Our Practice Values
We practice from a fat-positive, weight-inclusive lens that denounces fatphobia, weight stigma, and all discriminatory healthcare practices. We respect & celebrate body diversity across the body size spectrum, and never use intentional weight loss or restrictive eating practices as a treatment recommendation.
We welcome clients of all races, ethnicities, gender identities/expressions, sexual orientations, abilities, body sizes, and lived experiences. We honor that you are the expert of your experience, and that the identities you hold impact your experience in your body & in this world.
We aim to reduce the inherent power dynamic between clinicians and clients, and are here to be a member of your support team that stands alongside you on your journey. We prioritize building compassionate, trusting, therapeutic relationships, as we know that connection & community are vital pieces in the healing process.
We recognize and respect each person’s unique sensory and processing experiences in their bodies, and reject the idea that neurodivergent feeding differences and other abilities need to be “fixed,” “challenged,” or made to appear more neurotypical. We uplift each individual’s right for accessibility & accommodations that create and maintain safety in their bodies and experiences.
We acknowledge that health and well-being are much more complex than an individual matter and personal responsibility. To be truly well, we need community care, policy change, and abolishment of oppressive systems that harm everyone, especially folks in marginalized communities. Health and healthcare are political, and we refuse to look away from that fact. We continue to receive training, guidance, consultation, and supervision from clinicians & activists in marginalized identities to better align our practice in the collective fight for liberation for all.
We strive to take an anti-carceral, autonomy-centered, trauma-informed approach to care that prioritizes informed consent and client agency in all decisions in the care process. We utilize harm reduction strategies to keep you as safe as possible, while respecting your individual capacity & wants for your healing process. Coercion, contracts, and force are antithetical to healing and disrupt safety and autonomy.
Our Commitment
As nutrition and mental health clinicians that deeply care about our collective community well-being, we are passionate about dismantling the weight-centric, stigmatizing, and shaming aspect of our current healthcare model. We are committed to shaping a more inclusive world that values, celebrates, and cares for bodies of diverse shapes, sizes, races, abilities, and identities.
INSPIRD Nutrition and Mental Health Counseling is dedicated to being a fat-positive, Health at Every Size® (HAES) informed practice that strongly condemns all systems of oppression that harm the mental and physical well-being & safety of our fellow humans. Our clinicians are committed to anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ affirming practices that denounce ableism, healthism, transphobia, misogyny, and anti-fat bias in all aspects of care. It is important to disclose that these founding philosophies are not our own, but rather the liberatory work of Black and Brown social justice activists for centuries.
We do this work with most of our clinicians holding social unearned privileges as cis, white, able-bodied, straight-sized women. This lack of diversity in clinician identities is reflected in both the eating disorders & dietetics spaces, which are largely made up of white women. We recognize that this is a large barrier to truly helpful & affirming care, as it is vital that the clinicians in this space reflect the identities of those who struggle with eating disorders and the folks we work with - people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, body sizes, and lived experiences. In response to this, we find it crucial that our clinicians regularly receive clinical supervision from weight-inclusive practitioners who hold marginalized identities. We write this statement as a starting place to exemplify our commitment to making our practice, as well as our local healthcare spaces, a safe and equitable place for all.
It is also essential to acknowledge that health and self-care are much more complex than an individual matter and personal responsibility. Systems of oppression highly impact the well-being of all folks, particularly those in marginalized communities and identities. While we are deeply passionate about working with individuals on their self-care and healing journeys, we also recognize that there is an immense need at the community and greater systems level to provide access to well-being, healing, and liberation for all individuals. INSPIRD Nutrition and Mental Health Counseling supports and continues to partner with local and national organizations that strive to increase access to trauma-informed, inclusive, and affirming services in the mental and physical healthcare space.
At INSPIRD Nutrition and Mental Health Counseling, our commitment is to support you here in session, and to continue fighting for you out of session. Social justice is a non-negotiable part of truly helpful healthcare – we stand for you and alongside you.
Care for your wellbeing, together.
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