#37: The Truth About Being a Recovered Therapist with Karin Lewis
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Release Date: 04/05/2021
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Carolyn Costin is a world renowned, sought-after eating disorder clinician, author, and international speaker. Recovered herself, Carolyn recognized her calling after successfully treating her first eating disorder client in 1979. Carolyn was first to publicly say that people with eating disorders can become fully recovered. After 15 years in private practice and running hospital programs, Carolyn recognized a gap in the field and opened Monte Nido in 1996, the first residential facility in the U.S. combining standard treatment with meditation and yoga. Clients finally could practice...
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Danny O’Connor is a U.S. Olympian, WBC International Champion, and two time National Amateur Champion with an elite professional boxing record of 31-3. A former top-ranked contender, Danny has competed on the world stage for nearly two decades, fighting on major networks like Showtime, ESPN, CBS Sports, and Fox Sports 1. He represented Team USA on the 2008 Olympic Boxing Team and has been a dominant force in the ring as both a U.S. Nationals Champion and multi-time international competitor. Beyond the ropes, Danny’s commitment to trauma-informed care and youth advocacy is reflected in his...
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Lila Galustian is a Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in the treatment of emotional dysregulation and personality disorders. She is the owner and primary therapist at Re-Discovering you, a skills application outpatient. Lila loves helping each client develop a life worth living while increasing their self confidence, she leverages an engaging style that is radically genuine with a dash of irreverence. We discuss topics including: What is the difference between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Bipolar Disorder? The screening process of BPD (emotional...
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Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN is the author of 10 books, including co-author of the best-selling Intuitive Eating, a mind-body self-care eating framework, which has given rise to over 200 studies to date. Her newest book is Intuitive Eating for Every Day: 365 Inspirations and Practices. As an international speaker, Evelyn enjoys training health professionals on how to help their clients cultivate a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body through the process of Intuitive Eating. To date there are over 2,600 Certified Intuitive Eating Counselors in 60 countries. The media often seeks Evelyn for...
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Katy is a recovering alcoholic whose personal journey to recovery sparked her deep passion for helping others. Her commitment to the field of recovery began in 2012, when she earned her first position as a counselor. Katy holds a CATC II certification as both a drug and alcohol counselor and supervisor. Currently, Katy is pursuing her Master’s in Social Work at Arizona State University with the goal of becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Her academic and professional journey reflects her dedication to serving others and her desire to develop the skills necessary to support...
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Julie Duffy Dillon is a Registered Dietitian and Host of Find Your Food Voice®, a popular long running nutrition podcast. Through speaking and writing, she helps people with a complicated relationship with food strategize how to remove the shame and blame dumped on them from the diet industry. Her work has been featured on TLC and in the New York Times, Outside Magazine, Shape and other outlets. She is the author of the book, Find Your Food Voice. We discuss topics including: Understanding finding your food voice The letters in the book came from narratives, therapy and discussing...
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Janice Dada, MPH, RDN, is a weight-inclusive registered dietitian with a private practice in Newport Beach, CA. She is a certified Intuitive Eating counselor, certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES), and certified eating disorders specialist (CEDS). She is passionate about simplifying and destigmatizing the nutrition- and weight-based discourse around diabetes. She is the author of the book Intuitive Eating for Diabetes We discuss topics including: How Janice came up writing her book about Intuitive Eating and Diabetes Mellitus Understanding the Four Pillars in her book ...
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Professor April N. Hackert, M.S., R.D.N. is a Global Psychiatric Culinary Medicine Research Dietitian, Scientist, Chef, eating disorder specialist, and the FOUNDER of Choose to Change Nutrition Services. As a scientific author birthing the use of Nutritional Neuropsychology and Psychiatric Culinary Medicine in conjunction with Medical Nutrition Therapy, this visionary orator is an international public policy advocate for the healing power of food on mental health. As a passionately articulate teacher, scientific researcher, and culinary wizard, April brings over two decades of experience to...
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Michelle Hirschman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is the founder and CEO of Hirschman Clinical Services. HCS provides coaching, case management and support services to empower, resource and inspire clients with a specialty in addiction and recovery, eating disorders and mental health. Michelle’s dedication to empowering people facing challenge has spanned across many fields and populations, including hospice, homeless, nonprofit sectors, chronic mental illness, eating disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction, relapse prevention campaigns and programs, nutritional health, suicide...
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Janet Goldstein-Ball is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Consultant (CEDS-C), and EMDR Certified. Janet has been in private practice since 2012, and in her current location in Burbank since 2014. Her special interests are eating disorders, trauma, and working with creative professionals. In addition to her private practice, Janet was the Eating Disorder Case Manager at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Psychiatry in Los Angeles from July 2014 to January 2024, where among other duties she co-facilitated the clinic’s...
info_outlineKarin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. As an established and experienced eating disorder professional, Karin Lewis’ extensive background as an eating disorder clinician, program director of several treatment programs, and her own personal recovery has made her a sought after clinician. Karin has spent her entire career helping individuals suffering from eating disorders, body image, trauma, family issues, relationship issues, depression, and anxiety.
Karin is the founder of the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center located in Boston, MA and is also the host of Recovery Bites, the first podcast specifically featuring clinicians who have fully recovered from an eating disorder and their experiences working in the field of eating disorder treatment.
We discuss topics including:
- Karin’s experience with having an eating disorder which led her to be a therapist
- Being able to name that as a clinician mistakes are made in session which can oftentimes come from one’s own eating disorder experience
- There are always positives and it took years to be humble in finding the positives
- Be yourself in and out of sessions