Blackbird Counseling & Wellness, PLLC

10/13/2025

05/21/2025

Check out our website to access a list of neurodivergent resources carefully curated by our own Haley Savage

05/13/2025

ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS

05/07/2025

12 week senior support group starting in June.
Do you have someone in your life who is 65 years or older who could benefit from meeting virtually once a week for support, connection, and resources?

03/30/2025

No buy kitchen market Saturday, April 5th. 9 am to 1 pm. Please come and bring your no longer needed kitchen items and unopened food items. Building community through mutual aid is a beautiful thing!!!
Will you join us ?

05/24/2024

New books that have been read and approved by a counselor on staff at Blackbird. Purchase through our link on our bookshop page and our portion of the proceeds goes to fund counseling sessions for those who can’t otherwise afford them.

04/22/2024

If we are to change how we view and experience fat bodies, art is a beautiful place to start. bergen
sophie

Bunny Weller Designs on Etsy

are just a few of our favorite artists whose work appreciates and loves fat bodies.

04/20/2024

📚 Apologies for the delay, but we're excited to announce our first book of the month: "The Body Is Not an Apology" by Sonya Renee Taylor! This empowering read is a celebration of radical self-love and a powerful manifesto for fat liberation, aligning with our clinician's excellent post on the topic earlier in the month.

Whether it's a re-read or your first time, this book is a staple for anyone on the journey toward body positivity. Join us as we explore this transformative book together!

04/13/2024

Here are links to all the resources mentioned above. Of course this isn’t an exhaustive list, so please share your own favorites in the comments so we can learn from each other!

EDUCATORS

fatty





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ART/IMAGES




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HEALTHCARE
How to Find A HAES-aligned provider
https://www.torystrokernutrition.com/blog/how-to-find-a-haes-aligned-provider

HAES healthcare provider listing
https://asdah.org/listing/

Bare: Find fat-friendly doctors
https://barehealth.co/
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COMMUNITY
Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club
https://naafa.org/virtual-events/fat-fridays-virtual-social-club-april-2024

Fat Liberation Support Group
https://www.liberatingjasper.com/service-page/fat-liberation-support-group

Body Liberation Playground
https://www.hannahhusband.com/body-liberation-playground
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BONUS: Check out our website for a curated list of book recommendations…look for the section titled: Navigating the Relationship with Your Body
https://www.blackbirdcounselingandwellness.com/recommended-books

04/10/2024

Here at Blackbird_counseling, we provide therapy from a fat liberation lens. What does this mean? We talk about bodies and weight from a neutral perspective, offer clients opportunities to process the ways they have been hurt by anti-fat biases, recognize the ways anti-fat biases are centered in white supremacy, and prioritize a collaborative approach to dismantling the harmful value systems that try to dictate which bodies deserve respect and which don’t.

Anti-fat biases and discrimination are everywhere; it’s important that we provide clients a respite from the harm done by oppressive systems. Good news, though: you don’t need to be a therapist, or fat, to practice fat liberation. As puts it, “although it is designed to center the needs of fat people who have been marginalized from society, fat liberation is the work of ALL people.”

Stay tuned for educational and practical resources in our next post!

Sources/For deeper learning:
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925467/

https://www.joyproject.org/the-black-femme-history-of-the-body-positive-fat-liberation-movement/

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/news-weight-stigma #:~:text=It%20also%20increases%20risk%20for,R.%20M.%2C%20Obesity%20Reviews%2C%20Vol.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33079337/

11/01/2023

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Check out Dr. Fatima's YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/.fatima

Resource for Palestinian Solidarity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sLUKG5HwKtFZZXaPOT3venMDq9PnJ_NM5dFzAhTRt_Q/edit =h.obrbn3o9emhn

10/19/2023