About us
Mission: Wilder Wellness aims to help our clients build confidence, connection, and trust in the relationship they have with their minds and bodies. Through individual therapy, education, and community Wilder Wellness empowers individuals to define well-being on their own terms so they can lead purposeful, passionate, and adventurous lives.
Vision: To impact our communities by offering inclusive care for all bodies. We want to lead the way in offering modern, trauma-informed, and approachable care so that clients can authentically thrive and banish stigma by creating awareness of, appreciation for, and acceptance of mental health self-care.
Values
Connection
Therapists at Wilder Wellness build therapeutic relationships through collaboration, creativity, and warmth. We are here to meet you with authenticity and compassion and engage in the therapeutic process in a way that is uniquely tailored to you. We believe that connection, safety, and trust are the most important factors to create lasting change.
Inclusion
Wilder Wellness recognizes and honors diversity including size, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, religion, and abilities. We as a company are committed to the long-term commitment and process of diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
We work from a Health at Every Size Approach, and are influenced by relational cultural theory, self-compassion, shame resiliency, and pleasure activism, and work towards helping people understand the oppressive nature of diet culture and weight-centric models of health care.
Community
We believe in the power of shared experience in the healing journey. Many mental health diagnoses and eating disorders thrive in isolation. Wilder Wellness works to facilitate therapeutic groups and experiences to fight the shame and stigma that is often paired with this work.
Wilder Wellness is also committed to serving individuals in our communities by being an insurance-based practice and reducing barriers to care.
Individualized Self-care
Wilder Wellness believes that true healing and well-being are unique to each individual. We aim to help our clients create and maintain practices that work for them and stray away from a "one size fits all approach".
As a company, Wilder Wellness is committed to supporting clinicians in approaching the work in a way that is sustainable. We celebrate our clinician’s hobbies, interests, and creativity and believe in fostering a balance of clinical work and life out of the therapy chair.
Am I the right fit?
Therapists at Wilder Wellness work with clients to address a number of different concerns. As a team, we are connected by a belief that the relationship we have with our bodies impacts our overall mental health and daily lives. We work with clients around disordered eating, and negative body image as well as other issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, family dynamics, perfectionism, life transitions, general stress and overwhelm, ADHD, and self-esteem. We offer general counseling along with our focus in disordered eating and body image.
Disordered Eating and Negative Body Image
The impacts of disordered eating and negative body image can be overwhelming and often difficult to navigate on your own. If you resonate with the information below, you may benefit from individual therapy.
Disordered Eating
Disordered eating exists on a spectrum, if you find yourself thinking about food and your body 24/7 and you experience significant stress around food and or your ability to exercise, it’s possible that you could benefit from support.
Some common signs of disordered eating include losing touch with your body’s hunger & fullness cues, consistently under-eating, overeating, or oscillate between the two, feeling anxious about not tracking food, viewing food as “good” or “bad”, exercising to punish or change your body, avoiding social situations that might involve food or planning your life around meals.
Eating disorders often include extreme restriction or compensatory behaviors around food that causes immediate danger to your life. To learn more about the diagnostic criteria for eating disorder please learn more here.
Due to the dangers of eating disorders I do not work with clients who are significantly restricting their food intake, or engaging in compensatory behaviors on a regular basis. In this case you may be a candidate for a higher level of care.
During our initial consultation, we can discuss appropriate levels of care and recommendations.
Negative Body Image
Body image is the perception you have of your body as an individual and in comparison to the outside world. It is common for many of us to attach our worth to our appearance and size of our body. If you are struggling from negative body image it is likely that you find yourself consumed by thoughts about your body and appearance. Negative body image can lead to social isolation, disconnection, and a decreased quality of life.
Negative body image impacts how you take care of yourself, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Perhaps you’ve put off taking care of yourself, engaging with your values or purpose, or pursuing different passions until your body “looks right.” The danger of this type of behavior is spending your entire life on a quest to “fix” your body, and never truly engaging with it.
If you don’t feel present during your life, because so much of your brain space is occupied by your body and appearance, and you are wanting to feel a deep connection with yourself and your body therapy in this area could be helpful.
It is possible to feel more present, at peace, and joyful in your body right now.