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Trusted Wellness Partners of WHP Studios
At WHP Studios in Andersonville, Chicago, we believe optimal health is achieved through a holistic approach. While we specialize in progressive strength training and functional fitness, we proudly refer our clients to local experts who offer complementary services in nutrition, physical therapy, chiropractic care, and mental health. These providers share our values of inclusivity, compassion, and evidence-based care.
Please mention WHP Studios when reaching out.
BOOKS
Lifting Heavy Things, by Laura Khoudari
is a leading trauma-informed wellness author, speaker, and practitioner empowering change in folks’ wellness approach.
Her unique story, in unison with her training and expertise, helps her to inspire and enable people to live a full lifestyle in accordance with their own unique definition of wellness.
As a trauma-informed wellness practitioner, Laura seeks to support folks living with and healing from trauma in living a full lifestyle that is aligned with their own values, goals, interests, and strengths and is balanced among eight areas of life: physical, social, emotional, environmental, occupational, spiritual, financial, and intellectual.
Laura's work has been widely recognized by the trauma and wellness community, and she has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, Buzzfeed, UpWorthy, Outside Online, Medium, Vice, and Nike.com. She has presented her work for Somatic Experiencing International, The Breathe Network, Reebok, Les Mills, Fitness4AllBodies, and conferences, schools, and fitness studios in the US and Canada.
NOURISHMENT WORKS
We have a special niche, we are all trained in disordered eating recovery and body reclamation work.
We passionately work from the framework of Health at Every Size® (HAES) and the intuitive eating principles.
We are a group of individual practitioners, yet we collectively work as a team and consult regularly together, providing exceptional peer support. This, in turn, gets passed along to our clients.
Together as a team and individually, we do our own personal work to challenge our fatphobia, biases, and the dominant narratives of diet culture.
As a team we work with volunteers and interns to expose, promote, and teach the non-diet approach to wellness because we are enthusiastic about sharing this knowledge.
We trust and believe in the wisdom of your body!
NUTRITION BRAVED
At Nutrition Braved we have a team of registered dietitians and nutritionists specializing in eating disorders. We are passionate about honoring HAES® (health at every size) and fighting chronic diet culture.
We understand nutrition can be a daunting, confusing, and frustrating topic and are here to help you have a relationship with food without rules, judgments, or obsessions. Our goal is to help you feel more at peace with your relationship with food and to realize a more enriched life with time and space for what you enjoy.
EATING DISORDERS & INTUITIVE EATING
BIRCH TREE PSYCHOTHERAPY
At Birch Tree Psychotherapy (Chicago, Northwest Suburbs), we provide general mental health care, with a focus on outpatient eating disorder treatment. Our team provides outpatient size and gender-inclusive treatment to adults, youth, & families.
We are wholly committed to weight neutrality, body liberation, and radical self-acceptance. Therefore, our therapists work within an intersectional feminist, Health at Every Size (HAES) framework.
MINDFUL SOUL, LLC
I know what it's like to be stressed about food and body image. At the height of my disordered eating, these thoughts were all-consuming. After many years of struggling, my body couldn't do it anymore. At just the right moment, I came across an essay by Kelsey Miller, "What Happened When I Started Intuitive Eating."
Reading this changed my life in the best possible way. I started working with a therapist and began a long, challenging, and meaningful journey of learning how to trust my body.
Now, my true passion is helping people find peace with food, their bodies, and within themselves. I can help you get back to your most authentic self and feel freedom.
DOHERTY NUTRITION COUNSELING SERVICES
Our disordered eating & eating disorder dietitians at Doherty Nutrition use the counseling principles of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, weight-inclusive care, and medical nutrition therapy to guide you on a path to food freedom and body liberation. Whether you’re struggling with body image, relationship with food, or other food-related issues, we’re here to help you in your food journey and to start or continue your eating disorder recovery.
PHYSICAL THERAPY & CHIROPRACTIC
LAKESIDE SPINE & WELLNESS
Lakeside Spine & Wellness is dedicated to providing progressive, evidence-based care with individualized treatment plans for each of our patients. Our passionate and skilled providers are able to quickly classify a patient’s symptoms and pain using Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT), and give the proper in-office and home self-treatment they need, therefore quickly fixing the root cause of the problem and not just masking symptoms! We pride ourselves in fast, effective treatment plans with future prevention at the core!
RE: CHIROPRACTIC + WELLNESS
Picking a chiropractor is hard. They’re all so different, you don’t know what to expect, you’re not even sure this is right for you. Maybe you’ve been judged, body-shamed, misgendered, or had your concerns brushed aside by doctors before. Maybe you think chiropractic is for fit folks who run marathons and do juice fasts, who never eat M&M’s or drink too many martinis. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I have an “all bodies are good bodies” philosophy. No matter the body you’re working with or the lifestyle you are living, you are welcome in my office, and this is a fine place to start.
They don’t all have back pain. Although they may have started seeing us for a particular issue, now they come regularly to maintain their health and alignment. Just like you know to brush your teeth and eat your vegetables, there is maintenance for every healthy habit.
Your brain, spine, and nerves control your whole body, so keeping them healthy, in good alignment, and free to communicate is how you maintain wellness and heal when sick or injured.
ANDERSONVILLE PT
Located on Chicago’s North Side, Andersonville Physical Therapy provides PT services for people with pain or injuries to the upper body, lower body, or spine. This includes post-surgical rehabilitation, pelvic physical therapy, balance, posture and gait retraining, and women’s and men’s health programs. Because moving correctly is so important to rehabilitation and lifelong health, we also incorporate Pilates and yoga into our treatment.
We offer private treatment rooms, so you can relax and concentrate on your rehabilitation. We’ll help you take the time to focus on healing today so that you can move better for a lifetime.
MENTAL HEALTH
BRIDGEPOINT PSYCHOLOGY
We can all use some support sometimes. But when you are faced with an especially difficult challenge — grieving the loss of a loved one, searching for how to best support your child, navigating big life changes, or experiencing increased stressors — you want someone who really “gets” it and can help. Our highly trained, specialized therapists are here to listen to you, work with you to create a customized plan that meets your needs and apply our training and expertise to support you on your journey.
HEAD HEART THERAPY
Head/Heart Therapy is a group therapy practice specializing in the treatment of adults and adolescents struggling with shame, trauma, addiction, mood/anxiety disorders, and many other difficulties of life. We aim to increase our clients’ capacity for self-compassion, agency, and efficacy by helping diminish unnecessary suffering. We use an eclectic variety of modalities to address the unique needs of each person who seeks our support, whether they stem from psychological, emotional, or spiritual dis-ease.
Head/Heart holds the health and wellness of our clients above all. We aim to create an atmosphere that inspires our clients to empower themselves and tap into their own authenticity in order to thrive. Simultaneously, in order to relieve pain and suffering, we are skilled at providing empathy while holding clients accountable for ways they may be harming themselves and we encourage them to make choices that will enhance their best selves. It’s a skillful balance of empathy and accountability that supports therapeutic change.
Reach out if you are interested in being added to our preferred partners list.