“Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.” -Rupi Kaur
Mission
Redefine Therapy LLC is a place that offers freedom and safety for those to take up space when the world has not given them permission to do so. Where individuals in marginalized bodies can receive the quality private practice therapy they deserve from a therapist who commits to working towards inclusivity, anti-racism, intersectionality, and a multicultural relational perspective.
Body Trust® is a strength-based, trauma-informed, scientifically grounded healing modality that encourages movement toward a compassionate, weight-inclusive model of radical self-care to address body oppression heal body shame and associated patterns of chronic dieting and disordered eating. Based on the clinical work of Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC, and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD, the approach is designed for multi-disciplinary helping professionals to make a shift from a weight-normative to a weight-inclusive approach to care that includes recognition of what helps address intersectional oppressions that have made “body trust” challenging, unsafe, or inaccessible.
Body Trust® is both a radical paradigm shift for helping professionals and a specialized, practical intervention for healing body shame and disordered eating that addresses internalized weight stigma and moves towards resilience and liberation from individual, cultural, and systemic body oppression.
Certified Body Trust Providers are multi-disciplinary professionals who have completed a rigorous and intensive training. They are dedicated to speaking on behalf of justice and inclusion. To become certified, Body Trust® Providers agree to not promote dieting, specific food philosophies, or promise weight loss.