Body Image Therapy
Body image struggles don't always look like what you'd expect.
For many adults, it's not a crisis — it's a low-grade, persistent preoccupation with how your body looks, a reflexive critic that runs commentary on what you see in the mirror, a tendency to measure your worth against your appearance. It shapes what you eat, what you wear, whether you go to the beach, how you feel after a photo, how you show up in intimate relationships.
It doesn't have to be this consuming.
What this looks like
- Persistent dissatisfaction with your body that doesn't change much regardless of weight or appearance
- Comparing yourself to others — in person, online — and consistently coming up short
- Avoiding situations, clothing, or activities because of how you think your body looks
- Preoccupation with specific body parts or features that feels hard to turn off
- Tying your sense of worth or confidence closely to your appearance
- Difficulty being present in your body — in relationships, in movement, in everyday life
You're not alone in this
Body image concerns often coexist with anxiety, depression, and disordered eating, but they're also common on their own.
How therapy helps
Therapy for body image works at the level of the beliefs, not just the behaviors. The goal isn't to convince you your body looks fine — it's to loosen the grip that appearance has on your self-worth, so you can relate to your body with more neutrality and less suffering.
This might involve exploring where those beliefs came from, identifying the ways self-criticism is showing up across your life, and building a different relationship with your body — one grounded in what it does rather than how it looks.
Telehealth across Oregon
All sessions are via telehealth. You can work with us from anywhere in Oregon.
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