Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing
Liz Brinkman, RDN
(she/her)
Registered Dietitian
On the Brink Nutrition Collective
Phoenix,
Arizona,
United States
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Takes Insurance
Sliding Scale Available
In-Network Insurance Companies:
- United Healthcare
- UMR
- Aetna
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- Eating Disorders
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
- Diabetes
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- Weight-Inclusive
- Fat Liberation
- Nondiet
- Intuitive Eating
Age Groups Served:
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
Additional Populations Served & Allied Groups:
- LGBTQIA+
- transgender and nonbinary folks
- BIPOC folks
- folks with Dissociative Identity Disorder
- neurodivergent individuals
Languages Services Offered In:
- English
- English
My Philosophy of Care
I believe in a weight-inclusive approach that focuses on personal behaviors while acknowledging factors that impact health that are beyond an individual’s control. I don’t recognize a specific weight as the key to lasting sense of wellbeing and health. I am here to help my clients discover their value & worth beyond food, body, and the scale, so they can find wellbeing from a place of inner knowing and interconnectedness versus external validation from a faulty and misguided set of standards currently espoused by the western medical-industrial complex.
From the first point of contact, whether it is from a referral or through our website, I make every effort to be clear and explicit about the weight-inclusive and Health at Every Size® framework that guides our work. I take into consideration medical history, GI concerns, laboratory data, medications, dieting history, and current relationship with food and movement. I examine the variables that are affecting the client’s sense of wellbeing as well as a variety of health markers. I help the client to discover barriers to change, clarifying values, and habits. Together and with consent, we examine societal norms, systems of oppression.
I meet with our clients virtually or in-person for one-on-one sessions to create a supportive plan. I take into consideration factors including ability-level, culture, trauma, socioeconomic status, barriers to accessing care.
From the first point of contact, whether it is from a referral or through our website, I make every effort to be clear and explicit about the weight-inclusive and Health at Every Size® framework that guides our work. I take into consideration medical history, GI concerns, laboratory data, medications, dieting history, and current relationship with food and movement. I examine the variables that are affecting the client’s sense of wellbeing as well as a variety of health markers. I help the client to discover barriers to change, clarifying values, and habits. Together and with consent, we examine societal norms, systems of oppression.
I meet with our clients virtually or in-person for one-on-one sessions to create a supportive plan. I take into consideration factors including ability-level, culture, trauma, socioeconomic status, barriers to accessing care.
About Me & My Practice
As a registered dietitian, I was formerly trained to offer a weight-centric approach to medical nutrition therapy. I completed my dietetic internship at a VA hospital and moved into my first job at a VA medical center. I worked within the VA health system for 15 years. I was always aware of the factors that affected my clients’ (veterans’) health and wellbeing - socioeconomic status, PTSD, disability, etc. Therefore, I left the weight centric approach behind almost immediately after starting my first job. It wasn’t until 2015 that I discovered that Health at Every Size® was even a thing. When I learned about it, it felt like a good fit and also validating that others were operating from a weight-inclusive framework.
My training for eating disorder recovery has been informed by Marci Evan’s clinician training and training from EDRDPro both are weight-inclusive and Health at Every Size® aligned. I also learn from Weight and Healthcare - Ragen Chastain and Nalgona Positivity Pride - Gloria Lucas.
My training for eating disorder recovery has been informed by Marci Evan’s clinician training and training from EDRDPro both are weight-inclusive and Health at Every Size® aligned. I also learn from Weight and Healthcare - Ragen Chastain and Nalgona Positivity Pride - Gloria Lucas.
Accessibility Considerations
At my group practice, our team of weight-inclusive RDs offer both in-person and virtual sessions. We offer sessions between 9am and 8pm during the week and sessions on the weekends. The seating in our shared waiting area will not comfortably or adequately accommodate folks in larger bodies. The seating in my office will adequately accommodate up to 400 pounds. The office is wheelchair accessible. No interpretation services available. No scale is visible in the office. There is a scale on sight (stored out of sight) that is used for clients who are recovering from malnutrition and weight trends serve as one of the helpful indicators of recovery/healing.