body liberation + health at every size®-aligned therapy in California

Become a Body Rebel.

You deserve to accept your body & disrupt the systems that hold you back. HAES®-aligned therapy can help you get there.

If you’re here looking for HAES®-aligned therapy you might:

  • feel unhappy in your bigger body and want to find a provider who won’t shame you

  • really resonate with the HAES® principles on a deep level

  • feel tired of providers who (perhaps unknowingly) reinforce negative body image with diet culture comments

  • wish you had a therapist who really ‘gets’ you 

  • feel ready to approach your body image healing from a place of true compassion and acceptance

  • long for a space that welcomes and honors your body as it is right now

You’ve already pushed away diet culture and you intellectually know it’s been hurting your relationships and your connection to your true self. Focusing on body acceptance in therapy helps you embody the knowledge you’ve gained through rejecting diet culture and more deeply experience belonging as you are right now. Living in a fat body is outside of the norm and it makes sense that we would run into some snags as we go against the current. 

Challenging those inner tugs to lean back into diet culture helps to solidify your core belief system of body acceptance, compassion, and care for all bodies.

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You deserve freedom & relief from diet culture. Through HAES therapy, you can and...

  • build more confidence in yourself

  • learn how to set self-affirming boundaries (and hold them!) 

  • deepen your understanding of how Body Liberation and the HAES® principles support your sense of autonomy and belonging

  • the tools to cope with inevitable run-ins with diet culture

  • grow in compassion for yourself

  • find a sense of calm and ease with your body

  • rebel against the systems that have harmed you

health at every size aligned therapy for body liberation

Working with a HAES®-aligned therapist is unique because:

  • you are never judged in for your body size

  • no assumptions will ever be made about your health or lifestyle

  • you are the expert in your experience

  • body diversity is celebrated and valued

  • we’ll honor that systems of oppression are problematic, not you.


HEALTH AT EVERY SIZE® (HAES®) APPROACH

The Health at Every Size paradigm supports the idea that we cannot know anything about someone’s health just by looking at their body. Health is not considered a moral imperative and does not determine a person’s right to respect, dignity, and access to the same resources as any other person. My therapy practice honors this paradigm and celebrates body diversity. We all deserve to be valued and respected in our bodies as they are today.

*Health At Every Size and HAES are registered trademarks of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and used with permission.

Meet Your Therapist & Fellow Body Rebel:

I’ve personally experienced the impacts of fatphobia and diet culture in my own body & food healing journey. I’ve had providers invalidate, misunderstand and make assumptions about me based on my body. This has sparked a passion for truly embodying body acceptance with my clients and helping them find liberation & empowerment in their bodies.

Ready to say “f*ck you” to diet culture? I’ve got your back!