#171: Group Therapy with Men with Leor Ram
The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast
Release Date: 10/07/2024
#191: Coaching with Michelle Hirschman
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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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#190: How to Be an Intuitive Eater When Struggling with Binge Eating Disorder with Janet Goldstein-Ball
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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...
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#189: Raising Empowered Athletes with Kirsten Jones
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Kirsten is a Hall of Fame NCAA Division I volleyball player, a 14-year NIKE executive, a motivational speaker, peak performance coach and the author of . As a coach, she works with athletes, entrepreneurs and leaders, where she helps them learn how to reach their goals by releasing their limitations. Kirsten's super power is helping people get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can feel their best and perform beyond what even they dreamed possible. She is the host of the , where she interviews coaches, athletes, trainers and industry experts about everything youth...
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#188: Treating the Chronic Eating Disorder patient with Kaitlyn Cornell
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Kaitlyn Cornell, LCSW, CEDS-C, is a dedicated therapist specializing in chronic and enduring eating disorders. She completed both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she now serves as a Clinical Lecturer in the Social Work Department. In 2019, she founded KC Counseling LLC, a multidisciplinary eating disorder clinic in Champaign, Illinois. When she's not working, Kaitlyn enjoys long walks and indulging in her love for snacks. She is also a proud mom to her 2-year-old son. We discuss topics including: Understanding what is...
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#187: Body Image Inside Out with Deb Schachter and Whitney Otto
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We discuss topics including: Understanding what is Body Image? What are BBIM’s (Bad Body Image Moments) What to do when you have a BBIM? You are not your body image and body image is not how we look What is the rotary? Understanding body image muscles The importance of naming what is wrong Having compassion for yourself SHOW NOTES: ____________________________________________ If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on , ,...
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#186: ACT with the Eating Disorder Client with Stephen Reeder
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Stephen Reeder, MA, NCC, LPCC, CEDS is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist who has been working in the mental health field for over a decade. He has held a variety of clinical and leadership roles ranging from Primary Therapist to Regional Director of Operations. In addition to eating disorders, his clinical experience includes working with individuals struggling with problem gambling, sex and love addiction, and chemical dependence. Stephen incorporates his experience as an Acceptance and Commitment Therapist into his leadership...
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#185: Your Mind is Powerful with David Laramie
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David Laramie, PhD is a health psychologist who strongly believes in systemic and integrative approaches to healing and wellness. He draws on psychoanalytic, emotion focused, psychedelic, energetic, and somatic approaches in his psychotherapy work. In both his personal life and professional work, he finds considerable value in mind-body practices such as breath and energy work, biofeedback, meditation, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is a long time board member and past-president of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. We discuss topics...
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#184: Eating Disorder Group Therapy with Carolyn Karoll and Adina Silverman
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Adina Silverman, MS, RD, LDN is a Registered Dietitian specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. She is passionate about helping adolescents, teenagers, and adults heal their relationships with food and their bodies. She supports her clients to have the courage to cultivate the relationship with food that feels best to them and reject mainstream diet culture messaging. Her thorough and compassionate approach has impacted many individuals and families and distinguished her as a leader in her professional community. Carolyn Karoll, LCSW-C, CEDS-S, is a highly regarded therapist...
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#183: What Did My Body Do For Me Today with Anne Poirier
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Having struggled with her own eating, food, weight and body image challenges, Anne Founded Shaping Perspectives, A Woman’s Way to Joy, created the Body Joyful Solution and wrote the book The Body Joyful: My Journey from Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance. She is the leader of the Body Joyful Revolution Community, a global online source of support, encouragement and inspiration for women of all sizes, shapes and weights so that they can say No to diets, reject society’s thin ideal and heal from diet culture. By feeling more comfortable and confident in their bodies and selves they inspire...
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#182: Understanding MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) with Amy Isabella Chalker
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Amy Chalker, RDN has a private practice and specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, disordered eating behaviors and child/family feeding. She also provides support for clients with co-occurring gastrointestinal disorders. We discuss topics including: What is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) Understanding histamine and its role in MCAS How MCAS is evaluated The overlap between eating disorders and MCAS Nutritional recommendations The problems with a low histamine diet and MCAS Understanding the elemental diet SHOW NOTES: ...
info_outlineLeor 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 American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), and the Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS). Leor’s psychotherapeutic approach aims to treat a variety of concerns including interpersonal issues, depression, anxiety, trauma, intimacy, work-related concerns, behavioral difficulties, relationship distress, and sex-related concerns.
Leor also has a strong background in working with members of the LGBTQ+ community and has done extensive research and international presentations on contemporary difficulties facing this population. Leor is multicultural and multilingual and can provide therapy in both English and Hebrew
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The reasons men attend therapy
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What are aspects of group therapy for men?
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The difference between coed therapy groups, and men therapy groups?
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What are interpersonal process groups?
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How groups are like laboratories or “experimentation”
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Men therapy groups provide connection, confrontation and conflict
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