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.