The Mindfulness Space provides Health at Every Size (HAES) informed, weight inclusive, outpatient mental health therapy for eating disorders and body image concerns related to underlying depression, anxiety, stress and trauma in Greensboro North Carolina!
We’ll help you to regain control over your relationship with food, with your body and with your inner-self! Just scroll to learn more! We are now accepting new clients in North Carolina!
Does this sound like you?
“I HATE My Body!” Yes, We’ve all Been there Before…
You avoid mirrors. You’ve even stood in front of the mirror obsessing over every inch of you body, picking it apart! You may have even said to yourself, “If only I could lose a few pounds!” If only I had more curves! If only my nose were smaller or straighter! If I only looked like this influencer or celebrity, I would feel better about myself!
“My Life Would be so Much Better!”
So, you Try Everything within your Power to Change, but…
You try starving yourself through restrictive fad diets and severely limiting your food intake, only to temporarily lose some weight, but later re-gained the weight you’ve lost, plus more! You’ve searched for “Overeaters Anonymous groups near me,” and even attended a few meetings, only to find that it wasn’t the level of support that you were looking for. You’ve contemplated going through with dangerous cosmetic surgical procedures or weight loss surgery in spite of all the risks involved, knowing in the back of your mind that long-term results or feeling good about your body are NOT guaranteed!
Diet’s Don’t Work!
I’m going to share some hard truths with you from a place of love and compassion, so here goes… First, restrictive diet don’t work! They never have worked! Restrictive diets aren’t sustainable and they fail to address the underlying factors, such as the underlying psychological and emotional stressors that cause us to self-sooth with food, impact our lifestyle habits, and effect our behaviors surrounding food. Additionally, restrictive diets can lead to feelings of deprivation, triggering overeating or binge-eating behaviors, leading to what feels like a never ending cycle!
It’s Not You, It’s Society’s Beauty Standards!
Another sad truth is that we live in a world where society’s unrealistic beauty standards, constantly tell us that we’re not good enough, we’re not thin enough, we’re not curvy enough, we’re not attractive or desirable enough! These standards of beauty often make us feel pressured to change the way we look externally, often not for ourselves, but to fit into a mold of how others want us to present ourselves!
A Balanced, Realistic Solution!
The Mindfulness Space will help you to work through the underlying psychological, emotional and behavioral factors that impact your current relationship with food and with your body. With nearly a decade of clinical experience, I’ll work with you to develop an individualized plan tailored to treat your specific concern using researched proven therapeutic interventions, while addressing the underlying anxiety, depression, deep-seated trauma, or other psychological factors that have continued to perpetuate your roller coaster relationship with food.
An Integrated Approach to Outpatient Care…
The Mindfulness Space partners with several local, community providers that include, medical providers, psychologists, nutritionists and registered dietitians, in order to assure client’s achieve the best possible treatment outcomes!
Visualize Yourself…
✔ Visualize yourself developing the tools needed to tackle negative thoughts about food and your body head-on!
✔ Learning how to met your emotional needs without using food to “self-medicate” or “self-soothe.”
✔ Freeing yourself from the cycles of restrictive and uncontrollable eating patterns that may negatively impact your health and quality of life!
✔ Saying good riddance to feelings of sadness, anxiety, low self-confidence and self-hatred about your body!
✔ Rebuilding your self-esteem and self-confidence from within and not based on superficial, external reasons!
✔ Reprograming your brain to stop negatively comparing yourself to others!
✔ Learning how to be active in a holistic and exciting way that feels comfortable for you!
✔ Beginning to live the life you’ve always wanted to, BOLDLY, authentically and unapologetically while finally breaking free from the box that society’s beauty standards try to place us in!
Finding the Right Therapist Can Feel Exhausting!
I know that seeking therapy, especially for the first time, can feel scary and overwhelming! You google “therapist near me” and quickly learn that finding the right therapist in a sea of online therapists must feel EXHAUSTING!
The Mindfulness Space is a small, local private therapy practice in Greensboro North Carolina with a therapist who understands that you are human and is able to provide you with specialized treatment that is personal, and individualized to help you reach your goals, in whatever way that looks like for you!
Have Health Insurance?
Would you like to use your health insurance coverage? The Mindfulness Space is now in-network Aetna, CIGNA, United Healthcare, United Behavioral Health and Optum health insurance plans through partnerships with Alma and Headway! (We are currently undergoing the process of accepting NC Blue Cross and Blue Shield! Call today to join the waiting list!) Learn more here!
Would you like to work with The Mindfulness Space, but you have another insurance? The Mindfulness Space accepts all other out-of-network insurance plans! Allow our trusted partners to check and bill your insurance plan’s out-of-network benefits on your behalf and leave the hard stuff to us!
Looking for Affordable Therapy?
GREAT NEWS!!! The Mindfulness Space provides a limited number of therapy slots at a decreased rate for clients who qualify. Verification of income is required. Click here to apply!
Ready to Take Your Next Step?
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The Visibly You Podcast: Episode 2- Understanding the Media's Influence on Body Image!
Meet Stefanie!
Stefanie Lawson, LCSW
HELLO!
My name is Stefanie Lawson! I’m a size-inclusive, Health at Every Size (HAES) aligned, licensed therapist in Greensboro North Carolina with nearly a decade of clinical expertise!
I help my clients to recover from disordered eating, like uncontrollable emotional eating, recover from under-eating, as well as, heal from body image dissatisfaction that stems from underlying depression, anxiety, stress, or past traumatic experiences.
Like you, I’ve struggled with the pain related to uncontrollable binge eating, as well as, the harm of not eating enough due to fad dieting, that included fasting and starving myself for days on end! Not cool! I’ve suffered through periods of not loving my body. I’ve also experienced anxiety and depression that have led me to use ineffective coping strategies, such as using food as a means of self soothing and managing my own painful emotions.
Every journey begins with a single step!
Take your next step with The Mindfulness Space!
Schedule your free 30 minute consultation today!
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Plus, get our free emotional eating worksheets and body image healing scripts as a bonus for signing up!
What’s Included…
Description: Get started on your journey towards healing your relationship with food, learning how to treat your body with the love and compassion it deserves and living as your authentic self everyday with these free worksheets and scripts! Use the “I Live as My Authentic Self” and “Honoring our Body” affirmation and meditation scripts everyday in order to begin the work of recognizing and reprograming the negative beliefs, thoughts and feelings that have been constantly taught to us through toxic and very harmful social constructs which exist within our society.
For those who have been impacted by emotional eating, I have also included the free “Emotional Eating Worksheet” to help you to immediately get started on recognizing the underlying and often hidden triggers behind our emotional eating behaviors and walk you through the process of forming new, more positive behaviors while creating permanent neural pathways in the brain that support lasting change!
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The Mindfulness Space Strives to Provide Quality Mental Health Care!
- Have you spent countless years struggling with compulsive overeating or restrictive under-eating?
- Has your relationship with food affected your health, self-esteem or your relationships with others?
- Have you used food and eating habits as a means of managing negative feelings and emotions that seem to be spiraling out of control?
- Have you experienced feelings of guilt or shame related to eating habits, even going as far as to hide them from friends and family?
- Have you struggled with loving and accepting your body?
- Have negative thoughts about your body kept you from trying new things or doing things you enjoy?
The Mindfulness Space is a proud member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals!
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