EATING DISORDERS + BODY IMAGE

eating disorders + body image

At Solstice, Katie feels passionate about treating clients who are struggling with food and body related distress. This distress can range from clients experiencing lower level body image concerns and disordered eating, to clients who have active eating disorders. Katie works with clients who are stepping down from a higher level of care, and with clients who have never sought any therapy for these concerns. Help is available and we are here for you. Katie uses a HAES-aligned, non-diet approach with eating disorder treatment. You will receive compassionate care for all food and body image concerns.

Eating Disorder Recovery for the Family: Eating disorders impact relationships in a variety of ways. At Solstice, Katie value connection and collaboration. It is important that family members, partners, and siblings heal from the pain and impact of eating disorders experienced by a loved one. Solstice individualizes support based on the family’s needs.

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EMDR is a structured therapy modality that can help a client reduce the distress from unresolved experiences or trauma, while simultaneously working to reduce the beliefs that maintain levels of the distress client’s life. When trauma or past experiences are activated, it can feel like they are happening now. This activation and associated belief pattern can be healed through the process of EMDR. Physiological distress can be eliminated and negative beliefs that block you from accepting and enjoying life can evolve into new understanding.

Katie is trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute. This EMDR model incorporates resource building and highlights connection to internal strength prior to reprocessing memories. It is a collaborative process to decide to use EMDR in therapy. It is important that clients are stable and safe to begin the process. Katie will support clients developing this readiness prior to beginning EMDR.

Psychotherapy is a collaborative process where the client and therapist work together to facilitate healing and positive change. Individuals seek psychotherapy for many different reasons including depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, eating disorders, stress management, and unresolved trauma, as well as navigating stressful seasons of life with grief, transitions, and change.

Katie provides individual psychotherapy to adult, teens, and preteens for a broad range of general psychological concerns including, but not limited to:

Trauma
Eating disorders
Life transitions
Relationship concerns
Parenting concerns
Depression
Anxiety
Mood Disorders
Teens

Solstice offers several different services that aim to support kids and their grown ups. Our family and parenting relationships are truly the most important in our growth and development. They provide the foundation for our emotion regulation, lay the framework for our sense of self, and map how we relate to others.

Self-regulation is the ability to focus thoughts, control behaviors, and manage emotions. If you want your child to develop self-regulation, you must develop your own. As adults and parents, we are the source of co-regulation for our children. Co-regulation is the process by which children learn to increase self-regulation as their brains and nervous system develop. Parenting is hard and there isn’t always support for families of children with challenging behaviors, brain-based differences, developmental differences, and trauma. Solstice is here to help.

Part of the collaborative wellness mission of Solstice is prevention, focusing on healing from the inside out and providing a secure foundation for wellness in our intimate attachment relationships is our goal. Parents are supported in identifying and developing skills to navigate challenging experiences with their children and teens through various modalities.

Parent Coaching and Psychotherapy: Helping you be the parent you want to be with more effective communication, stronger life-long relationships with your child(ren) or teen, and parenting in a way that aligns with your values.
Parent-Child/Parent-Teen Therapy: This is a treatment modality that supports the relationship between parent and child. Parents are supported in communication, repair, boundary setting, and building awareness of the relationship dynamics. You and your child (or teen) attend sessions together.
Family Therapy: Focuses on improvement of relationships between family members. Family therapy can be helpful in the process of repair after a rupture or significant event, challenges with transitions or even sibling rivalry. Family therapy is also part of the treatment process in the recovery from substance use disorder, eating disorders, and other mental health challenges that impact our relationships.
Parent Training Workshop: Coming Soon!

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