#33: Access to Care Traps with Karen Schneller
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Release Date: 03/08/2021
#168: The Menopausal Woman and Her Relationship with Exercise with Val Schonberg
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Val Schonberg is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with The Menopause Society (previously known as the North American Menopause Society) and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Val owns a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where she specializes in midlife health and menopause, recreational and professional sports nutrition, all types of eating disorders and helping individuals break free from...
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#167: It's Not About the Sex with Andrew Susskind
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Andrew Susskind is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Brainspotting and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Group Psychotherapist and Author based in Los Angeles since 1992 specializing in trauma and addictive, compulsive behaviors. His books include It’s Not About the Sex: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction (Central Recovery Press, 2019), The It’s Not About the Sex Workbook (Routledge Press, 2024) and From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery (2014). We discuss topics including: The importance of spirituality The hunger all of our client have on all levels ...
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#166: Sociometry and Psychodrama with Robyn Caruso
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Robyn Caruso is a California LMFT. She is licensed in South Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. She currently operates a group practice called AlignED Care Eating Disorder and Mental Health Center. Roby in trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), has completed Level 1 Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy ( RO DBT) and also incorporates psychodynamic, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodrama/experiential and polyvagal theory approaches. We discuss topics including: What is Sociometry? What is Psychodrama? Understanding Interoceptive Awareness Having a themed meditation...
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#165: Psychological shifts during perinatal and postpartum times with Ivy Marguilies
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and death midwife who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma encompassing the entire spectrum of a woman’s reproductive and maternal mental health. She works with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, NICU, preterm labor, miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy release, terminations for fetal anomaly (TFMR- Terminations for Medical Reasons), stillbirth, infant death, high risk pregnancy and pregnancy after loss. Dr. Ivy hosts her podcast Shattered Conception,which covers an array of interviews...
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#164: Transitioning from all levels of care to private practice with Devon Cole
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Devon Cole is a weight inclusive, trauma informed RDN with private practice in Los Angeles. She received her training at Keck Medical Center and Children's Hospital LA and began her work as an RDN working in eating disorder treatment at all levels of care. She has worked at a variety of mental health facilities and schools, including Occidental's Health Center, providing nutritional counseling and running groups. Now solely in private practice, Devon provides a non-diet approach to nutrition therapy that includes mindfulness, embodiment practices, and the principles of intuitive eating and...
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#163: Primary Mental Health and Suicide with Nicole Siegfried (part 2)
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published research, magazine articles, and book chapters in eating disorders, mental health, and suicide. Nicole believes that recovery is possible for all individuals with mental health disorders, and that all...
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#162: Primary Mental Health and Suicide with Nicole Siegfried (part 1)
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published research, magazine articles, and book chapters in eating disorders, mental health, and suicide. Nicole believes that recovery is possible for all individuals with mental health disorders, and that all...
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#161: Psychedelics with Dr. Eva Altobelli
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dr. Eva Altobelli, MD is the founder of Home-LA. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Altobelli holds accreditation from the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to administer MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. She has extensive experience in working with MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine. Dr. Altobelli is committed to setting the highest standards of safety, ethics and efficacy. We discuss topics including: What is ketamine assisted therapy? Understanding professional assisted therapy/aka: “clinician experiential”...
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#160: Understanding Families and Clients with Mike Hinds
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Mike Hinds is the Clinical Director at Avalon Hills, a residential eating disorder treatment center in Northern Utah, one of very few that are privately owned. He has extensively trained and supervised therapists. For years he was a primary practicum site for students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Utah State University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human development, parenting, counseling theories, supervision in counseling and psychotherapy, and human sexuality. Mike joined Avalon Hills in 2015. Before then he worked in various areas, including couples...
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#159: Mother, Men and Me with Dawn Smith-Theodore
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dawn Smith Theodore, MA, LMFT, CEDS is a specialist in the treatment of eating disorders. Dawn has treated eating disorders for over 20 years and is a former professional dancer. She is the author of “TuTu Thin” A Guide to Dancing Without an Eating Disorder. She is also the author of her new book “Mother, Men and Me, A Memoir of Anxiety, Anorexia and Affairs We discuss topics including: You can have an eating disorder, achieve recovery and have a full and enjoyable life Food, fun, friends and passion How to find community The mother-daughter dynamic How to live with the bully...
info_outlineKaren Schneller, MFT, CEDS, BC-TMH is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist in the states of California, Texas and Ohio. Additionally, she is Board Certified in TeleMental Health (BCTMH) which is an advanced certification in the laws and ethics of delivering therapeutic services via web-based platforms. Karen is excited to be on the forefront of expanding access through telebehavioral health to connect with patients in areas where specialized services may not be available. Karen has been working in the field of eating disorders since 2003 and has experience in all levels of care. She believes we all have a right to occupy space in the world, no matter our size, and that inclusive, trauma-informed care needs to be more accessible. She treats clients located in California, Texas, and Ohio via secure and reliable telehealth services.
We discuss topics including:
- Learning law and ethics virtually
- Licensing issues
- Safety protocols when working virtually
- Showing up differently online than in person
- Screening patients before starting with them remotely