#31: Life as an Eating Disorder Physician & Author with Lesley Williams
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Release Date: 02/22/2021
#172: Understanding Teen Party Culture- Dolly Klock, M.D.
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dolly Klock, MD is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician, founder of Adolessons, speaker, consultant and mom of two teens. Dr. Klock holds a BS from UCLA, an MD from Albany Medical College, and completed her Family Medicine residency at Brown University-Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. Through Adolessons, Dr. Klock provides individual and group consultations for parents, teens and tweens, around a variety of topics germane to child and adolescent health: childhood sexual development, puberty, teen sexuality in the digital age, body image, mental health, vaping/substance use, and more....
info_outline
#171: Group Therapy with Men with Leor Ram
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Leor Ram, M.A., LMFT, LPCC, NCC, CGP is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 115538), a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC 7354), a National Certified Counselor, and a Certified Group Psychotherapist providing individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy. Through his intensive training at The Maple Counseling Center as well as his work at the Trevor Project, Early Childhood Development Associates, and Teen Line at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Leor has experience working with a wide range of clients in all life stages. He is also a clinical member of the...
info_outline
#170: The Future of Psychedelics and Eating Disorders with Dr. Adele Lafrance
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Adele Lafrance PhD is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, author and developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities, including Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for eating disorders. She is also active in the research and practice of psychedelic medicine, with a focus on ayahuasca, MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine. Adele was the Strategy Lead for the MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for eating disorders and a clinical trainer and supervisor for Imperial College Center for Psychedelic Research. She has a particular interest in mechanisms of healing, including emotion...
info_outline
#169: Bias in the Workspace with Michele Ruiz
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Michele is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker at conferences around the world. Michele’s wide range of ventures include co-founding BiasSync, a science-based technology company designed to enable organizations to effectively assess and manage unconscious bias in the work environment. She is a trusted advisor to senior executives at Fortune 20 multinational corporations and some of today’s highest profile thought leaders and elected officials. Michele’s passions range from mitigating unconscious bias using scientifically validated methodologies to exploring...
info_outline
#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...
info_outline
#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 ...
info_outline
#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...
info_outline
#165: Psychological Shifts during Perinatal and Postpartum Times with Ivy Margulies
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...
info_outline
#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...
info_outline
#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...
info_outlineDr. Lesley Williams is a board certified Family Medicine physician and Eating Disorder Specialist. Dr. Williams has been providing medical care for patients with eating disorders and other mental health issues for over 16 years. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Williams is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare. She serves on the Academy of Eating Disorders’ DEI Committee and is an executive co-sponsor for Banner Health’s DEI Multicultural Team Resource Group. Dr. Williams recently authored a children’s book that celebrates body diversity, Free To Be Me: self love for all sizes. Her areas of special interest include: Health Equity and Health at Every Size advocacy.
We discuss topics including:
- Size Diversity and weight stigma
- How Dr. Williams encourages all health care providers to reflect on their own biases
- Focusing on patients health
- Teaching the medical community how to expand their views on “health”
- The problems with BMI