Therapy for health, habits, & meaningful change
Health changes can affect much more than your physical health.
A new diagnosis, changes in weight or body image, chronic symptoms, medical treatment, or difficulty maintaining health behaviors can also affect your mood, relationships, identity, and daily life.
Therapy with a clinical psychologist can help you navigate those changes with more understanding, flexibility, and intention.
GLP-1 Medications
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Bariatric Surgery
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Habits & Routines
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Motivation
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Body Image
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Sustainable Change
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GLP-1 Medications 〰️ Bariatric Surgery 〰️ Habits & Routines 〰️ Motivation 〰️ Body Image 〰️ Sustainable Change 〰️
When changing your health feels complicated
Medical treatment can address what is happening in your body. But health changes often affect much more than your physical health.
Changes in weight, appetite, routines, and health can influence your identity, relationships, emotions, habits, and the way you understand yourself.
Therapy can provide space to explore those changes without judgment and develop ways of living that feel sustainable rather than all-or-nothing.
Psychological support for meaningful health changes
GLP-1 Medications
Medications such as GLP-1s can be an important part of someone's health journey, but starting a medication can also bring unexpected emotional and behavioral changes.
Therapy can help you navigate questions such as:
How do I build sustainable habits alongside medication?
How is my relationship with food changing?
What happens to my identity as my body changes?
How do I cope with fear of regaining weight?
How do I talk about these changes with the people in my life?
How do I move away from all-or-nothing thinking?
How do I maintain changes that feel sustainable over time?
PMOS (formerly PCOS)
PMOS, formerly known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), can affect much more than just physical health. Hormonal and metabolic changes, weight fluctuations, fatigue, and other symptoms can influence your relationship with your body, food, movement, and health.
PCOS therapy can provide space to address the emotional and behavioral aspects of living with PMOS/PCOS. Therapy may be helpful if you are struggling with body image, health-related stress, fertility or reproductive changes, motivation, or making sustainable changes to your health and daily habits.
Whether you are newly navigating a PCOS diagnosis, managing symptoms, or looking for a therapist who understands the complexity of health and behavior change, therapy can offer a space to better understand your experience and find approaches that support both your physical and emotional well-being.
Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery can represent a significant transition—physically, emotionally, and socially.
Whether you're preparing for surgery or adjusting to life afterward, therapy can offer a place to explore the changes that don't always have room in a medical appointment.
We might work together on:
Emotional preparation for surgery
Adjusting to changes in your body and daily routines
Body image and identity
Expectations around weight and health
Developing sustainable behaviors
Coping with setbacks or changes in motivation
Navigating relationships and social situations
Understanding how old patterns may show up in new circumstances
Health Behavior Change Therapy
Psychotherapy for health behavior change can help you better understand and address the psychological and behavioral factors that can make health-related change more difficult—including motivation, habits, emotions, thoughts, relationships, stress, and the environments in which you live and work.
This work may be helpful if you are navigating a health diagnosis, adjusting to changes in your health, working to establish or maintain health behaviors, struggling with consistency, or experiencing distress related to food, exercise, weight, or changes in your body.
Rather than focusing on perfection, therapy can help you develop a more sustainable approach to behavior change and build strategies that support your health while taking into account the realities of your life.
A whole-person approach to health
Health is more than a set of numbers or behaviors.
Your physical health exists alongside your relationships, work, identity, emotions, routines, and environment. When one part changes, the others often change with it.
My approach draws from evidence-based psychological approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. I tailor treatment to you rather than asking you to fit into a particular program.
My clinical background includes experience supporting individuals navigating bariatric surgery, binge eating, and health behavior change, as well as training in Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) for binge eating.
This experience informs my broader approach to helping people navigate meaningful changes in their health and everyday lives.
This isn't about doing it perfectly.
Health behavior change is rarely linear.
There may be periods when things feel easy and others when old patterns return. You may know exactly what you want to do and still struggle to do it. You may reach a goal and discover that the emotional experience is different from what you expected.
Therapy isn't about adding another set of rules.
It's about understanding yourself well enough to make choices that are consistent with the life and health you want to build.
What therapy can offer
Understanding
Explore the thoughts, emotions, habits, and patterns that influence your health.
Sustainability
Move away from all-or-nothing approaches and toward changes that can realistically fit into your life.
Self-compassion
Develop a more balanced relationship with yourself when change doesn't go exactly as planned.
Identity
Consider how changes in your body, health, or routines may affect the way you understand yourself.
Relationships
Navigate the ways health changes can affect partners, family, friends, and social experiences.
Agency
Build a sense of choice and intentionality around the changes you're making.
My role is to provide psychological support for the emotional, behavioral, and relational aspects of health change. I do not prescribe medications or provide nutritional counseling, and therapy does not replace medical care.
Often times, clients find it helpful for their medical and mental health providers to coordinate to provide optimal care. I am pleased to offer this coordination with your permission.
Importantly, I do not provide specialized treatment for active eating disorders that require a higher level of eating-disorder care. When that type of treatment is needed, I believe in referring to providers and teams with the appropriate specialization.
A note about the scope of this work
Therapy Fees
Initial intake session — $200
Individual psychotherapy — $175 per session
Most sessions are 45-55 minutes.
Your initial intake session is 60 minutes and provides space to discuss what brings you to therapy, understand your goals, and determine a plan for your care.
Conner Psychology is a self-pay practice and does not work directly with insurance companies. Superbills may be available for clients who choose to seek out-of-network reimbursement.
You don't have to navigate change alone.
Whether you're starting something new, adjusting to a major health change, or simply ready to understand your patterns differently, therapy can provide a place to slow down and make sense of the bigger picture.
Conner Psychology offers virtual therapy available for Indiana & Michigan residents.