Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing

I approach my coaching from the belief that my clients are the experts of their bodies, and I hold that belief for them until they are able to believe it themselves. My coaching starts from an area of safety. My client’s worlds have typically felt very unsafe for many years and we take the time together to gently begin to unlearn what they have been taught to believe about themselves. I focus a lot on self-compassion and self-trust so clients can begin to climb out from under the shame that has been heaped upon them and begin to develop self-confidence and self-worth. My approach to health has primarily been shaped by my own experience of weight discrimination and anti-fat bias. I practice from a Health at Every Size framework because I believe all individuals, regardless of their weight or size, deserve respect and the same level of care and attention that would be provided to any other human being. I have suffered multiple instances of weight related medical trauma throughout my life and I feel very strongly about helping other women who have had similar experiences. I have learned to advocate for myself in the medical world and I want to help my clients do the same. I am also a firm believer that health is not some high moral achievement that everyone has a responsibility to attain. An individual's choice needs to be respected and access to care needs to be improved.I put Health at Every Size into practice by helping shift power back to my client.