Thanks, Steph for compiling this great list! This is a list of some health professionals that some fat people have deemed fat friendly or who declared themselves fat friendly, and some other web sites listing fat friendly health professionals. The list is arranged alphabetically by country, state, and city. Please add your size-friendly doctor to this list.
Get the information and support you need to build your best life. With over 20 years experience as a psychotherapist, Kelly is size-friendly and skilled in helping you find the solutions to the problems in your life. Weight issues and weight focus are often a diversion from other issues that need attention. Yes, focus on your healthy eating, self-care, and healthy living. Also reduce depression, improve relationships, learn to know and like yourself. Kelly will design a plan that you can afford. Together you can work it out! 610-394-2547 (only $30 / half hour)
I decided to sit down and write a one-page letter describing my history of being fat and dieting, my health management approach to my own weight, and what I expect from my doctor in regard to my weight and my health. I then took three copies of the letter into the doctor's office with me. I had the nurse put one of them in my chart. I handed the second one to the doctor..."
Bulimia.com specializes in information about eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder; Plus related topics such as body image and size issues. We offer books at discounted prices, many free articles about eating disorders, newsletters, links to treatment facilities, organizations, other websites, and much more.
Wichita Counseling and Coaching Center offers counseling and coaching for women in Wichita, KS. You can learn to be happier, calmer and more resistant to stress. If you want to have a calmer, happier, more successful life, you have found a safe and comfortable place to start activating those dreams.
Lindy Griffin, DO, a Seattle family physician, tries to focus on fitness rather than weight when talking with overweight and obese patients about what is often their most pressing health concern. But she also respects patients' wishes if they don't want to be weighed or discuss the problem at all. Contact Dr. Griffin at 206-623-7940
Providing psychotherapy for the past 21 years and training professional therapists for the past 19 years, Judy currently specializes in treating eating disorders, trauma survivors, and working with couples and families. She helps you stay clear and focused so you can better access your inner strength and wisdom.
Elizabeth Fisher reports: "I go to her with another supersize friend. She is always respectful and size-friendly. So is her nurse, who is also a BBW. The table can be a little hard to get on, but they have a special table that's more like a chair. Ask about it if you have problems getting on the table."
Elizabeth Fisher reports: "She's very understanding and sees people, not sizes. She is also latex-allergic so her office is latex-free, if you're sensitive to it too."
Corinne, a big beautiful woman herself, helps clients with size, self-esteem, life, family, emotional and other personal problems. Contact info is 630/263-8888 or crkalat@aol.com Her size-friendly office is size-friendly, comfortable, easy-to-find and conveniently located. In-person and phone counseling is available. Cory is known as the counselor to call when you don't know which way to turn.
We are health professionals specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. The purpose of the Consortium is to provide comprehensive outpatient care to those individuals and families struggling with an eating disorder.
We provide consultation, workshops, and resources for health professionals, community agencies, and schools. We work within a Health at Every Size approach.
Elizabeth Fisher reports: "Dr. Field is a diabetic himself, so he understands it on a personal level. He's size friendly, and his nurse Sherry is wonderful! Several of my friends go to him, and he got a large blood pressure cuff as soon as we started going there. He can also be stern if he feels he needs to be, but overall I'm very pleased with his abilities."
Elizabeth Fisher reports: "Comfortable seats, will not give you any trouble if you do not want to be weighed, and will treat the problem, and not focus the entire visit on weight loss."
How do we redefine feminine beauty to make it more inclusive? How do we combat the damaging media messages and distorted cultural ideals about women and beauty? How do we show our daughters, sisters, friends, mothers and grandmothers the power in naming their own beauty? Self-acceptance is the first step. Come to one of our seminars.
Self-acceptance and self-esteem seminars for large women explore ways in which fat women are marginalized and stigmatized - We discuss ways to combat the stigma and rebuild self-esteem.
1 Great list of size-friendly doctors and health professionals 
A change for the better: Lifestyle coaching by PHONE with Kelly Bliss M.Ed., A.C.E. 
"Letter to a Doctor" by Hanne Blank, author of Big Big Love 
Terrific, comprehensive eating disorders resources - Help for bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder 
Counseling, Wichita KS by Susan Huebert, L.S.C.S.W. 
Dr. Lindy S. Griffin - Focus on fitness rather than weight 
Peggy Elam, Ph.D. 
Specializing in women's issues and eating and body image problems - Judy Lightstone, Licensed MFT