Relationship with body exists in a spectrum:
Body distress | Body respect | Body appreciation | Body acceptance | Body peace | Body confidence | Body love

The goal isn't to achieve body love (though some people get there, and that's wonderful), nor it's the only goal.

No matter it's body respect or body confidence can be a meaningful goal - being able to treat your body with care regardless of how you feel about its appearance.

This means: not letting body dissatisfaction control your life, having tools to manage difficult moments, making nourishment and movement choices from self-care rather than punishment, and reconnecting with the parts of yourself that aren't about how you look.

We'll collaborate to define what "healed body image" means for you—because your recovery goals should reflect your values, not some prescribed outcome.

Not at all. While I specialise in eating disorder and disordered eating, body image struggles affect people across the spectrum—whether you're dealing with chronic dieting, post-pregnancy body changes, life transitions, trauma, or simply years of absorbing damaging cultural messages.

If body dissatisfaction is affecting your mental health, relationships, or quality of life, that's enough reason to seek support. You don't need to meet any diagnostic criteria to deserve compassionate, skilled body image counselling.

It varies—and that's not a cop-out answer. Some people notice shifts in how they relate to their body within a few months, while deeper healing typically unfolds over 6-12 months or longer, depending on how entrenched the struggles are and what else is happening in your life.

The goal isn't to rush through it, but to build sustainable tools and self-awareness that last beyond our sessions. I'm here to support you at whatever pace feels right, whether that's weekly sessions initially or ongoing check-ins as you maintain progress.

Your body doesn't need to meet arbitrary standards for you to deserve peace and respect. The standard of "overweight" and "obesity" is a perfect example of how wide and deep diet culture has infiltrated in our society and care system.

Diet culture and weight stigma teach us that certain bodies are "wrong" and deserve criticism—but that's a social construct, not truth. Bodies are naturally diverse - if some people are naturally thin no matter how they eat, it only make sense there are people naturally larger no matter how little they eat. Your body isn't the problem; the systems that shame bodies like yours are. We'll work on internalising that, even though it's hard in a fatphobic, ableist culture.

Pursuing weight loss while have body distress can often intensify the belief that your body need to be changed to be accepted. Many people find that lose weight often lead to more fear of gaining weight and more drive to lose more (and it makes total sense you want to do so - because the society IS highly favour to a smaller size person). My top priority is to help you heal your relationship with body - which means stop weight cycling, reduce disordered eating patterns, reduce cravings and out of control eating, and allow your body shift back to its metabolically most comfortable state. Research shows that body accpetance improve wellbeing and health regardless of weight change. Put it simply, we focus on challenging the belief that your body is wrong, not trying to change it to prove the point.

It is really common and it makes a lot of sense to develop body dissatisfaction or the desire to change your body to cope with discomfort. It's common that people who experience body distress may experience traumatic situations, like bullying, sexual assult, medical experience, body shaming from family, being treated differently because of your body.

While I'm trauma-informed and we can explore these connections, deep trauma processing may be best done with a psychologist or therapist specialising in trauma. I can support you in understanding how past experiences shaped your body image and work on the practical body acceptance piece, and collaborate with a therapist if you're seeing one.

Not neccessarily. Social media can be triggering as we are constantly being bombarded by those messages. But it's unrealistic to completely avoid all sources of message that is triggering to your body image. Instead, we focus on increasing our critical toolbox towards media messages, curate a more body affirming feeds, noticing comparison happens and challenge those beliefs. Overtime, comparison often loses its power when you\re not trying to suppress it but actively work through it.

Yes, body distress is an essential part of an eating disorder. And as an eating disorder dietitian, I help my clients work on both body image distress and eating concerns simultaneously. If you are also seeing a therapist or psychiatrist for the eating disorder, we will be closely collaborating to provide the best care for you together.

You are not vein and shallow! It is so normal to care about our appearance - we learned it from our culture that places enourmous value on appearance. You might have mistreated because of your appearance or you've seen others being mistreated - all of these creates a core belief that your appearance = your worth. We will work on these beliefs and entangle them. And there are many different way to care for your body and express your body in an aesthetic way - and I can support you work through them too.

If body image is taking up mental space, causing you distress, or limiting your life choices - it's worth seeking help or talking to a trained professional. There isn't a "threshold" for body image distress. If you are considering support or want to talk to someone about it - that's a strong enough reason. You deserve to a life with fuller experience without body distress hindering your potential