Dahlia Slotsky

Dahlia Slotsky, L.C.S.W., is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Board-Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Addictions Counselor, and Certified Trauma-Informed Therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience. She brings a background in personal training and attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition — a combination that gives her a rare clinical lens on the relationship between the brain, the body, and eating behavior.

Dahlia specializes in helping women change the behavioral patterns driving their relationship with food and weight. Her approach is built on behavioral neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and eating psychology — targeting the automatic patterns underneath the eating behavior rather than relying on willpower, restriction, or motivation alone.

She works with women who may also be working with nutritionists, trainers, physicians, or managing weight with GLP-1 medications like semaglutide — and brings the behavioral piece that makes all of it work better. Through a structured, evidence-based protocol developed over years of working with thousands of clients, Dahlia maps the specific triggers driving the behavior, disrupts the automatic response, and installs a new pattern in its place.

This is not traditional talk therapy. Sessions are structured, direct, and execution-focused — designed to produce measurable change in eating behavior within a defined timeframe. Many clients continue working with their existing therapist for emotional processing while doing this work, and that combination often accelerates both.

She works exclusively with women navigating weight, eating patterns, and the behavioral shifts that come with the various stages of a woman's life.

My approach is structured, behavioral, and grounded in neuroscience. I don't work with willpower — I work with the pattern underneath the behavior.

When a client comes to me struggling with eating and weight, I'm looking at what is happening in her brain and body in the moment before the food goes in — the trigger, the automatic response, the reward the behavior is delivering. That's where change happens.

Behavioral work cannot override biology. If a woman's body is not getting adequate protein, healthy fat, fiber, and hydration based on general nutritional guidelines, her nervous system will generate hunger and craving signals that no amount of pattern work can compete with. So before we address the behavior, we make sure the body has what it needs for that work to hold.

I use a structured protocol that maps each client's specific eating patterns, identifies the drivers behind them, and installs new responses at the point of trigger. Sessions are focused and execution-based.

Most women I work with are not starting from zero. They have done the research, tried programs, and often know a great deal about nutrition already. What has been missing is someone who addresses the behavioral pattern itself — why the knowledge isn't translating into consistent action.

This work complements whatever medical, nutritional, or therapeutic support a client already has in place.

The first session is information gathering. I need to understand what is actually happening — the specific eating behaviors you want to change, when they show up, what has been tried before, and what your body is currently getting in terms of basic nutrition.

I ask detailed questions about your daily patterns, your history with food and weight, what programs or approaches you have tried, and what worked or did not work. I also introduce the nutritional floor — the baseline your body needs to be meeting based on general nutritional guidelines before any behavioral work can take hold.

You will leave the first session knowing how this process works and what will be expected of you. I will use what you share to begin mapping the patterns driving the behavior, which is where the real work starts in the sessions that follow.

This is structured and focused from the beginning. It is not open-ended talk therapy.