Online Body Image Therapy in California
Tired of the Constant Struggle with Your Body?
Is the way you feel about your body getting in the way of you fully showing up and living your life? Do you live with body shame and worry about what other people think of your body, especially if it changes? Is your obsession with eating right and exercising really an obsession with trying to get your body to look a certain way?
It’s Time to Heal Your Relationship with Your Body
In our image-obsessed diet culture, it’s not surprising that you struggle with your body and want to change it. At Kindful Body in California, we know that body image issues can develop for many and sometimes complex and intersecting reasons. Sometimes pressure comes from family to look a certain way, other times the pressure comes from external forces like social media. Or past trauma, including bullying and sexual assault or oppression, can be the reason for body image issues.
The truth is changing your body won’t make your body image issues go away. In fact, in our experience, it only makes them worse. We know that you can heal your relationship with your body and can build resilience and community to weather any bad body image day storm that comes your way.
What Are Some Signs You Might Be Struggling With Body Image Issues?
00 Obsessing about one’s appearance.
00 Desire to lose weight or change the shape or size of one’s body.
00 Intense fear of weight gain.
00 Body checking behaviors, such as weighing yourself daily, pinching body parts, and toxic comparison to other people’s bodies. (Toxic comparison is any comparison that makes you feel shame about your body.)
00 Not showing up just as you are and engaging in activities because you are ashamed of your body or fear others will judge you.
00 Using one’s weight to determine one’s self-worth.
00 Confusing one’s self-image as one’s body image
00 Restricting food, disordered eating, such as an eating disorder, or yo-yo dieting.
00 Compensatory behaviors like excessive or compulsive exercise, laxative abuse, or purging.
Kindful Body Clinicians & Dietitians
“What we think, hate, loathe, and wonder about the acceptability of our bodies reach much further and impacts far more than our appearance. The long reach of body shame can impact who and how we love, work, parent, communicate and build relationships.”
Body Image Therapy in California Can Help You Heal the Your Relationship With Your Body
Kindful Body’s body image therapists and dietitians support adults and adolescents just like you. We know each person's body image issues are unique and make sense in context to their lived experiences. Our therapists know you weren’t born hating your body. Additionally, we know your body is trying to help you survive in this world just as it is.
Kindful Body Approach to Body Image Therapy in California
Our approach is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindful Self-Compassion, Brené Brown’s Shame Resilience Theory, Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size®, and Body Trust®. We address body image recovery holistically, seeing each person as multifaceted, like a beautiful gem. Working together we will guide you to piece together to make meaning of your body story and support you on your journey towards body liberation to love and accept your precious body as it is. Your body was never the problem – it's all the toxic messages from our diet culture as well as the systems in our culture that value some bodies over other bodies that are the problem.
We trust you and your body.
Doesn’t Everyone Struggle with Body Image Issues?
Many people believe it’s normal to feel shame about their bodies. They see people around them saying negative things about their bodies or trying to change them in some way. They don’t think their struggle with their body is bad enough to get help. But you don’t have a full-blown eating disorder, low self-esteem, or depression in order to get help for your body image issues. At Kindful Body, we can help you heal from feeling shame about your body and cultivate body image resilience to have a more peaceful relationship with your body. If you are struggling with your body image, you deserve to get help.
How Does Being Outside the Body Norm Affect Body Image Issues?
We know that black and brown, queer, fat, and old bodies that don’t fit inside the white, thin, young, cisgender, able-bodied ideal are seen as problems to fix by our culture. A part of us learns to objectify ourselves from an early age so that it seems normal to hate our bodies. Pressures from our culture (media, family, friends) often intersect with traumatic experiences, such as bullying, racial oppression, sexual assault, and have a direct impact on how you feel about your body.
So much of our body image work together will be grief work. We also help clients learn to put their anger where it belongs to their body and onto the systems that tell them that in order for their body to have value it needs to look a certain way.
All bodies deserve respect and care regardless of age, size, color, ability. Struggling alone with your body can be isolating, Kindful Body eating disorder therapists want you to know you don’t have to continue struggling alone. You no longer need to be at war with your body and with yourself. This is radical work, and we are here to support you through it.
Kindful Body’s Team Can Support You on Your Body Liberation Journey with Body Image Therapy
All of the clinicians at Kindful Body specialize in body image therapy in California. Working together we can support you to build resilience to keep yourself afloat in our culture that glorifies some bodies over others.
If you want to work on your relationship with your body, you can arrange to meet with one of them after completing a consultation.
End the battle against yourself and reclaim your joy.
Live with More Balance, Peace, and Ease with Online Body Image Therapy in California
How can we support you with body image issues, eating recovery, and more?
Contact us for a free 15-minute video consultation to find out how we can help. Body image issues can steal the joy from your life. Together we will help you build resilience to weather any bad body image day, so you can authentically show up as yourself. Your journey to peace with your body and a better future is just a click away. Our eating disorder therapists and dietitians can help!
Our offices are located throughout California via online therapy. We are conveniently located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Palo Alto. We can work with adults and teens throughout California. You can schedule a free 15-minute video consultation to learn how we can help you or your loved one.
Kindful Body Counseling can support you with eating disorder treatment and more.
You can continue to be stuck in the daily battle against yourself... or you can take your next step toward healing and loving yourself. There is hope — full recovery is possible. If you’re looking for additional support in online therapy practice in California, we offer other services. This includes eating disorder treatment for students and adolescents, eating disorder treatment, brainspotting for eating disorders, trauma therapy, anxiety treatment and stress therapy, therapy for binge eating, low self-esteem issues, and relationship therapy. We also provide support groups for those who need a little extra support in addition to their current therapy. When you’re ready, we are here to see you for eating disorder treatment in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Glendale, Pasadena, Marin County, CA, and statewide through online therapy in California.