A HAES-aligned practitioner for people done with weight-centric care.

What HAES means.

Health at Every Size (HAES) is a weight-neutral framework for health and wellbeing. The core idea: you can pursue health at any body size through behaviors and care, rather than through trying to make your body smaller.

HAES is not the claim that everyone is healthy at every size. It’s the claim that weight is the wrong target for health pursuit. The framework points to decades of research showing that:

• Most diets fail long-term
• Weight cycling itself is associated with worse health outcomes
• Weight stigma is an independent health risk
• Health behaviors (movement, nutrition, sleep, stress, social connection) produce real health improvements at every body size

In 2024, the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) released an updated HAES framework that grounds the principles in healthcare access, anti-fat bias work, and recognition of health as a sociopolitical construct.

I’m HAES-aligned, which means I work from this orientation in everything I do — never prescribing weight loss, never weighing clients, never using weight as a health metric.

Why this matters.

Most healthcare in the US is weight-centric. Doctors prescribe weight loss for nearly everything. Patients in larger bodies routinely report being denied care, dismissed, or having symptoms attributed to weight instead of investigated.

HAES-aligned care does the opposite. It treats the patient, not the weight. It investigates symptoms instead of defaulting to “lose weight.” It supports actual behaviors and care patterns that produce real health outcomes — and it does so without the harm caused by weight stigma and chronic dieting.

For clients who have spent years inside weight-centric care — or worse, inside the diet industry — working with a HAES-aligned practitioner is often the first time they’ve encountered a health professional who doesn’t treat their body as the problem.

What this looks like in our work.

• We don’t weigh you
• We don’t talk about weight loss
• We don’t prescribe diets
• We don’t use BMI as a clinical metric
• We work on behaviors and care patterns that produce real health (movement that feels good, eating that nourishes, sleep, stress management, mental health, healthcare access)
• We address weight stigma you’ve internalized as part of the work
• We support your relationship with food, your body, and your nervous system

How I work.

My practice integrates three things:

• HAES as the broad health orientation
• Intuitive Eating as the day-to-day food framework
• Motivational Interviewing as the conversational approach

I work entirely virtually with clients across the US. All coaching happens on Google Meet, with voice memo support between sessions in my longer programs.