I was dieting by grade three.I grew up being body shamed, and I grew up in the nineties where the message was everywhere: that if you were not thin enough, you were not beautiful enough. Kate Moss on every magazine cover. Curves not celebrated. A body that looked like a real human body treated as something to be managed and fixed before you could be considered worthy.
I absorbed all of it. And I arrived at the only conclusion that seemed available to me: that if I could just get thin enough, everything would finally be ok. I would be more beautiful, more desirable, more loved, more successful. I genuinely believed that the right body would give me the life I actually wanted.
So I got on the dieting merry-go-round. Every plan. Every Monday. Every boot camp and challenge and program that promised this time would be different. I weighed myself constantly and let the number set the tone for my entire day. I compared myself to every woman I walked past and made it mean something about my worth every single time.
I did not stop until I was thirty-eight years old. Not because I was weak. But because nobody ever told me the merry-go-round itself was the problem. Nobody ever helped me look at what was actually underneath it.
What changed things was not a better plan. It was learning to ask a completely different question. Not what is wrong with my body, but what is my body trying to tell me.
When I finally went to the root of it, when I actually heard what was underneath, everything changed. Not because I found more willpower. Because I stopped needing to. My system no longer needed the coping strategy, so the pattern shifted. That is the only way this actually works.
That is what brought me to this work. And it is what I do for the women I work with now.
About Megan
Who I work with.
Most of the women who find me are not out of control. They're capable, self-aware, and insightful. They've tried therapy. They understand their patterns. They know exactly why they do what they do.
And yet food still has a grip.
Not because they're weak or lack discipline but because their nervous system is still using food as a strategy. For relief, control, comfort, numbing, regulation, protection.
Understanding the pattern isn't the same as shifting it. You can see exactly what's happening and still find yourself back in the same place. That's not a failure of insight. That's how protective systems work.
That's where my work begins.
How I work.
I'm an Internal Family Systems therapist. IFS works directly with the internal system driving the pattern the parts of you that learned to use food when things got too heavy, too overwhelming, or too unsafe to process any other way.
We don't try to change the behaviour first. We work with the part underneath it.
Because until that part feels safe, it will keep doing what it's always done. But when it no longer needs to protect you in the same way the pattern shifts. Not because you're trying harder. Because your system no longer needs the coping strategy.
This work is trauma-informed, nervous system-based, and grounded in IFS. It integrates parts work, somatic resourcing, and deep relational therapy to address what's actually driving the behaviour, not just the behaviour itself.
This is why the work lasts.
My training
Training + Clinical Approach
My work is grounded in deep clinical training, and more importantly, in how this actually shows up in real life. I've trained extensively in IFS, somatic parts work, relational trauma practices, and medicine-assisted preparation and integration.
Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1 & Level 2, IFS Institute. Life Architect & Mind Beyond
Unburdened Bites: Healing Relationships with Food and Body Using IFS, Dr Kim Daniels
Somatic IFS Training, Life Architect
Somatic & Relational Trauma-Informed Practices for Medicine Assisted Facilitation, Australian Lab with Rita Bozi
Bright Line Freedom IFS Program, Bright Line Eating with Everett Considine
Wellness Coach Certification, IAP College
Psychology Studies, Monash University
Over 350 women have worked with me across private sessions, group containers, medicine-assisted journeys, and immersive workshops.
What women say after this work.
Not after hitting rock bottom. Not after everything falls apart. But when something underneath finally shifts.
They don't talk about discipline. They talk about relief.
"I'm not snapping like I used to." "Food doesn't run my day." "I've stopped bingeing." "I feel more like myself again." "I'm not constantly negotiating with myself anymore." "I don't feel guilty saying no." "I don't wake up thinking about what I ate."
If you can see yourself in this, you don't have to keep figuring it out on your own.The first step is a free 30-minute consultation. A focused conversation where we look at your specific pattern, what's keeping it in place, and whether this work is the right fit.
If it is, we talk about what's next. If it's not, I'll tell you honestly.