Heidi Andersen I Founder

We're a specialized psychotherapy practice that focuses on helping individuals find lasting healing from eating disorders, disordered eating and negative body image. Our body-centered, integrated approach focuses on addressing attachment wounds and healing unresolved trauma to help you develop self-regulation skills. This enables you to handle challenges, discomfort and painful emotions so you can show up in life fully and wholeheartedly. We work from a relationally-oriented, somatically-integrated approach weaving together Somatic Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, expressive arts and yoga. We work with all ages, all gender expressions, with individuals, and families. Our therapists are Eating Disorder Specialists and all have a passion for helping people reconnect to their bodies, heal from trauma and attachment wounds, and reclaim their body as a resource. Although we are specialists, we believe our clients are the experts on their experience and recognize many clients have been harmed by "experts" who don't have understanding about marginalized identities, neurodiversity and the systems of oppression that perpetuate eating disorders and body image challenges. With loving presence and humor, we help clients develop a more mindful, curious understanding of what led to the self-objectification and self-criticism that creates vulnerability to eating disorders. We believe eating disorders arise as an attempt to protect from uncomfortable feelings and emotions related to trauma and attachment wounding as well as systems of oppression. We work to support our clients in recognizing how their eating disorder/disordered eating patterns serve them to better understand the skills and tools they need to strengthen in order to let go of the unhealthy coping mechanisms. We want to support you shifting from being at war with your body to discovering how the body can be one of your greatest resources. Our clients tend to be sensitive, emotional, creative, intuitive, and intelligent, and through the process of healing their food and body challenges are able to free these aspects of themselves as gifts for themselves and the world.