduation! Once you've achieved the change you wanted we can work on the next problem or you can finish therapy and go live your life with the tools you learned.

Nutrition and Mental Health Counseling for navigating food, body image and health in midlife.