Build Trust With Your Body. For Good.
Innovative Solutions for Healing For Therapists & Our Clients
Empower Your Clients to Build Trust with Their Body
Clarify Your Zone of Genius as a Therapist
Connect with Like-Minded Professionals & Thrive
You Belong Here.
The community of therapists you’ve been looking for.
It’s wrong that systems in our world (diet culture, systemic oppression) continues to disconnect you and your clients from your bodies – keeping you from showing up as the amazing humans you are. As a therapist, you get that there is a better way to live. But building trust with our bodies in today’s world can be scary – especially when you go it alone. The Innovative Therapist community provides the support you’ve been looking for to guide you in learning innovative solutions for healing for you and your clients so you can live the life of your dreams.
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How is The Innovative Therapist Different?
The focus is less on the exact strategies you use with your clients and more about building self-trust with how you show up in the room (and in your life). My approach uses my extensive professional and personal experience to help you confidently empower your clients to trust themselves above all else. Along the way, you will deepen your ability to listen to your body and continue to do your own healing work. The best part? You get to feel energized by your work and more engaged in the rest of your life.
Get The Results You Want For Your Clients
Without The Burnout
Empower Your Clients to Build Body Trust
Your clients have the ability to trust themselves. Learn to guide them there and they’ll be forever grateful. Primary modalities include Internal Family Systems therapy and weight inclusive approaches.
Clarify Your Zone of Genius as a Therapist
You have unique strengths and gifts to offer. Let’s help you work smarter, not harder by leaning into your Zone of Genius and doing more of the work that makes you come alive.
Connect with Like-Minded Therapists & Thrive
The world we live in makes it real hard to listen to our bodies and feel good. Connect with a community of therapists that are ready to lift you up and cheer you on as you move towards the life of your dreams.
Become the therapist you were meant to be. The Innovative Therapist community is ready to lift you up.
About Me
As a psychologist working with people with eating and weight struggles, I have seen how challenging, yet crucial, it is to learn to listen to our bodies.
To do so, we must better understand the ways we have learned to protect ourselves (e.g., diet mentality, self-doubt, perfectionism, overworking) and help those parts shift to even more valuable roles. I’ve witnessed the amazing things we can do when we are set free from this struggle.
As a person who has had many protective parts over the years (binge eating parts, overworking parts), I understand the parts that protect us from truly listening to our body and our deepest desires. I would love to help you find innovative solutions for healing so you can harness your unique strengths, confidently help your clients heal, and lean in with joy into the rest of your life.
Testimonials
To know her is to love her….
…that’s the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the name Shawn Hondorp. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Shawn for many years and she is hands down one of the most gifted educators that can break down the most complex topic in a way that makes it easy to understand while adding in a twist of humor along the way. Whether you are her patient, friend, colleague, or simply an acquaintance, Shawn brings her most caring self to every conversation. Her openness with her own diet experiences makes it easy to be transparent with her about your own struggles. I know this because I shared my health journey with her and I felt incredibly at ease sharing something so personal. The content she puts out on her blog are topics that truly speak to experiences I’ve had in my life and it’s so valuable to learn from someone with the credentials to be educating on this topic. Her podcast has exposed me to so many different elements of how I can approach my relationship with food that I’m constantly learning new things from listening to her content! Shawn is going to touch so many lives through her platform and it’s an honor to watch her use her passion to shift the diet mentality in our society!
-Maria Dunneback
I have known Shawn professionally for 15 years and she has always been passionate about helping others break free of the shaming diet culture. With her services, she is taking her years of expertise and widely disseminating it to be able to help as many people as she can. Shawn is a scientist who is relatable, down to earth, genuine, and caring. What you’ll get from her podcasts and services are unique and innovative psychological strategies that promote long-term health along with personal anecdotes that make you realize she deeply understands. Shawn not only helps us focus on health, but also gets us excited about life in general. Her podcast and courses are energizing and refreshing alternatives to the disappointing, unsustainable fad diets and trends that have long been sold as promising solutions for health.
– Dr. Sapna Doshi, PhD, Psychologist and Founder of Mind Body Health
“Shawn is putting forward research based approaches to unwind all of the confusing and destructive messages that are fed to us in the diet or ‘wellness’ industry. Thank you Shawn for sharing your wisdom and caring approach to tackling our demons.”
– Andrea U., Podcast Review
Empowering Workshops for Therapists
Are you unsure how to guide a client who wants to improve their relationship with food, but also wants to lose weight?
Our innovative workshops, retreats, and community learning groups will empower you to listen to your body, tune in to the work that lights you up, and serve people more effectively (without the burnout).
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DON’T GO IT ALONE
Helping people heal in today’s world isn’t a simple job. When it comes to learning about weight inclusive approaches to wellness, body trust, and healing from trauma, the resources (books, podcasts, trainings) are truly endless and more is coming out all the time. Come navigate the nuance with Shawn and this great community by your side. Because hurt happens in community, and so does healing and growth. You tell your clients to invest in themselves. It’s time to give yourself permission to do the same.
The Psychology of Wellness professional community is ready to welcome you with open arms and cheer you on every step of the way.
Become a Master in Guiding Clients Towards Self-Trust
Hone Your Unique Strengths & Zone of Genius
Work Smarter, Not Harder to Defeat Diet Culture
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