Eating Psychology

What is Eating Psychology Coaching?

Eating Psychology Coaching is an exciting and cutting edge approach that effectively addresses weight, binge eating, overeating, body image challenges, and various nutrition related health concerns.

My approach is positive and empowering. I refuse to see your eating challenges as a sign that ‘something is wrong with you’, but rather as a place where we can more fully explore some of the personal dimensions in life that impact food, weight and health. Our eating challenges are often connected to work, money, relationships, family, intimacy, stress and so much more. By working on the places that are most relevant for you, success is more easily achieved.

I look to support you with coaching strategies and nutrition principles that are nourishing, achievable, sustainable, and that give you results.

My Approach

For far too long, we have been inundated by negative messages about food, weight and diet. We have been told that we are willpower weaklings or that we need more control around food, and then the majority of nutrition experts out there promote conflicting advice. The result is people are confused about what to eat, and how to have a happy relationship with food and a healthy metabolism. In my practice, I combine many of the best strategies from nutrition science and eating psychology.

By eliminating what we ‘should’ or ‘should not’ eat, I focus on what is right for YOUR body and YOUR personal style. As we work together in this way, eating and health issues become a place of exploration. Instead of seeing such challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities for growth and self-improvement. I have found that it is best to reach your goals not by a mindset and strategies that punish, but through strategies that nourish.

For far too long, we have been inundated by negative messages about food, weight and diet. We have been told that we are willpower weaklings or that we need more control around food, and then the majority of nutrition experts out there promote conflicting advice. The result is people are confused about what to eat, and how to have a happy relationship with food and a healthy metabolism. In my practice, I combine many of the best strategies from nutrition science and eating psychology.

By eliminating what we ‘should’ or ‘should not’ eat, I focus on what is right for YOUR body and YOUR personal style. As we work together in this way, eating and health issues become a place of exploration. Instead of seeing such challenges as the enemy, they become opportunities for growth and self-improvement. I have found that it is best to reach your goals not by strategies that punish, but through strategies that nourish.

Dynamic Eating Psychology

This concept is an important new field of study, it is a positive, empowering and transformational approach that is designed for anyone who eats.

Each of us has a unique, fascinating, and ever changing relationship with food. Dynamic Eating Psychology affirms the primary importance of this relationship. It sees our challenges with eating, weight and health not as an indication that we are broken, but as a beautiful opportunity to grow and evolve. Previously, eating psychology has been limited to those with clinical eating disorders. Dynamic Eating Psychology however, is for everyone. It affirms that our relationship with food has important lessons to teach us if we choose to listen.

It also recognises that our challenges with eating, weight and health are intimately connected to other primary life dimensions – relationship, family, work, sexuality, our search for meaning and fulfillment, and so much more.

Mind-Body Nutrition

This is an exciting and timely new field that advances the practice of clinical nutrition by exploring the psychophysiology of how thoughts, feelings and beliefs impact nutritional metabolism and health.

It goes far beyond classical nutrition by focusing on the fascinating connections between brain, body, and behavior. Simply put, what we eat is only half of the story of good nutrition. The other half is who we are as eaters.

Mind Body Nutrition reveals how stress physiology, the relaxation response, breathing, awareness, pleasure, meal timing and much more profoundly influence digestion and calorie burning. It also offers practical and results-oriented strategies for the most commonly seen eating challenges and health issues of our times.