Nina Jolly
A parent who helped her own child recover from anorexia through Family-Based Treatment, and who now gives other families what she once needed most: someone who has already been exactly where they are, and who knows the way through.
Longer coaching sessions prorated from this rate. Our Fees
Nina is not a licensed therapist, and she doesn't diagnose or give medical advice. What she offers is profoundly complementary: expert, parent-focused support through the day-to-day work of Family-Based Treatment. She brings the knowledge, steadiness, and hard-won wisdom of a parent who has walked this road and watched her own child recover.
About Nina Jolly
When a child develops an eating disorder, parents often feel terrified, alone, and completely unsure how to help. I give families what I once needed most: a steady, knowledgeable, heart-forward companion who truly understands what this journey demands.
I am an eating disorder caregiver peer mentor. I support parents through the real, daily work of helping a child recover from an eating disorder through Family-Based Treatment: the meals, the standoffs, the fear, and the slow rebuilding of a family's confidence in itself. My guidance is rooted in lived experience, evidence-based FBT principles, and advanced mentorship from JD Ouellette, one of the most respected caregiver advocates and lived-experience experts in the eating disorder field.
I helped my own adolescent recover from anorexia through Family-Based Treatment. The process required courage, structure, emotional stamina, and, most of all, a willingness to keep going when things felt impossible. I remember the exhaustion, the tears, the small victories, and the turning points that slowly built their way toward a healthy, thriving child. My child's recovery is the foundation of the hope I now bring to other families.
I understand this work at its rawest level:
- The explosive meal refusals
- The screaming, the bargaining, the slammed doors
- The hours-long meals and the emotional exhaustion that follows
- The overwhelming fear that you are doing it wrong
- The shock of how much more food recovery requires than you ever imagined possible
- How disruptive malnutrition-driven behavior can become, and how easily it reads as defiance rather than illness
- The fierce parental love it takes to stand steady through all of it
Along the way, I learned how to stay grounded during emotional storms, how to maintain structure when everything felt chaotic, and how to choose compassion without collapsing into accommodation. These are the skills I now pass on to other caregivers: gently, clearly, and with deep respect for what they are carrying.
I am not a therapist, and I do not provide clinical treatment. What I offer is profoundly complementary to it: the wisdom, steadiness, and lived experience of a parent who has walked this road and watched her child arrive on the other side healthy and thriving. I work alongside the clinical team at the Evidence-Based Treatment Institute, providing one-on-one caregiver peer mentorship to parents actively engaged in FBT. I meet with caregivers in person in Austin, Texas, and by secure video anywhere in the U.S.
My message to caregivers is simple, sincere, and earned the hard way: "Parents are human life support systems until our loved ones can feed themselves." If you are in the early weeks of FBT, exhausted, frightened, and unsure you can do this, I have stood exactly where you are. You do not have to do it alone.
Parents are human life support systems until our loved ones can feed themselves.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. And that's the point. Nina is not a licensed therapist, and she doesn't diagnose or give medical advice. Her role is to support parents through the day-to-day work Family-Based Treatment asks of them: holding boundaries, staying steady through the hardest meals, making the high-stakes calls FBT demands. For most families that support wraps around the clinical care they're already getting here and adds a layer no clinician can: a parent who has carried her own child through it. For some, she is the main person they lean on. Either way, it's parent-focused support you won't find in a therapy room.
Nina's one-on-one mentorship is designed for parents actively engaged in FBT with the Evidence-Based Treatment Institute's clinical team, so her coaching stays tightly coordinated with your treatment.
In person in Austin, Texas, and by secure video anywhere in the U.S. Because caregiver peer mentorship is not licensed clinical practice, Nina can support caregivers in every state, including states where our licensed clinicians cannot deliver clinical care.
$175 per coaching session, with longer sessions prorated. Full details are on our Fees & Insurance page.
Submit an inquiry through our Get Started page and mention that you're interested in caregiver peer mentorship. A member of our team responds within one business day.
Nina Has Been Where You Are. And She Knows the Way Through.
If you are a parent navigating your child's eating disorder, exhausted, frightened, and unsure whether you have what this requires, reach out. Nina is here, alongside the Evidence-Based Treatment Institute clinical team, to make sure you don't carry this alone.
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