Build Lasting Healthy Habits with Expert Therapy
Whether you're working on improving your nutrition, increasing physical activity, quitting smoking, or managing your weight, therapy provides the tools to help you create and sustain lasting change.
Do You Struggle with Making Healthy Habits Stick?
Each time, you start strong, feeling motivated and hopeful, only to find yourself right back where you started. Life gets busy, stress takes over, and suddenly, old habits creep back in. You feel frustrated, exhausted, and stuck in a cycle that never seems to end.
You start making changes, but fall back into old patterns
You feel unmotivated or overwhelmed when trying to maintain a routine
Emotional eating or stress eating is impacting your health and nutrition goals
You want to exercise, but struggle with consistency
You’re trying to quit smoking, but keep picking back up
You know what to do, but taking action feels difficult.
If any of these sound familiar, you’re not alone. Therapy can help you overcome mental barriers and build lifelong habits.
How Therapy Can Help You Build and Maintain Healthy Habits
Behavior change isn’t just about willpower—it’s about understanding your habits, reshaping your thoughts, and building new routines in a way that feels natural and sustainable. Therapy helps you break old patterns and develop strategies for long-term success.
🔹 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Habit Formation
✔ Helps identify negative thought patterns that lead to unhealthy habits
✔ Teaches practical coping strategies to manage emotional triggers
✔ Creates a step-by-step plan to build sustainable habits
🔹 Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Lasting Change
✔ Focuses on identifying personal values & motivations for change
✔ Helps overcome ambivalence and build confidence
✔ Supports small, achievable steps to avoid feeling overwhelmed
🔹 Mindfulness-Based Strategies for Eating & Exercise
✔ Teaches body awareness to reduce emotional eating
✔ Helps you develop a non-judgmental approach to health choices
✔ Improves self-discipline and long-term consistency
🔹 Behavioral Activation for Breaking Unhealthy Routines
✔ Helps replace bad habits with positive alternatives
✔ Focuses on making small, daily improvements
✔ Increases motivation and self-control over time
Hi, I’m Rachel Allen and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist.
I help people who feel stuck in the cycle of starting and stopping healthy habits—whether it's nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, or breaking unwanted behaviors—learn how to create lasting, positive change without guilt, pressure, or perfectionism.
With my expertise in behavioral psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and motivational interviewing, we’ll go beyond quick fixes to uncover the thought patterns and habits that keep you feeling frustrated or overwhelmed. Together, we’ll develop practical, sustainable strategies that fit your lifestyle—so you can break free from all-or-nothing thinking and build routines that truly work for you.
My approach is compassionate, science-backed, and realistic—no extreme rules, no rigid expectations, just proven techniques that help you feel in control of your habits and empowered in your choices.