Eating disorder care, with specialist training.

What the certification actually means.

Amber is a Certified Inclusive Eating Disorder Specialist (IEDS). Eating disorders are their own clinical territory, and treating them well requires training that most generalist therapists have not done. Getting it wrong is not neutral. It can entrench the disorder.

The weight-inclusive part matters just as much. Care here does not treat body size as the measure of health or the goal of treatment. Nobody is weighed as a scorecard, nobody is congratulated for shrinking, and nobody is told they are not sick enough to deserve help.

Who this is for

• Anyone whose relationship with food or their body has narrowed their life
• People in larger bodies who have been dismissed or misdiagnosed by previous providers
• Clients who have completed higher levels of care and need ongoing outpatient support
• People who are not sure whether what they have counts as an eating disorder

That last one deserves emphasis. You do not need a diagnosis, a certain weight, or a certain severity to reach out. Ambivalence about whether you belong here is one of the most common features of the illness itself.

How the work goes.

The same method that runs through everything at Oasis applies here. Insight into what the eating disorder is doing for you, paired with concrete tools for the meal in front of you tonight.

Eating disorders are rarely about food alone. They tend to be doing a job: managing anxiety, creating a sense of control, muting something that hurts. Removing the behavior without understanding the job is how relapse happens. So the work runs on both tracks at once, addressing the behaviors directly while getting underneath what is driving them.

The work is trauma-informed, because trauma and eating disorders travel together often enough that assuming otherwise is careless. And it is family-inclusive when that is appropriate, particularly with children and teens, where parents are part of recovery rather than spectators to it.

What to expect.

The first sessions

Early sessions cover history and a careful assessment: eating patterns, behaviors, medical history, and what has already been tried. It is a conversation, not an interrogation, and you set the pace of what you disclose.

Working with your other providers

Eating disorder treatment usually works best as a team. Where it is useful, and with your permission, Amber coordinates with a registered dietitian, your physician, and a prescriber. She will tell you when she thinks you need someone else on the team rather than quietly working around the gap.

When outpatient isn't enough

Sometimes weekly outpatient therapy is not the right level of care. If your situation calls for an intensive outpatient program, a partial hospitalization program, residential treatment, or medical stabilization, you will be told directly and helped to find it.

That is not a rejection and it is not a failure. It is what specialist training is for: recognizing what a situation actually requires, and saying so even when it means referring you elsewhere.