I'm a psychologist and an emotional eating coach who knows what it's like to struggle with overeating - and what's really required to create lasting change.
Life is too short to spend it trapped in cycles of emotional eating, stress, and self-blame. I'm Dr. Melissa McCreery, an experienced psychologist, certified coach, and emotional eating expert. I help smart, high-achieving women stop overeating by addressing the real reasons it happens, without deprivation, strict rules, or relying on willpower.
For over 30 years, I’ve helped thousands of women transform their relationships with food. My approach centers around uncovering Hidden Hungers, dissolving self-sabotaging beliefs, and creating sustainable freedom from emotional eating and overeating. As the creator of the Your Missing Peace program and host of the Too Much on Her Plate Podcast, I guide my clients to take their power back from food - and from the emotional cycles that keep them stuck.
My perspective has been featured in: The Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Fitness, Self, CNN Health, and Weight Watchers Magazine.
How I help women like you:
My clients are successful professionals, leaders, CEOs, and caregivers who excel in most areas of their lives—except this one. They’ve tried every plan and diet, but still feel out of control with food. What they learn through our work together is that their eating isn’t the problem - it’s a symptom. The real transformation begins when we uncover and address the emotional drivers beneath the behavior.
Inside my programs and coaching, you'll learn how to:
Client results include (yours will be unique to you and your situation):
My story (and maybe yours too)
In the past, struggles with emotional eating, food, weight, and how to eat took up far more energy than I can now quite believe. I’ve binged, grazed through stress, starved, and visited the scale compulsively. I’ve skipped meals and tried to live on crazy diets and food plans until I had no idea whether I was hungry or full or what I should be eating.
My weight was a moving target, but any weight loss never lasted and the final result always seemed to be five more pounds than when I had started.
There was a time when I had four sizes of pants in my closet and I needed them all to be sure I’d have something to wear. There were “good days” and “bad days” depending on how I ate, and bad days always ended in more eating.
Despite success in other areas of my life, the feeling that I couldn’t control my eating or my weight left me feeling ineffective and stupid for struggling with something that seemed like it should be straightforward and effortless.
My struggles with food meshed perfectly with a nagging belief that I needed to do more, that there was always more to accomplish and more to prove. Perfectionism, wanting to please, and the often unrealistic expectations I had for myself contributed to using food to fill voids, provide comfort, numb out, and manage stress.
What changed everything? Learning to listen - to myself and to my body. Shifting my mindset. Rebuilding trust and confidence in myself. Finally understanding how to pay attention to what was truly hungry inside me. This, and the work I've done with hundreds of women has shaped my approach and cemented my belief that freedom from emotional eating and overeating is absolutely possible.
Credentials and Expertise:
I bring decades of clinical expertise, deep empathy, and a unique understanding of high-achieving women to every coaching relationship.
What you should know about me:
Ready to Create Peace with Food?
My coaching and programs have helped physicians, executives, entrepreneurs, and caregivers around the world. If you're ready to stop obsessing over food and start living your fullest life, we should talk.
Working with Melissa renewed my sense of purpose. I discovered Melissa soon after I merged my company and became a partner in a large consulting firm. I was on an airplane every week (and) I was on a non-stop out of control roller coaster. I was working 80-hour weeks, I wasn’t sleeping and I was certainly overeating. I looked for solutions and found Melissa... She gave me the courage to take control. I found the exit door and never looked back. I have lost 40 pounds. I sleep. I have time for my family. I have started several new business ventures. So, now I am a Type A business woman on my terms.
- SUSAN SPAULDING | Coaching Client -
If you had asked me a year ago, I would have told you that so much of my energy was focused towards an obsession with food and my body. I was either thinking about what I ate, what I planned to eat, how much I disliked my body, thinking that if only I could get a handle on my eating, everything in my life would improve.
I had lost weight through dieting at different points in my life, but it never stayed off... Something has changed...
I am a full time financial advisor and mother of two. Since I began working with Dr. McCreery a year ago, I have increased my income substantially, still attend all of my children’s school events and sporting matches, my house is more organized than it has ever been … I am finally happy in my body. I have lost about 30 pounds, I eat whatever I want, stop when I am no longer hungry, and most importantly, the obsessions are gone. Gone are the mornings promising that I am finally going to be “good”, gone are the nights reprimanding myself for everything I did wrong, gone is the constant decision making about what to eat and when to stop.
- J. | Coaching Client -
Our Commitment to Anti-Racism:
Too Much on Her Plate is committed to anti-racism, diversity, and equity. We believe in lifelong learning and continual growth. We actively invest in anti-racist education and businesses, and we are dedicated to creating inclusive, compassionate spaces for all.
Looking for a trusted emotional eating coach or expert on how to stop emotional eating? You’re in the right place.