Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing
Karen Louise Scheuner, MA, RDN
(she/her)
Dietitian/Nutrition therapist
Napa,
California,
United States
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Sliding Scale Available
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- Fertility/Prenatal/Postnatal
- Perimenopause/Menopause
- Family support
- Body image
- Eating disorders
- Chronic dieting
- Gut health
- Heart health
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- Body Trust
- Intuitive Eating
Age Groups Served:
- Children (birth through 12 years)
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
- Children (birth through 12 years)
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
Languages Services Offered In:
- German
- German
My Philosophy of Care
I meet clients where they are in their health journey. Health is a very complicated issue and we are all unlearning from systems of oppression and healthism as well. I believe "health" is overrated in the traditional sense and that "health" is so much more than what we perceive on the outside, i.e. body size, etc.
Health is more symbolic than what we have been led to believe in the dominant weight centric paradigm.
I believe healing from food and body struggles are social justice issues and we must look at them from the lens of systemic oppression. I consider myself a 'fat ally' and will always speak up and defend my larger bodies friends, colleagues and clients if/when these assumptions are projected unfairly onto them.
I believe healing from food and body struggles are social justice issues and we must look at them from the lens of systemic oppression. I consider myself a 'fat ally' and will always speak up and defend my larger bodies friends, colleagues and clients if/when these assumptions are projected unfairly onto them.
About Me & My Practice
I've been a dietitian for 19 years. I have always been in the EDO and HAES® area. I know Deb Burgard and attended some of these events before social media exploded. That said, my traditional training is steeped in weight bias and I have had to do a lot of unlearning. I most recently completed a year long training with Hilary and Dana at the Center for Body Trust. I have treated hundreds of folks that identify as fat. A lot of them have told me that I am the first dietitian that kept telling them to 'make sure you get enough to eat' and how incredibly healing that message has been for them when they are used to providers assuming that they eat too much based on negative stereotypes. I consider myself a fat ally after my cousin (who identified as fat his entire life and struggled with dieting and an eating disorder) took his own life. I know he was teased as a child and adult and weight stigma killed him. I will fight for him and for so many others.
Accessibility Considerations
I have a mostly virtual practice but my home office has wide and comfy couches that fit larger bodies.