Eating Disorder/Body Image
Your relationship with food and your body can become exhausting. Food takes up too much mental space. Getting dressed becomes stressful. You may avoid certain foods, restaurants, events, or activities because of anxiety about eating or how your body will look. Your body can start to feel like something you are constantly evaluating, fixing, or trying to change.
Eating disorder recovery is about more than eating differently. It can mean working through body image distress, perfectionism, shame, comparison, fear around food, and the pressure to change your body before you feel allowed to fully live your life. Whether you're navigating an eating disorder, disordered eating, chronic dieting, or persistent body dissatisfaction, therapy can help you understand the thoughts and patterns that keep you feeling stuck.
Therapy provides a space to step outside of diet culture and work toward more flexibility, self-trust, and freedom around food and your body. Together, we can explore the beliefs you have developed about weight, food, appearance, and self-worth while building a more compassionate and sustainable relationship with yourself. This support can be especially meaningful during seasons when body image feels louder, whether that's wedding planning, vacations, major life transitions, or simply navigating everyday life in a body that doesn't always feel comfortable.
You don't have to have a specific diagnosis or be at a certain point in recovery to seek support. You deserve help when your relationship with food or your body is getting in the way of your life. I provide eating disorder and body image therapy for adults across North Carolina, including Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, with a relational and compassionate approach to recovery.
Experienced in Eating Disorder Care
Adrienne has experience providing eating disorder treatment across residential, partial hospitalization (PHP), and intensive outpatient (IOP) levels of care. Working with clients at different stages and levels of eating disorder recovery has given her a deep understanding of how complex these concerns can be and how different recovery can look from person to person. This experience informs a compassionate, practical approach to working with eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns.
She understands that eating disorders are rarely just about food. They can be connected to anxiety, perfectionism, control, self-worth, relationships, and the desire to feel safe or certain in an often complicated world. Therapy can be a place to look beyond the behaviors themselves and understand what is underneath them, while also building practical skills to support meaningful change.
Adrienne also regularly collaborates with registered dietitians, recognizing that eating disorder recovery is strongest when the nutritional and emotional pieces are supported together. When appropriate, she works as part of a collaborative treatment team so clients can receive thoughtful, coordinated care rather than having to navigate recovery on their own.
Her approach is grounded in Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating principles with a focus on building flexibility, self-trust, and a life beyond food and body concerns. Rather than asking you to simply follow another set of rigid rules, therapy can help you develop a more trusting relationship with your body, become more flexible around food, and understand the thoughts and patterns that have kept you feeling stuck.
Whether you're actively struggling with an eating disorder, experiencing disordered eating, feeling consumed by body image concerns, or realizing that food and body thoughts are taking up more space than you want them to, you don't have to wait until things get worse to seek support. Adrienne brings both specialized eating disorder experience and a warm, relational approach to help you move toward recovery in a way that feels sustainable, personal, and connected to the life you actually want.