Eating Disorder Counseling in Texas

  • Feeling like your value is tied to your weight and/or appearance?

  • Noticing feels of being ashamed or guilty when you eat (or don’t eat)?

  • Stuck in a never-ending cycle of worry and fixation on food, your body, and how others perceive you?

  • Physically uncomfortable, dizzy, fainting, or cold? What about difficulty concentrating or routines being dictated by food or exercise?

  • Avoiding social situations involving food which is hurting your relationships and concerning your loved ones?

  • Being judged or criticized by others, told it’s “just a phase” or being misunderstood?

  • Noticing the voice in your head saying you’re not good enough, thin enough, disciplined enough, or stuck in a battle of wanting recovery but also terrified of gaining weight?

Are you finding yourself:

What if instead your life looked like:

  • Feeling secure in the idea that your value is inherit DESPITE how you look or how much you weigh?

  • Your thoughts were neutral or accepting about the ways you fuel your body?

  • Time could pass without even noticing your body, thinking about food, or questioning how others view you?

  • You have clear thoughts, a routine you love, and a healthy body that helps you create the life of your dreams?

  • Relationships are deeply connected and you are able to show up fully without concern about the food around?

  • Being able to articulate your needs and boundaries around food and respected and supported in that by the people who matter most to you?

  • Knowing that your enough-ness has nothing to do with how thin you are or how disciplined you are - that you are enough because you are YOU.

  • Knowing that recovery is possible and so is overcoming fear of what that may look like?

  • Leading you through activities to highlight what YOU value and how to incorporate that into your life

  • Identify and challenge stories you’ve been given about “good” and “bad” foods, bodies, movement, or other relevant topics

  • Teach you ways to retrain your attention and focus to what matters to you in the moment

  • Cultivate a space to get CLEAR on what your future life looks like with recovery and identify actionable steps toward that version of you

  • Simulate conversations or scenarios to practice how to talk to people you care about in ways that deepen connection and foster understanding, mutual respect, and greater love

  • Sitting with you in the fear, uncertainty, and roller coaster of recovery but holding the hope for you that it is possible, it is worth it, and YOU are worth it!

How I can help:

“Food is something I am going to have to face at least three times a day for the rest of my life. And I am not perfect. But one really bad day does not mean that I am hopeless and back at square one with my eating disorder. Olympic ice skaters fall in their quest for the gold. Heisman Trophy winners throw interceptions. Professional singers forget the words. And people with eating disorders sometimes slip back into an old pattern. But all of these individuals just pick themselves back up and do the next right thing. The ice skater makes the next jump. The football player throws the next pass. The singer finishes the song. And I am going to eat breakfast.”

- Jenni Schaefer