How We Can Work Together
I am a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Professional Life Coach, mentor, and teacher who has studied the science and psychology behind our relationship with food and body so I could better understand my own behaviors. I offer my clients the same information, tools, and techniques that helped me learn to appreciate and accept myself and my body, and feel more present and alive in my life.
I have also completed the Be Nourished Certified Body Trust® Provider training, and am a Certified Mind-Body Eating Coach. I use a Health at Every Size® approach and provide trauma-informed care.
Not sure if coaching is right for you? Let’s explore it together in a 45-minute free discovery call.
What Clients Are Saying:
I came to Elizabeth full of frustration and fear. I knew diets didn't work for me, but I had no idea what to do next. She introduced me to body trust and intuitive eating. My life was transformed. I came out from underneath the weight of 40 years of dieting, diet culture, shame, and fat-phobia. I even found my activist voice and started sharing the good news with my community. I'm free. I needed permission from someone who knew more than me, and I got it. Elizabeth made space for a lot of tears, self hatred, doubt, and ultimately, emergence. I will be forever grateful to her.
Kathryn Hecht, Executive Director, Alexander Valley Film Society
What I love about working with Elizabeth is the sense of safety she creates in the client-coach relationship. Sharing insecurities and vulnerabilities is never easy, but I always feel completely understood in the circle of confidentiality between us. Elizabeth's evolving philosophy around body image/issues brings me a sense of sanity. She asks questions that make me realize how brainwashed we are as a society that worships thinness. Bottom line: I am OK exactly the way I am. Paradoxically, change happens when I accept and love myself -- not because I look a certain way but because of who I am. Elizabeth's guidance, based in her own experience, led me to this place of freedom.
Julie Montinieri, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Blue Heron Healing
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Before coaching I was exhausted from thinking about food and my body all the time. My eating was feeling out of control, and I was full of self-critical thoughts about myself and my body. I wanted to experience more peace and joy in my daily life. I mostly just wanted relief from my fight with food, but I was hopeful that some of the other areas of my life might also benefit.
Now my relationship with food is so much quieter and peaceful to the extent that I have to really think to remember how much I tortured myself about food and my body. As I write this, I remember that every morning I used to wake up and inventory my eating from the day before and decide whether or not it was a good or bad day, and that would have a huge impact on how I started the day. Now I just get out of bed and start my day.
I am not worrying about what I will or will not eat, nor using food to get through the day. I am able to be in my body with more acceptance and self-love and appreciate my body for all it does for me. I choose what exercise feels good, not what I think I should choose, and I find joy in movement. I am much less self-critical, and I'm better able to identify my difficult feelings and sit with them in order to move toward acceptance and relief, instead of just using food or other distractions to try to push the feelings away. This skill is making me a better leader and more effective at my job as well.
I wish everyone I knew had the opportunity to have a guide like Elizabeth to help them become more authentically themselves. This work has been such a gift, and I will forever be grateful.
PRIVATE 1-1 COACHING:
For those looking for a deep dive into healing your relationship with food and body, private coaching is a transformative mentorship and educational experience.
This experience will teach you how to start to make peace with your relationship with food in order to cultivate more self-love and self-acceptance and build a life full of ease, vibrant energy, and vitality.
My approach combines mind, body, and spirit and helps increase the energy you have available to engage with life, and expand your awareness of your own personal power and all the opportunities that are available to you in life.
We will do this using a weight-neutral approach to explore the hold that food and body may have over you and show you places you can take back your power.
Our work together incorporates the tools and teachings from my experience as a Certified Professional Life Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and a Certified Mind-Body Eating Coach through the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. My approach incorporates Health at Every Size® principles and is trauma-informed. I also draw on my experience as an Enneagram coach, an Integrative Health Practitioner trainee, a Heartmath practitioner trainee and utilize concepts I’ve learned from a decade of doing my own deep dive and healing my relationship with food and body.
What is included?
12 private 1-1 virtual 60-minute coaching sessions. We can talk on the phone or use the video platform Zoom, whatever you are more comfortable with.
Weekly email support - work through real-life situations as they occur and learn from each experience or share wins of the week.
Tools, handouts, and suggested resources and practices to help integrate the work.
A 90-minute Enneagram typing assessment session to explore your Enneagram type.
Not sure about coaching? Sign up for a 45-Minute Free Discovery Call
If you want to learn more, or if you aren’t sure what to do next while you explore your relationship with food, I invite you to sign up for a free 45-minute discovery call. You have all the answers you need but support and guidance from someone who has been in your shoes might save you some time!