
Webinar: Eating Disorders in Fat, Trans and Gender-Expansive People
This webinar will focus on exploring how societal gender roles and discrimination impact transgender, non-binary and gender expansive clients of size. ADHD and eating disorder recovery coach and equity consultant SJ Belmonte seeks to challenge gender ideals and gender conformity, facilitate understanding of participant’s gender biases, and provide practical tools to support clients. We will be going beyond asking for client’s pronouns and gender-neutral bathrooms to explore the deeper and unique clinical considerations for clients who are not thin and cisgender.
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Speaker
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SJ Belmonte (they/them)
SJ Belmonte, MSW, CSWA is an ADHD, and eating disorder recovery coach & equity consultant. They began peer support-based coaching to guide fat, queer, and trans people in their eating disorder recovery. Resilient Fat Goddex began in 2017 after leaving acupuncture school and completing the Body Trust® Provider Certification.
SJ was a group therapist at The Eating Disorder Center of Portland’s partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for adults and adolescents prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. They continued their group work by facilitating peer support groups on Zoom while working towards their masters of social work which they completed in June 2023. Currently, SJ is also a youth and family crisis therapist for Catholic Community Services in Portland, Oregon.
SJ has spoken at many national conferences on eating disorder treatment and health disparities for people with non-dominant systemic identities including the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) Core Course 1, Gender Odyssey, Gender Spectrum and Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association (MEDA).
When they aren’t working, you can find SJ with their two cats, Calliope and Rebel, putting a puzzle together or laughing at something ironic.
