Give yourself permission to BE - yourself, in your body.
Celebrate what you CAN do, and how your whole self: mind, body and spirit have grown and developed.
I am a licensed Marriage Family Therapist with a compassionate focus on building safety in the body and with food
You are experiencing distress and ready to make change towards healing the relationship with your body and food
Identify and work together to treat the signs and symptoms of mood and food disorders
“To begin to understand the problem we need to understand the person"
- Leslie Sokol, PhD
"To begin to understand the problem we need to understand the person"
Lydia Jordan
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist with a compassionate focus on building safety in the body for the treatment of mood and eating/food disorders.
I got into this work because of the overwhelming need I experienced for compassionate mental health care that sees eating and body image as integral, not incidental or necessary to avoid or ignore. My training and background in philosophy and theology developed a deeper inquiry into a personal process: my own family history of trauma, major mental illness, substance abuse and eating disorders.
I am inspired by my memories of my mother and her 6 sisters; each with a profound and inspiring mental health story.
I could talk for hours about food, family, relationships, faith and the stories and meaning we make around these. Mental health, compassionate interventions and restorative justice. Radical acceptance and commitment to our best life.
Graduate of the University of San Francisco, Oxford University + California Lutheran University LMFT. Diplomate and Train-the-Trainer program through the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.
Supervised practice of the use of CBT-E for eating disorders and Prolonged Exposure for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.
I have been working as a therapist for 5+ Years.
Specialize in CBT, Eating Disorder Treatment.
Certified for the use of DBT and ACT.
Trauma informed and resourced.
About You
What We Can Do Together
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Together we can identify and treat the signs and symptoms of mood disorders and eating/food disorders with a hands on approach to therapy.
I will guide you through some of the day-to-day challenging experiences in Real Life to create new meanings.
By using evidenced-based techniques from Prolonged Exposure we can identify where your specific food, weight and shape issues occur and develop skillful ways of being without fear and avoidance.
We may visit the grocery store or farmer’s market, art gallery or clothing store or share a meal - planned with care to support and enrich your individual social and emotional needs.
