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About My Clients
You are exhausted from the pressures that come with trying to fit your body into restrictive and impossible norms. You are tired of the constant yo-yo of restriction, dieting, and feeling bad about yourself. You want freedom and peace. I serve clients who are struggling with eating disorders, weight stigma, and/or simply wanting a better, more expansive and peaceful relationship with their body.
My Background and Approach
I am intentional, compassionate, and intersectional therapist. Throughout therapy we explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We examine your context and your history. We name and recognize social factors that may impact you, including sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and classism. I am an integrative therapist, which means I am trained in and utilize a variety of orientations and interventions. I am intentional with you and your context in mind when I choose an intervention or suggest a homework assignment. You can expect to feel both held and challenged in therapy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Please see my ethical statement for more details about my beliefs: https://www.chelseabuffumtherapy.com/ethical-statement I believe that your body deserves respect no matter what your size. I acknowledge that racism, homophobia, sizeism, transphobia, classism, ageism, xenophobia, and sexism are systems of violence that affect the way we relate to our bodies. Your wisdom and expertise, which include your desires, values, and experiences, are our most important guide. I view the therapeutic relationship as one of collaboration, rather than of prescription or manual. My work as a therapist focused on body liberation, body respect, body peace is incomplete and harmful without recognition and reflection on my privilege and the ways in which society harms and traumatizes folks of all lived experiences.