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If you’ve previously struggled with social norms about weight and body-image, a fat-positive therapist can help. The Fat Acceptance Movement, founded on body positivity, inspires others to accept and even celebrate their fatness. However, seeing others love themselves is not always enough.

It could take help from a licensed, professional fat-positive therapist to help you improve your self-esteem and empower you to fully embrace and love your body just as it is. Whether you are located in downtown Palo Alto, the suburbs of Palo Alto, other nearby places such as Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or anywhere else in California, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Benefits of a Fat-Positive Therapist

Most therapists are equipped to help you sort through common problems like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. But when you’re fat, there’s a possible element of shame and social anxiety that can take over and effect your therapy experience.

In addition to providing traditional behavioral health treatment, a fat-positive therapist can provide:

  • A non-judgemental haven for you to articulate your feelings and problems.
  • Encouragement to improve your self-esteem and love yourself the way you are.
  • Practical methods and tips to help you cope with social stigma and anxiety.

For an example of how a fat-positive therapist can help, read licensed therapist Brianna Ramon’s tips for fighting back against fat-shaming culture.

Love Yourself with a Fat-Positive Therapist

Don’t let shame, low self-esteem, or social expectations drive you. Instead, see a fat-positive therapist to help you love yourself and your body. With Mental Health Match, finding a qualified fat-positive counselor or therapist is easy! Start by browsing experts below or by using our free therapist matching tool.

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Mary Dierenfield
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Figure out tangible ways to feel more regulated inside so that you can bring your true self forward. We will use mindfulness skills to grow presence, learn ways to be deeply compassionate with yourself, and embody your inner authority.


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Figure out tangible ways to feel more regulated inside so that you can bring your true self forward. We will use mindfulness skills to grow presence, learn ways to be deeply compassionate with yourself, and embody your inner authority.

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I am drawn to help clarify what is being said, from what desires to be said. My in depth orientation helps us to explore your inner landscape of self, especially the parts that are unseen and unspoken about.

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  • Confidence
  • Depression
  • Life Transitions
  • Perfectionism
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Pablo Baeza Breinbauer
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get curious about your story and what drives you, observing and rewriting the narratives of the vastness of your lived experience, gradually learning to hold the wounds, and leaving lots of room for play.


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get curious about your story and what drives you, observing and rewriting the narratives of the vastness of your lived experience, gradually learning to hold the wounds, and leaving lots of room for play.

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I like to work relationally and narratively, bringing in a creative, conversational and strengths-based lens. I specialize in working on identity formation, values and self-esteem, especially around ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation.

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  • Adult Children of Immigrants
  • Artists and Creative Personalities
  • Immigrants
  • LGBTQ+
  • Mixed Race
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Nicole Williams
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Work to resolve sexual issues, explore gender identity, improve intimacy and communication, overcome sexual stigma and shame, process sexual trauma, and gain education about healthy sexuality. You deserve to live a sexually fulfilling life!


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Work to resolve sexual issues, explore gender identity, improve intimacy and communication, overcome sexual stigma and shame, process sexual trauma, and gain education about healthy sexuality. You deserve to live a sexually fulfilling life!

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I utilize a strengths-based, person-centered eclectic approach. I will meet you where you are at and provide tools that are tailored to meet your individual needs. I offer various sex therapy interventions and psychoeducation to improve your sex life

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  • Anxiety
  • Couples
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William Lee
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Have a space dedicated to you and your parenthood experience and how it fits into your life. We can focus on the difficult things, things we rarely talk openly about, and most importantly, how to get through them.


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Have a space dedicated to you and your parenthood experience and how it fits into your life. We can focus on the difficult things, things we rarely talk openly about, and most importantly, how to get through them.

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Our sessions is to provide an experience for you. Meaning the experience of you being seen, processing and working through your emotions, beliefs and relationships, will be the key drivers to elicit healing and change.

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Jacqueline Esquer
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Take a collaborative approach, working together to find what tools, skills, and modalities that work best for you. I am committed to you getting the most out of our time together, and am always open to feedback.


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Take a collaborative approach, working together to find what tools, skills, and modalities that work best for you. I am committed to you getting the most out of our time together, and am always open to feedback.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am compassion-focused, trauma informed, and anti-oppressive. I consider myself a relational therapist, so our connection and rapport will be at the core of our work together.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Complicated Grief
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Grief
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Life Transitions
  • Trauma
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