Food + Body Therapy
(Re)building trust, cultivating empowerment, and honoring your body’s wisdom.
A different relationship with food and your body
Food and body concerns can take up enormous amounts of mental and emotional space.
You may feel caught between rules and rebellion, disconnected from hunger or fullness, preoccupied with appearance, exhausted by dieting, or uncertain how to care for a body that is changing.
Our Food + Body Therapy services bring together weight-inclusive nutrition counseling, body awareness, Intuitive Eating principles, and psychotherapy when appropriate.
Our philosophy
We are HAES-aligned and weight-inclusive.
We do not use weight loss as the measure of successful care. Instead, we center nourishment, body autonomy, access to care, informed choice, and your relationship with food and your body.
Our work may include:
disordered eating recovery
chronic dieting and food preoccupation
body image concerns
reconnecting with hunger and fullness cues
reducing shame around food and eating
navigating changing nutritional needs
midlife and hormonal transitions
GLP-1 informed nutrition support
Midlife nutrition support
Perimenopause and menopause can change sleep, appetite, energy, digestion, body composition, and nutritional needs.
Julia Hollenberg, RDN, CD, RYT-500 provides weight-inclusive nutrition support that helps you respond to these changes without turning your body into a problem to solve.
GLP-1 informed nutrition support
People taking GLP-1 medications can encounter changes in appetite, food tolerance, digestion, energy, and muscle mass.
Julia offers weight-neutral nutrition support focused on adequate nourishment, strength, physical wellbeing, and maintaining a connected relationship with eating.
Therapy and body image
Food and body work is not only nutritional.
Therapy may explore shame, self-worth, identity, perfectionism, comparison, relational experiences, cultural messages, and the ways food or appearance have become connected to belonging, control, or safety.
A Message from Our Food + Body Providers
Julia Hollenberg, RDN, CD, RYT-500
“You do not need to settle for a life filled with food angst and body shame. Your birthright is to enjoy the vessel of your body, to nourish it well, and to regard it as a powerful source of wisdom. Let us guide you in your journey to an easeful and enjoyable relationship to food and an embodied connection to yourself.
You may benefit from our work together if you experience an adversarial relationship to food or your body; if your mind is consumed with thoughts of food or how your body appears, if you feel your life and social engagement is being limited by your food and body struggles. We’ll partner with you to support you in gaining understanding about the utility of your disordered eating, unlearning harmful diet culture beliefs, developing an attuned awareness of your body cues, reclaiming your intuitive eater, and cultivating appreciation, trust, and confidence for your own unique body.”
Leigh Shaw, MSW, LICSW
“The therapy side of disordered eating recovery involves dismantling the stories we’ve internalized that tell us there was ever anything wrong with our bodies in the first place. We challenge oppressive beauty standards and explore how diversity in shape and size is something to be celebrated -- it is as beautiful as nature herself. We bring compassion to the parts of ourselves who learned to believe that looking some certain way was how we earned love and connection. We explore permission to be ourselves. We practice attuning to our needs and explore how to be in empowered relationship with self and others. We slow down and re-learn how to listen and respond to our bodies with curiosity and care. “