“Working with her has shown me that facing up to the not knowing - and seeing what we are capable of creating - is so much better for so many more of us.”
Consulting for Professionals
Individual Clinicians:
Critical thinking in your clinical or coaching approach
Rethinking your clinical approach
Recognizing hidden biases
Eating disorders/disordered eating consultation
Working with BIPOC clients
Working with BIPOC staff
Weight inclusive and fat-positive work
Trauma informed care
Moving away from more structured modalities with points, exhanges, steps, etc.
$200/hour; BIPOC clinicians can inquire about sliding scale if needed.
Bodies are inherently political, especially those that don’t conform to what society deems worthy and desirable. I have seen the positive impact that comes from people daring to demand they be seen and heard. Anytime someone disrupts the dominant narrative about bodies, it is activism. Being visible is often our biggest act of resistance.
Organizations-topics include: Making fat activism and anti-racism as a core value, centering those most marginalized in your work, weight bias in eating disorder treatment, differentiating between a binge and compensatory eating, working with eating disorder clients at the higher end of the weight spectrum, weight bias in the atypical anorexia diagnosis, examining the limitations of an intuitive eating framework, working with fat positive dietitians. Additional topics as requested.
Testimonials
“After those early years of training, many of us in health care welcome a sense of basically knowing what we are doing. But there are people who can see the gaps between our talk and our walk - gaps that are much more visible to the people our systems ignore and marginalize. Once we stop denying that those gaps exist, our work is to go back into that itchy place of not knowing, to listen and learn and build better options.
For me, Jessica has been one of the most important people to challenge my complacency. She creates the best kind of problem for me, in both my activism and in the health care systems in which I work, asking not just “who is not at the table?” but “how can the table provide if people were not consulted in the building of the table?” Working with her has shown me that facing up to the not knowing - and seeing what we are capable of creating - is so much better for so many more of us.”
““Jessica is a rare gem among RDs. She is both practical and scientifically factual while being body AND food positive. She recognizes that our relationships to our bodies and the foods we put in them are political, and brings understanding and compassion to clients working with entrenched toxic social conditioning and internalized oppression. She pushes clients to make changes— challenging denial, false beliefs, and behaviors impeding recovery.
As a provider, it is hard to find dietitians I can confidently send my patients to without fear that the same disordered beliefs and behaviors I am treating them for will be reinforced and validated. With Jessica, I trust that her clients are in knowledgeable, firm, and compassionate hands, and that they have support to make the kind of behavioral changes necessary to develop a healthy and whole relationship with food, in whatever form their body may be.””
“I worked with Jessica for years at a specialized clinic for clients with eating disorders, and her expertise was invaluable! As a practitioner, she’s consistent, caring, and able to push her clients, and as a colleague she challenged our team to think more inclusively and strive to make our clinic accessible for clients in all bodies. My clients of color and larger-bodied clients found her approach particularly refreshing and helpful, as Jessica worked to center multicultural factors while always ensuring that, ultimately, the eating disorder voice gets noticed and challenged.”
“I have known Jessica as a community leader and friend for over 6 years. I got to know her first as HAES-informed dietitian that served on our advisory board for a community clinic intervention for older queer women. She contributed her expertise to the nutrition components of curriculum and helped keep our curriculum and the research intersectional in its design and dissemination.
Later, we worked together in another community group (HAES’d & Confused) that Jessica founded to push back against the problems that she and others saw with HAES. Jessica pushed members of that group to think about the ways that white supremacy and colonizing notions of health ran central to HAES in much of the mainstream research and professional communities. She eventually lead the group as it shifted to one that centralized the voices and experiences of those at the intersections of fatness, queerness, and disability. Supporting these groups shifted my thinking in my own research and activism and I’m grateful for Jessica’s leadership and friendship every day.”