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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 Santa Maria, the suburbs of Santa Maria, other nearby places such as Ventura, Lompoc, 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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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.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Depression
  • Motherhood
  • New Parent
  • Parental Burnout
  • Parent-Child Relationship
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  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Skills
  • Postpartum
  • Single Parents
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Yohana "Joey" Barajas Hinojosa, AMFT, PCC
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Help you overcome the difficult times, patterns leading to Anxiety or Depression & healing from past Trauma. I will teach you coping tools, to voice your needs/feelings, to find the root of the problem & treat beyond the symptoms. Grow & be serene.


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Help you overcome the difficult times, patterns leading to Anxiety or Depression & healing from past Trauma. I will teach you coping tools, to voice your needs/feelings, to find the root of the problem & treat beyond the symptoms. Grow & be serene.

Something to know about my approach is:

I integrate some of my experiences, knowledge in the field, build your self-awareness in how you think and how you store your feelings in your body and emotionally "internally". You will learn how to take care of yourself better and LOVE yourself.

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  • Adjustment Issues
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  • Anxiety
  • Asian and Pacific Islanders
  • Attachment Issues
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • BIPOC
  • Biracial Women
  • Child Abuse
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Cultural Issues
  • East Asian Cultural Issues
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Grief
  • Healing From Relationships
  • High Anxiety
  • Immigrants
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Latinx
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Persistant Depressive Disorder
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Social Skills
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Chantel Bryson
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Work toward healing attachment wounds, trauma from childhood, grief, and other painful formative life events. We will create a space where emotions can be experienced safely. With your input, we’ll make a plan for your healing!


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Work toward healing attachment wounds, trauma from childhood, grief, and other painful formative life events. We will create a space where emotions can be experienced safely. With your input, we’ll make a plan for your healing!

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I love helping people to process and work through painful and traumatic events from the past and achieve peace and closure in their lives. I use cognitive behavioral techniques and EMDR to identify and work with unproductive core beliefs and trauma.

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  • Attachment Issues
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Family Trauma
  • Grief
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Dr. Kalana Greer
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Focus on what’s important to you and help you see blind spots to meet your life and internal goals more effectively.


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Focus on what’s important to you and help you see blind spots to meet your life and internal goals more effectively.

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Direct, solution-focused, and emotionally available.

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  • Academic Issues
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Childhood Issues
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Codependency
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Eating Disorders
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Family of Origin
  • Helping Professionals
  • Identity
  • Parenting
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Racism
  • Relationship Distress
  • Self-Esteem
  • Trauma
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Cate Parker
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gently bring awareness, curiosity and creative attention to the patterns and themes that show up in your relationships with others and the relationship you have with yourself so that you are empowered to live a more peaceful and enlivened life.


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gently bring awareness, curiosity and creative attention to the patterns and themes that show up in your relationships with others and the relationship you have with yourself so that you are empowered to live a more peaceful and enlivened life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that the things on your mind, however troubling or confusing they may be, are on your mind for a reason. I use a relational and somatically informed approach to help you move through pain and confusion and grow your inner resiliency.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Creatives
  • Depression
  • Eco-Anxiety
  • Gender Identity
  • Grief
  • Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)
  • Life Transitions
  • Relational Trauma
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexuality
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