Focused therapy for emotional eating and food-related struggles
Designed for deeper, individualized work
Therapy Intensives for Emotional Eating, Binge Eating & Body Image Struggles
A focused, supportive way to work deeply on the specific patterns keeping you stuck around food, emotions, and self-trust.
If you feel caught in cycles of overeating, nighttime eating, bingeing, or constant mental noise around food and your body, a therapy intensive offers space to slow down, understand what’s happening, and build skills that actually stick.
Offered by a licensed therapist specializing in emotional eating, binge-restrict cycles, and body image.
When food feels harder than it “should”
Many of the people I work with are smart, capable, and deeply self-aware — yet still feel frustrated by their relationship with food.
You might notice:
Eating feels emotionally loaded or out of control, especially at night
You “know what to do,” but can’t seem to stop old patterns
Food takes up too much mental space
Shame or self-criticism shows up after eating
Traditional dieting hasn’t helped — and may have made things worse
These struggles aren’t about willpower. They’re often about nervous system overload, emotional regulation, perfectionism, and unmet needs — things that require more than quick tips.
A different way to do therapy: Intensives
A therapy intensive is an extended, structured block of therapy designed to allow for depth, focus, and continuity.
Unlike traditional weekly therapy — which often needs to hold space for day-to-day stressors — intensives create a contained window where we can stay with a specific issue long enough to truly understand it, work with it, and practice new ways of responding.
Many people choose intensives:
When they want to laser-focus on one primary struggle
When weekly therapy keeps getting pulled off track
To go deeper without feeling rushed
To create momentum and relief more quickly
To practice skills in real time
To identify patterns more clearly
Therapy intensives are especially helpful when you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or ready to address an issue directly. They’re a different format from weekly therapy–used intentionally to motivate change.
Is this the right fit?
Therapy intensives may be a good fit if you:
Struggle with emotional eating, binge eating, or nighttime overeating
Feel stuck despite insight or past therapy
Want a structured, supportive approach
Are motivated to do focused, emotionally honest work
Are ready to make quick behavioral change
Intensives may not be the best fit if you:
Are in acute crisis or need a higher level of care
Are looking for weight-loss-focused treatment
Prefer unstructured or purely coaching-based support
If you’re unsure, we’ll talk it through during a consultation.
Focus areas
My work often centers around:
Each intensive is tailored — there's no one-size-fits-all structure.
What a therapy intensive actually looks like
Intensives are paced, collaborative, and regulated — not emotionally overwhelming marathons.
Most include:
Clear goals and preparation beforehand
Multiple therapy blocks with breaks
Skills practice (DBT, CBT, intuitive eating tools)
Attention to emotional safety and nervous system regulation
Integration support afterward so you’re not left hanging
The structure of an intensive allows us to follow threads that are often hard to stay with in weekly therapy — without needing to pause, switch topics, or start over the next week.
This depth makes it easier to tailor the work specifically to you, rather than fitting your needs into a generic framework.
Options may include 3-hour or multi-day 3-hour formats, depending on your needs. Many clients choose to continue or return to weekly therapy after an intensive, either with me or another provider, using the intensive as a focused foundation rather than a standalone solution.
My Approach
I work from a trauma-informed, non-diet, skills-based framework, integrating:
Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior
Therapy (DBT)
Intuitive Eating
Principles
Nervous System
Regulation
EMDR
(When Appropriate)
About me
I’m Erin Wesley, a licensed therapist specializing in emotional eating, binge eating recovery, and the emotional roots of food and body struggles.
Clients often describe my style as:
Calm and grounded
Direct but compassionate
Structured without being rigid
I believe real change happens when people feel understood, supported, and equipped — not judged or pushed.
Next steps
If you’re curious whether a therapy intensive is right for you, the next step is a brief consultation.
We’ll talk about:
What you’re struggling with
What you’ve already triedWheth
er an intensive makes sense right now
There’s no pressure — just a thoughtful conversation.
You don’t need to be “ready enough” or have it all figured out.
You just need to be open to doing the work differently.