Dr. Brianna Sorensen-Edwards founded Little Seed Wellness as a therapy practice centering people with marginalized identities and bodies. She comes to this work as a clinician, researcher, and community builder, and those roles shape how she thinks about practice, training, and the connection between scholarship and care.

Dr. Sorensen-Edwards holds a Bachelor of Social Work from The Ohio State University, a Master of Social Work with a concentration in mental health from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago, where her research centered on fat activist identity formation and community building in the pursuit of fat liberation. Her scholarship is grounded in harm reduction, anti-diet principles, and a deep commitment to social justice.

A core value at Little Seed Wellness is the belief that research and practice must inform each other. This is reflected in the practice's commitment to training the next generation of clinicians through its internship program and in its continuing education offerings. Dr. Sorensen-Edwards is particularly committed to centering liberatory research, including fat liberation scholarship, as rigorously valuable and clinically relevant as more widely recognized evidence-based interventions.

Dr. Sorensen-Edwards has presented her research locally, nationally, and internationally, and her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals across social work, psychology, and gender studies. For those interested in her scholarship, her publications are listed below.

Publications

Lee, S., Tyson, K., Sorensen, B. L., Wynn, N., & Miller, K. (2025). Toward a theory of resistance as a foundation for an emancipatory social work. Journal of Progressive Human Services.

Sorensen, B. L. (2024). Health at every size in eating disorder treatment and clinical social work: Embracing body acceptance and social justice. Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work, 2024 Spring Issue.

Sorensen, B. L., & Krings, A. (2023). Fat liberation: How social workers can incorporate fat activism to promote care and justice. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work.

Winter, V. R., Hood, A., Sorensen, B. L., & Trout, K. E. (2023). Sexual and reproductive health cancer screening avoidance: The role of body image. Body Image, 45, 362–368.

Mata, D., Korpak, A. K., Sorensen, B., Dodge, B., Mustanski, B., & Feinstein, B. A. (2022). A mixed methods study of sexuality education experiences and preferences among bisexual, pansexual, and queer (bi+) male youth. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 19(2), 806–821.

*Brianna is licensed to practice in Illinois and Colorado.

*Brianna is currently not accepting new sliding-scale clients.