Couples Therapy for Weight Loss
Are you and your partner both overweight with a shared goal of losing weight? You can calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) here. Couples therapy with me provides a space for you both to address the inner and outer obstacles that prevent reaching and maintaining a healthy weight— together. I provide primarily online couples therapy to address binge eating and weight loss for residents of the Bay Area, and throughout California.
I can help you:
- Identify ways to support one another’s weight loss efforts and work together as a team
- Explore and strengthen dynamics in your relationship that can help weight loss
- Explore, address, and modify dynamics in your relationship that impede weight loss
- Navigate the impact of changing behavioral patterns on your relationship
- Learn tools to facilitate healthy weight management that you can work on and practice together
- Develop healthy strategies for social events and holidays
- Improve healthy communication
- Address your overall relationship and work through any underlying issues; relationship tension can negatively impact weight for various reasons
- Address physical and emotional intimacy in your relationship
Couples Therapy for Binge Eating
Are you in a relationship and struggle with binge eating (sometimes referred to as ’emotional eating’)? Including your partner in your therapy process may be helpful. Couples therapy for binge eating can help in the following ways:
- Help your partner learn how they can best support your treatment and bring them into your recovery process
- Educate your partner on binge eating
- Explore and enhance dynamics in your relationship that may be beneficial for your treatment
- Explore, address, and modify dynamics in your relationship that may underlie your binge eating/emotional eating
- Explore and address the possible role binge eating serves in the context of your relationship
- Help you better understand the impact your binge eating has on your partner
- Improve healthy communication
- Address any secrecy within the relationship associated with your binge eating/emotional eating
- Help you and your partner work together as a team in your treatment
- Address your overall relationship and work through any underlying issues; relationship tension can trigger binge eating and binge eating can strain relationships
- Address physical and emotional intimacy in your relationship