Nutrition and body image counseling for a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body.

Nutrition and body image support.
Eating disorder nutrition therapy.

Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD

.Hi, I’m Corinne

I’m a registered dietitian, nutrition therapist, and certified intuitive eating counselor with over 15 years of experience in Marin County and Sonoma County, California. I specialize in eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, and body image concerns – and helping clients break free from the mental, emotional, and physical toll of chronic dieting.

Ultimately, I help clients nurture a caring and compassionate relationship with food and their bodies.

I work with adolescents, young adults, and adults. I offer individual nutrition and body image counseling sessions for those healing from chronic dieting, body image concerns, and disordered eating and eating disorder nutrition therapy for those in recovery from an eating disorder.

In eating disorder care, I closely collaborate with other members of a client’s treatment team, like their medical doctor, therapist, and/or psychiatrist. I also closely work with parents, caregivers, and family members so they can support their loved one in becoming nourished and well.

Please note that nutrition therapy doesn’t mean that I’m a mental health therapist – but it does mean that I’m a registered dietitian who stays within her scope of practice of food, nutrition, movement, and body image. And that in my work, I utilize various counseling skills, modalities, and approaches to better help my clients form a lasting healthy relationship with food, movement, and their body.

I use evidenced-based treatment practices in my work and also take into account who the client is in the room and what their experiences have been. My work is evidence based and relational. I believe we need science and that every client, every person, and every family has their own unique needs.

I have a special knack (and love) for being able to support those with chronic eating disorders or those with a complex eating disorder history – and those with a co-occurring trauma history or substance misuse. The intersection of these things is not uncommon.

I see clients at my offices in Greenbrae and Petaluma, California and online via a secure, HIPPA-Compliant video platform for those in California and select U.S. states.

In my client sessions, I strive to create a safe, judgement free space where you can come, process, and learn how to kindly be with (and in) your body. And where you can learn how to cultivate an enjoyable, healthy, and nourishing relationship with food. My style is a mixture of counseling, coaching, and educating, so clients can gain insight, tools, and experiences in what a healthy relationship with food and their body looks and feels like and so caregivers (if an adolescent) can support their loved one’s healing journey.

I’m kind, curious, authentic, and at times, lovingly direct – all with the intention to move you towards a full recovery and life. You can make peace with food, build a better relationship with your body, and connect with who you are as a whole human. I look forward to supporting you.

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Services

Eating Disorder Nutrition Therapy

Eating disorder recovery takes a village, but not just any village. A village of people who you trust and in my opinion, who you genuinely like. I’d be honored to be one of those people, as you make peace with food and your body, and as you heal. In eating disorder nutrition therapy, I work with individuals who are in recovery from an eating disorder, their caregivers (if an adolescent), and other members of their treatment team. Together we embark upon the journey to full recovery and a nourished healthy relationship with food, mind, and body.

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Nutrition & Body Image Counseling

Personal counseling is the most intimate and individualized way to begin making peace with food and your body. If you’re ready to nurture a healthy relationship with food and build a caring relationship with your body, I can help – no dieting, willpower, measuring, counting, or food rules required.

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Praise from Former Clients

I had struggled with an eating disorder for more than two years, and have had my fair share of doctors, dietitians, and food counselors. However, their weight and diet centric view on recovery made it very hard for me to focus on the actual problems, and realize that it was never actually about food.

Your thought based philosophy that focuses on a deeper rooted problem instead of spending too much time about what’s on my plate is what truly helped me heal my relationship with food and body. I feel like a real person again, and can live my life with authenticity! Thank you so much Corinne, I hope we meet again, whether that be on the street or in an office. You have truly changed my life.”

— June R.

As someone who has been there done that with diets, I knew restrictive diets made me rebel and binge. I cannot even begin to list all the changes I’ve noticed since working with Corinne.

I have never felt so strong and secure in my own body, and I give her so much credit for that change. I absolutely would recommend her. I am 100% certain that I would have never achieved my breakthroughs without Corinne’s guidance. Corinne’s genuine compassion paired with her wealth of knowledge and experience is just what I needed after everything else had failed me far too many times. She connected the dots between nutrition, emotion, and confidence to achieve my success.”

— Elizabeth B.

You are truly gifted at what you do, and I want you to know that you have touched my life and made it better.”

— Sue L.

We will certainly keep you in mind and refer anyone we know to you.

Please let us know if there is anything else we can do as well. It has been a scary time for us and your helpful advice and coaching and general presence in our daughter’s life is one of the things that gave us comfort. Thanks again.”

— Parents of a former client

The only hesitation I had in working with Corinne was whether or not I was ready to take on such extensive reflection.

I think that the question of “Am I ready to change?” was my only roadblock. Since working with Corinne, I’ve stopped a yearlong binging cycle in its tracks and while I’ve had “slips” along the way, my bouncing back has been much faster than days past. The most noticeable change has been that I can feel beautiful at any weight. That idea doesn’t resonate every hour of every day, but it certainly has come more frequently since we started working together. Corinne helped me see that I was worth it, that I didn’t have to do anything perfectly, and that changing was a gradual thing that doesn’t really ever end. Thank you for showing up for me, Corinne. This has been an incredible foundation-building journey and your patience and advocacy for me have been incredibly humbling.”

— Taylor W.

Corinne is truly amazing at what she does. I used to have an eating disorder but she helped me to learn how to eat intuitively, have a better self esteem, and have better self love for myself and my body.

You won’t be disappointed if you work with her. She is genuinely sweet and cares about how you’re doing. I would recommend her to anyone recovering from an eating disorder, wanting to have a healthier relationship with food without dieting, and who needs some help loving themselves and their body. Can’t give her enough praise.”

— Mary B.

I genuinely cannot say enough good about my experience in 1:1 counselling with Corinne. Not only did she support me in completely transforming my relationship with food ie. decreasing my anxiety around food, healing from orthorexia, giving really practical guidelines & resources to eat enough & balanced, she also supported me in becoming a better human, supporting my shifts away from black & white thinking and helping me approach my relationships in a healthier way.

It’s been almost 5 years since I worked with Corinne and I still to this day use strategies she taught me. When I reflect on where I was then, dealing with anxiety that was also impacting my eating, and where I am now, I am amazed at how far I’ve come and am so grateful to Corinne for being a bit part of that. The notes she shared with me following each session were so comprehensive and helpful, I have them in a saved folder to refer back to do this day. I was going through old emails and realized I had never left a review like I had intended. You know someone is good when you want to leave a review 5 years later. Grateful for you Corinne!”