#108: Reflecting on Being a Thin White Eating Disorder Dietitian with Lindsay Krasna
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Release Date: 08/22/2022
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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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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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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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...
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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...
info_outlineLindsay Krasna is a white, cisgender, able-bodied, straight-size, fat positive, queer, Jewish, pun-loving, basketball playing, color-coordinating Registered Dietitian.
She is also the proud founder of LK Nutrition, a group nutrition counseling practice in New York City specializing in eating disorders, disordered eating, and weight inclusive nutrition, with the aim of providing nutrition counseling through an intersectional, anti-oppression lens.
Taking an *actively* anti-racist approach to her work is important to Lindsay. The more she’s been learning about how exactly white supremacy shows up, and the racist history of the United States healthcare system as a whole, the more she’s realized how status quo approaches to eating disorder treatment perpetuate systemic inequalities that unfairly advantage white providers (herself included) and white clients, while harming communities or color, and marginalized communities generally. With guidance from Black anti-racist educators and colleagues in our field, Lindsay has been reflecting on what it means to be a thin white cis eating disorder dietitian and private practice owner, the importance of challenging the systems that lead to so many disparities in eating disorder care, and the ways she can do her part to advocate for needed change.
We discuss topics including:
- How to do better in the field of eating disorders
- The importance to reflect on how we have gotten to this point in our field
- The lack of diversity in the field
- The importance to obtain supervision from providers and colleagues with marginalized communities
- Exploring your spheres of influence
- The importance of taking on interns with marginalized identities
SHOW NOTES:
- https://www.instagram.com/collaborative_nutritionist/
- https://www.instagram.com/lknutrition_nyc/
- https://www.lknutrition.com/
- www.diversifydietetics.org
- www.asdah.org
- Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
- Belly of the Beast by Da Shaun L. Harrison
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