Binge Eating Treatment in the San Francisco Bay Area

I provide therapy for individuals ready to break free from a life consumed by food and negative body image. Together, we’ll help you rediscover who you are beyond binge eating and build a fulfilling, binge-free life. Feeling out of control around food, eating until you’re uncomfortably full, disconnecting from your body while eating, or eating in secret—often followed by shame and guilt—are all signs of binge eating disorder.

Symptoms of Binge Eating

  • Constant thoughts about food: Feeling like you're always thinking about what to eat next, how much to eat, or whether you should eat at all.

  • Distracting and overwhelming: Thoughts about food popping into your mind even when you're not hungry, making it hard to focus on other things.

  • Rules and guilt: Feeling like you have to follow strict rules about food or experiencing guilt or shame after eating something.

  • Pressure and planning: Spending a lot of time planning meals or snacks to avoid certain foods or to stick to a diet.

  • Turning to food for comfort: Eating to soothe stress, sadness, boredom, or other emotions, even when you're not physically hungry.

  • Craving certain "comfort foods": Reaching for things like sweets, salty snacks, or carbs when emotions feel overwhelming.

  • A quick fix: Using food as a way to feel better in the moment, but often feeling guilty or regretful afterward.

  • Feeling out of control: Eating more than intended or eating in a way that feels automatic and hard to stop.

  • Noticing patterns: Realizing you eat when you're upset, stressed, or celebrating, rather than because your body needs it.

  • If the above sounds like you, we can work together to help you overcome binge eating.

Help for Binge Eating Disorder

With the right support, you can:

  • Stop feeling controlled by food.

  • Break the cycle of binge eating and chronic dieting.

  • Reclaim your life from guilt, shame, and overwhelming urges.

You’re in the right place. Binge eating doesn’t have to control your life. Therapy provides a path to recovery, freedom, and a more peaceful relationship with food.

What Does Therapy for Binge Eating Involve?

We will work together to:

  • Explore and address the messages you’ve internalized about food and your body, unlearn the harmful influences of anti-fatness, diet culture, and any previous experiences of weight stigma / discrimination / bullying.

  • Understand your eating patterns and how your eating habits may be contributing to binge eating.

  • Identify your unique triggers to binge eating so the binge eating starts to make more sense.

  • Apply skills and strategies to help you manage urges and emotions without food.

  • Improve your body image as negative body image can fuel binge eating.

Binge Eating Help

Binge eating can sometimes happen alongside a variety of things such as negative body image, anxiety, restrictive eating, purging, and excessive and compulsive exercise.

If this sounds like you, schedule your first session today and take the first step toward a healthier, more balanced life.