Rooted Hearts Center for Disordered Eating
Healing Your Relationship With Food, Your Body, and Yourself
Disordered eating is about more than food. It can affect how you experience your body, your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of control. You may spend significant time thinking about what you eat, how you look, your weight, or whether you are “doing it right.” You may feel caught between restriction and overeating, guilt and shame, control and loss of control.
At Rooted Hearts Center for Excellence in Disordered Eating, we provide compassionate, nonjudgmental care for people struggling with eating concerns and difficult relationships with food and their bodies.
You Don’t Have to Look a Certain Way to Deserve Help
Disordered eating can affect people of every age, gender, body size, and background. Someone can be struggling even when their weight or appearance does not fit common stereotypes about eating disorders.
We support individuals experiencing concerns such as:
- Restrictive eating or chronic dieting
- Binge eating or episodes of feeling out of control around food
- Emotional eating
- Preoccupation with calories, weight, food, or body image
- Fear of weight gain or significant distress about body changes
- Rigid food rules or “good” and “bad” food thinking
- Compulsive exercise or difficulty resting
- Shame or anxiety around eating
- Avoidance of social situations involving food
- Cycles of restriction, overeating, and guilt
- Body dissatisfaction and negative body image
- Disordered eating associated with stress, trauma, perfectionism, or emotional distress
Looking Beneath the Food
Food behaviors often communicate something deeper. Restriction may provide a sense of control. Binge eating may temporarily soothe difficult emotions. Obsessive attention to food or body image may become a way of managing anxiety, perfectionism, shame, or uncertainty.
Our therapists work to understand what your eating patterns are doing for you rather than simply focusing on what you are doing “wrong.”
Treatment may explore:
- Emotional regulation and coping
- Trauma and attachment
- Perfectionism and control
- Anxiety, depression, and stress
- Body image and self-worth
- Shame and self-criticism
- Relationship and family dynamics
- Mindful and flexible approaches to eating
- Developing healthier ways to respond to difficult emotions
Compassion Over Shame
We believe healing happens through curiosity, compassion, and connection—not punishment or shame.
Our goal is not to teach you another set of rigid rules. It is to help you develop a healthier, more peaceful relationship with food and your body while building the emotional skills necessary to support lasting change.
Care That Sees the Whole Person
Eating concerns rarely exist in isolation. Our clinicians consider the whole person and the experiences that have shaped them. When appropriate, we collaborate with other members of a client’s care team, including medical and nutrition professionals, to support comprehensive care.
For children and adolescents, we can also work with parents and caregivers to create a supportive environment for healing.
We may recommend, and may require, that coordination with a dietian, nutrionist or other health professional occur in order to receive therapy at Rooted Hearts Center of Excellence in Disordered Eating.
You Deserve a Life That Isn’t Organized Around Food
If food, weight, exercise, or your body is taking up more mental and emotional space than you want it to, you don’t have to wait until things become worse.
You deserve to eat without fear, exist without constant self-judgment, and experience your body as more than something to control or criticize.
At Rooted Hearts Center for Excellence in Disordered Eating, we help you move toward greater flexibility, self-compassion, connection, and freedom—one step at a time.