heal your relationship with food, your body, yourself.
Disordered Eating Therapy in Midtown Manhattan
In-person therapy in Midtown Manhattan. Virtual therapy throughout New York and New Jersey.
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On the outside, you might appear in control, but inside, food feels like a constant battle. One minute you’re following all the “rules,” the next you’re spiraling into guilt, frustration, or a binge.
Maybe you’re experiencing binge eating or bulimia, or cycling through restriction and overexercise. If you feel like your life revolves around food but you never feel truly nourished, disordered eating therapy can help.
Find Lasting Relief in Your Relationship with Food and Your Body Through Therapy in Midtown Manhattan
you’re not alone in your struggle.
Your relationship with food isn’t just about what you eat. It’s about how you feel when you do.
Disordered eating doesn’t always look dramatic—it can live in the gray areas, too. These patterns can leave you obsessing over what you ate, what you “shouldn’t” have eaten, or what you’ll eat next. Over time, it can impact your mental health, self-worth, social life, and ability to feel at home in your body.
Often, attempts to control food—through dieting, restriction, or overexercise—only lead to more stress and shame. These short-term fixes don’t provide the lasting relief you deserve.
you deserve support.
My Midtown Manhattan-based therapy practice specializes in helping women and young adults in-person and virtually across New York and New Jersey who look like they have it all together on the outside but struggle with anxiety, guilt, or secrecy around food. You may not fit a textbook definition of an eating disorder, but you know food and body concerns are taking up too much space in your life.
You don’t have to carry this alone. I offer a compassionate, judgment-free space to explore your relationship with food, build new tools for coping, and begin finding peace with your body and yourself.
Kendall B Therapy Specializes in Treating
Bulimia Nervosa
SUD + Disordered Eating
Binge Eating + Binge Drinking
Chronic Dieting
Compulsive Exercise
in person in Midtown Manhattan and virtually across New York and New Jersey
Therapy for eating disorder recovery New York City & New Jersey
Those things that used to help you feel better? They’re not working like they used to.
This space is for women and young adults in New York and New Jersey who:
Feel guilt, anxiety, or shame around eating
Constantly think about food, calories, or body size
Struggle with binge eating, restricting, or overexercising
Avoid social situations because of food or body image
Want to stop obsessing over food but don’t know how
You don’t need a diagnosis to deserve support. If your relationship with food feels overwhelming or exhausting, therapy can help you understand what’s underneath it and begin to build something new.
My therapeutic approach is…
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I use an integrative, client-centered approach that honors both emotional healing and practical tools. My work blends Intuitive Eating, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and psychodynamic therapy to help you rebuild trust with your body and yourself.
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What is Intuitive Eating? This is a way of eating that helps you listen to your body instead of following strict diets or rules. It’s about paying attention to your hunger and fullness cues—eating when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re satisfied. It also means giving yourself permission to enjoy all kinds of foods without guilt, and learning to trust your body to tell you what it needs.
With Intuitive Eating, we’ll work to reconnect with your body’s natural signals like hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and rest without judgment. This approach is weight-inclusive and rooted in body trust, not external rules.
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What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
DBT is a type of therapy that helps people manage strong emotions, especially when they feel like their feelings are too big to handle. It teaches ways to calm down when you're upset, think before acting, and build better relationships with others. It also focuses on balancing opposites—like accepting who you are but still trying to improve.With DBT, we’ll build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills so that food doesn’t need to be the only tool for coping with discomfort, anxiety, or overwhelm.
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
CBT helps people change the way they think and act. It’s based on the idea that how we think affects how we feel and behave. If we can change negative thoughts, we can feel better and make better choices. CBT is really helpful for anxiety, stress, or when people feel stuck in negative patterns.
With CBT, we’ll gently challenge the unhelpful thought patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, food rules, or shame spirals that keep you stuck in harmful cycles
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What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
This type of therapy helps people understand how their past experiences affect how they feel and act today. It focuses on exploring things that might be in the unconscious mind—stuff we don’t always notice but that can shape our behavior. By becoming aware of these feelings or thoughts, people can make sense of their actions and start to feel more in control.
With psychodynamic work, we’ll explore the deeper emotional or relational roots of your relationship with food and your body.
There’s no one right way to heal. Together, we’ll find what works for you.
Challenges we’ll tackle…
Chronic dieting and food guilt
Emotional or stress-related eating
Exercise compulsion
Preoccupation with food, weight, or body
Fear of losing control around food
All-or-nothing food thinking
Avoidance of social eating situations
Food-related anxiety or secrecy
If food feels like a source of stress instead of nourishment, this work is for you.
Growth you’ll gain…
Feel less anxiety and guilt around food
Let go of toxic food rules and all-or-nothing thinking
Learn to eat in a way that feels nourishing, not punishing
Develop coping tools that don’t rely on food
Rebuild trust with hunger, body, and needs
Feel more present, grounded, and connected in daily life
Over time, many notice less stress and shame around food, more flexible and intuitive eating patterns, improved self-esteem and body trust, and a greater ability to cope with emotions without turning to food.
In turn, this allows for more space to be present in relationships, including having a greater confidence in setting boundaries and honoring personal needs.
Ultimately, a more peaceful, sustainable relationship with food leads to a more peaceful relationship with self.
Hi, I’m Kendall.
As a woman who’s been on both sides of the couch, I know what it’s like to struggle with body image. I understand how exhausting it can be to constantly compare yourself to others or feel at odds with your body.
Therapy with me isn’t about chasing perfection or trying to “fix” your body. It’s about building a kinder relationship with yourself, understanding where these patterns come from, and learning new ways to care for both your mind and body. This is a space where your feelings are valid, your story matters, and you don’t have to carry it all alone.
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Sessions are 45 minutes long and take place virtually. We usually begin with a check-in on how things have felt that week: any food-related wins, challenges, or emotional triggers.
From there, we might explore a recent eating experience or body image spiral, build skills for managing discomfort or cravings, or work on unlearning diet culture beliefs. If you have an upcoming event or food-related situation you're anxious about, we’ll plan for it together.
You’re always invited to share what’s on your mind, and we’ll shape the session around what feels most useful that day
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In the early sessions, we’ll get to know each other. We’ll also spend time understanding your relationship with food and how it’s been shaped by your history, environment, and emotional life. We’ll explore how control, shame, fear, or self-worth show up around food and what patterns you’re ready to shift.
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As therapy unfolds, we’ll introduce tools for emotional regulation, body attunement, and intuitive eating practices. We’ll track what’s working, revisit your goals, and make space for both progress and stuck points without judgment.
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You don’t need to be “ready” to change everything all at once. This is about learning to listen to yourself again and finding a path that honors your needs and values.
There’s no straight line in this process. But together, we’ll build a steady path forward, one that centers your growth, your voice, and your version of recovery.
A few more things to know about working together
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Adapting to Your Needs
All sessions are virtual, so you can access care from the comfort of your home—whether you're balancing work, school, caregiving, or just daily life.
We’ll work together to find a schedule and rhythm that supports your healing process, wherever you’re starting from.
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A Collaborative Process
This is your therapy, and you are the expert on your experience. I will bring the tools, structure, and curiosity, but you’ll never be pressured to move faster than you’re ready.
As part of my collaborative process, I work with dietitians, physicians, and psychiatrists. If you would like a referral to build your recovery team, I have a strong list of providers that I already work with and are accepting new clients.
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Special Considerations
Please note: I do not provide inpatient eating disorder treatment or nutritional counseling. If you need a higher level of care, I’ll help connect you to one of my trusted providers.
Let’s get started.
Because peace with food and body is possible.
In Need of Tangible Resources to Support Your Eating Disorder Recovery Outside of Therapy?
Check out our most recent blogs and downloadable resources:
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This SMART Goal worksheet helps you set gentle, realistic goals that support your recovery and align with your values. It also helps you anticipate challenges and identify the support you need along the way.
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This Habit Tracker allows you to build consistency with supportive routines—like meals, rest, coping skills, or self-care—while visually tracking progress over time.
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This Mood Tracker helps you connect daily emotions with behaviors, stressors, and recovery experiences, offering a clearer understanding of what supports or challenges your healing.
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Healing your relationship with food and your body begins with understanding yourself beyond what you eat or how you look. The Self-Discovery Journal helps you explore the deeper layers of identity, emotion, and self-worth that often lie beneath disordered eating patterns. With guided prompts across topics like self-image, self-care, and gratitude, this journal offers a gentle space to rebuild trust with yourself and nurture a more compassionate connection to your body.
Downloadable resources:
FAQs
Have Questions? We’ve got answers…
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Disordered eating includes unhealthy patterns around food, like restriction, bingeing, purging, or using food to cope, even if it doesn’t meet criteria for a formal eating disorder. Eating disorders, like anorexia or bulimia, are diagnosed conditions with specific medical and psychological criteria. Even without a diagnosis, disordered eating can impact your health and well-being, and therapy can help you build a healthier relationship with food.
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You do not need a formal diagnosis to begin therapy. Support can help you explore your eating habits, coping patterns, and relationship with food, even if your behaviors don’t meet clinical criteria. Starting therapy early can help prevent patterns from becoming more entrenched and support healthier coping strategies over time.
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While food, eating habits, and body image are part of the work, therapy also addresses the thoughts, emotions, and coping patterns that drive those behaviors. Many clients use disordered eating to manage stress, anxiety, or difficult emotions, so we focus on the underlying triggers as well. The goal is to help you build healthier ways to cope and feel more balanced in your daily life.
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Some people benefit from additional support alongside therapy, such as nutrition counseling, medical monitoring, or a structured program. I can help connect you with trusted professionals and resources to meet these needs. Therapy can continue alongside these services to support your overall recovery and well-being.
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It’s normal to feel unsure or hesitant. You don’t have to be fully ready to start therapy. We can explore your thoughts, feelings, and motivations at your own pace. Even small steps and curiosity about your habits can lead to meaningful insight and change.
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Signs can include strict dieting, bingeing, purging, skipping meals, or using food to cope with stress or emotions. You might notice anxiety, guilt, or secrecy around eating, or that food dominates your thoughts and daily routines. Even if these patterns don’t meet the criteria for an eating disorder, they can still affect your health and well-being.
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Disordered eating involves rigid rules, extreme behaviors, or using food to cope with emotions, rather than simply making balanced choices. Diets and healthy eating trends focus on nutrition and wellness without causing distress or shame. If your eating patterns feel controlling, anxiety-provoking, or interfere with daily life, therapy can help you build a healthier, more flexible relationship with food.
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Yes. Therapy can address body image by exploring self-esteem, negative self-talk, and societal pressures, not just eating habits. We work on building self-compassion, confidence, and a more balanced perspective on your body. This helps you feel more comfortable in your body while reducing the urge to rely on food or appearance to manage emotions.
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