Jessica Thompson

After high school - and still in my own eating disorder - I completed my undergraduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and my Dietetic Internship & Master’s Degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center. 

 

After I completed graduate school, I worked for several years in weight management before I really realized that the systems I was trained in were riddled with weight bias and in helping people manage their health with black and white rules that I believe promote eating disorders.

 

I  was horrified to realize I was part of the problem with the way we approach nutrition and health in our culture.  So, I returned to my roots and made a shift into working with eating disorders, disordered eating, and exposing diet culture for what it is — an insidious, money-hungry system that capitalizes on our insecurities and perpetuates the faulty belief that health and happiness are size-dependent.

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Now, I am a proud Health at Every Size (HAES®) practitioner, trained as a master’s level Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) & am co-founder of BeyondWell KC, a private practice dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating in Kansas City.