Body image therapy in Austin

Maybe you’ve stopped looking

Maybe you’ve stopped looking in the mirror altogether, or you only glance when it’s absolutely necessary, because seeing your own reflection feels too painful. Maybe your first instinct is to duck out of every photograph because you can’t stand seeing the results. Perhaps you’re doomscrolling, and the messaging about the countless ways you could improve your appearance is starting to get under your skin. When you put the phone down, you feel the pull to try the next “quick fix” for what’s supposedly wrong with how you look. Maybe a casual comment from a family member or friend sends your thoughts spiraling.

Or maybe the changes that come with being pre- or postpartum, the exhausting work of raising small children, or the shifts of perimenopause are bringing up body image and eating issues you thought you’d already worked through.

There’s a way through

If any of this feels familiar, you’re not alone, and there’s a way through that doesn’t require loving your reflection. I bring a body liberation framework to this work. Body liberation doesn’t ask you to feel positive about your body — that’s not always possible in this season of your life. We can absolutely do work toward appreciating and feeling warmth toward your body, if that’s helpful to you. But the larger focus is understanding — and, more importantly, feeling — that you are so much more than your body.

What changes

The social media rhetoric will still be there. So might the offhand comments. But instead of getting swept up in them, you’ll be able to recognize where that noise is coming from, and redirect your attention to what your body actually is: the thing that holds all of you, and carries you through your relationships and your life.

If perinatal or parental depression resonates too, you can find out more here.