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About Us
Co-founders and Owners
Katie Gilder
MPH RD LD
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Janelle Zimmerman
MA LPCC
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Katie and Janelle created Cultivate out of a desire to work in a weight-neutral and hopeful environment. Having met as colleagues in community mental health, they recognized a gap in traditional care models and partnered with other clinicians to provide individualized care for clients working towards eating disorder recovery. Katie and Janelle firmly believe that recovery is possible, and that anti-fat bias is harmful to clients and their families.
Katie and Janelle know it is imperative to recovery to examine diet-culture and other systems of oppression that support eating disorder behaviors and hinder recovery. At Cultivate, you are welcome to be your whole self.
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At Cultivate, we are honored to hold space for clients who are finding life a little bit hard. We value client-centered mental health care, creativity, continuous education (for ourselves and our clients), and feeling connected within our practice, the community, and ourselves.
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Since 2019, the multidisciplinary team at Cultivate has grown exponentially, allowing us to offer modalities such as EMDR, somatic experiencing, ART, IFS, DBT, CBT, FBT, and FBT-TAY.
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Whether you are actively working on eating disorder recovery, or simply want to be assured that your providers understand the importance of a weight-neutral approach to movement and nutrition, we hope you feel welcome at Cultivate.
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We have a particular passion for working with adolescents and young adults, and bridging the gap between higher levels of care and real-life experiences like sharing a living space, grocery shopping, and keeping a budget. We specialize in age-appropriate guidance for those balancing mental health concerns with their first steps into adulthood
But that's not all! We also support individuals who feel solid in recovery, but want to ensure that their therapy providers share an anti-diet worldview. There is space to heal your relationship with your body outside of the recovery process.
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Our educational programming may be a good fit for parents, health professionals, coaches, or other groups of adults that want to work towards incorporating anti-diet fundamentals into their parenting or professional work.
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Finally, it is important to us that clients feel safe in our space and in our work together. Please follow this link to fully understand your rights as a patient in the state of Minnesota.​​