Services

PARENT/CAREGIVER COACHING

I provide practical guidance, emotional support, and consultation for individuals or couples that are navigating the role of caregiving for a loved one with an eating disorder.

I collaborate with other providers on the treatment team and help caregivers work through challenges surfacing in the home around implementing the team’s recommendations.

I am trained in Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), and my caregiver coaching work is influenced by these modalities. Additionally, my years working alongside dietitians to provide meal support to people in recovery has equipped me with knowledge and skills that allow me to provide guidance around food, meal plans, and refeeding as well.

MEAL COACHING

Support from therapists, dietitians, and medical doctors is invaluable. Some find support in community via groups or digital platforms. A missing link for many, however, is hands-on support when it comes to meal time. When a person struggling with an eating disorder sits down in front of a plate of food, it is not uncommon to lose touch with recovery efforts, insights, and motivations and revert to disordered thoughts and behaviors.

Meal coaching helps clients stay in touch with goals and motivations as they eat, and provides practical tools for getting through meals.

Food is medicine for people in recovery, and direct support with eating can help an individual make significant strides in the physical, practical, and emotional realms of healing from an eating disorder.

I go to a client’s home or school and sit with them while they eat. I can provide help with meal prep and plating if desired, then we sit and eat together and I coach the client through the meal. My approach is uniquely tailored to each individual’s needs and style, and I always consult and collaborate with the client’s therapist and/or dietitian to create a working coaching plan for that client.

I work in a relational way, so building trust and rapport with each client is pivotal to success. I help clients with mindfulness, connecting to goals and motivations, connecting to feelings, or even simple distraction during meals, employing whatever strategies have historically been successful for each client. I typically bring a meal for myself and eat with the client, as having healthy eating modeled has also been a great support to many individuals. I am also available for online support if virtual meal coaching is preferred, or for non Bay Area clients.

Individualized approach
In-person or virtual
Collaboration with caregivers and members of treatment team (therapist, dietitian, etc.)
Help following a prescribed meal plan
Help incorporating challenge foods
Help with supplementation when needed
Can assist parents utilizing an FBT (family based treatment) approach
Modeling a healthy relationship with food

Rates

$250 for initial assessment and coaching plan: 1-2 hours in-person or via Zoom, with caregivers and client (for youth clients).

During this meeting, I ask the client and caregivers questions about eating disorder history and current struggles, goals, supports and motivations. This rate includes me talking in-depth with the client’s therapist and/or dietitian on separate occasions, to collaborate on a coaching plan.

$200 for one 50-min parent/caregiver coaching session (virtual or in-person)

$250 for one hour-long, in-person therapeutic meal coaching session

This includes plating/light prep, supplement if needed, and ongoing correspondence with providers and caregivers throughout the week as desired. Each individual’s coaching plan is unique, but it often includes 15 minutes to prep/plate meal, 30 minutes to eat together and receive practical and emotional support, and 15 minutes after the meal for either support with nutritional supplement and/or sitting and processing after the meal.

$200 for one hour-long, remote therapeutic meal coaching session

This includes ongoing correspondence with providers and caregivers throughout the week as desired. Each individual’s coaching plan is unique, but it often includes a brief check-in before the meal and a review of what the client has plated for themselves. Coach may give feedback if more food needs to be added to the plate. Then, 30 minutes to eat together and receive practical and emotional support, and 15 minutes after the meal for either support with nutritional supplement and/or sitting and processing after the meal.

Sliding scale available upon request