dr. Sarah M. Kopencey
licensed clinical psychologist
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
How old were you when you started trying to control your body?
How long have you turned to food for comfort? Or found comfort in self-restraint?
It’s exhausting, and likely you’re here because a part of you wants relief from this endless cycle that’s taking you away from your life.
Can it be okay to listen to that part of you? To trust your inner knowing that you deserve to live a life feeling at ease with food and unashamed of your body?
I know how it feels, because I’ve been there. When it comes to the treatment of eating disorders, I’m an expert both by training and by lived experience.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Mary Oliver
I know that this work takes vulnerability. I’ll meet you there with a compassionate and sturdy presence.
Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating disorders can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or body size. Eating disorder recovery requires a holistic and collaborative treatment approach that address all psychosocial-emotional aspects that go beyond food and body image. As a licensed clinical psychologist, I am trained to help walk you through your recovery process. I support a range of clients from a compassionate, weight-inclusive perspective. Some may be healing from a diagnosed eating disorder, and others wish they felt more at ease with food and their bodies.
Anorexia Nervosa (AN)
Bulimia Nervosa (BN)
Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
Orthorexia Nervosa (ON)
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED)
Disordered eating
Over exercise
Body dysmorphia
Body dissatisfaction
Feelings of guilt, shame, or embarrassment after eating
I have developed relationships with residential, partial hospital, and intensive outpatient treatment centers should we decide that your level of need rises above what we can work through in our sessions. I also regularly work with registered dieticians and medical physicians who monitor physical health and nutritional needs, which gives us the space to focus our attention beyond the food.
Improving your relationship with food & restoring trust in your body
compassion focused therapy
My approach is backed by the latest research in the treatment of eating disorders. By centering your ability to cultivate self-compassion, we’ll address the roots your suffering underneath food and body image.
challenge cultural norms
We have to talk about weight stigma and the history of systemic racism that propagated our cultural fat phobia. I am a cisgender, straight size white woman continuously learning to unpack my own biases. We can do this work together.
WORK WITH dr. kopencey
Individual therapy
If you are ready to work through disordered eating and body dissatisfaction, let’s get started.
consultation
For licensed mental health professionals looking for a tailored training experience on the treatment of eating disorders and the integration of mindfulness in clinical practice.
