Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing
Max Stoddard, RP (Qualifying)
(she/her)
Psychotherapist
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
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Takes Insurance
Sliding Scale Available
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- Medical Trauma
- Fat stigma & liberation
- Practical living with HAES
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma, (C)-PTSD
- Concussion (TBI) mental helath recovery
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- Psychodynamic
- Jungian - Depth Psychology
- Trauma-informed
- Somatic/Sensorimotor
Age Groups Served:
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
Additional Populations Served & Allied Groups:
- ADHD
- People identifying as female
- Childless by choice
- Single by choice
- LGBTQIA+
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Languages Services Offered In:
- English
- English
My Philosophy of Care
My approach focuses on self-discovery, understanding, and self-love through exploration of your inner world and identifying connections across time and relationships. My approach is built on a foundation of liberation, bringing the impacts of systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, and identities that are often stigmatized in therapy, openly into the room.
I view psychotherapy as a practice, not a treatment. It is through this practice that our therapeutic relationship will grow, and we will begin to understand together what impact your identities and experiences have on present day suffering. Our therapeutic relationship will provide a sturdy and supportive environment. We will use symbol via art, dreams, divination, etc. to help bring the unconscious into the room. Understanding leads to awareness, awareness provides choices, choices enable change.
About Me & My Practice
I trained at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto (CTP). CTP is an intensive 6-year program which prepares trainees for the emotional competence needed to safely support clients psychodynamically. Beyond theoretical training, the program is experiential. I have pursued my own growth in therapy for the past 10+ years and come to the practice of psychotherapy at a mature age following the transition from a successful 25-year career in consulting and organizational leadership. Through my own therapy, my education, and my own experience and learning I have come to an understanding of living in a fat body as a revolutionary act that supports fat liberation and liberation for all. That act, just living, can also be deeply painful and isolation and it is important to me to offer a space where diet culture and fat stigma are not barriers to mental health support.
Accessibility Considerations
The in-person office requires the use of stairs and visitors may encounter other patients and practitioners who are not fat positive. The office is located within a 2 min walk from a transit stop. Seating is available to comfortably accommodate many bodies, up to and including Large Fat bodies.