About the Practice

 

We are a telehealth group psychotherapy practice treating clients in California, Texas and Ohio. Our goal is to expand psychotherapy services to become more accessible for everyone, while delivering the highest quality of treatment and care. We take a multidisciplinary approach and work collaboratively with a treatment team of dieticians, psychiatrists, and medical doctors to ensure our clients are receiving comprehensive care. At our practice, we believe all bodies – no matter their size – have inherent value. We are clinicians who specialize in helping others heal their relationship with food and their bodies, but also have lived experience navigating this healing journey in our own lives. We understand how lonely the road can be and we’re here to remind you that you don’t have to do it alone.

We believe…

  • There are no good and bad foods.

  • Weight stigma is trauma.

  • Young girls must learn self-love and body appreciation.

  • Pain and heartache will teach us just as much as joy and love will.

  • The path of recovery is never straight.

  • Once you connect back to yourself, you will remember all the wisdom inside of you.

  • It’s important to get back up, time and time again to continue healing.

  • Humans thrive on connection and you are not alone.

  • All bodies are beautiful, including yours.

  • You are worthy and valued no matter what you do or do not achieve.

  • Boundaries are essential and powerful.

  • Life is about progress, not perfection.

  • There is a better life outside of diet culture.

  • You can live your life while loving your body, no matter its size.

  • Your heartache, your voice, and your story all matter. You matter!

The Health At Every Size® Approach

 

We use The Health At Every Size® (HAES) Approach established by the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH). It affirms a holistic definition of health, which cannot be characterized as simply the absence of physical or mental illness, limitation, or disease. Rather, health exists on a continuum that varies with time and circumstance for each individual. It leads with the notion that health should be conceived as a resource available to all, regardless of health condition or ability level, and not as an outcome or objective of living.

Pursuing health is neither a moral imperative nor an individual obligation, and health status should never be used to judge, oppress, or determine the value of an individual. The framing for the HAES® approach comes out of discussions among healthcare workers, consumers, and activists who reject both the use of weight, size, or BMI as proxies for health, and the myth that weight is a choice. It addresses forces that support health, such as safe and affordable access, and also helps people find sustainable practices that support individual and community well-being. The HAES approach honors the healing power of social connections, evolves in response to the experiences and needs of a diverse community, and grounds itself in a social justice framework.

Our practice follows the guiding principles established by The Association for Size Diversity and Health.

 

  • Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights.

  • Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information, services, and personal practices that enhance human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, and emotional needs.

  • Acknowledge our biases and work to end weight discrimination and stigma, as well as provide services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities have an impact.

  • Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than an externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control.

  • Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.