Body Image & Eating Concerns Therapy
Healing Your Relationship with Food and Body
Living in a body shouldn't be this hard. If you're exhausted from the mental energy spent on food, weight, and appearance—constantly calculating, restricting, compensating, and never feeling enough—you're not alone. There's a way to find peace.
✓ Non-Diet Approach✓ Women-Specialized✓ Insurance Accepted
Body Image in a Toxic Culture
91% of women are unhappy with their bodies. This isn't a personal failing—it's the predictable result of living in a culture that profits from your insecurity.
Your struggle might look like:
- • Constant mental math about food
- • Mirror checking or avoiding
- • Outfit changes until something "works"
- • Canceling plans based on how you look
- • Exercise as punishment, not joy
- • Comparing to everyone, always losing
- • Basing worth on the scale
- • "Good" days and "bad" days tied to food
This exhausting relationship with your body is treatable.
Body Image & Eating Concerns
Body Image Issues
- • Chronic dissatisfaction
- • Body dysmorphia
- • Appearance anxiety
- • Comparison obsession
- • Aging anxiety
- • Post-pregnancy body grief
- • Medical/surgical changes
Disordered Eating Patterns
- • Chronic dieting
- • Restrict-binge cycles
- • Emotional eating
- • Orthorexia (health obsession)
- • Exercise compulsion
- • Secret eating
- • Food rules and rigidity
Emerging Eating Concerns
- • Food dominates thoughts
- • Social events cause food anxiety
- • Guilt and shame around eating
- • Weight affects mood significantly
- • History of yo-yo dieting
- • Fear of certain foods
- • Using food to cope
What This Struggle Really Takes
Mental Energy
- • Hours planning/worrying about food
- • Constant body monitoring
- • Comparison calculations
- • Guilt processing
- • Compensatory planning
Life Limitations
- • Avoiding social events
- • Missing pool/beach activities
- • Skipping intimacy
- • Declining photos
- • Wearing "hiding" clothes
- • Career impacts
Relationship Impacts
- • Modeling to children
- • Intimacy avoidance
- • Social isolation
- • Family meal stress
- • Friend jealousy
You deserve that mental energy for actual living
Non-Diet, Weight-Inclusive Therapy
We DON'T:
- • Promote weight loss
- • Use BMI as health measure
- • Encourage restriction
- • Label foods good/bad
- • Support diet culture
We DO:
- • Honor all bodies
- • Promote intuitive eating
- • Address root causes
- • Build body neutrality/acceptance
- • Develop coping beyond food
- • Challenge cultural messages
Healing Your Relationship with Body & Food
Body Image Work
- • Challenging distorted perception
- • Exploring body story/history
- • Grieving ideal body
- • Finding body neutrality
- • Appreciating function over form
- • Clothing and movement joy
Food Relationship
- • Identifying trigger patterns
- • Emotional eating understanding
- • Intuitive eating principles
- • Removing food morality
- • Pleasure and satisfaction
- • Regular eating patterns
Underlying Issues
- • Perfectionism
- • Control needs
- • Trauma impacts
- • Family patterns
- • Cultural messages
- • Identity beyond appearance
Practical Skills
- • Emotion regulation without food
- • Stress management
- • Self-compassion practice
- • Media literacy
- • Boundary setting
- • Values clarification
What Recovery Looks Like
Food Freedom:
- • Eating without guilt
- • No forbidden foods
- • Trusting hunger/fullness
- • Enjoyable movement
- • Energy for life
Body Peace:
- • Neutral mirror experience
- • Clothes that fit now
- • Photos without panic
- • Intimacy comfort
- • Present in your life
Mental Freedom:
- • Brain space for real life
- • Identity beyond body
- • Stable mood
- • Self-worth separate from weight
- • Actual self-care
Why This Work Matters
We're Swimming In:
- • $72 billion diet industry
- • Impossible beauty standards
- • "Wellness" disguised restriction
- • Before/after transformation obsession
- • Photoshopped everything
- • Anti-aging pressure
You're not broken. The culture is.
We help you see through the lies and find freedom.
Signs of Healing
Early Progress:
- • Moments of body neutrality
- • One less food rule
- • Slight guilt decrease
- • Awareness of patterns
Growing Freedom:
- • Clothes shopping without tears
- • Eating without compensation
- • Moving for joy
- • Challenging the voice
Sustained Recovery:
- • Consistent food peace
- • Body respect
- • Energy for real life
- • Teaching others
- • Freedom modeling
Breaking the Cycle
Your healing helps prevent:
- • Passing diet culture to kids
- • Modeling body hatred
- • Creating food issues
- • Appearance-based worth
We help you:
- • Model body respect
- • Navigate kid questions
- • Handle family diet talk
- • Protect next generation
You Deserve Peace with Your Body
Imagine the mental energy you'd have if you weren't constantly thinking about food and your body. That freedom is possible, and you deserve it.
Safe, non-judgmental support available now
📍 Bucktown, Chicago
💻 Virtual throughout Illinois
✉️ katherine@kmhcounseling.com
Helping women throughout Chicago find peace with food and body.