In a world where diet culture is the norm, advertising for weight loss medications is everywhere, and medical discrimination against fat bodies is common, it’s a powerful act of resistance to accept your body as it is. I work with anyone who is ready to go down the road of body acceptance, no matter their body shape or size.

My approach is anti-diet and fat-positive. This means that I don’t promote dieting for weight loss and that I don’t believe that fat bodies are inherently bad or worse than other body sizes. If you’re my client, you don’t have to worry whether I’m secretly judging your body or your weight or that I am going to push you to lose weight or gain weight.

In my practice, you’re welcome just the way you are.

Read more about size-inclusive and anti-diet therapy here.

Health at Every Size ®

I adopt the Health at Every Size® (HAES®) approach. HAES® promotes wellbeing without focusing on weight loss and believes that weight, size or shape aren’t an indicator of health. Specific body shapes and weights shouldn’t be glamourised or demonised. 

In practice, this means that I do not believe that weight loss is the solution to the problems that fat people face in today’s society. I also do not suggest weight loss to my clients. The work we do together will be guided by skills and techniques that can improve your mental health, regardless of your current weight or body size.

Body Neutrality

While the body positive movement would like us to believe that we should always love and accept our bodies, I am a firm believer in body neutrality.

Body neutrality is a middle ground between body positivity (“I should always love my body no matter what it looks like”) and body negativity (“I hate how I look”). It’s based on the belief that your body is not the most important thing about you. It encourages you to accept and respect your body, rather than feeling hatred towards it.

For many, body neutrality is a more reasonable approach than body positivity, which can feel draining and discouraging when you have a hard time loving the way that you look.

Read more about body positivity versus body neutrality here.