CREDN Provider Directory

Hi, I’m Jess and I am so glad you are here. Sometimes there are seasons in our lives where we feel stuck or lost, like we don’t measure up to the standards set around us. We may find ourselves struggling in our relationships, or even in old patterns of behavior we can’t seem to break. If you find yourself in this space today, I am here to help. I am honored to walk alongside clients as a compassionate listener and guide and believe in a strengths-based and collaborative approach to healing. In my work as a therapist, I utilize narrative therapy in order to assist clients in discovering how past and present experiences have shaped the story of their lives. I am also a HAES-aligned practitioner with experience in working with individuals struggling with eating disorders.

I am a licensed psychologist and registered dietitian with over 25 years of experience. I specialize in working with people with health-related issues.

My practice is tailored toward high-functioning professional women who struggle with issues of overachieving, poor body image, low self-esteem and imposter syndrome. Typically, these concerns coalesce with a lack of good self-care and present in the form of over-working, putting others' needs above her own and often result in ineffective coping strategies such as emotional eating, substance use and dysregulated sleep. I work with clients to help restore balance to thoughts and behaviors, in an effort to help move them toward valued living.

Registered dietitian/nutritionist (RDN) who specializes in eating disorder, ARFID or any level of disordered eating treatment as part of a team approach to care. I have been specializing in treating eating disorders since 2007 and have a dual specialty in treating Type 1, Type 2 and pre-diabetes as well with non-weight focused approach. Licensed Dietitian in OR and WA. See the website www.JANutritionTherapy.com for more detailed information on my professional focus as well as insurances I'm able to work with.

I believe that food plays an important role in connecting us to ourselves and also to those we care about. When an eating disorder or disordered eating develops, it disrupts the relationship with oneself and with others. My goal is to meet you where you are in your recovery process and help you begin or continue your journey. For some individuals, that means having a more structured approach to eating, and for others it means giving yourself permission to eat more freely. My style is to be honest and straightforward, and to support you in finding better ways to nourish your body. If you enjoy being active, and are healthy enough to do so, we can also work on motivations for being active and improving your relationship with physical movement. My approach tends to be direct and supportive, always working within a treatment team. I hope to help you understand why you have used eating disorder behaviors from a nutrition perspective, and help you learn to let them go. I practice from a HAES, non-diet and weight inclusive approach.

Life can be as painful as it is beautiful. It’s not always easy to be our true selves. We are here to support you in living life authentically and without shame - to be confident in the person you truly are. Together we will celebrate the positives and work through the challenges that life presents. We believe your personal goals can be achieved and your struggles can be overcome with support that meets your needs. We can move from a place of insecurity to a state of knowing who you are and how to be in this world. We will provide a safe and non-judgmental environment in which to discover yourself. We feel at home in the work that we do and genuinely look forward to empowering you in the life that you lead.

Emily Velasquez, registered dietitian nutritionist, has been a caregiver with Providence since 2022. Emily provides one-on-one nutrition counseling rooted in the Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size ® philosophy, specializing in patients with disordered eating and eating disorders. She received a dual bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dance from Buffalo State College, where she also completed her 1,200-hour supervised practice experience within the coordinated dietetics program. Her interest in eating disorders began as a dancer, and while in college she researched perceived energy needs of dancers compared to their actual needs. This interest carried on into the general population, seeing the ubiquitous damage of diet culture and the growing prevalence of eating disorders. Prior to Providence Emily's experience includes working at a higher level of care with eating disorder patients at Center for Discovery, as well as working at Nike World Headquarters. Emily is passionate about helping individuals fuel their bodies while developing a healthy relationship with food. Emily’s interest in dance nutrition continues, with a passion to prevent and treat eating disorders in dancers, as well as improve overall performance and reduce injury risk. Emily still loves to dance in styles of ballet, contemporary, salsa and bachata.

I am a licensed mental health therapist in Oregon and Washington and provide in-person and virtual therapy in Portland, Oregon. I specialize in working with adults (18+) with eating disorders, disordered eating, and negative body image, providing individual and group therapy. I completed my Eating Disorder Certificate in 2023 from Lewis & Clark College. I earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2019, from George Fox University and a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Behavioral Studies in 2016, from George Fox University. I believe in building a strong rapport with my clients by using warmth, humor, and empathy. I work collaboratively with clients to identify and ensure their needs are being met. I work from a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused, Strengths Based approach.

Kayden (they/he) is a transmasc non-binary abolitionist counseling psychologist in WA state who specializes in gender affirming medical care, eating disorder treatment, kink/sex/polyam/SW affirming, and abolitionist mental health care. They are bilingual in English and Spanish, work with ages 14-adulthood and currently live and love and work as a poet, parent, professor, and psychologist on the homelands of the Yakama Nation, stewards of this valley since time immemorial.

Partial Hospitalization Program + Intensive Outpatient Program Opal: Food + Body Wisdom is a female owned, clinician led eating disorder treatment center in the heart of Seattle's University District. We provide Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) for people of all genders 18+ with eating disorders and disordered eating. Opal offers mental health counseling, nutrition counseling, family therapy and psychiatric services at all levels of care. Our treatment is grounded in Radically Open Dialectical Therapy, with unique programming for Exercise+Sport and an aim for clinic wide weight-inclusive practices. We are in-network with many major insurance companies. We also offer non-clinical lodging at a low fee for our PHP and IOP clients. Opal's approach to food+ body: Opal aims to offer non-diet and weight-inclusive treatment for eating disorder recovery. All staff, programs and attitudes align with this through and through. Our treatment approach challenges mainstream diet culture beliefs and offers groups and 1:1 sessions to deconstruct one's beliefs that may have contributed to the development and maintenance of one's eating disorders. Our nutrition team creates positive and therapeutic meal and snack experiences, which ultimately help clients find freedom from food and discover the eater they are naturally designed to be. Since our approach is individualized, we allow personalization of meal planning for all eating disorder diagnoses, while simultaneously re-teaching, and guiding the application of the basics of appetite regulation, metabolism, and general nutrition principles. Our goal for our clients is to have a practical, life-giving, trust based relationship with food and their bodies. What does treatment at Opal look like? A treatment day at Opal includes group therapy, individual sessions, group meals and snacks, movement sessions if desired, and time for rest and connect with fellow clients. Groups at Opal include: re-thinking exercise + sport process group, Radically Open DBT skills class, acceptance and commitment therapy group, life stories, art of non-productivity and pleasure, body wisdom, body wisdom skills class, movement group, RESTorative movement group, process group, self-inquiry group, expressive arts, deconstructing diet culture class, dinner meal outing, nutrition education, family programming, culinary group, grocery shopping outing, and facing fears.