#158: Treating Men with Eating Disorders with Andy Williams
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Andy Williams helps to bring guidance and healing to people who want more and better out of life. Be it as a white water rafting guide, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders or a men's coach, Andy’s heart and professional work centers on helping individuals become their most aligned, highest self. Working with clients in a one-on-one framework, Andy listens intently, guides conversations with curiosity, and delivers truth with compassion. His direct approach to this work is layered with humor, warmth, and humility. We discuss topics...
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#157: Neurodivergent Clients with Allison Kawa
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Dr. Allison Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Clinical Director at the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment (LACIA). She specializes in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and emerging adults. Dr. Kawa’s approach to assessment is neurodiversity-affirming and informed by decades of work with individuals with neurodevelopmental differences, formal training in object-relations theory, and cutting-edge research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology. In more than a decade in private practice, she has honed her expertise in the diagnosis and treatment...
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#156: Advice for Parents with Greta Angert
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Greta Angert received a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University Northridge. She completed her two year clinical training at the Maple Counseling Center and is certified in several trauma treatment modalities. Greta has worked at numerous outpatient, inpatient and residential eating disorder programs as a primary therapist. Greta holds the highest level of certification for EMDR (level 3). She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists...
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#155: Trauma and Neurodivergence with Celisa Flores
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Celisa Flores, PsyD has worked as a therapist, program director, harm reductionist and clinical outreach professional in a wide variety of mental health and substance use disorder treatment setting since obtaining a Master’s in 2007 and Doctorate in 2013 in Clinical Psychology. She is now the director of clinical outreach at Lido Wellness Center, a trauma-focused mental health treatment program in Newport Beach. With additional training as a trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation facilitator, as well as birth and end-of-life doula, she has been able to draw from a variety of modalities...
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#154: Brain over Binge with Kathryn Hansen
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Kathryn Hansen recovered from bulimia in 2005; and since then, she has been dedicated to educating and empowering women and men who struggle with all forms of binge eating. She is the author of Brain over Binge (2011, 2022), the Brain over Binge Recovery Guide (2016), and the host of the Brain over Binge Podcast. We discuss topics including: Kathryn’s story of “Brain over Binge” The two basic parts of the brain What happens when we diet Recognizing that starvation can lead to a binge Steps to work on when the urge to binge happens Incorporating adequate eating ...
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#153: Pillars of Living with Krystyl Wright
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Krystyl Wright, LCSW is a co-founder of LOT XI, a community conscious wellness brand based in Compton, CA. LOT XI creates body and home self-care goods sourced locally and crafted by hand. They also organize immersive wellness experiences for corporate initiatives and community spaces. With her background as a practicing clinical psychotherapist, Krystyl incorporates sensory perception and organic ingredients to provide practical healing tools in each product. We discuss topics including: Sensory is a practical tool for healing Krystal’s favorite pillars of living Clarity ...
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#152: Flexibility with Nutrition with Kacy Grossman
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Kacy is Director of Nutrition and Wellness, Outpatient, for Center for Discovery where she has developed the outpatient dietary program that has been implemented in over 28 facilities nationwide and has been part of the development and implementation of a diagnostic specific Binge Eating Disorder treatment program at Discovery. Kacy’s work is a belief in an inclusive not exclusive approach to food and evidence based practices. Kacy is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian Supervisor, has served on the executive committee for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Behavioral...
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#151: Fitness For All Bodies with Brad Bose
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Brad is the owner of XChange.fit, a private training gym in Los Angeles. He is best known for training Hollywood celebrities, as well as professional athletes. Brad lectures at many of the fitness based expos and talks as a motivational speaker. He uses a “body-mind” approach to his training. We discuss topics including: The reason that movement may not be fun The “what” and “where” do these different movements do with your organisms? What is the 80/20 principle? Recognizing that “pain” is a negative enforcement What is “DOMS” SHOW NOTES: ...
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#150: The Basic Medical Assessment with Dr. Linda Schack (part 2)
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Dr. Schack has been treating teenagers and young adults with eating disorders for more than 20 years. She is one of only a handful of adolescent medicine specialists in the country who sees teens and young adults exclusively in private practice. Dr. Schack has supervised the care of patients with eating disorders in outpatient, residential, and hospital settings. She has been an invited speaker at regional, national, and international eating disorders conferences as well as at local teaching hospitals. Dr. Schack is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Adolescent...
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#149: The Basic Medical Assessment with Dr. Linda Schack (part 1)
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Dr. Schack has been treating teenagers and young adults with eating disorders for more than 20 years. She is one of only a handful of adolescent medicine specialists in the country who sees teens and young adults exclusively in private practice. Dr. Schack has supervised the care of patients with eating disorders in outpatient, residential, and hospital settings. She has been an invited speaker at regional, national, and international eating disorders conferences as well as at local teaching hospitals. Dr. Schack is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Adolescent...
info_outlineRita Ekelman is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with over 12 years of nutrition related experience specifically treating people who suffer from various types of eating disorders, addictions and other co-occurring disorders. Rita brings with her experience specifically working with clients at the residential, PHP, IOP and Outpatient levels of care. Rita received her Bachelors of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from Dominican University shortly after she went on to get her Master’s in Business Administration with an emphasis in Healthcare Administration. At this time
Rita also completed her dietetic internship program where her last semester was spent researching and working with people who suffer from eat disorders and other co-occurring disorders.
Over the last 6 years Rita has provided Executive, Administrative and Marketing leadership to staff at various treatment centers in the midwest, where she ensured clients are being provided with the best quality of care
throughout their recovery process. Previous to this Rita served as the Director of Nutrition Services at a Residential Treatment Center, where she managed and provided the day-to-day supervision and training to over 20 Registered Dietitians and Nutrition Therapy Technicians specifically treating people who suffer from various types of eating disorders.
Currently Rita is working on growing her own private practice (Rita Ekelman - Nutrition Consulting LLC), where she is able to focus more on the one to one nutrition counseling with her clients. Rita helps clients establish a healthy relationship with food and their body in order to maintain long-term success in their recovery and how they view themselves. Rita helps clients find their triggers, ackowldege and pinpoint cycles of harmful food-behaviors, and establish goals in how to decrease/abstain from disordered eating patterns. Along with seeing clients, Rita also
does some consulting work for various treatment centers related to marketing and nutrition programs
We discuss topics including:
- How having her MBA has helped her as a registered dietitian
- What it was like to be an executive director of an eating disorder treatment center
- What being a yes person has done and how it can burn someone out
- Boundaries, boundaries and more boundaries
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