Make peace with Food
Healing your relationship with food, your body, and yourself.
Living with an eating disorder is incredibly difficult—and it’s not your fault.
These conditions are complex, involving biological, psychological, cultural, and emotional layers. That’s why I offer highly personalized, trauma-informed, evidence-based treatment tailored to your individual needs, identity, history, and goals.
My approach helps you reconnect with your body’s cues (rather than external rules or pressures), build self-trust, and create a more peaceful, nourishing relationship with food.
Therapies & Practices I use to help you
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT brings awareness to negative food-related triggers, thoughts and behaviors. It helps clients create healthier patterns and perspectives, and offers practical strategies to overcome day-to-day challenges.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Eating disorders are often a result of painful suppressed emotions – an attempt to numb, soothe or avoid them. EFT helps clients develop better emotional regulation and self-care practices, so that they can resolve difficult emotions and improve their relationship with food.
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT)
Those suffering from eating disorders often deal with perfectionism and the excessive need to feel in control. Controlling their diet becomes their coping mechanism. RO DBT addresses emotional over-control, and helps clients enjoy more openness, flexibility, and social connectedness.
Mindfulness-Based Work
Those grappling with eating disorders are often overwhelmed with their own negative thoughts. Mindfulness can help clients detach from these thoughts and impulses, and choose more positive responses and behaviors. Mindful eating can also help clients savor food in a more healthy, satisfying way.
Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating rejects the diet mentality and retrains us to eat when we’re hungry, and stop when we’re full. By teaching clients to tune in to their body’s signals (rather than external rules and triggers), it helps clients trust and honor their bodies, and establish a healthier relationship with food.
Eating disorders I commonly treat
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in the United States. It often involves episodes of eating past fullness or feeling “out of control” around food, followed by guilt, shame, or self-criticism.
Together, we gently explore the emotions and patterns driving the binge cycles and build tools that support emotional regulation, stability, and self-compassion.
Bulimia Nervosa involves cycles of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as vomiting, restriction, fasting, or excessive exercise. Over time, these cycles can impact digestion, energy levels, and overall health.
Therapy helps interrupt these patterns, regulate the nervous system, and establish sustainable, balanced eating habits while addressing the underlying emotional pain.
Body Image Distress can take over your mind—absorbing hours of your day, limiting social engagement, and amplifying self-criticism. This experience is common across all genders, especially in adolescence and young adulthood, and often co-occurs with anxiety, depression, or eating disorders.
Therapy helps you challenge distorted beliefs, soften perfectionism, and move toward a more compassionate and grounded sense of self.
Anorexia Nervosa / Atypical Anorexia involves intense fear of weight gain, preoccupation with food or body shape, and patterns of restriction, compulsive exercise, or purging. While many people with anorexia are underweight, atypical anorexia affects individuals in larger bodies and is just as serious.
Treatment focuses on emotional safety, nourishment, nervous-system stabilization, and rebuilding trust in your body.
Orthorexia is an obsession with “clean” or “healthy” eating taken to extremes. It can include rigid food rules, fear of eating outside one’s “safe” list, and significant distress when those rules are disrupted. Although not a formal diagnosis, orthorexia is increasingly recognized—and treatment can help restore flexibility, joy, and balance around food.
Exercise Addiction becomes problematic when it moves from supportive to compulsive—when you feel unable to rest, ignore injuries, or prioritize workouts above relationships, wellbeing, or health. This pattern often co-occurs with body image concerns or restrictive eating.
Therapy helps recalibrate your relationship with movement so it becomes supportive, not punishing.
Eating Disorder – Otherwise Specified (ED-NOS / OSFED) describes symptoms that don’t fit neatly into strict diagnostic categories—but are still serious and absolutely deserve care.
Whether your symptoms resemble anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or a mix of several patterns, I provide a calm, nonjudgmental space to understand what’s happening and help you move toward recovery.
Hi, I’m Mary DiOrio. If you’re feeling stuck in cycles of guilt, dieting, or shame surrounding eating, therapy can help you reset. You don’t need a formal diagnosis to benefit from support—sometimes a few sessions are enough to help you rebuild trust with your body, approach food with more ease, and experience nourishing meals without fear or self-judgment.
Try a free, confidential 15 minute consultation session with me. We will connect over phone or via a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform and discuss what is holding you back and what the path forward might look like. For many, this first step is often a glimpse that relief is possible.