Therapy for Body Image in Los Angeles, CA and virtually across California
You Don't Have to Keep Fighting Your Body
Maybe food has felt difficult for as long as you can remember. Maybe you've spent years feeling ashamed of how you look, while absorbing messages about what you should eat, how much you should weigh, or what your body should look like.
You might struggle with a critical inner voice that relentlessly judges your appearance. Or perhaps you've found yourself caught in cycles of restrictive dieting followed by binge eating, compulsive eating, or other forms of disordered eating.
And after years of trying to control, change, or fix your body…
You’re finally ready to stop fighting it.
But knowing you want a different relationship with food and your body doesn't mean you can simply change overnight.
You Can Want to Heal Your Relationship With Food and Your Body and Still Feel Stuck
If you're ready to understand and heal your relationship with food, your body, and yourself, you’re in the right place.
As a Certified Nutrition and Mental Health Counselor, I have two decades of experience providing individual therapy to adults.
It’s normal for women who have spent years subscribing to diet culture practices to feel disconnected from their bodies when it comes to figuring out how to eat and view food without the anxiety and shame that have become a daily part of life.
That’s where therapy can help. My intention as your therapist is to help you rebuild the self-trust and confidence that may have been drowned out by years of diet culture, body criticism, and confusing messages about food.
In supporting my clients, I draw from several therapeutic approaches:
Intuitive Eating Therapy
Intuitive eating can help you move away from rigid food rules and reconnect with your body's hunger, fullness, preferences, and needs. Rather than giving you another set of rules to follow, this work is about developing a more trusting and flexible relationship with food.
IFS Therapy
Internal Family Systems therapy gives you a framework for unpacking inner conflict and cultivating more self-compassion. You may feel that one part of you desperately wants to stop controlling your body, while another is obsessed with wanting to lose weight. IFS gives you a way to make space for both parts without making either one right or wrong.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR is a gentle, trauma-focused approach that can help with anxiety, PTSD, and other symptoms connected to difficult or traumatic experiences. You don't necessarily have to recount every detail of what happened. Instead, EMDR uses eye movements or gentle tapping to process experiences that still hold emotional charge.
Meet Deane Rain Marie
Hi! I’m Deane, a Certified Nutrition and Mental Health Counselor with two decades of experience in clinical practice.
I take food and body struggles seriously as real suffering, not vanity or lack of willpower. This is a space where your body gets to be what it is while we work on what actually hurts.
I am passionate about supporting women like you who have been struggling in their relationship with food and their bodies.
I also provide affirming support to LGBTQ+ clients and create a space where you can heal without judgment.
