Season 1 Episode 4 - What is Body Image Healing? With Vicky Bellman

**Vicky Bellman, BACP Integrative Humanistic Counsellor**

Founder of Concentric Counselling and A Modern Practice. Person-centred, trauma-informed, weight-inclusive counsellor.

This week’s guest is Vicky Bellman! Make sure to tune in next week for another special guest.

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Vicky is an integrative therapist with almost 10 years of experience, offering trauma-informed, weight-inclusive care for people primarily in disordered eating, eating disorder recovery, and body image healing work. She works in private practice at Freedom to Be Therapy, and runs her own practice offering a Health At Every Size ® approach to mental health work. She enjoys taking a swim in the sea, feeling embodied in herself, and helping others sit and accept the “hot potato” that life throws at them.

Vicky lives in Kent and offers a virtual clinic, and is currently training to become a Certified Intuitive Eating counsellor. She has a new project called A Modern Practice (@a.modern.practice) that aims to bring therapists, counsellors & coaches together to create a sustainable practice that helps not only patients, but also professionals.

I hope you enjoy listening to Vicky's expertise & insight...

In this episode we cover:

✨Not feeling at home in your body

✨How this culture oppressive and is hostile to many bodies

✨What is body image, and what then is body image healing?

✨World systems that oppress certain bodies

✨Why self compassion is so much deeper than social media suggests

✨Medicalised weight stigma + mental health professional weight stigma

✨The idea that “worries” are hot potatoes, and therapy helps build oven mitts

✨What actually is Health At Every Size ® ?

✨And Vicky’s starter tips to cultivating self-compassion + embodiment

Season 1 Episode 4 - What is Body Image Healing? With Vicky Bellman

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