Disordered Eating & Diet Recovery Therapy in Tampa, FL
In person in Tampa & virtual across Florida & Vermont
Stop Dieting. Start Trusting Yourself Again (or for the First Time).
You’re not failing at dieting. Dieting has failed you.
Maybe you're stuck in a cycle of food rules, tracking, body checking, "good" days and "bad" days, and a running commentary in your head about everything you eat. Maybe you've lost count of how many times you've started over. Maybe you can't remember the last diet you didn't quit, or the last time you trusted yourself around food (without a plan telling you how).
None of that makes you broken, dramatic, or lacking willpower. It means you've spent years (and perhaps your whole life) inside a culture that literally profits from you believing your body is a problem to solve, and that you just haven't found the right plan yet.
I promise you that healing isn't about willpower. It's about unlearning the noise that taught you to distrust your own body in the first place.
is this you?
You've been "on" or "off" a diet for as long as you can remember - sometimes both in the same week
You've lost and regained the same weight more times than you can count
You catch yourself body-checking in mirrors, windows, or photos throughout the day, almost without noticing
Your mood can shift based on what the scale, your clothes, or a passing comment tells you
You grew up hearing comments about weight, "clean plates," or the need to shrink yourself - and it stuck
You assume you should be able to "handle food better" by now, at your age, after everything you've tried
Being highly sensitive means the shame and stress of all of this hits you harder, and lingers longer
Hot Tip: You don't have (or need) an eating disorder diagnosis to know this is taking up too much space in your life
You don’t have to keep doing this alone.
I offer a free 15-minute consult so you can get a feel for whether this is the right fit - no pressure, no commitment.
Accepting new clients · Tampa in-person & virtual throughout Florida & Vermont
Here’s what we’ll do together
What Disordered Eating & Diet Recovery Therapy in Tampa, FL Looks Like
Warm, grounded, anti-diet, weight-neutral care for adults.
This isn't about finding the "right" way to eat. It's about ending the cycle that convinced you that you needed one in the first place. We look at the whole picture: the history of dieting, the identity you built around being "good" at it, and the world that taught you not to trust yourself or your body.
We work on:
✔ Untangling your food rules
And the identity you may have built around being "good" or "disciplined" at dieting - without blaming yourself for any of it (ew, no thanks!)
✔ Healing body image distress
Not by forcing body love, but by building more compassion, safety, and respect.
✔ Understanding emotional eating with compassion
Food helps us cope for real, legitimate reasons. We explore that and build additional options.
✔ Learning to spot diet culture messaging
Especially the ones that make you feel like your body is a problem to fix, or that you needed a one to be worthy of care.
What We Don’t Do Here
x Diet plans
x Weigh-Ins
x Calorie Counting
x Forcing a Specific Food Philosophy
You’ve been there, done that. Let’s try something different.
How We Get There
I'm not a one-size-fits-all therapist. I pull from approaches that actually work for the kind of deep, identity-level stuff a lifetime of dieting is made of.
The part of you that plans your next diet, tracks every bite, or panics at a number on the scale isn't your whole self - it's a part that's been trying to keep you safe, accepted, or in control for a long time. IFS helps us get curious about what that part is protecting you from, instead of fighting it.
A lot of diet culture's messaging got absorbed before you had words for it - at family dinner tables, in doctor's offices, in dressing rooms. Brainspotting works directly with the nervous system to process what's gotten stuck there, especially when food issues have old roots.
As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, I help you rebuild trust with your body's own signals - not as a new set of rules to follow perfectly, but as a way out of needing rules at all.
You get a blend of science and compassion - with absolutely zero judgment.
I work with adults who are exhausted by the cycle of dieting, restricting, and starting over. You don't have to have a clinical eating disorder diagnosis to deserve support - a lot of the folks I work with have just been quietly white-knuckling their way through diet culture for years and are finally ready for something to change.
I work with people who…
Have dieted, tracked, or restricted on and off for years (or decades) and are ready for it to be over
Feel like their worth has gotten tangled up with being "good" at controlling their food or their body
Grew up around diet talk, weight comments, or pressure to shrink themselves
Are highly sensitive and feel food and body stress more intensely than the people around them
Want care that is anti-diet, weight-neutral, and HAES-aligned
Are tired of starting over every Monday
Identify as LGBTQIA+ and want a provider who gets it
Don't have (and don't need) an eating disorder diagnosis to know this deserves real support
A little about me
Hi - I’m Keri. An LCSW, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and therapist in Tampa, FL.
I also dieted for about twenty years. On, off, and everywhere in between - counting, restricting, promising myself Monday would be different. I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder, though I probably could have been at different points. I was never in a thin body, and diet culture tends to reward people like me for restricting instead of questioning it. So no one ever told me to stop.
Two things changed that. I met an anti-diet dietitian - the first one I'd ever encountered - who helped me start questioning everything I'd been taught about weight and health. And I had kids, and realized I did not want to continue to pass this down to them - I wanted them to see their inherent worth outside of their body size.
I'm still in recovery. That's not a typo - recovery isn't a finish line, it's an ongoing practice, and I still have hard body image days. The difference is I know what to do with them now, and that's exactly what I want for you too.
- Keri Baker, LCSW · Diet Recovery & Disordered Eating Therapist · Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor
Questions?
FAQs
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Disordered eating is a broad term for eating patterns that are irregular, rigid, or distressing - things like chronic dieting, restriction, food rules, compulsive body checking, or using food to manage emotions - without necessarily meeting the clinical criteria for a diagnosable eating disorder. It's incredibly common, especially for people who've spent years immersed in diet culture.
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Not exactly. An eating disorder is a diagnosable clinical condition with specific criteria. Disordered eating is more of a spectrum - it can look milder, it can look severe, and it can absolutely affect your quality of life even if it never meets a formal diagnosis. A lot of the people I work with fall into this exact gap: not diagnosable, but not okay either.
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Chronic dieting is one of the most common forms disordered eating takes. Years of restricting, tracking, and "starting over" train your brain and body to see food as something to control rather than something to trust. What looks like normal dieting from the outside is often, underneath, a disordered relationship with food - it's just been so normalized by our culture that it doesn't get named as such.
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No. You don't need a diagnosis, a "bad enough" history, or anyone's permission to get support. If dieting, food rules, or body checking are taking up more of your life than you want them to, that's reason enough to reach out.
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They overlap, and that's okay — these things are connected. Relationship with Food therapy tends to focus on the day-to-day patterns: the binge/restrict cycle, food noise, hunger and fullness, emotional eating in the moment. This page is more about the bigger picture - the years (or decades) of chronic dieting, weight cycling, and body checking, and the identity and messaging built up around all of it over time. If you're not sure which fits, that's a great thing to talk through on a free consult call.
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Yes - I'm a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and bring those principles directly into diet recovery work, helping you rebuild trust with your body's own hunger, fullness, and preferences. It’s also important to note that Intuitive Eating isn’t another “plan” and can look different for everyone.
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100% Yes. My approach is anti-diet, weight-neutral, and HAES-aligned (Health at Every Size). Weight loss is never the goal or focus of our work together
As someone in a larger body myself, I understand just how important this is.
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Yes - I offer virtual sessions across Florida and Vermont, and in-person sessions in the Carrollwood area of North Tampa.
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That's incredibly common, and it's exactly where this work starts. You don't need to already know how to eat without rules before you get here - that's what we figure out together, at a pace that works for your nervous system.
What healing can feel like.
You stop obsessing over what you ate. Your body feels less like a project. You eat to nourish yourself and for enjoyment, not out of anxiety. You stop panicking about weight changes. You begin trusting yourself again.
Ready to Break Up With Dieting for Good?
I know how overwhelming it can feel to reach out for help, especially around something this personal. But you don't have to navigate this alone, or keep carrying shame that was never yours to begin with.
Let's talk about what's going on and what you need. If I'm a good fit, we'll take the next step together.
Disordered Eating & Diet Recovery Therapy in Tampa, FL
Services are also offered virtually throughout Florida and Vermont