MeKenzie Sutton, LMHCA, CN
Location: Ballard, Online
E-mail: info@mekenziesutton.com
Phone: 425-659-6478
Website: mekenziesutton.com
About:
Mekenzie (she/her) is Health at Every Size® and fat-positive therapist and nutrition provider. Like many in this field, she felt called to this work from her own long journey with mental health, body, and food, and the life-saving discovery of the fat-positive world, Intuitive Eating, Body Trust®, and social justice/anti-racism/anti-colonialism work that helped her realize her body was not the problem. She does this work now in hopes to walk alongside others as they discover their body is not the problem either, and other truths on their unique path to healing.
Mekenzie is a therapist (LMHCA, Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate) and Certified Nutritionist (CN) and provides both mental health therapy and nutrition counseling separately, or a combination of both services. This means you can see her solely as a therapist, for any mental health need (not just eating disorder, body, or food related issues), as a nutritionist for many different nutrition concerns, or utilize a combination of both services to support your goals. Although she specializes in body and food concerns, disordered eating and eating disorders, she also enjoys working with many other mental health and nutrition concerns. You can find more about her specialties, modalities, and offerings on her website.
In all of her roles, Mekenzie is a Health at Every Size® and fat-positive provider, and practices with an intersectional lens (developed by Kimberle Crenshaw) and social justice framework. All of this means that she does not conflate weight/size and health, and understands that "health" has many social determinants including race, socioeconomic and class status, ability, access to healthcare, housing, and education, exposure to discrimination and trauma, and more. Being a Health at Every Size® provider means she does not engage in intentional weight loss services, but discussing weight, the desire to lose weight, the systems that produce these desires, and working with clients who are still "dieting" or wanting to access weight-loss procedures, etc. are all welcome topics.
Mekenzie is a white, able-bodied (for now), small-fat person and realizes that this means she will not be the correct person for every client and their maximum healing. It is vital to have a provider who understands your identities, systems of power, and makes you feel safe in the room and if you don't think she is the right fit for you for any reason she is happy to refer you to folks who may better fit your needs.