- The difference between coaching and consulting and how to use a mix of both to help clients with body image.

- The importance of curiosity and questions to bring your client’s unique struggles and beliefs to the surface.

- Why it’s imperative to avoid assuming or “filling in the blanks” on your clients struggles.

- How to hold space for client’s feelings without gaslighting or invalidating their experiences.

- What body image work is not (i.e. positivity, loving their body, etc)

– White supremacy culture and how this influences body image and coaching.

-How to navigate client relationships and the power dynamic between practitioner and client when you hold different privileges.

– How to support clients when you do not share the same lived experience.

– The impact of whiteness in body positivity and coaching.

– The impact of medical fatphobia and how to help clients navigate healthcare.

– How to incorporate allyship into your practice.

– The history of diets and it's ties to white supremacy.

– The racist history of the BMI.

– How racism informs weight discrimination and the importance of this intersection as it relates to diet culture.

– Beliefs about fatness and the ways they impact jobs, health care, & housing.

– The social determinants of health and how this influences discussions around bodies and health.

– How to create a vision for your clients so they have a blueprint of what they working towards to overcome fear of the unknown and hesitations around doing this work.

– Creating a measurement system to be able to track and celebrate client’s progress with the rather nebulous concept of body acceptance.

– The 4 fundamental changes to make to lay the foundation for self-compassion and body acceptance.

– Tools to address mirror checking (a hidden substitute for the scale).

– Understanding the role of the inner critic and how that influences your client’s thoughts and behaviours around their body.

– How to notice the voice of the inner critic in your clients to help them discern who is really who’s in charge.

– The 5-step framework to help your clients notice, detach from and respond to their inner critic with an authentic voice of compassion.

– How to help your clients strengthen their voice of compassion, including 2 different visualizations to use.

– The importance of language and having clients change the words they use to describe their bodies.

– The 3 things to assess when your client’s inner critic is running rampant.

– Uncovering your clients beliefs about bodies, health and desirability – as it relates to the world and themselves.

– How to begin to challenge and change the beliefs they have in order to create a new belief system that aligns to who they want to be.

– Reframes and perspective shifts to address any fears and resistance that comes up with your clients around doing body image work.

– Helping your clients mourn the loss of their ideal body while also helping them feel into the hope and potential of letting this go.

– The importance of moving clients out of their heads and into their bodies to process emotions so they’re not stuck spiralling in negative chatter.

– How to help your clients move towards a place of neutrality with their body starting with touch and working towards using the mirror.

– How photos can be a tool for healing and normalizing our client’s appearance – where to begin and how to use them to process deeper emotions and strengthen compassionate self-talk.

– Helping your clients uncover the root of their fear of judgment and comparisons.

– How to help your clients connect with who they are and prioritize this over how they look.

– How to set boundaries and respond to criticisms or judgments.

– Visualizations to help clients in situations where fear of judgment or comparisons prevents them from showing up or being comfortable.

– 6-step process for working through comparisons.

– How to help your clients build confidence in a way that makes them feel empowered.

– 3 perspective shifts to help your clients overcome fear.

– The history of self-care.

– How to help clients redefine self-care in an easy way that makes it totally doable for them.

– Why lack of self-care has a direct influence on how we feel about our bodies.

– The 2 main roadblocks that get in the way of clients prioritizing their needs.

– 4 myths about mainstream self-care that prevent clients from doing it consistently.

– Why we need collective care versus individual self-care.

– A 6-step process to help your clients work through moments of body shame.

– When to use all the tools and how to integrate them into your sessions (including a worksheet summary that past participants called “amazing” and “super helpful”).

– Worksheets you can adapt to give your clients for homework between sessions.

– How to help your clients identify their values and the things that truly bring them fulfillment.

– Wrap up and final integration.

These programs are for providers who are committed to fat liberation and social justice. You're looking for a deeper analysis of how fatness intersects with other systems of oppression. 

This includes:
- Therapists
- Intuitive Eating Counselors
- Dieticians and Nutritionists
- Eating Disorder Providers/Clinicians
- Health Coaches
- Life Coaches
- Personal Trainers
- Health & Wellness Providers
- Doctors and Naturopaths
- Educators
- Boudoir Photographers

And any profession that also works with people who may also have body image struggles.

If you’re not sure whether it’s right for you, email  summer@summerinnanen.com

This is not for you if you want to continue to sell weight loss after this certification.

While we would prefer that you have some other kind of training or have a profession that intersects with this work, it is not a requirement for joining the program.

This is not a replacement for a formal coaching training program.

The Body Image Coaching Foundations program is ideal if you already have substantial training in a different modality, a solid social justice knowledge base, an existing practice and are looking to upgrade your skills. For example, it would be great if you're a therapist with a full case load and social justice training who is simply looking to have a greater toolkit to support clients with body image.

The Foundations program is also great if you're not ready to do the full certification, but want to get started on the process. You can upgrade and decide to become certified when the time is right for you.

The Body Image Coach Certification program is for providers or newer professionals who are looking to start and grow their business as a Certified Body Image Coach. It's for providers who want to hone their coaching abilities and develop a greater social justice praxis. You will have the opportunity to be listed on our Body Image Coach directory page and can call yourself a Certified Body Image Coach.

If you're unsure of what option is best for you, please contact summer(at)summerinnanen.com

We offer full and partial scholarships to racialized and/or transgender folks who also experience financial hardship. 

You can fill out the application form here: https://forms.gle/dR6uVF2Yaxy85VuX7

Once you enroll, you'll receive access to the program to complete at your own pace.

If you enrolled in the Body Image Coach Certification program, you'll also receive a welcome email with our course calendar, some additional next steps, as well as access to the bonuses.

For both the Body Image Coach Foundations course and Body Image Coach Certification program we offer the following refund/cancellation policy:

You may receive a full refund before or after completion of the first module if you are unsatisfied with the course, don't feel it's a good fit for you or your life circumstances are preventing you from completing it.

Beyond the first module, we do not offer refunds or cancellations of payment plans.

In addition, for the Body Image Coach Certification program, if after the first live session you do not feel this course is a good fit, you can receive a 25% refund.

The live sessions are for the Body Image Coach Certification program only. 

For Spring 2025, the live classes happen on Tuesdays at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern on the following days:

March 11th
April 15th
May 13th
June 10th
July 8th
Aug 5th

*You must attend 4 of the 6 live classes to become certified. If you cannot attend these live sessions and still want to be certified, please contact summer@summerinnanen.com

Enrollment for this cohort will open in January 2025.

We absolutely understand and since this program attracts people from around the world, we know it's impossible to accommodate everyone's timezone and schedule.

While we'd love for you to show up to the live class, we understand that you may not be able to. If you want to get certified and are absolutely unable to attend 4 of the 6 live classes, please email summer(at)summerinnanen.com

You have the option of doing the Body Image Coaching Foundations program in the meantime if you want to get a headstart on the material. You can then upgrade to the certification when we run the live classes again in Fall 2024.

To stay up-to-date on when our programs start, sign-up here to get on our list for providers and aspiring body image coaches: https://summerinnanen.com/updates-coaches/

You'll also get a copy of the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals to give you an idea of what we teach.

You will have access to the Foundations course for one year.

If you would like longer access, there will be a fee associated with it.

In order to become certified, you must:

• Complete all 11 modules in the Body Image Coaching Foundations program,
• Get 80% or higher on each of the module quizzes,
• Attend 4 of the 6 live classes for the certification,
• Submit a case study upon completion of the live classes.

Once these things have been successfully completed, you will receive a Certified Body Image Coach badge to use on your website, a certificate, and a listing in our directory. We mail a formal certificate to you as well.

If you do not want to become certified, then check out the Body Image Coach Foundations course.

We charge an annual fee of $250 to remain certified and on our directory.

NOTE: If you opt for a year long payment plan, you will receive your certification once all of your payments have been made.

Note: this is not a substitute for formal coaching training. This is designed as continuing education to give you new perspectives, tools and frameworks to help your clients with body image struggles. In addition, you must not promote or endorse weight-loss on any of your platforms to remain certified.

The coaching frameworks and tools are adapted from the two coaching training programs Summer has completed (Coaches Training Institute and Tara Mohr’s Playing Big Facilitators Training). She's adapted them to focus specifically around body image and self-worth and have used them on hundreds of other clients to help them radically change the way they feel about their body.

Amapoundcake's knowledge on anti-fat bias, race, class and body image comes from her lived experience as a fat Black woman, combined with her undergraduate degree in sociology from Florida State University and a masters in Public Administration. She's a sought-after speaker and activist having worked with Universities and hospitals around North America.

Summer is a professionally trained life coach through the Coaches Training Institute and have completed Tara Mohr’s Playing Big Facilitators Training which specializes in helping coaches learn tools to help women overcome self-doubt and fear. She is also completing her Masters of Counselling at City University in Canada. She's been specializing in working with people around body image exclusively since 2014 and has helped hundreds of individuals all around the world with these tools and frameworks. She's been mentoring other coaches on how to use these tools since 2018.

Amapoundcake is an influencer, writer, activist, body image coach, and speaker. The Sanford, Fl native has over a decade of community work experience. She has led voter registration drives, equity and inclusion initiatives, and worked to decrease food disparities.

The audacious influencer has been invited to speak at Harvard University, University of Ottawa, Bethune Cookman University and more about race, beauty and more.

She has an undergraduate degree in sociology from Florida State University and a masters in Public Administration.

During the pandemic, she worked alongside physicians to help minimize anti-fat bias in health care. In 2021, she partnered with Seminole County health department to decrease food disparities in low income communities. She shares a community vision where people of all backgrounds are not socially, politically, or economically restricted from moving freely. In 2021, she received the Solidarity Award from Job with Justice.

Amapoundcake is dedicated to reimaging beauty. Earlier this year, she launched her own products highlighting the beauty of fat Black Women, who she believes has been negatively impacted by a long history of anti-Black beauty standards.

Her work has been featured in Hello Beautiful, The Curvy Fashionista, Madam Noir, Ebony Online and more.

Does anyone actually have a perfect relationship with their body? Everyone struggles with self-doubt in some area of their life and you don’t need to have it all figured out to help clients. The tools you learn here will be applied to yourself as well, so it’s also a way to deepen your own healing and feel more equipped to help others.

One of the biggest pieces of feedback we receive from participants is that this course helped them immensely with their own relationship with their body.

If you sign-up for the Body Image Coach Certification program, then you'll receive access to bonus workshops that will support you around business and marketing.

Summer has a background in marketing and 10 years experience running an online business. Amapoundcake has extensive experience as a speaker, activist and influencer.

If you'd like to explore doing a business mentorship with Summer or Amapoundcake, please email summer@summerinnanen.com