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Trasi Freeman, MSP, BHT, CSC, MSAJS

“Healing happens when we’re allowed to truly be ourselves in a safe, compassionate space.”

I want you to know something important: You are NOT broken.

Life can be overwhelming, you put on a brave face, but inside, you’re struggling to keep it all together. You may feel disconnected from your true self, weighed down by past pain, or unsure of how to break free from the cycle of destructive patterns that have been holding you back. The good news is that these patterns can be rewired.


I use a culturally sensitive, trauma-informed approach to therapy that incorporates techniques like EMDR and neuroplasticity to support you in rewiring your brain, building healthier habits, and developing more sustainable emotional well-being. My focus is on providing you with practical tools and strategies to help you navigate life’s challenges while fostering self-compassion, emotional regulation, and resilience.

What You Can Expect in Therapy:

Understanding the Patterns: Together, we’ll explore the patterns and behaviors that keep you stuck, and uncover the root causes of your struggles.

Neuroplasticity & Healing: Through a combination of scientifically backed therapies and emotional healing practices, I help you rewire your brain, creating new neural pathways that support healthier behaviors.

Building New Pathways: As we work together, you’ll begin to feel more in control of your thoughts, emotions, and life choices, moving toward a place of healing and self-love.

My Approach:
I believe in your ability to heal and grow. Whether you’re dealing with trauma, overwhelming stress, relationship issues, or simply feeling like you’re not living up to your potential, I’m here to help.
My approach combines practical therapeutic strategies with a deep belief in your intrinsic worth. YOUR Best is Good Enough! My goal is to help you become the best version of yourself—empowered, grounded, and in control.


Are you ready to break free?
It’s time to heal, create new, healthier pathways, and unlearn the behaviors that have been holding you hostage. You’re capable of creating the change you desire, and I’d love to help you get there.

Get in Touch:
If you’re ready to take the first step toward healing and emotional freedom, I invite you to schedule a consultation.

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Eating Disorders - It's Not About the Food

By Kelly Lopez

If it’s not about the food, what is it really about?

The eating disorder serves a function, it does a job. Despite the problems an eating disorder creates, it is an effort to cope, shield against, communicate, and solve problems. Behaviors may be a way to establish a sense of power or control, self-worth, strength, and containment. Bringing may be used to numb pain. Purging may be a way to release emotions. When one cannot cope in healthy ways, adaptive functions (behaviors) are created to ensure a sense of safety, security, and control.
According to Carolyn Costin*, some of the “adaptive functions that eating disorder behaviors commonly serve are”:
  • Comfort, soothing, nurturance
  • Numbing, sedation, distraction
  • Attention, a cry for help
  • Discharge of tension, anger, rebellion
  • Predictability, structure, identity
  • Self-punishment or punishment of "the body"
  • Self-cleansing or self-purification
  • Protection or safety (through creation of a small or large body)
  • Avoidance of intimacy
  • Proof for self-blame instead of blaming others (for exampl, abusers)
It’s not about the food, it’s a way of coping with low self-esteem, negative emotions, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, unstable home, difficulty resolving conflict and much more.
*Costin, Carolyn. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments and Prevention of Eating Disorders. 3rd. edition, McGraw Hill, 2007.
Fuller, Kristen. “Eating Disorders: It’s Not All about Food.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 22 Mar. 2017

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201703/eating-disorders-it-s-not-all-about-food