Jenny Bilskie-Smith (she/her)

Do you feel like you can’t trust yourself around food? That nagging guilt might drive you to punish yourself for eating. The obsession with food starts to run your life. Here's how I can help. It might feel like your body is the source of your pain, but I’ll help you heal the stuff that’s under that pain, so you feel confident and empowered in your body. I have some really great techniques that will help you trust yourself around food again.

Do you dread looking in the mirror because of the painful spiral of shame it stirs? You hate the way your body looks. Perhaps it sometimes feels like you don’t want to live in your body, almost like you want to jump out of your skin. Or you may be adjusting to a new body or bodily experience. For example, surgery, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or transitioning outwardly to the gender you’ve always identified with.

You may know the sudden and destabilizing jolts of terror. Perhaps you live with an undercurrent of unease, waiting for the next terrible thing to happen. Living with these looming threats makes life feel limiting at best and debilitating at worst. I’ll show you effective techniques for calming and restructuring your nervous system. I’ll help you develop a different relationship with anxiety, so even if it’s there sometimes, it’s not the one running your life. You are.

Integrative therapy is an approach that seeks to meet the client where they are and select an approach (or approaches) that work for the client. It's flexible and inclusive while still applying foundational therapy techniques, particularly unconditional positive regard for the client. My goal is to understand the source client's difficulty, and with that knowledge, the client and I collaborate to identify a path to healing.

Your nervous system knows how to heal. Sometimes it just needs some help getting unblocked, and EMDR does that. Sometimes, emotionally painful experiences get frozen in the mind. With EMDR, you can fully access your adaptive networks. That which was painful will lose its intensity. You will remember that it happened, but it just doesn’t hurt as bad, or create as much panic, or anger, and so on.