UNMASKED
A provider support group For neurodivergent dietitians and therapists who want to become more of themselves in their work.
Who is this group for?
This support group is for dietitians and therapists navigating their neurodivergence (self-diagnosis is valid!). In a professional world rife with ableism, navigating an invisible disability can be lonely and shame exacerbating. You are not alone. This group is to be seen in the places we are often not, both in the work that we do in our career and all of the invisible ways we struggle with professional standards, rules that don’t make sense, and the ways that our shame narratives collude with internal and external ableism to make it feel hard to keep doing our already incredibly taxing work.
You also deserve support and care.
What is this group about?
In this group we will explore what it is like to navigate a field that upholds hustle culture and perfectionism over being unabashedly human, as we navigate these extraordinary times. We will explore what it is like to wrestle with our own internalized ableism as we hold space for our clients and help them to unwind from systems of oppression as an integral part to their own healing.
We will explore what comes up for us as we start to unmask with our clients, sharing parts of ourselves that professionalism has taught us to button up and bury. We will vent, virtually hold each other, share strategies, and explore the place between permission and safety when it comes to unmasking, unfurling, and unraveling into our whole humanity as we support others in their own healing paths.
Hi, I’m Virginia and I’ll be facilitating our group!
Your facilitator has been in practice as an Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for 8 years and has been an eating disorder dietitian in private practice for 7 years, working in many collaborative environments before going it alone in 2020 as “the Radical Dietitian”. As a neurodivergent human with ADHD and CPTSD, navigating chronic pain and a body that needs a lot of care and attention, I understand my experiences of trying to keep up with hustle culture and systems that don’t consider the neurodivergent brain or non-able body, from first a lens of immense all consuming shame to a lens that sees the struggle from a systemic perspective (and continues to grapple with internalized shame narratives). She is passionate about progressing the field of eating disorder care to one that is trauma informed, fat liberatory, and anti-oppressive to the bone minerals, in order to create a world where bodies feel safe and welcome. She is white, queer, cis-female survivor, cat mom, dancer, gardener, dink around-er who loves to cook and slangs slapping potatoes and deeply delicious meat products (beef, lamb, pork) for Olsen Farms at the Seattle farmer’s markets.
My values and beliefs around healing are that we are always in process, there is no right or wrong way, and that the more of ourselves that shows up the more effective, grounded, and supportive our work to others is. I believe that relationship is the foundation and the entity that moves us forward, relationship to ourselves and relationship to our clients.
Ready to join?
Sept- Oct 2024 Fridays 12-1:30 PST
We have space for 6 participants in this group
Cost: $400.00 for 8 week group
(50.00 per session)
Dates: September-October
**payment is due at registration, payment plans are available
