Food addiction counseling for the GLP-1 generation.
Behavioral food-addiction counseling and post-GLP-1 after-care. For members whose food noise quieted on tirzepatide or semaglutide but whose 11pm pattern stayed. The behavioral substrate the medication never addressed — read against the panel, the floor, and the recovery cycle.
Food addiction counseling at Wellness Elite Fitness is led by Najla Crawford, LPC — a Texas-Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of Practice for Behavioral Wellness. The practice focuses on the behavioral layer most weight-loss protocols skip: emotional eating patterns, binge-eating loops, compulsive eating behaviors, and post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care for members who lost weight on tirzepatide or semaglutide and need the substrate work the medication never did. One-on-one counseling plus The Reset Cohort — a twelve-week closed-group program. Located at 104 Whispering Pines Ave, Friendswood, TX 77546, serving the Houston metro.
The frame
The medication quiets the noise. It doesn't do the work.
GLP-1 agonists reshaped the field. Members come to WEF after losing weight on tirzepatide or semaglutide, panel cleaner than it has been in years, and tell us a version of the same sentence: the food noise quieted, but the eleven p.m. pattern stayed. Or: the medication did the weight, but the next time stress hits, the old loop runs anyway. Or: I tapered off and within ninety days I was back.
That gap is not a willpower failure. It is the absence of behavioral after-care. The medication treats the metabolic and appetite-regulation surface. It does not address the behavioral substrate underneath — the patterns that fired before the prescription and tend to fire again as soon as the appetite signal returns to anything resembling baseline. That substrate is what licensed behavioral counseling addresses, and what most weight-loss programs skip.
The work is not more discipline. The work is reducing the inputs that own your attention.
What the work is
Behavioral counseling for food behavior under load.
Najla's practice covers the full behavioral landscape around eating: emotional eating patterns, binge-eating loops, compulsive and restrictive patterns, the eleven p.m. cluster, post-GLP-1 rebound prevention, and the broader the wiring underneath of food behavior under load. Sessions are private, structured, and read against the biomarker panel and the training cycle. CBT-informed and trauma-informed approaches are used as appropriate.
The integration with the rest of the practice is what separates the work from solo LPC food-addiction offices. Dana Kantara reads the metabolic and inflammatory markers. The recovery suite handles the autonomic-nervous-system layer. The training bench programs strength and movement against the goal. Najla reads the the patterns and loops underneath. The four layers coordinate so the member is not getting four separate answers to the same question.
The Food Reset cohort
Twelve weeks. Closed group. Post-GLP-1 after-care.
The Reset Cohort runs twelve weeks for six members at a time. The Food Reset track is built specifically for the GLP-1 generation — members who used or are still using tirzepatide, semaglutide, or related agonists, and want the behavioral substrate worked while the metabolic surface is supported. Weekly seventy-five-minute group with Najla, biweekly one-on-ones, integrated with the panel, Oura HRV, and the coaching bench.
The structure pulls from the lineage of group-based behavioral weight programs. The original Weight Watchers meeting model — weigh-in, leader-led discussion, peer accountability, milestone recognition, the "no food is off-limits" principle — held three to four decades of behavior-change evidence. Jenny Craig in its 1990s form — personal consultant, weekly check-in, the let-us-get-personal frame — held a complementary lineage of one-on-one accountability. The Food Reset takes both, drops the consultant-script and points-system overhead, and replaces them with licensed LPC counseling integrated with the WEF cellular and training layers.
Vocabulary from the original programs
What the groups actually said.
The behavioral-weight-loss vocabulary that worked in the meeting era was deliberately not clinical. Phrases like "no food is off-limits", "the program", "leader" instead of "therapist" or "doctor", "weigh-in" as a structural anchor, "weekly meeting" or "workshop" as the cadence, "behavior change" instead of "diet", "habits" instead of "discipline", "non-scale victory" as a milestone marker, "lifetime member" as the long-arc identity, "support" and "community" as the structural reason it held, and "sustainable lifestyle" instead of "challenge". The Food Reset uses the same vocabulary discipline because the same principles still work — what changes is that the underlying counseling is licensed, the data is real (HRV, panel, DEXA), and the medication question is addressed directly rather than ignored.
Who it fits
For people who already know what to do and aren't doing it.
The Food Reset cohort is built for high-functioning members: executives, leaders, professionals, parents — people who have read the books, tried the apps, completed the programs, and still find themselves in the eleven p.m. cluster, the post-meeting binge, or the post-taper rebound. The cohort is closed, the size is small, the cadence is weekly, and the data is integrated. It is not a group therapy circle. It is a behavioral architecture program with a licensed counselor as the lead and a panel-driven longevity practice as the substrate.
Wellness Elite Fitness is a wellness facility, not a medical provider. The behavioral work runs under Najla's Texas LPC license. Prescription work — including GLP-1 prescriptions, contraindication review, and any psychiatric medication adjustment — runs through the member's own physician or through Dr. Chaudhari at the adjacent practice, Elite Aesthetic MD. The behavioral after-care does not replace medical care; it is the layer that holds when the medication has done what it can do.
How it works
What food addiction counseling looks like in Houston.
Food addiction therapy in Houston runs across three overlapping lanes. Specialized eating-disorder centers (residential, IOP, and outpatient) handle full-criteria eating disorders — anorexia, bulimia, severe binge eating disorder. General LPC and psychologist practices handle moderate-to-severe emotional eating, binge patterns, and compulsive eating with weekly outpatient sessions. Registered dietitians and nutrition coaches handle the food-and-meal-plan side, often without the behavioral-counseling layer.
Behavioral food-addiction counseling at Wellness Elite Fitness fits a fourth shape — licensed LPC counseling specifically built for the post-GLP-1 generation and for high-functioning members whose food behavior under load has been the persistent variable. The practice covers the behavioral architecture the medication does not address: the eleven-p.m. cluster, emotional eating loops, binge patterns that survived the prescription, and the post-taper rebound prevention work.
First session is forty-five minutes with Najla. We map what is actually happening, name the loop, set the cadence. Subsequent sessions are seventy-five-minute group (Food Reset cohort) or forty-five-minute one-on-one. Members on GLP-1 protocols can run behavioral work concurrently; members tapering off particularly benefit from the concurrent layer.
When to consider it
When behavioral food work is the right next step.
Behavioral food-addiction counseling fits when food behavior — emotional eating, binge patterns, compulsive eating, the eleven-p.m. cluster — is interfering with health goals and the standard advice — more discipline, fewer trigger foods, better meal planning — did not hold. It is the right call for members on or coming off GLP-1 protocols who want the behavioral substrate worked while the metabolic surface is supported.
Members typically consider behavioral food counseling when one or more of the following is true. They lost weight on tirzepatide or semaglutide and the food noise quieted but the underlying pattern stayed. They have a recurring eating loop they recognize but cannot interrupt. They have tried diets, apps, programs, and self-tracking, and none has held past the six-month mark. They are concerned about the post-taper rebound. Or the eating behavior has begun to spill into mood, sleep, or relationship landscape.
Behavioral counseling is not the right first step for full-criteria eating disorders requiring intensive outpatient, partial-hospitalization, or residential treatment. Members with active anorexia nervosa, active purging behaviors, severe binge eating disorder with medical complications, or significant medical instability are referred to specialized eating-disorder treatment centers in Houston before behavioral counseling is appropriate.
How it differs
Counseling. Nutrition. Medication. The lanes.
Houston runs four lanes for food-behavior work. Specialized eating-disorder treatment centers handle the acute and severe end. Licensed clinical psychotherapy — psychologists, LPCs, LCSWs — handles the moderate behavioral and emotional layer. Registered dietitians handle the nutrition and food-plan side. And medical weight-loss clinics (GLP-1 prescription, hormone optimization) handle the metabolic and appetite-regulation layer.
Behavioral food-addiction counseling at Wellness Elite Fitness is the licensed LPC behavioral layer, specifically built for the modern post-GLP-1 landscape. It is not eating-disorder treatment — members requiring that level of care are referred to specialized centers. It is not nutrition coaching — the meal-and-macro side is handled separately at WEF through Power Fit Meals with Kayla Straube. It is not medical weight loss — prescription protocols run through Dr. Chaudhari at Elite Aesthetic MD or through the member's existing physician. The behavioral layer sits in between, and it integrates with all of them.
Where it is
Serving Houston, TX from Friendswood.
Wellness Elite Fitness is located at 104 Whispering Pines Ave, Friendswood, TX 77546. The behavioral wellness practice operates by appointment.
Frequently asked
What members want to know.
Where can I find food addiction therapy or counseling in Houston, TX?
Wellness Elite Fitness at 104 Whispering Pines Ave, Friendswood, TX 77546 — twelve to twenty-five minutes from most of the Houston-south corridor — runs behavioral food-addiction counseling with Najla Crawford, LPC. The work covers binge eating, emotional eating, compulsive eating patterns, and post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care.
What is post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care?
For members who lost weight on tirzepatide or semaglutide and want the behavioral substrate addressed while the metabolic surface is supported, post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care is the licensed counseling layer that addresses emotional, compulsive, and habit-loop eating patterns the medication did not. The work is designed to prevent the post-taper rebound and to give the member a behavioral architecture that holds when the appetite signal returns.
Is Najla a psychiatrist or registered dietitian?
Neither. Najla is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas — in scope to provide assessment, counseling, and behavioral interventions for the eating-behavior landscape. Prescription medication and psychiatric evaluation route to the member's own physician or to Dr. Chaudhari at Elite Aesthetic MD. Nutrition coaching is handled through WEF's Power Fit Meals program with Kayla Straube.
What is the Food Reset cohort?
A twelve-week closed-group program for six members at a time, focused on post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care and the broader food-behavior landscape. Weekly seventy-five-minute group session with Najla plus biweekly one-on-ones, integrated with the biomarker panel, Oura HRV, and the WEF longevity stack.
Does this work for binge eating disorder or compulsive overeating?
Binge eating, compulsive eating, and emotional eating patterns are all in scope for the counseling practice. For members with a clinical eating-disorder diagnosis requiring intensive outpatient or residential care, Najla refers to specialized eating-disorder treatment centers. The Food Reset cohort and one-on-one counseling are designed for members whose patterns are sub-clinical or moderate, not acute.
What cities does Najla serve?
From Friendswood, TX 77546: 8–15 minutes from Pearland, 10–16 from South Houston, 12–18 from League City, 14–18 from Webster, 16–22 from Clear Lake, and 25–35 from downtown Houston via I-45.
Is there a binge eating therapist near me in Pearland or South Houston?
Wellness Elite Fitness in Friendswood is 8–15 minutes from Pearland and 10–16 minutes from South Houston. Najla Crawford, LPC sees members for behavioral binge-eating and food-addiction counseling on the standing weekly cadence or through the Food Reset cohort.
Do you treat eating disorders?
Najla provides behavioral counseling for emotional eating, binge eating patterns, compulsive eating, and post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care — the moderate behavioral end. Members with active eating disorders requiring intensive outpatient, partial-hospitalization, or residential care are referred to specialized eating-disorder treatment centers in Houston. The Food Reset cohort is not eating-disorder treatment.
What does behavioral food-addiction counseling cost?
Behavioral wellness sessions are bundled with Diamond Plus membership for members on the longevity track. Members at other tiers can access counseling on an add-on basis. The Reset Cohort runs separately on an enrollment-window pricing model. Specific pricing is reviewed at the scoping consult; Najla and the practice ops handle that conversation directly.
Can I do this counseling while on Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound?
Yes — and the concurrent layer is part of why the Food Reset cohort exists. The medication addresses the metabolic and appetite-regulation surface; the counseling addresses the behavioral substrate underneath. Members on GLP-1 protocols typically benefit from the parallel work, and members tapering off the medication particularly so.
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