#113: Systemic Racism in the Eating Disorder Community with Dr. Norman Kim (part 1)
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Release Date: 09/26/2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
info_outlineNorman is the co-founder and principal of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, a social justice focused consultancy, and the Deputy Director of Ayana Therapy, an app startup focused on providing culturally intelligent, adapted, and accessible care to marginalized communities. He completed his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. His research and clinical interests include the social development of people with autism, the developmental course of bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders. In conjunction Norman has developed an expertise in psychiatrically complex populations, and his primary areas of interest are the application of a transdiagnostic framework for eating disorders, taking an evolutionary approach to shame and anxiety, and minority mental health.
He is a regular national and international speaker, educator, and passionate advocate with a particular focus on minority status and barriers to mental health care in marginalized communities. He is the founding co-chair of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Committee of IAEDP, on the inaugural Behavioral Health Taskforce for the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, and serves on numerous advisory boards. Normanwas the co-founder of Reasons Eating Disorder Center.
We discuss topics including:
- What is The Institute for Antiracism and Equity?
- Systemic Roots
- Understanding your privilege and how do I work on my own growth?
- The lack of diversity in treatment professionals
- Understanding what are racial, cultural and stigma
- Eating disorders do not “look a certain way”
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