I started this practice because I wanted a therapy space that treated bodies not like problems to solve, but as stories to be told.
The practice is led by Jessica Elwart-Konkel, a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) and Registered Drama Therapist (RDT), and staffed by clinicians who share a commitment to body liberation in all its forms. We specialize in eating disorders—with a particular focus on Binge Eating Disorder—as well as anxiety, depression, and the body image issues that tend to tag along with all of the above. Whether your relationship with your body is shaped by fatness, queerness, neurodivergence, aging, or a life transition you didn’t see coming, there’s space for that here.
Our approach is anti-diet, anti-BMI, and anti-fitness-industry-as-moral-compass. We think about food scarcity and economic access when we think about eating disorders, because you can’t separate someone’s relationship with food from the systems they live inside.
We’re also deeply interested in how body-based oppression—fatphobia, its intersections with race, gender, and queerness—shows up in the therapy room, in diagnosis, and in what gets called “healthy.”
You don’t need to arrive here with the language for any of this. You don’t need to know what HAES means or have read the books. If you’re exhausted by how the world treats your body—and by how you’ve learned to treat it because of what the world showed you—that’s enough to start.